Aakschipper ImagesA new Scarborough photographic Gallery
Graham Rhodes has been manipulating images all his working life. As a book and record sleeve
designer creating images for such clients as Octopus Books and The Police (the band not the
force!), then an audio-visual designer, video director and conference producer. In his time he
launched Monster Munch, new cars for Volvo and Rover, public information films for the Home Office
and Yorkshire Water, and created the York Story that ran for a number of years in the centre of
York. After a eighteen years in London he returned to Yorkshire heading up the production arm of a
York based company. In 2001, now a full time scriptwriter for both corporate videos and computer
games he moved to Scarborough where he founded a small pub based theatre company.
However his purchase of a digital camera galvanised him to take his own photographs. He took
a few months out to learn Photoshop techniques, recognising the computer was a unique opportunity
to mutate both image and colour, allowing him to realize his own personal artistic interpretation
of the scene and after a few months taught himself.
"My aim is to create photographic images that create a sense of timelessness through
manipulation of colour and tone thus allowing the viewer to choose their own interpretation of the
image and its rightful place in time and location."
In August on his 60th birthday he opened a small gallery exhibiting a selection of his unique
photographs. This gallery is in an unusual location, above the public conveniences, halfway along
Scarborough’s West Pier in a grade two listed building that once housed a company buying and
selling fish.
For see a range of Grahams images please see his web site at www.aakschipperimages.com For a background to Graham and a look at his wide and varied career - www.grahamrhodes.com
Contact Graham Rhodes 01723 367251 or 01723 366172. The gallery is situated on 10 West Pier,
Scarborough.
