Jason Tilley – Photographer in residence from CU Photography on Vimeo. With a big thanks to Jaskirt Dhaliwal production assistance.

It was great to hear Jason talk today to our #PICBOD 2012 students about the years he spent travelling across India ‘making portraits of the people I encountered along the way’.

During his time with us Jason has also been talking about his relationship to his grandpa’s photographic collection who was a photographer  for The Times of India newspaper working from their offices in Bombay in the 1930?s.

The residency has been generously supported by Arts Council of England and is in partnership with Pete James Head of Photographs, Birmingham Central Library and Jonathan Shaw Associate Head of the Department of Media, Coventry University.

You can find out more about the progress of the project on Jason’s blog

http://thebeautifulpeopleblog.wordpress.com/

Gallery 13 seen here installed as part of the Time|Motion exhibition.

Gallery 13 is now back on show in gallery 20 at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. 7 years after it was originally commissioned, shot, exhibited and subsequently acquired for the Museums collection.

On the Move: Visualising Action at the Estorick Collection, London. 13th January – 18th April 2010.

17th January, The Sunday Independent, The Critics, Visual Art/Film by Charles Darwent.

“And other rooms bring Miller’s story up to date by focussing on the modern interest in depicting motion motionlessly, from Jonathan Shaw’s shot of a triple-jumper mid-jump to the sequentially flailing fists of Billy Whizz.

This is fascinating stuff, although more needs to be made of its central cognitive drama. As Miller points out, the perception psychologist, Sigmund Exner, found that the eye actually registers the gaps between frames in the apparently seamless story of, say, Steamboat Willie. It is the brain that fills in the narrative, preferring its stories complete. This knowledge raises all kinds of questions about how and what we see, but also about what art is and what it is for.”

Click here to read the full story on the Independent’s website.