He's also curated, has his work published and exhibited all over and now he's more focused on his artwork and what he produces as an artist not a photographer.
Myers has been featured on the 'British Photographic History' website and was interviews about his recent exhibition of his work from the 1970's at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. The exhibition's called 'Middle England'.
One of the things about British Culture or the way we lived that Myers liked to capture was how we used space, he wasn't a fan of going into peoples houses and moving furniture around he liked people to feel comfortable as well as actually shooting them in the space they'd created for themselves. Recently John Myers visited us at Burton and South Derbyshire College and we were lucky enough to see him talk and he went into detail about some of his images and publish books, series of work. He spoke about this image and this day, he said he went to their house, took no more than 10 shots and new this was the one, because of their positioning. He said the way they sat and were together in the space was the thing for him. he liked them facing into each other and the little details, like the way they sat, him holding his pipe and even the bruise on her leg. He said he just liked how they were, together, in the space and how you can tell their a couple just by looking at the picture even though they're not touching, kissing etc.
This was another of Myers' images that he talked about. Again, his fascination was with space. He was talking about the lady in the image and how she had all this space in her living room, yet put her chair right in the corner and kind of cut herself off from everything. This is interesting to me as when you look at the image it looks like it's been so put together and like the chair and her have been placed there. Yet this is her space. I like this photo and it does remind me slightly of Martin Parr's work because of how British it is, to me. The mantle piece, the fireplace, the ornaments up at the top and even the carpet and fire itself reminds me so much of old family photos and that era in general.
Whilst taking photos, Myers realized how no one really looks at the things we see or walk past everyday if they're not in a certain style or anything else. Things like this we see everyday but no one looks at them or sees them they're just there, and blend in. Yet when you look at them, it makes you wonder, why like that, why did someone design this like that when it's something someone's going to see every day, a bit like, 'boring postcards' by Parr, this highlights the monotony of things that become part of our culture.
