Ian Burdall Photography: July 2011

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Close Detail

I have gone back to taking close detail pictures again, here are a few new ones.

Monday, 4 July 2011

New Pictures

Here are some new photographs taken since the last very successful Saltaire Arts Trail.

About me

Saltaire based photographer, Ian Burdall has been fascinated by photography since he was a child when he used to take photos of the places he visited as a family. “I used my Dad's camera to take pictures of places as they were reflected in the curved chrome (well-polished) hub-caps of his car.“

Over time he has become increasingly drawn to abstractions; to colour, blocks and blocks of colour; lines and shapes. Trying to get to the things that pictures are built from; the essential parts. “I found that I was producing colour saturated shapes, good examples of which can be seen in the images of things in extreme close-up that I have produced. My interest has developed into trying to get a similar effect of abstraction to that achieved by artists I admire, such as Rothko.”