Ewen Spencer

Ewen Spencer is a photographer who has been working in photography since he left Brighton University in 1997. During the late 90s he worked photographing youth culture in London, these helped to build up his self published book Open Mic released in 2005, this was based around different underground rap clubs. He also released a follow up book quite recently. His photos he took of the music scene in London were published in Sleazenation Magazine. He said that when he shot the Grime Scene in the late 90s and early 2000s that he would shoot on film in black and white even though he would normally shoot in colour and that he would shoot around twenty rolls a night. But he was in for a shock when we would shoot the nightlife in New York when he shot twenty rolls the people he was shooting for weren't impressed with his lack of images he was expecting Spencer to shoot about 100 rolls a night.

I feel that images were meant to document the nightlife of different areas and the youth cultures in these locations as well. I feel his images show the subculture of youth very well it shows many differences and how diverse the youth culture actually is.

I have look over a fair bit of his work and I would say that a lot of his work is really interesting, looking over his work on his website it isn't all based around the same thing but around a vast amount of different projects and genres, which I find really fascinating. I feel there are a lot of strong images on his website and very few weak ones, if any at all.

His talk its self was actually quite fascinating as well he spoke about all the different photos he took and many different projects and the fascinating stories behind some of the images and the projects and how luck can also play a part in his work which is quite handy in his images.

Overall I would say that his talk and his work is brilliant and that he is definitely a photographer who is worth looking into more and finding more out about.