SEBASTIAN
HEDGECOE
ARTIST DIRECTOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Gaucin Open Studios
¨Always provoke the imagination. As an artist you do your thing. Abstraction, realism, cubism, pointillism, expressionism, minimalism or any ism, have an opinion and speak your voice.¨ SH
Artist Statement
¨ Its what you leave out of the frame that is equally as important ¨ ... SH
The creative process hasn´t really changed since I first started taking photographs. It is an exploration, a discovery of the world which we all inhabit and the subjects which present themselves. The subject is not always obvious, it has to be unearthed through shooting and further and further scrutiny as you see into things and respond intuitively.
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Sometimes the search is literally sparked by ´dreaming´ through the creative meditation of working. The process and pursuit of any subject is always done through a series of photographs and is a continually reductive - additive and intuitive journey.
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Naturally one has techniques for shooting portraits or still lives, landscapes or for any commercial commissions. The aim however is always to do something resoundingly unique that I have never seen before. It needs complete integrity and the´magic´of what comes through the lens, the minds eye and the´energy´of the moment. ​ ​​
Biography
Sebastian is a Film and TV graduate of the
Royal College of Art Film School, London,
MA 1987 and Graphic Design from
Hornsey Art School, London, BA 1984.
He also studied at the BBC National Broadcasting School in London, 1984.
Photography and the Arts runs in the family. He is the eldest son of two highly renowned and prolific Photographers, Julia Hedgecoe and the late Professor John Hedgecoe. Sebastian grew up surrounded by many of the most highly influential Fine Artists from the UK and abroad, notably the Sculptor Henry Moore who was a close family friend.
Over 700 photographic portraits taken by John Hedgecoe of Writers and Artists of all mediums are held at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich. Many of these Artists were also friends of the Hedgecoe family. His extensive archive is kept by Getty Images. Both John and Julia also have collections at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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John Hedgecoe
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hedgecoe)
( https://www.gettyimages.es/search/2/image?phrase=John%20hedgecoe )
(https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/display/20001/john-hedgecoe-portraits)
Julia Hedgecoe
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Hedgecoe) (https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp11899/julia-hedgecoe)
Paco de Lucia