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Portfolio Photography

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Photography on Location:

Voice of the Horse Photography

2009-06-26T13:43:00.000-07:00

Al Saheel- Voice of the Horse photography- Lovely lighting by freelance lighting designer Joseph Gardiner-Lowe a good friend of mine who let me come to the show and take photos. Looking to print some soon so get in touch if your interested in getting some photography on your walls.

Photography featured in Qatar Airways inflight magazine

2009-06-23T23:32:00.000-07:00

After doing some photos for Beat Antenna in April they have recently secured a gig supporting Keane in Dubai in July. Qatar Airways in flight magazine wanted to to an article and used the photography I did for them. Check the second page- the credit note is to the right hand side. Keep posted for more Beat Antenna Photos as will be taking some pics of them backstage at the Keane gig.

Beat Antenna Band Photography

2009-04-21T21:36:00.000-07:00

Local Based Dubai Band Beat Antenna recently commissioned me to do some Promo photography and EP Photography for their EP launch on the 11th of April. Neil- Singer, Andy- Guitar, Alan -Bass and Jo on Drums. Below are some photographs of their band in their practice space, the 4 hour shoot lead to some interesting ideas for their EP cover and potential music video with the 4 corridors using stop frame animation. Watch this space! To listen to Beat Antenna's music on their website click here.

EP Photography by Tara Atkinson 2009

Our City Our Music

2009-04-21T04:34:00.000-07:00

A Collaboration between up and coming bands, emerging film makers, and GPS devices with software developed by Hewlett Packard! Who would have thought it possible?

Our City, Our Music will be a location-based album on the streets. Its first project will be realised in Leeds and experienced using Global Positioning enabled handheld devices. It uses mscape software developed by Hewlett-Packard, which packs up audio and media files with GPS into one platform. Therefore it provides the opportunity for located experiences, in our case music videos filmed on location, re-experienced in situ using a handheld device.

Having been selected as one of the emerging film makers in January the project finally kicked off in March, the vision was to create a music video in one single shot in a location of the band's choice. With a limited budget I wanted to make the set look as down to earth as possible and not go too overboard with what would happen. After seeing the band rehearse in their basement we found all these interesting left overs from previous tenants and so as a concept I planned to bring the band's living room to the Brudenell social club using a one take shot. So after getting a group of willing volunteers together we all went to the Brudenell Social Club to take on the iconic music venue and turn it's gaudy performance area into the YonderBoy's living room and make them look as though they are moving through the streets of Leeds!

Click on the video below to check out the Band in Action! and have a listen to more of their music on their myspace link. For more info about the OCOM project click here. Thanks to all those who have helped out; Simon, Kate, Jess, Steph, Layla and Rachel & James Russell for the Set Photography.

Photography by James Russell Photography http://www.ja-russell.com

Yonderboy - Frightened Rabbit by Tara Atkinson from Tara Atkinson on Vimeo.

Yonder Boy Band Photography

2009-04-19T23:00:00.000-07:00

Photography by James Russell, Direction and Lighting by Tara Atkinson

If you need any photography, please contact taratkinson@hotmail.co.uk

Check out Yonderboy's interview in the Leeds Guide- One of our photos is in there!
http://www.leedsguide.co.uk/reviewsfull.php?id=10786

Trenes By Tara Atkinson

2008-12-18T15:44:00.000-08:00

Trenes from Tara Atkinson on Vimeo.

Experimentation with footage capture on trains- layering journeys- its a work in progress!

The Real Work Experience: Graduates run workshops nationwide

2008-12-18T05:56:00.000-08:00

Date: 21.11.08

Time: 10am-1pm

Venue: Art & Design Interdisciplinary Studios, Leeds College of Art & Design

University Lead: Jen Ohlson & Tara Atkinson

On November the 21st Jen Ohlson and myself ran a work shop for 3rd year students at LCAD Under-gradates from visual communications, art and design interdisciplinary, all came to have their say about The Real Work Experience and how they could become apart of something which could help students get involved with how the RWE could work.

For the Full PDF version of the report- please click on this link.

Wires by Chris Martin & Tara Atkinson

2008-11-12T14:50:00.000-08:00

Wires from Chris Martin on Vimeo.

