Ewen Spencer is a Photographer from Brighton. He has a book called 'Open mic'. He went to University of Brighton and left in 1997.
Spencer had images published in the magazine 'SLEAZENATION'. He also took images for a magazine in New York. Ewen worked in the UK garage scene for a while. He did a project called 'teenagers and sex' in Rosendale in Lancashire. Whilst doing this project, he went to Romford to a youth centre to photograph there.
He took on commercial commissions for a while too, to get himself a bit of extra money. Ewen took images to sportswear brands then he was offered to have his project financed, which is how he had his book published.
Although he doesn't know how popular the show is, he took images for channel E4 for the series 'SKINS' which he had never watched.
He worked for a french football who were sponsored by Nike, and for a campaign in France.
He worked for many brands like; Toyota in derby (which was the first time they let anyone in to take photographs), also Boxfresh, athletes for Nike, he went to mount maunganui in New Zealand for lastminute.com, he did a flashmob in heathrow airport for T-mobile, Fifa with Lionel Messi, JD and NOKIA.
Ewen went to Italy (Calabria) to work with guys who were new to Italy and to document how they were getting on, finding jobs, fitting in etc. He spent a lot of time in Naples.
He chose to stop after working on somethings for a while and then realising that it was enough and decided that it just wasn't for him. His project UKG (UK garage) became a book he wrote. A publisher, Gorgon McDonald, came to him and published his book.
I believe that the meaning behind Ewen Spencer's work is the lifestyle of people, the urban atmosphere, young people and their lives. He loved 70's music and grime and raves and also urban places so that's where he gets his cultural influences from.
I think his purpose of his work is to get across his way of seeing things and places and reignite old kind of activities and maybe even music. He works in colour most of the time unless his client specifically asks for him to use film in black and white but his own work is always quite antique-looking and urban. He uses digital because he finds it easier and of a better quality and is cost-efficient too.
I believe that the meaning behind Ewen Spencer's work is the lifestyle of people, the urban atmosphere, young people and their lives. He loved 70's music and grime and raves and also urban places so that's where he gets his cultural influences from.
I think his purpose of his work is to get across his way of seeing things and places and reignite old kind of activities and maybe even music. He works in colour most of the time unless his client specifically asks for him to use film in black and white but his own work is always quite antique-looking and urban. He uses digital because he finds it easier and of a better quality and is cost-efficient too.
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