Exhibition
FORMAT06 Commission: North 52° 55.391 by
West 001° 28.493

Venue
QUAD hoardings, Derby Market Place

Dates
22 September to
5 November

Times
24 hrs a day

Wesbites
www.thebluegallery.co.uk
www.timsimmons.co.uk

Tim Simmons
For FORMAT06 photographer Tim Simmons has been commissioned to create a new series of photographs responding to the theme of the festival – Transform. His work is a unique response to the elusive charm and current transformation of Derby.

The photography of Tim Simmons creates evocative landscapes in which dreams may be played out. Without imposing narrative, Simmons provides us with a stage; his raw material is the landscape itself, the night and the lights he has to hand are his palette. He shoots what he creates and creates what he sees and asks if, with the first light of dawn, do these places revert back to normal, to be passed by during the day without so much as a second glance?

For Simmons, there is a sense that he is attempting to capture and make tangible something that is largely intangible. He likens it to recording the moment at which you awaken from a dream with the imprint of revelation burned into slowly opening eyelids and the faculties of memory struggling to make sense of it. But what if you could hold on to that place? Simmons’ pictures do
just that. All protagonists have been removed but the setting remains.

Tim Simmons has been a working photographer since 1979 with a distinguished career in fashion and advertising. In more recent years he has focussed on the aesthetics that have underpinned his practice through exhibited and commissioned works.