Gerard Martin Beattie
When I attended Art School I originally intended to study Illustration but I became fascinated by photography and specialized in that discipline. I still have a great love of drawing and painting. I also became interested in the use of the image in different media and with the advent of the web and multimedia it is an area that I am most involved in my present work.
I have taught photography since 1984. Many people saw the replacement of the print with the digital image as the death of photography. However the photograph as a stand alone image is as influential, powerful and beautiful as it ever it was.
‘We are most of us too busy, too worried, too intent on proving ourselves right, too obsessed with ideas, to stand and stare’ - Bill Brandt
Let us all stand and stare.