Geoffrey Bartholomew

Geoff Bartholomew is a photographer who lives in London and uses mostly pin hole camera photography as the style of photography he specialises in. Geoff Bartholomew showed an early interest in camera-less photography when he started his studies of photography at West Kent College between the years of two thousand and seven- two thousand and eleven. While Geoff was at West Kent College, he spent a lot of his time working in the dark room, creating photograms, pinhole cameras,and developing film that he had shot.
 During Geoff's course of photography at West Kent College, he set up his very own dark room In his parents garage. This enabled him To carry on his work at home. After achieving his HND in photography from West Kent College, Geoff went on to continue his studies of photography at Camberwell College of Arts between the years two thousand and eight- two thousand and eleven. during his study of photography, he was able to really experiment, and put his unique ideas to the test. In one of Geoff's exhibitions in two thousand and twelve for Camberwell College of Arts, Geoff created several pin hole cameras And sent them through the post. During the pin hole cameras journeys, it was able to collect some really impressive data.
When the pin hole cameras arrived they were opened, and the effects that the light and the road had on the pin hole cameras were amazing. Geoff expresses his opinion of the final, completed works in this quote."This led me to employ diverse methodologies, which bring together motifs from a wide variety of sources including Neoclassical sculpture, early 17th century landscape painting and twentieth century abstraction." This quote is powerful because it shows how photography can capture elements from all of the ages, and from all of the genres with on piece of art work. After studying at Camberwell College of Arts, Geoff decided to further his knowledge in photography by studying At the Royal College of Arts. Between the years of two thousand and twelve - two thousand and fourteen. While Geoff studied at the Royal College of Arts, he focused on film photography as well as pin hole cameras.

Using monochrome film, Geoff was able to create some really powerful and meaningful pieces of art work. After achieving a master's qualification from the Royal College of Arts, Geoff travelled to places such as Milan,Madrid and many other city's while all the time improving his work and trying out new ideas. Geoff enjoyed his time in Milan so much that he stayed and studied there for a year. During this time he traveled around places like Lake Como creating incredible pin hole cameras.  when Geoff finished his travels, he decided that London was where he wanted to live because the life and things that happen are able to create a lot of good situations and opportunities to excel in his art work.
Geoff also likes to lead a very basic and nomadic lifestyle,which is why he bought a small boat, on which he can travel around the rivers of London and document what he sees through the means of pin hole cameras.  In London in the year two thousand and fifteen, Geoff turned an entire old fashioned phone box into one giant pin hole camera. This created a really nice effect. Geoff also went out at took pictures during the Brixton riots. By seizing the opportunity to take some pictures he was able to capture elements of the riot that were otherwise ignored. Such as the assaults, and the destruction of shops. He was also able to capture a photo of a bin lorry on fire.
photo example: ;http://fadmagazine.com/2012/01/08/six-eleven-geoff-bartholomew-future-map-11/
picture of the building layered photo example: http://showtime.arts.ac.uk/geoffbartholomew