Alan Brydon

Despite being involved with photography for virtually my whole life, it is in the last 20 years that I have become immersed in expressing the body as a photographic subject.
My inspiration is found in nature, jazz, ballet, the art of Matisse, the sculpture of Auguste Rodin and Henry Moore, the photography of Ruth Bernhard, Wynn Bullock, Andreas Bitesnich, Howard Schatz and many more.
I’m fascinated by the ways we express our spirit through our physical body. For a while we get to use this vehicle, amazing in its form and function, exquisitely sensual yet so vulnerable to age and injury.
My involvement in the Tim Mark Project evolved out of a photographic essay, The Sculptor and The Sculpted which I did with Tim Mark in the summer of 2006 in New Zealand. In this we explored the relationship between the sculptor and the stone. Does the sculptor mould the stone or is it the stone which sculpts the body of the artist.
In The Kinetics of Stone performance the dancer releases the kinetic energy of the sculpture, building a dance from the static form, his movements contoured around the sculpture.

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Jody Beck received his Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines, and is a registered architect.  He received is PhD in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania where he wrote a dissertation about the political underpinnings of John Nolen’s landscape design.  Jody is on the Board of Directors of the Association for Community Design and is currently a lecturer in landscape architecture at Lincoln University in New Zealand.  His current research interests include the impact that global declines in oil production will have on our patterns of landscape inhabitation and encouraging greater interaction between people and their landscapes.