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Andrew Catlin is an English photographer, artist, director, cinematographer and filmmaker. His work has been widely published, and is included in numerous collections, books, exhibitions and archives.

History

Catlin grew up intrigued by both arts and science. His father was a drama producer at the

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, his mother a senior staff member at the

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. His childhood was spent in London in the 1960s. In 1978, he was awarded the Prince Philip Prize for Zoology by the

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for a research project completed while at school. After attending

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, he continued his studies with a psychology degree at Durham University before returning to London to do a research degree in Learning and Development at University College London. During this time he developed his interest in photography. Early work for ''

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'', '' Melody Maker'', '' Smash Hits'', '' POP'' and ''Spin'' quickly extended to other publications, and commissions from record companies, musicians, designers and artists internationally. His work appeared on record sleeves, books and magazine covers. He was one of the photographers chosen to document the Live Aid concert in 1985 and was the largest single contributor to the subsequent exhibition and book. He has continued to work extensively with musicians, documenting a wide reaching spread of artists and genres. During the 1980s he began directing music videos. During a visit to Japan while working with Bryan Adams, he was experimenting with a Super-8 movie camera, when Adams asked if he would film one of his live songs. The black and white clip that followed was reviewed by Chrissy Iley in ''Direction Magazine'' as a great debut. His second video, for the

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track, Blue Moon was given a feature in Direction: "Blue Moon surprised me, impressed me, and I'm hard to impress, especially with performance videos. Its approach is not clinical or technical or corporate. But its flickered lights and sepia faces strike a mood that few directors of the three-minute clip even bother to think necessary. The facial expressions are important to him, and are carefully monitored with his portraiture eye. Fortunately, MTV shared my view and put it on heavy rotation."(Chrissy Iley). Catlin was Director of Photography for ''Elements of Mine'', a film by Egyptian director Khaled El Hagar which was awarded First Prize in the Toronto Moving Pictures Festival (MoPix Award 2004). In 2008, drawing together experience from photography, filmmaking and graphic design, he began a project called "The Matrix Series", exploring graphic compositions with complex multi-frame narratives. Each piece was shot as a set of images designed to interact in multiple dimensions, combining elements of time, movement, rhythm, narrative and graphic structure, while remaining within an essentially documentary framework. In his essay "Nine Hastings Photographers" Vasileios Kantas proposes that "Andrew Catlin’s imagery formations could be considered as a study on perception. His matrix suggests a unique syntax, of which the visual elements have been formed partly coincidentally - the subject’s actions - and partly in a controllable way - the photographer’s decisions. The way the sub-frames are selected and positioned in the matrix is preconceived, though it does not serve the linearity of time which seems to be loosened, if not abolished. The display of the sub-frames allows different reading strategies, seemingly serving many goals simultaneously."

Sean O'Hagan Sean O'Hagan (born 1959) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and arranger who leads the avant-pop band the High Llamas, which he founded in 1992. He is also known for being one half of the songwriting duo (with Cathal Coughlan) in Microdisney and ...

, photography writer for ''The Observer'', notes "In his Matrix series, he has somehow merged the rigorously formal with the luminously observational. Whereas the likes of Blossfeldt and the Bechers created visual typologies, arranging plants and industrial water towers respectively in grids that echo the natural and man-made sameness of their subjects, Catlin has used the grid format to render a series of what he calls “critical” moments. The resulting images are both formally detached and acutely observational, ordered yet intimate. ... Andrew Catlin is a photographer with a scientific eye. He is obsessive, meticulous and rigorous, but also a quiet, unobtrusive observer of the everyday sublime. It shines brightly though his big pictures." Catlin was quoted on photography in ''Varsity Magazine'': "For me a great photograph needs to have a sense of intrigue. There needs to be a reason to revisit it again and again. Unanswered questions that make further exploration of the image an imperative. Reinterpretation through imagination, consideration and connection. If a picture doesn't have the depth to engage in these ways – if it doesn't make you think and reflect – it may have great visual or emotional impact, but it is superficial." "A photographer must first see. An act of observation, study and recognition. Second, record. The act of composition, a feeling for light, interpretation. Thirdly, reflect. Consider in more depth the meaning of the image. Edit from a sequence; perhaps change the colour, density, contrast or light in the picture to adjust balance, weight and emphasis within the frame. Some photographers crop, others never do as a matter of principle." His photography is held in major collections and archives worldwide, ranging from The National Portrait Gallery in London to the Schwules Museum in Berlin.

Selected exhibitions and collections

*The Diorama (London) - Last Few Days * National Portrait Gallery (London) Collection * Live Aid Exhibition (London) (1985) *L'Escargot (London) *Browns (London) *Electro Gallery (St. Leonards) *

Schwules Museum The Schwules Museum (English: Gay Museum) in Berlin, Germany, is a museum and research centre with collections focusing on LGBTQ+ history and culture. It opened in 1985 and it was the first museum in the world dedicated to gay history. The muse ...

