Dance photography & competition

2009 April 2
by Kate Spragg

Richard Battye is one of Birmingham’s veteran photographers. A few years ago he had a very successful exhibition ‘This is England’ which showed at 14 UK galleries from North Shields to Mayfair. He even took it out  to Los Angeles and  became a visiting lecturer with Kodak. Past clients include: The Arts Council, Land Rover, Harley Davidson, Gibson Guitars, BBC, Channel 4, and channel 5’s The Gadget show, where Richard is ‘their favourite photographer’.

Dance

He is now working on another project based around dance, but can’t come up with a title. He would like CiB readers to come up with a snappy title and the winning chosen title gets a signed print and invite to the private view when the exhibition launches.

The work is around dance and was shot in Birmingham, you can view working progress here.

Please put your ideas in the comments and remember to leave your email address (which won’t be shown). Good Luck!

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14 Responses
  1. 2009 April 4

    How about “Movement Exposure”

  2. 2009 April 4
    hayley and shannon permalink

    we would really love to enter if we enter we would be doin hip hop or dance

  3. 2009 April 7

    It has to be…

    ‘Flash.Dance’

    or how about

    ‘Amazing feets’

    Then again I quite like

    ‘Steps beyond’

    I’ll stop now.

  4. 2009 April 13

    Title suggestion: ART FOR MOTION

  5. 2009 April 17

    Keep those suggestions coming please..I haven’t seen a winner yet..I appreciate the comments so far.
    Richard Battye

  6. 2009 April 20
    Daisybelle permalink

    ‘Captured and Exposed’

  7. 2009 April 20
    Katie permalink

    ‘Moving Pictures’ – playing on the two meanings; movement and emotion.
    ‘Still: Dancing’ – another play on words as they’re static images of people who were in motion at the time.
    ‘Pause’ – as it looks as if you just stopped the music and they had to stay as they were. (’Musical Statues’!?)

  8. 2009 April 21

    ‘Danceography’

  9. 2009 April 24

    …Richard, your work is beautiful! my initial thougths are…

    f-stop/f-step
    moments in motion
    motion-snap
    clikstep

    like baron’s suggestions too!

  10. 2009 April 26

    I have a winner for the dance exhibition title.
    My thanks to all who posted suggestions but the
    winner is Katie with Still:Dancing.
    Simple, to the point…why didn’t I think of it!!
    Sometimes it takes someone to step back and be
    objective..I was too close to it.

  11. 2009 April 27

    Thanks for all of your entries guys! I think Katie Parry must be on a creative roll, winning the design competition and now this.

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