David Rowan
Working with common themes - modernity, architecture and mythology, photographer David Rowan documents, experiments and works with the changing city. He is interested in aspects of cities that have come to represent dystopian failures of modern architecture. His new work Pacha Kuti: (mythologies 1945 - 2072) is landscape photography depicting classified underground environments, an investigation of the lesser-known infrastructure of the city. Work from this series won the Best in Show prize at the 2007 Birmingham Open exhibition held at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and was published in the Guardian newspaper. Mass [future deleted] is a series of images from the life-cycle of Masshouse Circus, a notorious 1960s road and subway system. Now available as a self-published book, a portfolio of this work has become part of the permanent photographic archive of Birmingham. David is part of the Luminous photographic group, developing and exhibiting photographic work internationally. Luminous exhibited at the Arles international photography festival in 2006. He also works as a studio photographer for Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and has created over 23,000 images of the art and history collections.