In A Lonely Place – The Photography of Garson Byer
Garson Byer began taking photographs in the early 1980s whilst working in a professional B&W darkroon. With limited funds he printed many of the images on this site in the kitchen of a run down London flat, working with an improvised enlarger with a lens held on with blue tak (!) and using cheap overstock chemicals and assorted donated paper. Many of the images were shot with a tiny Minox 35 GL, although Byer later graduated to a Leica M6.
However, despite working semi-professionally in Rio de Janeiro in the early 90s, Garson spent many years without the funds necessary to continue working in his uncompromising style. He became disillusioned with the way that photography was moving and disappeared almost without trace.
Now in 2009, Garson has been persuaded to allow some of the original home printed images to be scanned for this photoblog, and it is hoped that in the near future access will be given to some of the many thousands of 35mm negative images to allow proper scanning for publication here.
With a renewed love of street photography and a new medium allowing him to express his vision online, Garson has begun to return to photography thanks the generous donation of a Leica M8.2 from an anonymous benefactor and collector of Byer’s work.
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In A Lonely Place – The Photography of Garson Byer
Garson Byer began taking photographs in the early 1980s whilst working in a professional B&W darkroon. With limited funds he printed many of the images on this site in the kitchen of a run down London flat, working with an improvised enlarger with a lens held on with blue tak (!) and using cheap overstock chemicals and assorted donated paper. Many of the images were shot with a tiny Minox 35 GL, although Byer later graduated to a Leica M6.
However, despite working semi-professionally in Rio de Janeiro in the early 90s, Garson spent many years without the funds necessary to continue working in his uncompromising style. He became disillusioned with the way that photography was moving and disappeared almost without trace.
Now in 2009, Garson has been persuaded to allow some of the original home printed images to be scanned for this photoblog, and it is hoped that in the near future access will be given to some of the many thousands of 35mm negative images to allow proper scanning for publication here.
With a renewed love of street photography and a new medium allowing him to express his vision online, Garson has begun to return to photography thanks the generous donation of a Leica M8.2 from an anonymous benefactor and collector of Byer’s work.
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All Images Copyright Garson Byer 2009-2010