Dan Commons

@dan.commons13

Leeds, Photographer PhD Researcher @huddersfielduni @cellarmessiahband /out-of-the-everyday/ /dan
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From 'No Silver Bird' available to pre-order through @saltnpepperpress All images in the book are from various black and white 35mm film I have shot,developed and printed in the makeshift darkroom in my attic over the last 4 years. Influenced by 'Provoke' era Japanese photography, 'No Silver Bird' evades inordinate narratives and invites the viewer to engage with the images on their own terms. The book also acts as a celebration of the darkroom and the failures that occur in the process, including solarisations and chemigrams. Printed on silver paper from the original scanned darkroom prints, the book includes a 10 x 8 risograph poster. 10 special editions will include a solarised darkroom print. #35mm #filmisnotdead #expectgrain #photobook #blackandwhitephotography #solarise #surrealism #streetphotography #leedsfilmphoto
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6 years ago
New book 'Absent Air' available next Friday through @saltnpepperpress . Educator/Photographer Jack Greenwood has reflected on the work and produced an insightful essay now up on the @saltnpepperpress website. Here is a small extract: "It can be said that photography has evolved with current technologies and has lost a sense of possibility that its chemical heritage gave us; the chances for the possibility of discovery have been fully reduced, and it seems that our world aches for the possibility of something great again that can be found through chance and more organic processes."
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5 years ago
New zine IDIOT KOSMOS available @villagebooks.co or dm.
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1 year ago
🎨THE ARMLEY EYE ART EXHIBITION Landing at WCH next week! A proper look at Armley through the lens — real people, real streets, no polish. Just honest, powerful photography. 🎤 Launch Night + Q&A Come down for the opening evening and hear from the photographer behind it all. With @helen_clarke_artist & @dan.commons13 🗓️ Thursday 7 May 2026 between 6—9pm ⏰ Q&A from 7pm 🎨 in situ 11—25 May 2026 Art, drinks, & good chat.. Presented with @situation_leeds
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The Armley Eye will be on exhibtion at @whiteclothhall 11th-25th May with a preview evening on the 7th May where i'll be discussing more about the work with @helen_clarke_artist The exhibtion is comprised of photographs made by and in collaboration with participants documenting Armley, Leeds including contemporary and archival materials and is part of the @situation_leeds festival.
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23 days ago
Our new single ‘Sin’ is out today Recorded Nov’ ‘25 by @neon_crucifix @the_stationhouse in Armley DL/stream in the usual places More to follow with a new EP upcoming in May, which can be pre-saved at the link in bio
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2 months ago
Last week to see the exhibtion, thanks to everyone that has come through so far and thanks to @jimlbrook @thefrontiergallery @brunswickpub @freshaire_ltd @lightabox Copies of The Armley Eye newspaper made with particpants from Armley available at the space, see pics 3 and 4.
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2 months ago
Does Earth Move When We Are In It and Why? A Solo Exhibition by Dan Commons @dan.commons13 Commons examines how place is felt, carried, and lived. Working with found objects, ready mades, and photographic processes, Commons treats materials as records, marked by touch, use, and time. Through acts of attention and physical appropriation, the work brings together traces of everyday life. These gestures point to a counterpublic that often goes unseen, shaped by systems that organise value, favour, and exclusion in contemporary Britain. Across the exhibition, themes of violence, loss, despair, and hope sit side by side. Rather than offering resolution, the work holds these tensions in place, reflecting how class and lived experience continue to press on the body, the home, and the landscape. Opening 13.2.26 6-9 Top floor of @brunswickleeds Poster by @tom.hodkin Printing by @freshaire_ltd
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3 months ago
Armley Bits, 2025 Scans @takeiteasylab Printed @airestreetdarkroom
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7 months ago
Armley, 2024 Scans @takeiteasylab
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