{"id":52,"date":"2008-09-12T02:51:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T01:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2008-09-12T02:54:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T01:54:02","slug":"press-coverage-part-one-i-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/techno-mage\/2008\/09\/12\/press-coverage-part-one-i-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Coverage Part One (I hope)…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday there was an article in the Reading Chronicle about my exhibition. Thanks are due to for transcribing it from the paper; here is the text:<\/p>\n

Photographer records the year with portfolio of 366 pictures<\/strong><\/p>\n

A photographer with plenty of focus is staging a unique exhibition of the 366 people who occupied a year of his life.<\/p>\n

Oliver Godby, of Kennet Walk, is presenting 366 portraits- one taken every day for a year, of friends, family, and chance encounters with strangers.<\/p>\n

The project, which is free to view, will be displayed at Blake’s Lock Museum, on the River Kennet from September 13-18.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old said: “My aim was to take an interesting photo of someone I knew or met before midnight every day for a whole year to create a portfolio which would be as much about my life as those I photographed.<\/p>\n

“The original challenge was to find 365 ways of taking someone’s portrait that would give some insight into their character and be an interesting photograph.”<\/p>\n

The artist and freelance computer programmer started the project on May 10, 2007 on his 32nd birthday and then realised that 2008 is a leap year and he needed an extra picture on February 29.<\/p>\n

The pictures feature subjects ranging from babies to pensioners, photographed in Britain and abroad.<\/p>\n

Oliver’s love of photography stems from an old school friend, and from his father Clifford Godby, who is still a keen photographer today.<\/p>\n

He said “I am interested is all areas of photography, but my primary focus has always been taking pictures of people. I enjoy event photography of all kinds, weddings, parties, gigs as well as fashion and fine art.<\/p>\n

“My hope is to advance my art by taking photographs as often as I can, and one day to make my living doing what I love.”<\/p>\n

He hopes to present his exhibition in other places in the UK, and to produce a book, based on the stories of his subjects.<\/p>\n

Oliver added: “I am hoping that this exhibition will stimulate people to think about the people they meet every day, and to consider taking special portraits of their friends and family”<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Last night and tonight, thanks to the help of some friends who have been more than generous with their time and support, I have hung the show, and now I can say that tomorrow evening I will be opening my first exhibition, and I am so proud, thankful, excited, scared and wired.<\/p>\n

A whole year of my life is hanging on those walls… Seems like only yesterday that Heppie and I were joking together about how mad one would have to be to attempt to take a portrait of a different person every day for a year.<\/p>\n

I look forward to seeing those of you who can make it, we will think of and toast those of you that can’t, and I will let you all know how it all goes.<\/p>\n

Night night all \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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