Colin Pantall
{{Short description|English writer & photographer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
Colin Pantall is a writer, photographer and lecturer based in Bath, England.{{cite web | url = http://www.parisphoto.com/paris/program/2014/the-platform/colin-pantall | access-date = 9 March 2015 | publisher = Paris Photo | title = Colin Pantall}}{{cite web | url = http://www.hotshoeinternational.com/about | access-date = 9 March 2015 | publisher = Hotshoe | title = About}} His photography is about childhood and the mythologies of family identity.{{cite web | url = http://staff.southwales.ac.uk/users/6791-cpanta1 | access-date = 9 March 2015 | publisher = University of South Wales | title = Staff Directory: Colin Pantall | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170517203405/http://staff.southwales.ac.uk/users/6791-cpanta1 | archive-date = 17 May 2017 | url-status = dead }}{{cite web | url = http://www.bjp-online.com/2017/09/pantallhome/ | date = 28 September 2017 | access-date = 11 October 2017 | first = Diane | last = Smyth | website = British Journal of Photography | title = Colin Pantall shakes up "the mythology of the family" | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171012044458/http://www.bjp-online.com/2017/09/pantallhome/ | archive-date = 12 October 2017 | url-status = dead }}
A senior lecturer in photography at the University of South Wales in Newport, he writes about photography for British Journal of Photography,{{cite web|url = http://www.bjp-online.com/2014/11/joan-fontcuberta-national-media-museum-bradford/ | date = 3 November 2014 | access-date = 9 March 2015 | first = Colin | last = Pantall | author-link = Colin Pantall | magazine = British Journal of Photography | title = Mind Games}} Royal Photographic Society's RPS Journal and Photo Eye, and is a photography blogger.{{cite web | url = https://www.wired.com/2010/11/favorite-photobloggers/#slideid-15840 | date = 11 October 2010 | access-date = 9 March 2015 | first = Pete | last = Brook | publisher = Wired | title = Get to Know Our Favorite Photobloggers}}{{cite web | url = http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/tag/colin-pantall | date = 4 October 2012 | publisher = Photo District News | title = Collaborative Photo Blogger Project IDs "New Ideas In Photography"}} His book of photographs, All Quiet on the Home Front, was published in 2017.
Life and work
Pantall gained a BA in philosophy from the University of Bristol in 1986 and a MA in documentary photography from the University of Wales, Newport, in 2006, where he studied under Ken Grant.{{cite journal | last1 = Pantall | first1 = Colin | author-link = Colin Pantall | year = 2015 | title = Breaking Cover | periodical = British Journal of Photography | volume = 162 | issue = 7833 | pages = 54–61 | publisher = Apptitude Media}}
He is a senior lecturer in photography at the University of South Wales in Newport, teaching on the documentary, and fashion and advertising courses.
Pantall writes about photography for British Journal of Photography,{{cite web|url = http://www.bjp-online.com/2014/09/the-reason-of-oranges/ | date = 23 September 2014 | access-date = 9 March 2015 | first = Colin | last = Pantall | author-link = Colin Pantall | magazine = British Journal of Photography | title = The Reason of Oranges}}{{cite web|url = http://www.bjp-online.com/2014/06/the-photobook-according-to-parr/ | date = 6 June 2014 | access-date = 9 March 2015 | first = Colin | last = Pantall | author-link = Colin Pantall | magazine = British Journal of Photography | title = The photobook according to Parr}}Colin Pantall, "Parallel lines", British Journal of Photography, 7 January 2009, p.17. Royal Photographic Society's RPS Journal and Photo Eye. He has been a photography blogger since 2007. Pete Brook, writing in Wired in 2010 about his blog, said that "Preoccupied with visual culture at large, Pantall draws frequent parallels to literature, television and film. The result is an eclectic exploration of what 'does and doesn't make photography work'."
Publications
=Publications by Pantall=
- All Quiet on the Home Front. ICVL Studio, 2017. {{ISBN|978-1-64136-958-9}}.
=Publications with contributions by Pantall=
- Photographic Portrait Prize 2007. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2007. {{ISBN|978-1855143883}}.
- Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2008. {{ISBN|978-1855143968}}. With a brief essay by Ben Okri and interviews with the prize winners by Richard McClure.
- Global photography. Looking at-Looking for. Verucchio, Rimini, Italy: Pazzini, 2009. {{ISBN|9788862570640}}. Edited by Massimo Sordi and Steffania Rosl.
Group exhibitions
- 2007: Innocence Now, Witzenhausen gallery, Amsterdam, 5 January – 10 February 2007.{{cite web | url = http://www.witzenhausengallery.nl/exhibition_detail.php?idxEvent=78 | access-date = 9 March 2015 | publisher = Witzenhausen gallery | title = Exhibitions: "Innocence Now | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402143206/http://www.witzenhausengallery.nl/exhibition_detail.php?idxEvent=78 | archive-date = 2 April 2015 | url-status = dead }}
- 2007/2008: Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, 8 November 2007 – 24 February 2008.{{cite web | url = http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2007/photographic-portrait-prize-2007/exhibition/exhibitor-45.php | access-date = 9 March 2015 | publisher = National Portrait Gallery, London | title = Photographic Portrait Prize 2007 – Exhibitor 45}} The Lowry, Salford, Greater Manchester, 5 July – 12 October 2008.{{cite web | url = http://www.npg.org.uk/beyond/exhibitions/touring/past/the-photographic-portrait-prize-2007.php | access-date = 10 March 2015 | publisher = National Portrait Gallery, London | title = The Photographic Portrait Prize 2007}} Included Pantall's Sofa Portrait #3 from Sofa Series.
- 2008/2009: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, 6 November 2008 – 15 February 2009;{{cite web | url = http://www.npg.org.uk/photoprize1/site/events.php | access-date = 9 March 2015 | publisher = National Portrait Gallery, London | title = Events}} Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 25 April – 21 June 2009.{{cite web | url = http://www.npg.org.uk/photoprize1/site/exhibition_tour.php | access-date = 10 March 2015 | publisher = National Portrait Gallery, London | title = Tour}} Included Isabel with Camellia on Easter Sunday.
- 2009: Global photography: Looking at / Looking for, Sifest Photo Festival, Savignano, Italy, 11 September – 4 October 2009.{{cite book | title= Si Fest 2009 - programma | url= http://issuu.com/il_aria/docs/sifest2009/1 | access-date= 10 March 2015 | year= 2009 | publisher= Savignano Immagini | location= Savignano | page= 18}} Included Pantall's Sofa Series.
- 2009: Domesticated, Walcot Chapel, Bath, 8–17 October 2009;{{cite web | url = http://domesticatedexhibition.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/colin-pantall-sofa-series.html | date = 2 October 2009 | access-date = 9 March 2015 | title = Domesticated Exhibition}}{{cite web | url = https://www.a-n.co.uk/events/domesticated | date = 22 September 2009 | access-date = 9 March 2015 | publisher = A-N | title = Callum Bell}} Post Modern Gallery, Swindon, 5–27 February 2010.{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8493000/8493001.stm | date = 2 February 2010 | access-date = 9 March 2015 | publisher = BBC News | title = Swindon gets Domesticated}} Included Pantall's Sofa Series along with work by Christina Bryant, Julia Douglas, Sarah King, Kate Peters and Jem Stiff.
- 2010: Global photography: Looking at / Looking for, Galleria Contemporaneo, Venice, 19 March – 24 April 2010.{{cite web | url = http://www.galleriacontemporaneo.it/pagine_schede/collaterali/scheda_collaterali_007.html | access-date = 10 March 2015 | publisher = Galleria Contemporaneo | title = Global photography: Looking at / Looking for}}{{cite web | url = http://www.positive-magazine.com/photography/global-photography-at-galleria-del-contemporaneo/ | access-date = 10 March 2015 | publisher = Positive Magazine | title = Global Photography at Galleria del Contemporaneo}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|colinpantall.com}}
- [http://issuu.com/colinpantall/docs/sofaportraits A copy of Sofa Portraits, a self-published book by Pantall, at Issuu]
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