Eyelevel Gallery launch

Anglesey-based photographer Adrian Cann launches
EYELEVEL GALLERY - a new Virtual Gallery space
to showcase photography online when bricks & mortar Galleries are closed.

Eyelevel Gallery’s first exhibition features work by photographer Philip Butler titled ‘Small Hours’.

Inspired by the 1977 John Martyn track of the same name - a brooding nocturnal soundscape recorded across a lake at 3 a.m. - Small Hours is a collection of photographs produced to document the peaceful cinematic atmosphere that isolated points of artificial light create after the sun has set. Captured in and around his small hometown of Malvern, Butler wandered the streets after dark searching for inspiration.

His photographs have been published in a number of different magazines and newspapers including C20 Magazine, RPS Journal, La Vangaurdia, Digital Camera, The Modernist and The Guardian.

Ffoton’s Brian Carroll spoke with Eyelevel Gallery curator Adrian about Small Hours, the inspiration to create the new website, its aims and submission guidelines for photographers interested in having work featured. Listen to their conversation in the audio below.

Philip Butler’s Small Hours photobook

Eyelevel Gallery opens its virtual doors to the public on Saturday 20 February 2021 at www.eyelevelgallery.co.uk

The Small Hours exhibition us free to view and runs 20 February - 1 May 2021. A selection of prints are also available for sale on the site.

You can view more of Philip Butler’s work on his website > www.philipbutlerphotography.com
The Small Hours photobook is available via the ADM Publishing online store > www.artdecomagpie.bigcartel.com

You can listen to John Martyn’s atmospheric Small Hours free on Spotify here >

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