Stjohn Milgrew Brendan Kitto 'Us and Them'

Stjohn Milgrew Brendan Kitto Us and Them

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Us and Them

A focus on discarded and forgotten human elements, seen through the instant analog formats of old expired Polaroid film stock vs. the new breed of Impossible instant film stock.

Stjohn Milgrew’s photographs are shot on expired Polaroid film stock, while Brendan Kitto’s photographs are shot on the new breed of Impossible instant films.

Today with the photographic industries desire to replicate the colour effects and tonal qualities of the original Polaroid instamatic camera/film, (popularised in 1960’s by the invention of the Polaroid Swinger, the first affordable instant camera, and made a household name in the 1965 catchy advertisement with Barry Manilow singing meet the swinger…

The Polaroid Swinger.

There has been a rapid rate of change which the artists here are capturing the developments of a new and nostalgic time of experimentation.

Brendan Kitto

In the mid-1990's as a teenager, Brendan Kitto aka Route52 expanded from the activities of skating and graffiti to also documenting what he perceived as important youth culture.

With age, this concept was further refined. His need to document process and happenings, capturing a time and place, became his point of difference in graffiti documentation, since most people at the time would only photograph the final result.

This patience to capture THE shot in urban popular culture and fashion, has enabled him to exhibit his photos in both group and solo shows.

With respect to the past and moving forward with the future, Route52 embraces medium format, 35mm, instant film and digital photography, with his own in-house black & white development dark room.

Based in Auckland New Zealand, Street - Portrait -Fashion

1. Brendan Kitto Airport Inn 2016 Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

2. Brendan Kitto Art Club 2016 Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

3. Brendan Kitto Avondale (1) 2016 Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

4. Brendan Kitto Avondale (2) 2016 Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

5. Brendan Kitto Captain Springs 2016 Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

6. Brendan Kitto El Jay 2016 Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

7. Brendan Kitto Seaview Tce 2016 Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

8. Brendan Kitto Wyze King 2016 Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

9. Brendan Kitto Billys 2016 Impossible Project Color 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

10. Brendan Kitto Captain Springs Inn 2016 Impossible Project Color 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

11. Brendan Kitto Great North 2016 Impossible Project Color 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

12. Brendan Kitto Handful 2016 Impossible Project Color 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

13. Brendan Kitto Onehunga 2016 Impossible Project Color 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

14. Brendan Kitto View 2016 Impossible Project Color 600 Instant Film Size - 10.7 x 8.8 cm (unframed) / 33.5 x 29.5 cm (framed) Edition 1/1

Stjohn Milgrew

Stjohn Milgrew has spent the last 20 years photographing the New Zealand social landscape with a particular focus on subcultures and music. He has also directed, filmed and edited over 25+ local and international Music videos in this time.

He continues to create more experimental photographic & video work in collaboration with musical artists, while now cataloging his past two decades of old and new film photographic practice with various formats of vintage cameras.

These photographs are excerpts from his third self-published photo-book of SX-70 Polaroids, “One Step Plus”. Here they are presented greatly enlarged to draw the viewer much closer than a typical Polaroid. Thus experiencing the photographic chemical dye structure and processes, as it relates to screen-printed inks and paintings.

Visit Stjohn’s Online Catalogue: https://www.instagram.com/stjohncollection/ For further Polaroid images, available as one off Acrylic face mount prints of any dimension, up to 1m

15. Stjohn Milgrew Untitled 1 2016 420mm Acrylic face mount premium prints

16. Stjohn Milgrew Untitled 2 2016 420mm Acrylic face mount premium prints

17. Stjohn Milgrew Untitled 3 2016 420mm Acrylic face mount premium prints

18. Stjohn Milgrew Untitled 4 2016 420mm Acrylic face mount premium prints

19. Stjohn Milgrew Untitled 5 2016 420mm Acrylic face mount premium prints

Us and Them

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Stjohn Milgrew + Brendan Kitto The Auckland Festival of Photography 2016 *All works are a single edition 1/1 *All works framed measure 335 x 295mm 1. Brendan Kitto Airport Inn 2016 Impossible Project Color 600 Instant Film

$650.00

2. Brendan Kitto Art Club

2016 Impossible Project Color 600 Instant Film

$650.00

3. Brendan Kitto Avondale 1 2016 Impossible Project Color 600 Instant Film

$650.00

4. Brendan Kitto Avondale 2 2016 Impossible Project Color 600 Instant Film

$650.00

5. Brendan Kitto Captain Springs 2016 Impossible Project Color 600 Instant Film

$650.00

6. Brendan Kitto El Jay

Impossible Project Color 600 Instant Film

$650.00

Seaview Tce Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film

$650.00

7. Brendan Kitto

8. Brendan Kitto Wyze King

Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film

$650.00

9. Brendan Kitto Billys

Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film

$650.00

10. Brendan Kitto

Captain Springs Inn Impossible Project Black & White 600 Inst

$650.00

11. Brendan Kitto

Great North Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film

$650.00

12. Brendan Kitto Handful

Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film

13. Brendan Kitto Onehunga Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film 14. Brendan Kitto View

$650.00

Impossible Project Black & White 600 Instant Film

$650.00 $650.00

*All works are a single edition 1/1 *All works measure 425 x 345mm 15. Stjohn Milgrew Untitled 1 2016 420mm Acrylic face mount premium prints

$550.00

16. Stjohn Milgrew Untitled 2 2016 420mm Acrylic face mount premium prints

$550.00

17. Stjohn Milgrew Untitled 3 2016 420mm Acrylic face mount premium prints

$550.00

18. Stjohn Milgrew Untitled 4 2016 420mm Acrylic face mount premium prints

$550.00

19. Stjohn Milgrew Untitled 5

$550.00

2016 420mm Acrylic face mount premium prints

Visit Stjohn’s Online Catalogue: https://www.instagram.com/stjohncollection/ For further Polaroid images, available as one off Acrylic face mount prints/any dimension, up to 1m

pierre peeters galleries 251 PARNELL RD, PARNELL, AUCKLAND +64 9 3774832 WWW.PIERREPEETERSGALLERY.COM