Oliver Wood ~ film crew pro member
I am interested a wide range of subjects and do all the usual commercial photographer things: weddings, bands, postcard images for local lifestyle magazines and events.
But I am also known (locally at least) for my creative and prolific documentary or diarist work, I have covered my locality in the minutest detail for many years. I was a very early adopter of the internet, possibly the first local photographer with a personal website and nearly all of my modest reputation has come about through this kind of activity. I have never yet had a gallery show or similar! Generally, I have an interest in whimsy and the curious or beguiling aspects of the more rural and remote parts of the British Isles, I like weather, nature, verdant places and petricore moods after summer rain. The local landscapes of east Cheshire and the Derbyshire boarders are particularly inspiring to me. I think it is a uniquely atmospheric environment full of a sense of magic and a hint of the mysterious. It is moody, sometimes sullen, and even a little melancholic but I seem to thrive on this kind of ‘ambience’, as if it were the visual accompaniment to the kinds of jazz sounds and modalities that I like. My work also tends to incorporate an intense curiosity for the details of all things, often quite curious things that we tend not to notice. I like to create bold images that have a quality of solidity with highly delineated composition and a certain density of form, sometimes I experiment with texture treatments or flat paint-like renderings and a large proportion of my images are shot on antiquated equipment.
Clients
- Cheshire Life – local interest publishing
- Global Film Makers – marketing & advertising
- House Creative – advertising agency
- Invasion Angels – Dancers
- ITV Granada – broadcasting & publishing
- John Swift Bespoke Homes – housing development
- Licklist – entertainment news & publishing
- Macclesfield Express – news & publishing
- News International – news & publishing
- NME – news & publishing
- North Star – advertising agency
- Paramount Pictures – film production
- PH Homes – housing development
- Silkonia – voluntary community
- Stage Invaders – Dancers
- The Gate Design Group – advertising agency
- The Refinery – advertising agency
- Typocom – local interest publishing