英国西蒙Simon R Leach 个人影展

关于展览“美”的解说
美丽，就像艺术家本身，包含着很多东西。形状、线条里藏着美感，事物表面的触感、观众的审美价值以及光线里也都蕴藏着美。这些美的光芒让我们去观看，去欣赏。
数年来，西蒙•里奇一直在探索“美”的本质。他注重简洁，优雅和有涵养。他认为这些特质都是“美”应当具有的内在品质。这份工作利用音乐和影像去影响创作过程。十九世纪二三十年代好莱坞的“黄金时代”、六十年代欧洲沿海地区的衰落以及与之形成鲜明对比的东方传统的简约式优雅，都给西蒙提供了源源不断的灵感。本次展览选择的关于这段发展时期的照片，不仅交流了关于“美”这一概念的典范，而且对西蒙的眼光以及对“美”的理解有了一个交流，并将其图像化。
西蒙深深扎根于相机背后的技术知识以及人生经验。作为一个受过训练的职业摄影师，他也学习符号学，研究通过视觉意象如何向观众传递信息。这项学习让西蒙了解到观众的性情、他们对一份作品的感受力以及能带入到这一作品里的影响力。有了这样的认识，他设法把观众的注意力吸引到图片的核心元素上，以求能更顺利地与他们交流该作品的概念。西蒙的作品里大量使用了女性角色。他专注于运用已被广泛接受了的关于美的社会结构，柔软的质地，轮廓和举止来吸引观众的注意。
尽管独立的个体通过摄影来探索作品中的美，他们却也是通过系统的、规整的方式来完成各自的作品。西蒙花了很多时间去帮模特摆造型、调整灯光，就像模特是无生命的物体一样。本次展览建立在已存在的作品之上，也会包含一些先前未露面的作品，这些都是单单为本次展览预备的。

Statement on Imagery - 'Beauty'
'Beauty', like the artist himself, is about many things. Beauty in form and line, beauty in the tactile nature of surface, beauty as the aesthetic value of the viewer and beauty of light - the illumination of those things that allow us to behold and appreciate.
Over a number of years Simon R Leach has been exploring the nature and essence of beauty, drawing focus on the simplicity, elegance and sophistication which he feels are inherent qualities in an ideal of beauty. The work draws on both music and imagery to influence the process. Considerable inspiration has been gained from the 1920's and 30's, Hollywood's 'Golden Era', but also from the decadence of the European Riviera of the 1960's and the contrasting simple elegance of the traditional Orient. Selected works from throughout this period of development both communicate the ideals of the concept, but also seek to visualise and communicate Simon's understanding and vision.
Firmly grounded and informed by a technical knowledge and experience of a life behind the camera, as a trained professional photographer, Simon has also studied semiotics. The way in which the viewer is spoken to, through visual imagery. This study enables Simon to understand the perception and influence the viewer can bring to a work, their own personal disposition. With this understanding he seeks to draw the viewer to the key elements of an image to communicate its concept more successfully. Predominantly using the female form Simon draws upon widely understood social constructs of beauty, smoothness of texture, contour and demeanour to gain his viewer's attention.
Although beauty in this work is explored through the photography of individual people, their images are captured in a very systematic, and controlled manner. Simon takes time to position and light each almost as you would an inanimate object. Building on an existing body of work, this exhibition will include previously unseen works produced specifically for this venue (works in production at time of writing).

西蒙说他并不确定这一切是怎么发生的，但是他正充分享受着这一旅途。
在七岁的时候他第一次按下了相机快门，在十六岁的时候他成了一名摄影师。自那一刻其，他便对图像，交流，技术，创意工作者的权力以及摄影业深深着迷。他正式地进修了两次，取得了格劳斯凯特学院的城市与公会方向的证书，以及著名的 布莱克普尔学院的荣誉文学学士学位。据他们说，剩下的部分便是个人轨迹，错误以及坚持。在他二十五年的商业和广告摄影的生涯里，西蒙理解并持续探索着作为一个创意者，传递清晰信息以及建立个人风格的重要性和本质。通过个人的发展以及独立的视觉，西蒙近期被国际摄影艺术世界所吸引。
除了身为一个创造者和传播者之外，西蒙对摄影界也充满热情。同时他也对摄影行业以及对摄影师来说至关重要的个人版权问题也充满了热情。他已经发展出了一个广泛的多元关系网，常被邀请担当一些国际摄影比赛的评委。他个人开过很多讲座，也参与一些广播节目，还曾作为一个供稿作者出过书。他是许多摄影组织的会员，也志愿去帮助那些可能需要帮助的地方。最近六年，西蒙任英国职业摄影师协会的非执行董事，其中有四年时间，他担任该协会的主席一职，是该协会历史上任职时间最长的一位摄影师。那他留下了什么呢？他留下的是一个惊喜，那个惊喜就是他对摄影的热爱究竟会将他带向哪里。
Artists Statement – Simon R Leach
Simon says he is not quite sure how this all happened, but he is making make the most of the journey.
Having first fired a camera shutter aged seven, he then fell into a career as a photographer at aged 16. From that point on he has been obsessed with photographs, communication, technique, creator rights and the photographic industry. He has studied formally twice, achieving a City and Guilds at GLOSCAT and then a BA (HONS) from the prestigious Blackpool College. The rest, as they say, has been trail, error and persistence. Having worked throughout his 25 year career in commercial and advertising photography, Simon has always understood and explored the importance and the nature of individualism, personal style and clarity of message, for a creator. Through this personal development and individual vision Simon has recently been gaining interest from the International Photographic Art world.
In addition to being a creator and communicator, Simon is passionate about the photographic community, the industry that surrounds it and the rights that are so vital to an individual's work. He has developed an extensive and varied network of contacts, been honoured to be invited as a judge to a number of international photographic awards, given numerous lectures, spoken on radio, and been published as a contributing author. He has been and is a member of a number of photographic organisations and volunteers time to assist these where possible. Most recently Simon spent six years as a non-executive director of the Association of Photographers in London and had the honour of spending four years as its president, to date the longest continuous term of any in the organisation's history. What has he left? Well, the surprise of where his continuing love affair with photography takes him next.

这个展览在2013中国黟县国际摄影大展展出，由策展人郭宬策划，尚图坊承制、布展。
The exhibition displayed at 2013 Yixian County International Photography Festival of China, and the curator is Guo Jing，Shangtuf Image and Art Club is the supplier.