“The End” – Exhibition at Kilau Coffee, Aberdeen
I’ve been planning this exhibition for the last 12 months, and to finally have it on the wall is a huge relief.
Yesterday the hanging itself went incredibly smoothly thanks entirely to the assistance of my dad, David Henderson, who has had plenty of experience organising exhibitions. His input over the last few weeks has been invaluable in making this show what it is, really can’t thank you enough. While I’m on the subject, a big thanks to Rebecca Prentice for helping design the posters, pricelists and labelling, Eion and Craig of Kilau for giving me the exhibition in the first place, and to Tim for his assistance and input on the day.
The only problem thus far is that the batteries in the LED torches I’ve used to illuminate some old slide viewers (slide viewers? what are those?) have died a lot faster than I had hoped, so right now a large part of my show consists of small, dark plastic boxes. I’ve hurriedly ordered alternative light sources so fingers crossed they fit inside and last a little longer.
The work itself is mostly made up of landscape photographs that I’ve shot over the past few years, mostly as experiments with odd cameras or processes. A lot of the work was shot on Velvia 50, Kodachrome and Type 80 Polaroid Peel-Apart films, all of which are now no longer in production. The show is called ‘the end’ for a few different reasons* but the main reason is almost every image in the show has been created with a camera, film or process that is no longer available to photographers. Although it is possible to fake the look of an image in Photoshop, it was the unanticipated effects of the processes that really made these images.
As well as having a lot of smaller, reasonably-priced pieces in the show, there’s also a strictly limited edition greetings card featuring a proper photographic print from the show on sale for only
