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2002: Westtown Gallery, |
Donna Cosentino
He left the studio after two years after being awarded a government grant to develop his photographic style. Increasingly being asked to add graphics to the images he took, he studied graphic design and in 1995 moved to the United States and worked as an Art Director for a large international company. Tired of the corporate lifestyle and feeling the need to reinvent himself, Paul went to work for a small (8 person) design consultancy. He now resides in San Diego, California with his
wife and three children. My projects do not usually last more than a week, sometimes only a day, apparently my teachers were correct about my attention span (or lack therof), I do prefer to work on shorter projects although some of my smaller projects do tend to converge into larger ones. My photography can be categorized into two main styles, street photography and abstract architecture. My street photography is very much traditional in its style while the architectural work follows a more distressed, minimalist approach. |
British
photographer Paul Sewell has a way of documenting his surroundings
that is natural and provocative. Stories abound within the borders
of his images. One is motivated to explore these scenes further
and thus the viewer is as much captured as the view. With his observant
eye Sewell gives us first a reference point with panoramas from
atop Notre Dame or a hilltop in San Francisco, then takes us for
a closer look to catch fleeting moments in a London subway or outside
a bar at night in New Orleans. The simple things…a skip of
a stone, a bundled walker…these moments caught are straightforward
bits of time that speak of the everyday and, as Sewell says, “the
things that go unnoticed”