Leeds College of Art Degree Show 2008: Lucy Tucker & Tara Atkinson

2008-11-12T14:15:00.000-08:00

Degree Show 2008 Leeds Art College from Tara Atkinson on Vimeo.

Creative Networks

2008-11-12T14:00:00.000-08:00

During my final year both Lucy Tucker and I were assigned to develop a promotional video for Creative Networks @ Leeds College of Art and Design.

The Guest speaker was Jimmy Choo. See below:

Creative Networks from Tara Atkinson on Vimeo.

Guerilla Screening of Projected Triptych @ Glassworks

2008-07-31T17:06:00.000-07:00

The Glass works Triptych installation from Tara Atkinson on Vimeo.

Graphic work- Extract from accompanying booklet

In Transition

Time, dereliction and beauty are woven together in ways that add depth to our lived experience of urban landscapes. Together these spaces make up an elusive indeterminate landscape, hovering over, under and between bulky contemporary urban developments. Armstrong H.(2006)
How are derelict and ruined spaces seen? As French Landscape architect Christophe Girot (2004), describes, they are ‘Landscapes of contempt’ seen as ugly and unpleasant by a city that is growing and changing. These spaces are waiting for better use, held in a locked transition until they become something new. Through our growing fascination with architecture and space In Transition developed from the notion of penetrating the impenetrable parts of the city which are dying and have been hidden from view. We wanted to challenge the ideologies that surround these inaccessible spaces and reconstruct them in a new light through video and temporary interventions.

Extract from Post Magazine Layout and photographs by James Isles, Graphics by Tara Atkinson
The city functions as a constant decay and rebirth, but it’s the newness that propels the. The city has to rebuild itself constantly to remain culturally agile, and if it doesn’t have a sense of constant newness and upheaval, it’s a dying city. Aitken, Doug (2006).
Underlying traces of memory and paranoia become significant when investigating the interiors and architectural form of these ruins, thus creating a further displacement of the individual in the city. Only through memory were we able to respond to this notion of the uncanny within architectural form and truly embody it through the filming and editing processes, creating a heightened dream like sensation which the viewer can become encapsulated in.

Screen shot from In Transition Glass works installation

As Helen Armstrong discusses in Time Dereliction and Beauty;
Both hauntingly familiar and unfamiliar, these uncanny spaces allow for reflective engagement with time, problems of identity, self and other, the psyche and dwelling, the individual the metropolis. Armstrong, Helen, (The Landscape Architect, IFLA Conference Papers May 2006)

In Transition Glass works Installation ( Guerrilla Screening)

Installed as triptych within an abandoned Glass works factory within Leeds, the experimental video is used as a temporary intervention of space and time, bringing the place to life for a final commemoration. Once recorded and re-shown, the installation becomes a permanent but personal memory between the building and artist, and as a result challenges how this event has become an inaccessible memory like the derelict places themselves.

Air shot from balcony of derelict glass works warehouse

Getting dark in the warehouse, hot head lamp gets turned on, warehouse comes alive

Still from James Isle's photography

screen shot of last section of triptych installation

Screenshots from the Installation DVD

Screens provided by Lumen

This project has now been submitted for Creative responses to uncovering and rediscovering the city- seminar which is being held within October- this year.
More information TBC shortly

IN TRANSITION / AF*V MEETS POST MAGAZINE

2008-07-30T04:07:00.000-07:00

www.postmagazine.org.uk
Pages 54-67. Check out this magazine, all the stuff that's been going on in Leeds
AF*V and the InTransition Project are on here.
Post Magazine by James Isles.

AF*V : MAY 30th BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB

2008-07-18T06:38:00.001-07:00

Martin and Lucy on the Door at AF*V

Brudenell Social Club

The Great Outdoors: Winners of the
Bright Young Things 08.

Review : Post Magazine- James Isles ( click to enlarge)

AUDIOFUCKINGVISUAL FUNDRAISING NIGHT : BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB

2008-05-05T13:30:00.001-07:00

AudioFuckingVisual aka AF*V is a fund raising event set to take place at the Brudenell Social Club on the 30th of May 2008 for the Art and Design final year degree show! This event will showcase work from emerging audio/visual artists, video and film makers bands, Dj's and Vj's bringing together work which is fresh out of University by students from Leeds Art College, Leeds Met and Leeds University, giving a taster of the the potential for future AF*V nights. We hope to continue to create a mix up of tasty treats for your eyes and ears whilst initiating a platform for students, fresh talent and grass root arts. So for those who aren't attending the summer ball come down to Brudenell Social Club!

