NEWS
Some recent news...
The Novium Chichester Museum.....
Date posted: 02.02.2012
Last week i went and shot some exteriors of the new Chichester Museum, The Novium. Designed by Keith Williams Architects, The Novium has been built around some Roman remains.
Representation with View Pictures.....
Date posted: 15.01.2012
I am pleased to announce that View Pictures will be representing my Architectural work from now on. "VIEW represents a carefully selected group of the most experienced and talented photographers of architecture and interiors working today. Since its inception, VIEW has grown into one of the most creative and prolific producers of architectural and interior imagery. We strive for a personal vision of each subject, and take our responsibility as the photographer's agent seriously". (View Pictures)
See websites http://http://www.viewpictures.co.uk/
Shoot for C-Architecture.....
Date posted: 16.12.2011
I have recently shot some interiors for C-Architecture.
Location shots for Pink Llarma.....
Date posted: 23.11.2011
I have recently been commissioned by Pick LLarma Design to capture some location shots around Chelmsford to help promote a new office that is being refurbished.
Hale Village Return....
Date posted: 15.11.2011
I have returned to Hale Village for some further interiors for KKS Architects.
BACA Feildon Clegg Bradley Studios....
Date posted: 21.10.11
I have had a days shoot at the Brighton Aldridge Community Academy by Feildon Clegg Bradley Studios. More images can be seen in my Interiors portfolio
Hale Village KSS Architects...
Date posted: 20.09.2011
I have been commissioned to photograph Hale Village for KSS Architects.
See websites http://http://www.kssgroup.com/
FOTO 8 Story of the week...
Date posted: 06.09.2011
The project i have been working on with Human Endeavour called Degeneration has been featured as Foto8's story of the week. The project looks at the demise of social housing in Britain today.
See websites http://http://www.foto8.com/new/
Habitables Magazine...
Date posted: 25.08.2011
Some of my commercial Architectural work has been featured in the online magazine Habitables.
See websites http://www.habitables.co.uk/feature-2/richard-chivers-photography-series-14.
Degeneration Mini Click Talk...
Date posted: 28.07.2011
I will be giving a talk about our Project Degeneration with Human Endeavour at the Mini Click Talk on the 4th of August at the Old Market in Hove. The Mini Click talks are organised by Jim Stephenson otherwise know as Click Click Jim. Jim states on his blog that This is the third season of talks and follows on from some excellent speakers over the last 8 months. Ive been very proud to be able to present some extremely talented folks as part of all this and this season weve been able to maintain the level of quality.
See websites http://blog.clickclickjim.com/category/miniclick.
KSS ARCHITECTS. Brighton and Hove FC Stadium...
Date posted: 28.07.2011
I have been commissioned to photograph the Amex Football Stadium in Brighton for the Architects KSS. More images will follow in my Interiors Portfolio very soon.
See websites http://www.kssgroup.com/
ECE ARCHITECTURE..
Date posted: 01.07.2011
I have taken on a number of different commissions for Nick Evans Architects and Michael Cook Associates across Sussex and London as the company re-brand and have now formed ECE ARCHITECTURE. One of my photographs is currently on their holding page with the new website and more photographs coming soon.
See websites http://www.ecearchitecture.com/
DEGENERATION. British Journal of Photography..
Date posted: 29/09/10
A project that i have been working on called Degeneration for the Human Endeavour Photographic Collective has been featured in June's British Journal of Photography magazine.
See websites http://www.humanendeavourphoto.wordpress.com/
ARCHITECTURE. Nick Evans Architects and Michael Cook Associates..
Date posted: 25.05.2011
I have taken on a number of different commissions for Nick Evans Architects and Michael Cook Associates across Sussex and London.
See websites http://www.michaelcookassociates.co.uk/http://www.nickevansarchitects.com/
DEGENERATION. Format Photography Festival 2011.
Date posted: 20.01.2011
Human Endeavour have been invited to exhibit as part of the Collectives Encounter at Format International Photography Festival 2011. Yasmina Reggad curator of the exhibition writes "Since 2009, Photo-Festivals is collaborating with Format International Photo Festival to bring together some of the most talented and active collectives of photographers to celebrate and promote this emerging culture in the UK. During the past 10 years, photographers have been developing a new form of working, discussing and sharing their personal work. The collective is not only a dynamic platform for photographers to guarantee their independence and identity, but also a creative hub to produce collective artwork. This blog is dedicated to the work in progress of the 6 collectives which members are based in the UK. You can follow here the development of their respective artworks commissioned by Yasmina Reggad, curator of the exhibition The Flaneur.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION, THE FLANEUR FORMAT 2011s theme is Right Here, Right Now: Exposures from the public realm and is curated around the theme of street photography, examining the relationship that photographers and filmmakers have to it through a wide variety of approaches. Within this theme, the Collectives Encounter 2011 exhibitions curator Yasmina Reggad has decided to explore the concept of The Flaneur. She invited collectives working with or about photography and related media to look at this concept through the lens of this mobile observer and aesthete that Walter Benjamin presented as a conceptual and analytical tool to think about the modern city.
