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Linear Living

David — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:37:06 +0000

New camera + new places + new inspiration = more video and photos

Ciudad Lineal from David Michael Shanks on Vimeo.

The Best Camera is the One You Have With You

David — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:52:05 +0000

My interest in photography has recently been rekindled thanks to Chase Jarvis and the nifty iPhone Best Camera app. The idea behind the app and the user upload project at thebestcamera.com is to open up impressive, quality photography to the masses. Makes sense given that camera carrying mobile phones are almost ubiquitous in modern society.

See the video for more details and below some of my bestc.am shots – all taken, edited and uploaded to various social networks on the go in a matter of seconds.

Godt Brød Exhibition

David — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:39:22 +0000

Facebook event link
Info/Price List

As of today I have a selection of my pictures and drawings on display in Godt Brød ecological bakery/café, Trondheim.

Godt Brød Trondheim
Thomas Angells gate 16
7011 Trondheim
73 53 61 40
Click here for a map

Opening hours are 8am-6pm everyday except Sunday.
It’s an excellent bakery/café right in the city centre so please drop in, have something to eat, take a look around and leave a note in the guestbook!

The exhibition is a mix of things old and new. On display are my previous black & white photographs from France and Scotland, a more recent surreal/dark series on loneliness and solitude and also a few of my line drawings that are fresh off the press.You can also look at/buy postcards and my collection book Times Beyond the Tree.

You can browse my photos and drawings here

If you are interested in buying any photos/drawings/prints just get in touch for a price and details on size and framing: davidmichaelshanks@gmail.com

Thanks,

David

“Times beyond the tree” is available online

David — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:32:21 +0000

A collection of my recent photographs, line drawings, texts and song lyrics are available in the form of a book portfolio called Times beyond the tree (hardback and softback!) Click the cover below where you can find out about the book, preview it and order it online.

Times beyond the tree is a short portfolio selection of my recent photographs, line drawings, texts and song lyrics.

Loneliness, solitude, emptiness.

Awareness, connections, excitement.

Beauty.

A tiptoed journey that turns dead-end glances to next door’s shadows

An awkward, onward struggle that can never be as expected

A couple lie in bed and listen to one another breathe

An old woman is reassured as a flag signals her death

Two strangers find out they have already met and spoken without words

And a windowsill sunset somehow connects it all together in perfect harmony

The title is a reference to Chris Marker’s photomontage La Jétée . A man travels back in time to save civilisation and find his former love. While in a park, the couple stare at a cut cross-section of a giant sequoia tree that is marked with historical dates. The man points somewhere beyond the tree and says “This is where I come from”.

Preview a low quality selection of the book directly here

A new gallery….

David — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:12:36 +0000

You can peruse my photos in this nifty flash gallery by Airtight. I am now using a new webhost, so will get around to cleaning things up here shortly.

and in the meantime, some good old Scottish indie/folk/miserablism
Foxface – Last Waltz
http://www.myspace.com/thetwilightsad
http://www.myspace.com/frightenedrabbit

It is open…

David — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:15:36 +0000

Just a brief, but very big thank you to everyone who turned up at the Look Up Look Out photo exhibition opening last night. Morten and I were very chuffed with how the evening turned out and how the pictures looked. Skydsstation was bursting at the seams – so much so that it was hard to see the pictures! So as I said, come back during the day soon for a coffee with good light and fewer people. Have a look at our pictures, read our booklet and sign our guestbooks.

All of my pictures on display are for sale so if you have any price/sizes/framing queries just email [ davidmichaelshanks @ gmail.com ]

Look Up Look Out

Look Up Look Out photo exhibition is now upon us

David — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:53:51 +0000

Look Up Look Out is opening the 18/01/08 @18.00 in Baklandet Skydsstaion, Trondheim, Norway tomorrow. Morten and I are both very excited! Click here for a map & Click here to see my exhibition pics

If you have arrived here after seeing my work in Skydsstation and want to browse my portfolio please go to my Flickr page. For purchase/print size/framing questions please email [ davidmichaelshanks @ gmail.com ]

Here is our press release in Norwegian on Morten’s blog: press release

Here are links to some supplementary documents that are on display in the exhibition:
My Photographer’s Biography (for more of an idea on what this exhibition is about)
My image blurbs
Look Up Look Out Expo Booklet
Press Release Text Doc (Norwegian) (again thanks to Morten)

Exhibition details/Flickr/PhotoShelter stock agency

David — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:44:20 +0000

My photo exhibition with Morten Oddvik titled “Look up Look out” mentioned below will have its opening on 18/01/07 @18.00 in Baklandet Skydsstaion, Trondheim, Norway. Click the flyer below for the images that will be on display:

If you are interested in purchasing any of the images you see on exhibition or else on my site, please contact me via my email [ davidmichaelshanks @ gmail.com ] for prices/prints/framing information.

I have also opened a flickr photo account to complement and possibly replace this website over time. Given its great community/comment/extra features Ill be mostly updating my flickr account with my past and present photography: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmichaelshanks/

I have also had some of my pics accepted by PhotoShelter stock photo collection. Here my pics are live and for sale, including several that were awarded the “editor’s choice”.
http://my.photoshelter.com/davidshanks
“Created by photographers in 2005, PhotoShelter has quickly become one of the professional photography industry’s most trusted brands”

New Photos, New Exhibition & Site change

David — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:08:20 +0000

An overdue update! You can find some of my most recent photography here in a very nice flash gallery called simpleviewer (if you don’t have flash you can see a limited number of the pictures in my normal gallery here). Either way, let me know what you think.

In January I will be having an exhibition of my photos in Skydstation, Trondheim, Norway with Morten Oddvik. More details to follow.

For the new year I will be changing webhost and my site. I hope to have a more comprehensive photography section as well as more of my music content online.