So far we have secured several video/film artists, a band and a DJ.
Danny McGuinness : DJ/ Contemporary Artist
Fraser Stewart: Contemporary Video Artist
Tom Bairstow: Graphic Student
Tara Atkinson & Lucy Tucker: (Audio/Visual Artists)
La Toya Gill: Seven Sins ( Guerrilla Short- film movement)
The list growing. Visit: audiofuckingvisual.blogspot.com

IN TRANSITION: EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO + SYMPOSIUM EVENT: MAY-SEPT 08

2008-05-05T12:23:00.000-07:00

In transition screen shot- Kirkstall Chemicals
In Transition is a collaboration between both Lucy Tucker ( Creative Contemporary Practice- at Leeds Met) and myself. We both met and talked about the previous projects we had done about the city speaking about the potential of using video to create city interventions. The project we developed was inspired by the Leeds debate: 'Is Leeds going in the right direction 'which took place on February the 28th at Leeds University. We researched and networked with the people we met at the debate thinking about why it took place and the possible short term changes we could make as artists/ inhabitants whilst living in the city of Leeds.
Leading on from this we decided to explore the way derelict buildings were seen and the potential for their uses as urban playgrounds- to showcase work in. These short term changes to buildings in transition can help the regeneration process of the city through giving life to dormant areas and highlighting the uncanny beauty within these spaces that were set to be demolished.

Our response to these derelict spaces was to capture them through high definition video and see how we could manipulate and compose the footage to produce a contemporary art piece which highlights the continual creation of new Leeds is facing. This was the first phase to the project. The message we wanted to put across through the experimental video is to highlight and observe the changes Leeds is going through, challenging the way we see derelict buildings, why they have become derelict and future of the developments- student flats, office buildings- the movement of past to future. We will be finding a derelict building to screen the video piece in this will be announced shortly and will be filmed as apart of our degree show submission.

For more info check out the : Iwww.intransitionleeds.blogspot.com

In Transition : Experimental Video Triptych

2008-05-05T12:20:00.000-07:00

Triptych Canvas- In transition from Tara Atkinson on Vimeo.

Low Res version of HD triptych by Lucy Tucker & Tara Atkinson

SCREENING OF THE 12 DISTRACTIONS: HAHA CANTEEN 8th MAY 08

2008-05-05T04:06:00.000-07:00

Good turn out, 25% of food and drink for all the 12 distraction audience.
It's being shown for another week on the screen.

THE 12 DISTRACTIONS : SCREENING ON BBC MILLENIUM SQUARE BIG SCREEN

2008-05-05T03:04:00.000-07:00

Screen shots from the 12 Distractions Experimental film

The 12 Distractions will be screened once again on the BBC Big Screen at Millennium Square from Monday 5th of May to Friday the 9th. The experimental video was a collaboration between Jeri Perrin and Myself during our third year at Leeds College of Art and Design. We wanted to make a video that could be shown in a public space- with no set narrative touching upon how easily we get distracted within the city of Leeds. We let the structure of a clock guide us to 12 different places at 12 different times- capturing the movement of life within the city during a working day for 12 hours. The film was initially screened at Hyde Park Picture house during the 5th of December where it became more of an 'experiment' to see if the public could understand it.

To know what the HYPE art magazine thought about the 12 Distractions visit:
The Hype Review

The film is being screened on :

Monday 5th of May :7.00-7.30pm
Tuesday 6th of May: 2.00-2.30pm and 7.30-8.00pm
Wednesday 7th of May : 2.00-2.30pm and 7.30-8.00pm
Thursday 8th of May : 2.00-2.30pm and 7.30-8.00pm
Friday 9th of May : 2.00-2.30pm and 7.30-8.00pm
Both Jeri and Myself will be there on Thursday at 6pm to go for a few drinks at HaHa canteen, See you there ! Visit our Facebook group: The 12 Distractions Facebook

2008-05-05T03:03:00.000-07:00

The 12 Distractions from Tara Atkinson on Vimeo.

PHOTOGRAPHY/SCULPTURE/PAINTINGS/PRINTS/DESIGN

2008-04-01T15:11:00.000-07:00

Visits to the website

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