Featherstone Street Darkside
Featherstone Street Darkside is a series of constructed portraits of people who through various collaborations and creative involvements, had become well known to me over the past five decades.
I photographed the portraits in a mini box/set which was designed with the sitters relationship to me in mind.
Using artificial studio lights, a large format camera, and 4x5 film, this series follows on from Featherstone Street 2021 (IPA 2022) which was shot using only natural daylight and consisted of more formally posed portraits.
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Biography
David Stewart began his career by photographing punk bands including The Clash and the Ramones. He also took to photographing the passing parade of colourful characters on Morecambe Promenade with squirrel monkeys Joey and Queenie. This early work directly influenced his now recognisable style. After graduating at Blackpool and The Fylde College, Stewart moved to London in 1981, rapidly establishing himself as one of the UK’s most highly accomplished photographers.
Books:
Fogeys 2001,
Thrice Removed 2009,
Teenage Pre-occupation 2013,
Paid Content 2018.
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Awards
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015
The Royal Photographic Society award for outstanding achievement and excellence in the fields of Editorial, Advertising and Fashion Photography 2016
BAFTA Nomination for Short Film "Cabbage" 1995
"Fogeys" Silver Award at the Art Directors Club of New York
