Garage Studios

A week ago I storyboarded a promo video I wanted our intern Tom to make- I’d seen the capability of his Canon7D for video and his talent at shoots. We needed something that showed the scale and facilities of the public hire part of our studio business, as well as some of the equipment we have, plus our location in the heart of Brighton, just 5 minutes from the station. Working with our fourth Photographer and Lighting specialist Natasha he spent 2 days (or 9 hours of taking photos) making this stop motion video. Oh and you may wanna turn it down a bit- this is his idea of a calming audio track….

Its fantastic to be able to give a brief to someone who can run with it and make an inventive and watchable promo. This is the first of many I am sure, but if you like it then please tell your friends or reblog it for us…. Cheers Tom and Tash.

if you want to see our equipment, or hire the space then please use the contact page or come and visit us in the North Laines…

Garage Studios Promo from Garage Studios on Vimeo.

Garage Studios are pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Kevin Mason for the Brighton Fringe Festival this May.

The exhibition dates will be:

Friday 7 May 6PM – 10PM
Saturday 8 May 10:30AM – 8PM
Sunday 9 May 10:30AM – 8PM
Saturday 29 May 10:30AM – 8PM
Sunday 30 May 10:30AM – 8PM
Bank Holiday Monday 31 May 12PM – 4:30PM

The exhibition is FREE entry and there will be a Invite Only Private View on Thursday 6th May, and details of how to obtain invites will be released closer to the date.

About the Work.
YOUR LIFE IS MY VANITY PROJECT

The Vanity Project by Kevin Mason, is a bold ongoing photography series that began after a chance encounter with the subject, Georgie Hobday, now 17, in a local coffee shop. This stunning set of images, shot in and around Brighton, documents an at times unnerving obsession, of deliberately forced encounters, and begins to examine the interaction and journey between photographer and subject. A fascinating study in the shifting role between subject and subjected shot on numerous film formats in a non-controlled environment. The project is now on Week 18 of its hourly , once-a-week schedule, and will continue to build until the exhibition finishes.

Your Life Is My Vanity Project – Kevin Mason at Garage Studios

This is Kevin’s first full exhibition in over two years and we are very excited to host it at Garage Studios. Please contact us info@garage-studios.co.uk for further details or Press release images. You can view some of the work from this series on the following link. There are a lot of images so it may take a minute to load.

This wet/sleety/snowy morning in the heart of Brighton’s Lanes saw the unveiling of ‘Lost’ – the winning entry by Grant Dejonge who triumphed in artrepublic’s Street Art Competition recently.

The eerie installation, situated on a wall next to my hotel on Jubilee Street, was chosen from over 250 entries and is the product of a successful campaign launched by the Brighton and London-based gallery, as well as raising the profile of homeless charity Street Smart along the way.

Residents and visitors to Brighton will be able to appreciate Grant’s augmented art work throughout 2010, and will surely be the topic of debate and opinion over the months ahead. Whatever your initial views, it’s worth a gander.

Last Saturday our current intern, Tom Chambers , went to the Brighton Tattoo Convention up at Brighton race course, where the convention hosted 175 spaces for tattooists, suppliers, merchandisers and other traders, and provided a place for hundreds of people to get tattooed over the weekend.

Last year Kevin and Natasha managed to *ahem* secure a room upstairs and shoot some portraits with the basic rule that whatever you entered the room wearing/holding thats how you would be shot. You can see one of those images here.

Tom decided to spend the day on the convention floor wandering among the stalls. It is an incredibly popular event and made taking photos at the convention tricky at times, as it can be cramped squeezing through the colourfully inked crowd with people in your way, and when there is a chance to get a shot, a coy carp covered arm moves into your line of view.. But he did grab some candid photos, as there were some weird and wonderful sights to capture – including some traditional Maori tattooing techniques inside a boxing ring, where the tattooist uses a comb-like instrument and a tapping stick to imprint the ink rather than using a gun.

Here’s a few photos but you can see the full album here.