Peter Neill recasts the commonplace objects of memory into images that can be read in a multilayered manner, writes Brian McAvera
Peter Neill, who lives in Northern Ireland, has been exhibiting photographic images, nationally and internationally, since the late 1970s (Fig 1). He is a trained photographer – as opposed to an artist who just happens to use photographic imagery – and he shoots with film, although recently he has made a foray into the digital world. His influences have been predominantly American, such as Steiglitz, Weston and Adams and the f64 group, and both the work and the working methods of Minor White were important to him in terms of White’s philosophy of ‘equivalence’, his use of sequencing, his appreciation of image juxtaposition, and his attitude to photographic technique (the zone system)