Following the success of Collectives Encounter 2009, this second editions exhibition will showcase four new commissioned artworks by ASA & Wideyed, The Photography Collective, Vea Collective and Rawiya, and the reformulation of existing work Degeneration series by Human Endeavour. From this starting point, the exhibition questions different characters of the flaneur translated into an artistic method of the exploration of the city as the best laboratory to study human nature and social processes.
While producing a space delimited by an endless flaneurie, Asa and Wideyed collectives are mapping the flaneur. They deploy a tactic of participation and special practice of the city in order to reveal multiple trajectories of interpretation and representation of the urban reality. From there, Vea collective, deliberately deviating from their ordinary life and with a calculated passivity, take a stroll around artificial temples of leisure and idleness. With them, the flaneur becomes a voyeur and takes the shape of a detective. Then, The Photography Collective loiter at a corner of the city and through their gaze into the crowd. They sketch a physiology of the flneur, and turn the boulevard into an interior to eventually shift back to a world of constantly reflected observers in the city of merchandise. The mystery of the crowd vanishes with the advent of surveillance and identification of individual and housing. Human Endeavour hit the pavement of social housing complex and shed light on the impossibility of flaneur to resist the Degeneration of postmodern urbis planning. Where does the flaneurie end? What are its limits when the better field of the straller is its mobility and his freedom of movement? Rawiya are studying these restrictions in to hostile social, economical, political and cultural environments." Curator: Yasmina Reggad
See websites http://collectivesencounter.wordpress.com//
DEGENERATION.(Architecture of Urban Discord) Urbanautica.
Date posted: 26/11/10
My project Architecture of urban discord has been featured on the international photography magazine Urbanuatica. Steve Bisson from Urbanuatica writes about the project, "Some time ago Richard Chivers positively surprised us with his photographic series Texture of Time. In this new work he consistently continues with his disenchanted research on urban issues that pertain to his country. His own words describe well the reasons and objectives of the project, which is part of a thematic survey developed by the group of photographers Human Endeavour. Images that speak of loneliness, abandonment and failure. A failure that is not of the economy, it is ours. Chivers tell us of the collapsed dream of a community. A community dies when it has no longer a storyteller. In this sense Chivers continues to keep alive the memory of the community through his photography. Yet what he portrays is a story not at all pleasant. He does not feel alien to what happened; he is there to document, to witness and perhaps to find some answers, guided as much by his conscience as anything else. Whose fault is it when a place loses its dignity? Maybe this place has never had one. Places are never defined by their walls, pavement or even less by some stunted tree. Inhabitants build them. Even now that they have been abandoned these sites seem to be identified more by the forgotten objects than by what remains of buildings. Again, we find traces of the crisis of modernity. An epoch certainly not kind but bulimic and also seemingly rational, as it was the construction machine that acted as loyal bishop. The humanity is gone however, and will not return except to leave again. Chivers, with this dramatic lyric, reminds us that the community should begin again to be the responsible creators of their own development, instead of being the unwitting victims of cyclical economic downturns."
See websites http://www.urbanautica.com//
DEGENERATION. Brighton Photo Fringe..
Date posted: 29/09/10
Human Endeavour have been awarded Arts Council Funding to produce an exhibition from their new project ïDegenerationÍ for the Brighton Photo Fringe. The Exhibition will be at the Bellis Gallery, 8-9 Kings Road Brighton. Private view 9th of Oct. 6-9pm. Over the last year Alex Currie, Richard Chivers, Oliver Perrott and Simon Carruthers have been visiting different metropolitan areas across Britain, investigating Housing Estates that fallen into decline and are due for regeneration or due to be demolished. The work incorporates areas of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Birmingham, Cardiff, London, Sheffield, Salford and Portsmouth.
See websites http://www.humanendeavour.co.uk/
Foto 8 Summer Show at Crane Kalman.
Date posted: 20/09/10
A Selection of photographs from the Foto8 Summershow are now being exhibited at Crane Kalman in Brighton. Richard has one photograph in the Show from his Textures of Time project.
Commission for ADP Architects.
Date posted: 01/09/10
Richard has photographed the Fulton Building at the University of Sussex for ADP Architects. The new building stands alongside Basil Spence iconic post war architecture.
AOP Open Judges Choice Award.
Date posted: 23/08/10
Richard has won a Judges Choice award at this years AOP Open awards. The Judge was Daniel Campbell Blight, director of the HotShoe Gallery in London. The winning image was the one below 'Ashdown Brickworks...' from the series 'Textures of Time.'
See websites http://awards.the-aop.org/AOP_Open/
Foto8 Summershow at Host Gallery London.
Date posted: 05.07.2010
Two photographs from the project Textures of Time have been chosen for the Foto8 Summershow at the Host Gallery. "The selection of prints exhibited in this year's Summershow demonstrates Foto8's committment to exhibiting a wide range of photographic styles and genres. Over 2500 individual images were received from photographers representing the six continents. From landscape to portraiture to documentary and fashion and everything in between, the Summershow celebrates the photographic talent of established names and emerging photographers alike. The Summershow will run throughout August and will be launched on Friday 23rd of July with its customary street party.
See websites http://www.foto8.com/
AOP Open exhibition.
