Jason Wilde’s Free Portrait Studio is a non-commercial mobile studio that follows in the footsteps of the early itinerant photographers. Visiting a variety of venues throughout the country Jason Wilde’s Free Portrait Studio invites visitors and passers by to temporarily discontinue their daily routines to take part in a short informal photography process. Staged against a neutral background these documentary portraits show the people I have met posing consciously and comfortable in their self-presentation.

Saturday, 18 May 2013

PORTRAIT TABLEAUX

New Guest Picture Edit by Jason Wilde

Meet Aleusandra & Thomas. A new image in the Guest Picture Editor section by me. Im playing around with images and this is an example of another way of editing should any of you be thinking of entering my Guest Picture editor competition and want to be a little more creative.

At its most basic level this project is a simple description and record of some of the people that were in Camden between 2010 and 2013. The ongoing nature of the project combined with the amount and variety of portraits already made means that I have many possibilities when it comes to editing the work.


Aleusandra & Thomas. Camden, London, England, 2013
© Jason Wilde


Creative editing means the portraits can constantly be reconfigured, with different images played against different images, to expand the meanings of the portraits. In this section I have combined individual portraits from the project into single images that play with these ‘pictorial narratives’. 

At the moment these are playful experiments to see how/if the images work together. Please feel free to email comments or your own portrait tableaux.


Friday, 17 May 2013

PORTRAITS AT HOME 3

Life After the Free Portrait Studio

Hello Jason
I think you really captured me in one of my more serious moments.





Please email here with your own photo of a JWFPS portrait.

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

SNAKEBITES AND DANCE MUSIC

Joe Seymour On His Way Home To Have A Shave

Snakebite [sneyk- bahyt] 
A Snakebite is a shandy made with equal parts of lager or stout and cider, and from experience, it knocks-you-bandy!

Dance Music
It's whatever you want it to be.



Below is Joe. He was on his way home to have a shave after having a few snakebites and decided to stop and have a dance. Cheers Joe.





Tuesday, 14 May 2013

UP AND DOWN THE BODY

New Guest Picture Edit by Denise Bissell

"I like what Sarah Wilde did with her selection by hiding the hands. In my selection I have made it so the hands go up and down the body".




Leah Newland, Camden, London
© Jason Wilde

Saturday, 11 May 2013

CELEBRATING AGEING

New Guest Picture Edit by Sheila Woodal

"Celebrating Ageing the way it's supposed happen"!!


See Sheila's edit



Monica Schubert, Camden, London, 2010.
© Jason Wilde


Wednesday, 8 May 2013

40 PORTRAITS MADE

Jason Wilde's Free Portrait Studio Mobile Events 2013

A big thank you to everyone who participated in Saturdays event. You are all now part of a historically important archive of Camden. 40 people took part which now brings the total portraits made to 1268. 

The images have been added to the online archive here.

A special thank you to the three little ladies below who responded perfectly to my raspberry blowing. Their more 'serious' images can be seen here.



Ariah, Camden, 2013
© Jason Wilde



Camille, Camden, 2013
© Jason Wilde



Penelope, Camden, 2013
© Jason Wilde


Tuesday, 7 May 2013

THEY MAKE ME FEEL SAD

New Guest Picture Edit by Donna Whyte

"Im not sure about these. They make me feel sad?"





Dominique Whyte. Camden, London, 2013
© Jason Wilde