A lecture by ANDREW WATSON
-
Andrew Watson, in his quality of photographer, developped his lecture around the notions of research, prospection and experimentation. Along his various projects remains the idea of playing with his medium and investigate new ways of using it. One of his main project have been, at a starting point, self-initiate. However, he has been able to take advantage of technical issues to develop and achieve it brillantly. Watson was looking for a new interpretation of the White Horse of Segsbury. That Iron age sculpture have been already shoot many time, but he had the feeling that his black and white photographies could emulate it a bit more. Though he couldn't expected that archeologists were actually doing some important excavations there in the same time. Frustrated for a while, he nevertheless decided to take on that opportunity. That led him to a three month cooperation and a successful final exhibition. By working in pair with them, Watson learnt another kind of process clinked to the archeologists one. He finaly decide to photograph the excavations they were creating, following their scientifical rigour and high achieving technique.
He talked to us with the maturity of a professional photographer, in term of budget, partnership and perfectionism, but also with the freedom of an artist, discernable along his carrier, by the choices of his investments as well as in the grand quality of his pictures.