Saturday 16th March, 1pm
Andy Martin is a photographer and filmmaker from Sunderland, County Durham. He has a passion for the North East, its industry and people. His experience as a practitioner spans almost 20 years. He is especially drawn to working with marginalised communities who are still living through the cultural, social and economic changes of the region, giving them a platform to tell their stories.
Andy works primarily with older, higher quality analogue processes – medium and large format film cameras to tell their stories. He is also one of a handful of people in the world specialising in a photographic technique known as wet collodion process which dates back to 1851.The resulting images are produced entirely by hand on sheets of metal and glass – tintypes and ambrotypes – with no two the same. This will be included in his talk.
Andy will also be talking about his night-time photography which documents lesser seen/never seen industrial and historic corners of Sunderland, Weardale and Co. Durham using traditional film techniques and long exposures to do so.
If you are interested in attending this talk, please email josephinecousin@googlemail.com
All talks are free for members and £5 for non-members. All talks, workshops and events are held in the Learning Room at the gallery unless stated otherwise.
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