MICHAEL (d’agostino) MACKENZIE

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PHOTOGRAPHER

 

www.stampafineartphoto.com

stampa@michaelmackenzie.co.uk

 

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STAMPA Fine Art Photo Prints started with idea I had back 2017.

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During my studies in photography I would spend many hours in my darkroom creating mini test prints that I would dismiss or save for later and send to family and friends as a way of sharing my work and keeping in touch. I got real enjoyment from this and I realised it allowed me to get my images out to people in a more personal way and helped get feedback from the people who mattered most to me.​

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So, years later still searching for a commercial outlet for my photography I thought about those times and decided to create STAMPA. The name STAMPA is a direct reference to my Italian roots, STAMPA; meaning PRINT in Italian.​

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I have always been influenced by the early pioneers of photography from the moment I started to look and practice the medium. I have never been interested in how an image is made but the reaction and emotion that it evokes, often high-lighting the beauty of photography through all its imperfections during the making process of an image.

 

All the prints that I produce come from both film and digital processes and are printed by Point 101, a quality Fine Art Digital Printer based in London. 

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thank you / grazie

to those who have helped me along the way….

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ACHIEVEMENTS

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2024 - COMME CA ART & AWOL STUDIOS Manchester

OPEN CALL EXHIBITION

 

Selected image - The Boy Who Caught the Fish

Cyprus

A1 Fine Art Colour Print

 

 

2024 – HOME Manchester Open 2024

 

Selected image - The Lovers

 Naples Italy

A large-scale B&W print

 

 

2022 – HOME Manchester Open 2022 Entry

 

Selected images – Mount Vesuvius #1 and #2

A1 Toned B&W Fine Art Prints

(both images sold)

 

 

2020 – BOOK PUBLICATION

 LAST BUS – Images of Preston Bus Station 2008-2009

 

Self-funded published book sold on-line, and at both the The Harris Museum Art Gallery Preston and The Modernist Shop/Gallery Manchester

 

 

2010 – THE Harris Museum and Art Gallery Preston

 

The gallery purchased a print from the LAST BUS exhibition for their permanent collection

 

 

2009 – 2010 LAST BUS Images of Preston Bus Station

2008 - 2009 EXHIBITION

 

(Lottery Funded through The Art’s Council UK). My first major Exhibition at The Harris Museum and Art Gallery Preston

(23rd September – 5th December 2009)

Images of Preston Bus Station.

 

 

2003 - Winner of the Redeye Photographic Open Competition.

 

Image from the Squash Court series.

 

 

2002 - Finalist of the Fuji-film Bursary Association of Photographers Assistant Awards

 

Six colour images from the Squash Court Series.

 

 

2001 - Winner of AOP Assistant Awards/Portfolio

 

Four colour images from the Staying over Series. Interior shots of my old bedroom at my parent’s house.

 

 

1997 - Finalist of AOP Assistant Awards/Portfolio

 

Four images from the Photocopy series.

 

A set of four B&W headshots produced on Polaroid pos/neg type 655 film, printed then photocopied on standard office copy machines and then re-shot.

 

 

1996 - Finalist of AOP Assistant Awards/Single image

 

 B&W Still Life image of a set of old 1930’s men’s shirt collars.

 

 

1994 - Winner of AOP Student Fashion Photography Awards

 

Brief was to produce 3 fashion images for an editorial spread in a magazine

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

 

1993 – 1996 - BA Hons Photography

 

 Blackpool and the Fylde College.

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