francis minien
ARTIST BIO
Francis Minien is a British photographer, born in Reading, England in 1977. He received his B.A. in History and Media Studies from De Montfort University, Leicester, England in 1999 and completed his M.A. in Photography there in 2005. He has been Associate of the Royal Photographic Society for the past 5 years. His work has been published internationally by the likes of London Independent Photography Magazine. In 2010 he released his first self-published book Festival: A view from the crowd. His work has also been acquired by a number of private collectors.
He has exhibited extensively in group and solo shows in the UK and the US, most recently in New York at Soho Photo Gallery. He has also curated a number of exhibitions including the work of 16 photographers in A Global Twenty-Four Hours at the inaugural Biennial Poole Photography Festival in 2004.
He has recently been working with an NGO on raising awareness to the needs of New Orleans in the years after Katrina, and also two microfinance organizations, documenting their work with borrowers most recently for an exhibition at the National Microfinance USA 2010 conference in San Francisco.
He currently works in New York City, where he has lived since 2006.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Ethnography – An observational science providing accounts of particular culture, society, or community.
Destiny – An individual’s path through life as determined by one’s decisions.
Destined Ethnography – (this is my history) is a photographic essay observing the last five years of my travels as a photographer. The portfolio depicts the visual experience of these travels—not as a travelogue but as an abstraction of the environments I have passed through.
The work conveys a photographic expression of my world and my emotions during the journey. The images depict my state of mind and the language of my emotions.
The compositions come when I am at my psychological and physical extremes, conditions that play on the senses and evoke a visual language using form, color and line. In a daydream-like stasis, the environments that surround me take on a new light. A visualization of the subject emerges almost as non-representational and verging on abstract. It is at this moment that the composition is complete.
These extraordinary images are captured in a straightforward manner; there’s no contrived theme, there’s no documentary and there’s no planning – there is just spontaneity and the moment.
These photographs form part of my destiny through my conscious decisions; the journey has a narrative and the subjects of the compositions have their own stories as well, but it is the abstract expressions of my visualizations that I am photographing.
The series is also a photographic ethnography of my travels conveying a visualization of my view of the global village based on my experiences within my own personal culture and community. It’s a depiction of my descent through cultures and communities, exposing abstracted forms composed of the environments that surround me.
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