(Berlin) *SoCo Gallery (Hastings) *

British Council The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh lan ...

Touring Exhibition (international) *

(London) *

The Photographers' Gallery The Photographers' Gallery was founded in London by Sue Davies opening on 14 January 1971, as the first public gallery in the United Kingdom devoted solely to photography. It is also home to the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, established i ...

(London) * National Portrait Gallery (London) - She Bop (2003) * Paul Smith Collection (London) * National Portrait Gallery (London) - Benjamin's Britain (2006) * National Portrait Gallery (London) - Four Corners (2007) *The Enterprise (London) (2009) *F-ish Gallery (Hastings) (2011) *

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- Made in 1988 Exhibition (2013) *Lucy Bell Gallery (2013) *Trinity 7 Gallery - Matrix (Hastings) (2014) *

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery is a museum in Carlisle, England. Opened by the Carlisle Corporation in 1893, the original building is a converted Jacobean mansion, with extensions added when it was converted. At first the building contai ...

- Picture the Poet (Carlisle) (2016) *The Gallery (Liverpool) - Marc Almond: Addicted to Excess (2017) *

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(York) - Making Her Mark (2017) *Lucy Bell Gallery - Contact Sheets (2018) * National Portrait Gallery (London) - Contemporary Portraits (2019) *Coastal Currents (2019) *Lucy Bell Gallery - Friends of Derek (2020) *Baker Mamanova Gallery - Rebel Song: Faces of Irish Music (2021) *BIF Festival Belgrade - Rebel Song: Faces of Irish Music (2022)

Books: photography credits

*'' Live Aid: The Official Book'' (1985), paperback *''King Ink'' by Nick Cave (1988), hardcover *''

Bryan Adams Bryan Guy Adams (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and photographer. He has been cited as one of the best-selling music artists of all time, and is estimated to have sold between 75 million and mor ...

'' by Bryan Adams and Andrew Catlin (1995), editions: hardcover, paperback *''A Drink with

Shane MacGowan Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (born 25 December 1957) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Celtic punk band the Pogues. He was also a member of the Nipple Erectors and Shane MacGow ...

'' (paperback & hardback) by Shane MacGowan (author), Victoria Mary Clarke (2001) *''Pogue Mahone Kiss My Arse: The Story of the

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'' by Carol Clerk (2007), editions: hardcover, paperback *''It Crawled from the South: An

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Companion'' by Marcus Gray, editions: hardcover, paperback *''Wire: Everybody Loves a History'' by Kevin S. Eden (1991), editions: softcover *'' Nick Cave'' by Maximilian Dax (1999), hardcover *''Tape Delay: Confessions from the Eighties Underground by Charles Neal (2001), editions: softcover *''They're Not Laughing Now'' by Alexander Brattell and Andrew Catlin (2010), editions: hardcover *''Vel'' by Andrew Catlin,

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and Sam Mills (2011), editions: hardcover *''

The Jesus and Mary Chain The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid. After signing to independent label Creation Records, they re ...

'', by Andrew Catlin,

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and Julie Reid (2012), editions: hardcover *''Here Comes Everybody: The Story of

the Pogues The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in Kings Cross, London in 1982, as "Pogue Mahone" – the anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic ''póg mo thóin'', meaning "kiss my arse" ...

'', by James Fearnley (2014), editions: softcover , 9780571255405 *''

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's Visual Tome'', by Ian David Monroe (2014), editions: hardcover *''

- Trials of Eyeliner'', by Alex Petridis (2016), editions: hardcover *'' Sinéad O'Connor 48'', by Andrew Catlin (2017), editions: hardcover *''

Threescore'', by Andrew Catlin (2018), editions: hardcover *''Rebel Song: Faces of Irish Music'', by Andrew Catlin (2021), editions: hardcover *''A Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story of Shane MacGowan'', by Richard Balls (2021), editions: hardcover , softcover *''A Drink with

(Italian Edition)'', by Shane MacGowan and Victoria Mary Clarke (2001), editions: paperback (2022) *''The Eternal Buzz and the Crock of Gold'', by Shane MacGowan (2022), editions: Hardcover - Limited Edition of 1000

Record covers: selected photography credits

Selected music videos: director of photography credits

* David Holmes: "69 Police" (2000) *Medal: ‘Porno Song’ (1999) *Medal: ‘Up Here For Hours’ (1999) * Delakota: '555' (1998) * Delakota: 'C’mon Cincinnati' (1998) *Ether: ‘Best Friend’ (1999) *Satellite Beach: ‘Psycho’ (1998) *Ether: ‘She Could Fly’ (1998) *

