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Death Valley set to come to Newcastle

A Newcastle-based professional photo lab and gallery is set to stage a unique six week exhibition of the latest work from multi-award-winning Tim Wallace – widely acclaimed as one of the top ten most influential photographers in the world today.

Digitalab on Stepney Bank will display around 30 images shot by Wallace using just one camera and one lens in an abandoned ‘ghost town’ in the hostile Death Valley desert in Nevada.

Said Wallace: “The sheer scale and beauty of the Death Valley wilderness has always held a fascination for me and the idea of a photographic expedition to an abandoned town in its very heart was irresistible. Darwin is a very long way off the beaten track and it actually took two trips to even find it.”

Lured by the prospect of rich textures and outstanding light that prevail in the American ‘ghost town’ he planned simply to capture what he saw before him.

He added: “There are three things that will remain with me always from my visit to Death Valley. The sheer deafening silence as the sun dropped across the valley and left both me and the town in darkness; the discreetly parked US Army truck with the not so discreet bullet hole in the windscreen - and then noticing that every clock that I came across had stopped at 4:20 on Sunday the 13th. !”

Digitalab, which celebrates 65 years in the photographic business this year is owned by Jill Roe who also manages events and exhibitions within a custom built gallery area.

“Tim is a long-standing customer and a very talented photographer. We are thrilled to be staging this unique show at our in-house gallery,” she said.

“Tim’s subject matter may be set in the wilderness but it deserves to be seen by the masses. I’m delighted that he has chosen us to host his first solo exhibition. It also gives us the opportunity to showcase our frames, printing and gallery area. “

The prints will be on sale online through Digitalab’s dedicated website address once the exhibition opens on August 7.

More information:

www.digitalab.co.uk/timwallace_darwin.html

www.ambientlife.co.uk

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Keith Newman .