5 minutes with Photobook Month Bristol speaker David Killingback

Your name?

David Killingback

What do you shoot?

For work: commercial lifestyle and editorial portraiture.

For play: Music, street, land/cityscape and whatever I find interesting wherever I happen to be.

Which camera/gear do you use?

Nikon D700

Panasonic GH2 (mainly for HD motion work)

Pentax 67

iPad 2

Elinchrom lighting

What has been your most memorable shoot?

Memorable good or memorable bad? Bad: almost being beaten up in Hastings back in May. Good: A few years back I was shooting in a nightclub in Bristol. People saw me in the queue with a small bag for my camera. When I got inside and started working I had a constant stream of people coming up to me to apologise as they had assumed from the bag that I was a drug dealer.

Who/what inspires your work?

A whole host of other photographers stretching across the stylistic gamut, from Martin Parr to Josef Koudelka, Rene Burri to Annie Leibovitz, Richard Avedon to William Ecclestone. Painters: Goya, Edward Hopper, Rembrandt - all have important things to teach about lighting, composition, storytelling, meaning and the human condition.

What can people expect from your Photobook Month talk?

I’ll be giving a whirlwind tour of some of the most significant photobooks and bring in some examples such as Gypsies by Josef Koudelka and Think of England by Martin Parr. I’ll give as wide an overview as possible and hopefully everyone present will find something new of interest to inspire them which they can then go away and follow up.

What will be the theme of your next photobook project?

I’m currently compiling and editing images for a book of landscape images from a remote area of mid-Wales, but all the images were taken from the water while kayaking.

Where can people find out more about you?

www.davidkillingback.com

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