LOUIS PORTER - ALL ABOUT 2013

Most interesting photographers you came across for the first time:
Matthew Porter
Alison Rossiter
Horst Ademeit
Tomoko Sawada

Best exhibitions :
Body Pressure at Hamburger Bahnhof
The selection of work from Harald Falckenberg’s collection at Paris Photo

Body Pressure.Skulptur seit den 1960er Jahren
Installation-view of:

Georg Baselitz, Floriano Bodini, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Urs Fischer, Duane Hanson, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Paul McCarthy, Nam June Paik, Friederike Pezold, Marc Quinn, Thomas Schütte, Franz Erhard Walther
© the artist© 2013 VG Bild-Kunst (Hanson, Schütte, Walther)
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Thomas Bruns

Best photo books:
Encouble – Delphine Burtin
Dalston Anatomy – Lorenzo Vitturi

Delphine Burtin, Encouble, 2013
Publication, 243 x 330 mm, 52 pages

Best book: The Master of The Day of Judgment – Leo Perutz

Best television series: The Great British Bake Off

Best movie: Blue Jasmine

Best youtube video: Porcupines can talk
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMeuwYvlBI0

Best music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variations ( I’m probably the last person to have discovered this)

Best website: http://writersnoonereads.tumblr.com/

Best publications:
Excerpt of course !
Der Die Das Magazine (partly because I’m in the next issue)

Best thing: The wonderfully eccentric London Library.

Best completely miscellaneous thing: Jen Olsen’s astronomical clock in Copenhagen Town Hall, we stumbled across it looking for something else, it's amazing.

Stupidest decision: I preference bad decisions over stupid ones.

Best flashback: I went to a family wedding in August back in the old country, my mum bought me a Walnut Whip in a shopping mall in Milton Keynes. I felt for a minute, like I was 10 again.

Sad goodbyes: Jackie my gran’s dog, I’m not a particularly spiritual person, but I always felt that after gran died she left a bit of herself behind in Jackie. 

Exciting hellos: I’ve met some really interesting people this year, from all over.

Best triumphs:  I’ve shown my work in five countries this year, which I’m very happy about

Happiest moments: I spent the European summer on a residency at the ZK/U center in Berlin, it was fantastic.

ZK/U
Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik
Centre for Art and Urbanistics
 

Greatest win for everyone: The EU finally taking measures to look out for Bees.

What are you most looking forward to in 2014?: Next year is very much an unknown quantity, either way it's going to be memorable.

Louis Porter is a Melbourne & Everywhere based photographer who was born in the north of England. He has been a Project Supporter of Excerpt since the beginning. This year he has exhibited his work at Copenhagen Photography Festival, Noorderlicht Festival, International Photobook Festival in Kassel Germany, Photo Book Award 2013- La Bal in Paris & in Melbourne at Strange Neighbour & National Gallery of Victoria.