Garage Studios are showing Kevin Mason’s Your Life Is My Vanity Project, from 29 to 31 May between 10:30 am and 8:00 pm. The project, which spanned thirty weeks of photoshoots over eight months, plots the important physical and emotional transformations as Kevin’s subject Georgie Hobday turns seventeen. Your Life Is My Vanity Project is presented by sponsors Garage Studios, Brighton’s biggest Photography Studio and Training Centre as a series of prints and original polaroids and features over 120 images curated by both Georgie Hobday and M.Halls, a limited edition book of the work will also be available at the exhibition and online at the website below.

Website: Your Life Is My Vanity Project

Press Release

YOUR LIFE IS MY VANITY PROJECT

An exhibition by Kevin Mason

As one of Brighton’s most in demand fashion photographers Kevin Mason has seen hundreds of the most interesting girls appear in front of his lens. But a chance encounter in a cafe with sixteen year-old Georgie Hobday led to a project that developed into thirty weeks of photoshoots over eight months.

Coming at a huge point of change for the pair, both individually and in their relationship, the thousand photos of ‘Your Life Is My Vanity Project’ plot the important transformations both physically and emotionally as Georgie turns seventeen and Kevin embraces a complete U-turn in his photographic outlook.

Across a range of film formats – from large format and Polaroids to Boots disposables – eight months of shooting has revealed not just a huge range of images but has also brought Kevin to a completely new way of working. Adept at huge technical set up shots that took as long as weeks to plan and piece together, Georgie made Kevin stop, watch and engage.

“Your Life is my Vanity Project succeeds in portraying at several levels the changing relationship between photographer and subject, documenting the growing friendship between two very strong characters in a narrative open to interpretation, and presents unashamedly the ever-evolving nature of a photographer still very much interested in exploring and challenging his own and others’ ideas and perceptions of the relationships involved in photography.” Approaching Velocity

“The variations of size, print, colour and expression in each photo effectively help the story come through: you see how the relationship has grown, how trust has been garnered, and how the subject’s confidence in front of the camera has increased. Each photo can be appreciated alone, as a single piece of art, but each is also enhanced when seen as one part of this wider exhibition. A short but captivating experience.” ThreeWeeks Brighton

Your Life Is My Vanity Project is presented by sponsors Garage Studios, Brighton’s biggest Photography Studio and Training Centre as a series of Prints and original Polaroids and features over 120 images curated by both Georgie Hobday and M.Halls, a limited edition book of the work will also be available at the exhibition and online: vanityproject.garage-studios.co.uk

Make sure you don’t miss out on this ambitious project that has proved to be a defining moment in Kevin’s photographic career. The exhibition will be up for one last time at Garage Studios over this bank-holiday weekend from 29th through to 31st May daily between 10:30am and 8:00pm.

For further info please visit the following links…
Kevin Mason: kevinmason.garage-studios.co.uk
Garage Studios: garage-studios.co.uk
Stop-motion preview of show: vimeo.com/12047605
Purchase the book: vanityproject.garage-studios.co.uk
Approching Velocity’s review: approachingvelocity.com
ThreeWeeks review: threeweeks.co.uk
Andy Wilson’s review: fatreg.net

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