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: 'The Angel & The Gambler' (1998) *Radiator: ‘I Am’ (1997) *Ether: ‘If You If Really Want To Know’ (1997) *

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: 'Care About You' (1996) *

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: 'Secrets' (1996) *Planet Claire: ‘Say’ (1996) *Planet Claire: ‘21’ (1996) *

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: 'Company News' (1988) *

: 'Can't Live Without My Radio' (1988) *

That Petrol Emotion That Petrol Emotion were a London-based Northern Ireland-originating band with an American vocalist, Steve Mack. It featured the O'Neill brothers from celebrated Derry pop-punk band The Undertones plus ex-members of fellow Derry bands Bam Bam and ...

: 'Detonate' (1993) *

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: 'Black Feathers' (2009) *

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: 'Hello Waveforms' (2006) *

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Tribute: 'We Are the World' (1997)

Selected music videos: director credit

* Aref Durvesh: 'Outerindia One' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2009) *

: 'Ganapati' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2001) *

: 'Salt Rain' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2001) *

: 'Maya' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2002) *

: 'Orphea' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2010) *

: 'Tomorrow Never Knows' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2016) *

: 'Annabel' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2018) *

: 'Tanpa Nama' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2018) *

: 'Ghost' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2019) *

: 'Going Down' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2019) *

: 'Spoons' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2019) *

: 'Sphinx' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2019) *

: 'Beautiful Moon' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2019) * Doros Quintet: 'Cherubim' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (2015) *

Deacon Blue Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop rock band formed in Glasgow during 1985. The line-up of the band consists of vocalists Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh, keyboard player James Prime and drummer Dougie Vipond. The band released their debut albu ...

: 'Love and Regret' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1989) *

: 'Rainy Night in Soho' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1991) *

Kinky Machine Kinky Machine were a 1990s indie rock band with members including Louis Eliot and Johnny Bull who went on to form Rialto, and Julian Fenton who later joined The Lightning Seeds. History The band was formed in West London in late 1991 by Louis ...

: 'Supernatural Giver' (dir: Andrew Catlin) (1992) *Fin: "Sweet Obsession" (dir: Andrew Catlin) (1992) * Pooka: "City Sick" (dir: Andrew Catlin) (1993) *Scalaland: ‘Snow White Lies’ (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1995) *Scalaland: ‘Call Me’ (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1995) *

: 'Please Forgive Me' (dir: Andrew Catlin) (1993) *

: 'Straight from the Heart '(5 screen version) (dir: Andrew Catlin) (1993) *

: 'Summer of '69' (Live) (dir: Andrew Catlin) (1993) *

: 'Run To You' (Live) (dir: Andrew Catlin) (1992) *

: 'Into the Fire' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1988) *

: 'When the Night Comes' (dir: Andrew Catlin) (1993) *

: 'Cmon Everybody' (dir: Andrew Catlin) (1993) *

: 'Let's Make a Night to Remember' (dir: Andrew Catlin) (1996) *C.C.: 'All Right' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1995) *C.C.: 'Beautiful' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1995) *C.C. 'Shelter' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1995) *C.C.: 'Roots Scared' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1995) *Linda Eder 'From This Moment On' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1989) *

: 'Blue Moon' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1988) *

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'The Quarter' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1989) *

'Little Things' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1989) *

'Arrested' (dir/DOP: Andrew Catlin) (1989)

Music longforms / concerts

*Bryan Adams: ‘When The Night Comes’ (Live) (dir: Andrew Catlin) *Susheela Raman: ‘The Queen Elizabeth Hall’ (Live) 2012 (dir: Andrew Catlin) *Susheela Raman: ‘Barbican’ (Live) 2017 (dir: Andrew Catlin) *Susheela Raman: ‘Souq Waqif’ (Recording) 2019 (dir: Andrew Catlin) *Susheela Raman: ‘Montpellier’ (Live) 2019 (dir: Andrew Catlin)

Films and documentaries: directing credits

*Bryan Adams: Waking Up the World CBC Documentary (1993) (dir: Andrew Catlin) *Bryan Adams: Waking Up The World DVD Release (2003) (dir: Andrew Catlin)

Films and documentaries: director of photography credits

* Elements of Mine: (dir: Khaled El Hagar/Norbert Servos) ** Winner First Prize – Moving Pictures Festival, Toronto (MoPix Award 2004) * Gumball 3000: documentary of First European rally/race. (1999) (dir. Simon Hilton)

References

External links

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National Portrait GallerySummer of 69Artnetf-ish Exhibition ReviewVarsity InterviewBlurb InterviewSoundgarden InterviewIrish Cultural Centre
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