The art of performance

Ian Gillett (Health and Safety Services) speaks to Reporter about his recent Blyth Gallery exhibition, Art of performance

Director of Safety and photography enthusiast Ian Gillett (Health and Safety Services) is often to be seen armed with a digital camera at College events. Ian’s recent photography exhibition in the Blyth Gallery, Art of performance, featured musical performances from staff and students around the College. Ian speaks to Caroline Prew (Communications and Development), about a few of his favourite photos from the exhibition:

(Pictured above) “Here is the Imperial College Choir in full flow. In a concert situation, I try to be as unobtrusive as possible and stay at the back with a long lens, so that I don’t interrupt the performance with clicks from my camera.”

“I had to time this shot just right to get the moment of eye contact between Lord Winston (Humanities), who was reading an excerpt from Peter and the Wolf, and Director of Music Richard Dickins, who was ready to cue the orchestra.”

This shot of a member of the Coldstream Guards playing alongside a student musician from Imperial College Symphony Orchestra was challenging because I wanted to get both players in sharp focus to give them equal balance in the photo. This required exactly the right depth of field, and a very good quality lens.”