"The next Photology talk is next Monday, 11th June 8pm, at Bullet Coffee House in Robertson St Hastings. £3 admission.
Greg Lucas. "Photography As Speculative Journalism."
Lucas is well known for his ‘stand-up’ slide-show performances, performances in which – through a series of visual coincidences, tangential juxtapositions and hilarious anecdotes - he weaves his inimitable narratives while exposing the inherent ambiguity and fluidity of photographic meaning. (He has continued this idiosyncratic way of looking at and talking about photographs in his blog - http://greg-lucas.blogspot.com- begun in 2009.) …Thus, in the tradition of Roland Barthes and his hard-to-categorize meditations on photography, Lucas reveals how the photographs that don’t end up in the coffee-table book or on the gallery wall – that aren’t contained within the cultural economies and social taxonomies that we carelessly allow to constrain us – are the ones that (perhaps unfortunately) depict and determine our destinies. Jokes apart, this is deadly serious stuff.
(Extracts from Dr Jane Fletcher’s introductory essay for the exhibition catalogue, ‘The Blog Papers’, Fotonow, Plymouth, 2011.)
Greg is a photographer and senior lecturer in photography at De Montford University."
Alexander Brattell
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