Dan Briston
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Dan Briston

PhotographerManchester, United Kingdom
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Dan Briston
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Dan Briston

PhotographerManchester, United Kingdom
About me
Freelance photographer. Graduate from the University of South Wales, Newport Documentary Photography BA. Adept with many photographic formats, experienced in hand-making books. Based in Manchester.
Projects
  • Discarded
    DiscardedInspired by Broomberg and Chanarin’s ‘Scarti’ and through a mystery in the university of South Wales’ printing lab, this project was formed. 'Discarded’ is a collection of fragments of other peoples work. Broken from frustration, anger or boredom; incorrect by fault of hardware; experiments on paper; printer cleaning rituals and images simply forgotten about, each of these pieces serves to represent what is behind the images as finished products that we see on a daily basis; the struggle and p
  • Bang Goes Threepence
    Bang Goes Threepence‘Bang Goes Threepence’ comes from an old English adage that reflects upon the costs and values of shooting pheasant in rural England. ‘Up goes ninepence’ (the cost of raising a bird to flight), ‘bang goes threepence’ (the price of a shotgun cartridge) and ‘down comes half a crown’ (the value of a bird on the market). After discovering this, I focused my work on learning about modern day shooting culture and investigating whether or not it works as a sport or as part of the food industry, or perhaps both. I have endeavoured to base my work on factual, statistical and first-hand evidential findings so that it avoids political bias and remains impartial. I have quite intensely researched the financial, environmental and personal concerns within the shooting trade. My images document a narrative that follows a day’s progression through a modern shoot. The entire project was made at the Glanusk Estate, Powys, over the course of three days. It begins with following the labouring working class beaters, who prepare the shoots over weeks and months and move birds from field to field, eventually for them so systemically peak over tall tress to meet the guns of rich men far below them. Afterwards, I travel with the guests of the shooting party to catch a glimpse at their more aristocratic view of the day. The viewer moves from close quarters with workers, to high up spaces with the birds, and down into the bottom of the valley with the guns and the falling lead pieces, transcending through an entire landscape as well as two different representations, according to class, of the sport.
  • In Defiance Of Any Sense Of Normalcy
    In Defiance Of Any Sense Of Normalcy'In Defiance Of Any Sense Of Normalcy: A Portrait of 21st Century Northern Soul' is a photographic project focussing on the UK Northern Soul scene. Northern Soul is a musical subculture that began in the late 1970s with a distinctly white, working-class following in the industrial North of England, where all night dancing to the music of little-known Black Soul artists from similar backgrounds in the industrial areas of America, became popular for the youth of the era. The music, which mostly was an attempt to emulate the famous Motown sound, rarely became commercially successful in America, driving a generation of young British DJs and collectors to lustfully find their unreleased and unsold records in U.S. warehouses, bringing them back to play to excited crowds who never knew what they were going to hear next. The scene remains largely unchanged now, aside from the fact that a younger generation of followers is coming into the scene with a new energy. I travelled all over the UK in an effort to find out what it is that has kept this scene alive, how it has evolved and why, nearly 50 years after its inception. I found a sincere, educated and longstanding devotion to the music of America's Black Soul community of the 60s, offering an enormous sense of escapism from the grind one’s work and providing relativity to one’s emotional circumstance. ‘In Defiance Of Any Sense Of Normalcy’ is an examination of Northern Soul, one of the last remaining British subcultures and a testament to the experience that it gives to its devotees.
Projects credited in
  • Apples
    ApplesShort Film
Work history
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    Camera AssistantPeter Naylor
    United KingdomFreelance
    Varied AC and Gaffer/Grip jobs on various films including 'Your Stories' for Enibas Jewels, a handful of music videos, lifestyle advertisements and brand films for Holkham Estate.
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    PhotographerFreelance
    United KingdomFreelance
    Freelance photographer specialising in environmental portraits, Fashion and Editorial imagery in a Documentary context.
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Skills
  • Commercial Photography
  • Picture Editing
  • Documentary
  • Editorial
  • Photoshop
  • Lightroom
  • Photography
  • 35mm Film Photography
  • Camera Operation
  • Analog Photography
Education
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    Documentary Photography BAUniversity of South Wales
     - Newport, United Kingdom