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Artist Exhibitions:
'Traditional Indian
Instruments' 12 Monochrome
Prints
Osho Commune International
Koregaon Park
Poona, India
November 1998
'Natural Details'
40 Monochrome Prints
Museum of Photography
Yakushiike Park
Machida, Tokyo, Japan
February 2001
'Natural Nudes'
12 Monochrome Prints
Star Child
Exeter, Devon, UK
April 2004
'Towards Abstraction'
10 Monochrome Prints
Exeter Craft Guild...
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Artist Galleries:
Exmouth Gallery
46 Exeter Road
Exmouth
Exeter Crafts Guild
42/43 The Quay
Exeter
EX2 4AL...
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Artist Reviews:
Sometimes the sublime can be
found even in the most mundane
aspects of life. Take, for
example, dead leaves on the
ground in a park in suburban
Machida, which British
photographer and local
resident Surendra has
transformed into sublime
images of visual poetry in his
upcoming exhibition 'Natural
Details'.
Dan ...
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Collections:
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Artist Statement for Surendra Jones
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HAND CRAFTED MONOCHROME PRINTS by SURENDRA
For over 25 years Surendra has been exploring the art of meditation, spending a good deal of this time in India. He feels that this has shaped his work, helping him to look for something essential in the fleeting changes of the surfaces we constantly encounter. The other important influence has been his connection with Japan and his love of simplicity in Japanese art and craft. Primarily, he wants only to convey the sense of wonder, richness and beauty in the mundane details that we often overlook everyday .
A former associate of the Royal Photographic Society, Surendra has also taught photography at junior high school. He has exhibited his work in Pune, India, Tokyo, Japan and Exeter, UK.
He favours a short telephoto lens and often works very close to his subject. He likes to take his time, often using a medium and, occasionally, a large format camera as well as 35mm. He prefers natural light and rarely uses a flash, even for indoor portraits or figure studies. Usually he works outdoors, focusing on details of form and texture only occasionally exploring broad vistas.
He works only in black and white, sometimes introducing colour by toning in the final stage. Once a series of shots have been taken, only about 5 per cent are considered for printing. More careful selection continues in the darkroom when about another two-thirds are rejected. Decisions are then made about choice of paper and print developer. Although he always uses fibre-based paper, different brands have different characteristics and various textures are available too.
A fine print usually entails a good deal of additional exacting choice and experimentation in the printing process. Print density and contrast are controlled not only for the print as a whole but also, locally, in particular areas. Getting this right may take a day or more in the darkroom for each picture. Once these parameters have been set, further prints of the same image can be made more quickly. Editions are limited to 50 monochrome prints usually ranging in image size from 11 x 7 to 14 x 16 inches. They all have archival protection. Some have deliberately created colour shifts using sepia, selenium or gold toners.
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