Lee Baxter and David Hoyle.

This exhibition showcases new works by the Manchester based photographer and designer Lee Baxter and the performance artist and painter David Hoyle.

August 13-19, 2012

Weekly Digest of articles, Week of August 13-19, polarimagazine.com

“This week: Madonna, Lee Baxter, Jed Smock, Rod Shelton, Charles Manson, Polari, Joe My God, Mr Brainwash.”

Photographing Men and Architecture.

A candid insight of a photographer at work. A good photograph takes far more than simply an eye for a good-looking man.

“I don’t want them just to be lumps of meat to look at. I’ve already created some kind of trust with these guys so the last thing I want to do is present a set of images that totally objectifies them and turns them into something else.”

A Galley of Lee Baxter Photography.

A gallery of landscapes and portraits from the Manchester based photographer Lee Baxter.

“His portraits are conversely intimate, connecting with his subjects directly through their gaze into his lens. Sometimes these two worlds collide when Baxter shoots his subjects in barren wildernesses.”