“Just tried a mounted print out in a frame,really getting excited now! A1 prints look cool.”
has been the sort of unassuming Tweet I’ve been seeing from Jon Shackleton recently. Unassuming because what this chap has had the drive and determination to achieve recently has been nothing short of remarkable.
I’ve known Jon for a couple of years now and I’m sure that he would be the first to say that his love of photography has been a big part of his life. It has certainly got him very well acquainted with his adopted home of Manchester (his moniker of TdM being short for Tourista De Mancunia) and has opened doors for him that he probably wasn’t expecting!
Jon has developed an excellent eye for a genre of photography known as ‘Light Painting’. In essence, an atypical scene is lit with theatrical gels to form the basis of a moment in which Photography definitely swings towards the ‘Art’ end of it’s constant oscillation between ‘Art’ and ‘Science’. Expect to see industrial equipment, abandoned buildings and Communist Statue parks all given the light painting treatment as part of this exhibition.
I’ll be there for the opening night on Sunday 11th October (where another highly talented acquaintance in Air Adam will be massaging our ears with a DJ set) at Font Bar on New Wakefield street in Manchester. However, don’t despair if you can’t make the opening as the next three months give you ample opportunity to get along and move, “Into the Night”.