Date posted: 05.07.2010
One of Richard's photographs from the project Textures of Time has been selected for the AOP Open exhibition. The 2010 exhibition will run at the AOP Gallery in Shoreditch from 17th to 26th August and the gala awards night will take place on Thursday August 19th.
See websites http://awards.the-aop.org/AOP_Open
RIBApix.
Date posted: 14.06.2010
Some of Richard's Architectural photography is being represented by RIBApix
See websites http://www.ribapix.com/
Commission.
Date posted: 10.06.2010
richard has been commissioned to photograph the Royal Military Academy designed by John McAslan and Partners. Photographs in the Commercial section of the website.
Exhibition.
Date posted: 12.04.2010
Work from Textures of Time will be shown in an exhibition called Landscape 1 at Lucy Bell Fine Art. The exhibition also features Zander Olsen and Marc Wilson. Lucy Bell who founded and directed The Independent Photographers Gallery in Battle, has set up a new Gallery in St Leonards Sussex.
See websites www.lucy-bell.comm
Exhibition.
Date posted: 06.04.2010
Work from Greenham Common will be shown in a new 'Human Endeavour' exhibition at Crane Kalman at the start of May.
See websites www.cranekalmanbrighton.com
Exhibition.
Date posted: 10.02.2010
Work from Textures of Time is being shown in Kings hill, West Malling, Kent, until the end of March.
See websites www.kings-hill.com/living-in-kings-hill/art-exhibitions/current_exhibition
Commercial work for C&G Properties.
Date posted: 10.01.2010
Richard has photographed the Chapel for C&G properties.
Magenta Foundation Flash forward 2009 Publication.
Date posted: 22.10.2009
Richard has been selected as one of the winners of the Magenta Flash forward 2009 competition. Some of his photographs from the project Textures of Time have been included in a beautifully published book of the winners and past winners.
See websites www.magentafoundation.org/books/flash-forward-2009
Exhibition 'Territory' at Otter Gallery.
Date posted: 22.09.09
Work from Greenham Common has been chosen for the Photography Open 2009 at the Otter Gallery in Chichester. "This first photographic open at the Otter Gallery will showcase over 20 talented contemporary photographers who have all explored the idea of territory from unique and creative standpoints." The exhibition will run from the 30th September - 11th November. The Otter Gallery, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester.
See websites www.chiuni.ac.uk/ottergallery/exhibitions.cfm
Royal Military Academy. Woolwich.
Date posted: 14.09.2009
Richard was commissioned to photograph the Royal Military Academy Woolwich for Durkan. Images can be seen in Architecture 2 folder in Commercial work gallery.
Website Urbanautica.
Date posted: 14.09.2009
Work from Textures of Time has been featured in the new addition of Urbanautica. Urbanautica is a search by images, words, signs, colors on places of living. A sailing by sight, a trip around ideas, people, and what makes them part of nature, and the world. Produced by Steve Bisson Urban planner and photographer and Andrea Filippin Architect, copywriter and graphic.
See websites www.urbanautica.com
Gallery 100 Exhibition.
Date posted: 14.09.2009
Work from Textures of Time is being exhibited at Gallery 100. 100 Queens Road Brighton. 15th September - 16th October
British Journal of Photography.
Date posted: 29.07.2009
Work from Textures of Time has been featured in the British Journal of Photography for the week 29.07.2009.
See websites www.bjp-online.com
Commission.
Date posted: 12.06.09
Richard was commissioned to photograph location shots for GQ the design agency. Images to follow.
Exhibition.
Date posted: 12.06.09
Work from Textures of Time: landscape architecture will be shown at Embassy Court on the 18th of June as part of the Arts and Business day in association with Conran and Partners. Opening times 17.00 to 20.00pm.
Exhibition.
Date posted: 01.06.09
Work from Textures of Time: landscape architecture is being exhibited at Gainsborough House Gallery, DMH Stallard, Peglar Way, Crawley, as part of the Crawley festival. From the 6th of June to the 10th of July.
Magenta Foundation Flash forward 2009.
Date posted: 08.05.2009
Richard has been selected as one of the winners of the Magenta Flash forward 2009 competition. Some of his photographs from the project Textures of Time will be published in the Magenta Flash Forward 2009 book later in the year. There will also be a touring exhibition taking part in Canada, the US and UK later in the year. Murray Ballard who exhibited with Richard in the Human Endeavour exhibition was also selected as a winner.
See websites www.magentafoundation.org/books/flash-forward-2009
Liverpool John Moores University Art & Design Academy.
Date posted: 22.04.2009
Richard has photographed the LJMU Art & Design Academy for Rick Mather Architects. Images can be seen in the commercial portfolio.
See websites www.rickmather.com
Towner Art Gallery.
Date posted: 09 April 2009
Richard's photographs of the Towner Art Galley have been used in Wallpaper magazine online.
See websites www.wallpaper.com/architecture/towner-gallery-eastbourne/3267
The Bauhaus residential development.
Date posted: 08th March 2009
'Richard has photographed The Bauhaus, a new residential development in Croydon for design company GardnerQuainton. See Architecture 2 in Commercial portfolio for images.