Blender Gallery is proud to present ‘Eye Deal’ a collection of new Fish-eye photographs by renowned UK Photographer Peter Holm.

YOU WON’T MEET AN INDIVIDUAL LIKE PETE HOLM EVERY DAY, and you sure as hell wouldn’t forget him in a hurry if you did. His million-miles-per-second imagination could now barely contain the rampant invention and reinvention of the character behind the camera, nor the artist’s urgency to get out into a wider world of visual possibility.

EYE DEAL IS A STORY ABOUT NOW, and about how the metamorphic identities of a camera and its master, both craving visual stimulation, set out to live their own short movies.

Holms’ images are of a world he knows well, and he begins to reinterpret those real moments, as he plays with the physical fabric of photography. Holms’ signature style, both technically and conceptually involves him in new experiments with film and colour; here, he uses specialist fish-eye, shift and wide angle lenses, and techniques such as multiple-exposure with light layers, together with a wide range of professional film, to achieve the image. The camera opens up portals into scenes of nostalgic warmth and simplistic clarity, where coastal and horizon lines, the contrasting architecture, the pier and the good townsfolk all gather, in an optical experience, more filmic than photographic.

What follows is a journey behind the eyes of one of southeast England’s exceptional young photographers; and through them onwards, up into spiralling adventures across lands, skies and through undergrowth, down into worlds and scenes peopled by half-familiar characters from late twentieth, early twenty-first century sub/pop culture’s collective imagination.

What drives behind the narrative of this photographic adventure is an idealism which looks both forward and back; a desire to transport a comic-book road hero - woven from the characteristic imagery found amongst the pages of Elmore Leonard, Tom Wolfe, Jess Mowry, Jack Kerouac and Hunter S Thompson - into the realms of now, across continents and onto the blurry highways of today’s global road-tripper.

What came out the other end is this: a tribute to following the brave and the free.