Jude Gidney
Jude Gidney registered as a qualified Photographer in 2004 with a licencienship with
the British Institute of Professional Photographers (LBIPP) and later in the year a
licencienship with the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers (LSWPP).
Since qualifying her workload has increased significantly so that she has needed to
move to a larger studio. Jude Gidney Photography can now be found on the first
level of Mill 2.
Her background is in science with an Honours degree in Pure Biology read at York
University and State Registration as a Dietitian at Leeds Polytechnic, working at
Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge and later in Ipswich in the community. A
burning desire to make use of her photographic skills, artistic flair and people skills
led her into the world of a professional photographer. Encouragement came also
from her artistic family and photographer father.
Jude now lives in Saddleworth and is inspired both by the landscape and the people. Her landscape work, more of a hobby, is regularly featured on the front page of the Saddleworth Monthly Magazine and the Lees and West Saddleworth Magazine.
She has won a number of professional awards for her portraits and wedding coverage. She has also had the pleasure of photographing a number of celebritiesboth at weddings and in her studio – Amanda Holden and Sue Johnson to mention a couple. Her work has been featured in the Millyard Gallery and a number of local shops. Her work has also been printed in a number of professional photographic
publications.
She also enjoys sharing her abilities and knowledge with others and has close contacts with a local primary school in Saddleworth. She is at present working with the Art club and encouraging the younger generation with their photography skills and
imagination.
Website
Contacts
01457 810 094
jude.gidney@virgin.net
Hours
Please contact Jude for an appointment.
Can Recycling make Photographic Art?
(As part of the Rags to Riches Summer Woodend Artist’s Mill Event
30th-31st August 08)
A photographic display will show that art can be made out of old and unused pieces of everyday
items, by primary school children. The images will be displayed at over 20 times the size of a
normal photograph, in a slideshow projected onto a 10-foot tall wall, running continuously
through the days of the open weekend at Woodend Mill.
The public is encouraged to come to view the hard work of the children, our next generation of re-cyclers, and to be inspired themselves. It is taking place in Jude Gidney’s Photographic studio, level 1 of Woodend Mill.
The children involved in the project are those in year 2 of St Chad’s Primary School, Uppermill,
under the guidance of their enthusiastic art teacher, Mr Huw Duggan. As we are all being
encouraged, for the good of the planet and the next generation, to recycle and re-use, Mr
Duggan has enthused the children to look at old materials no longer in use and recycled
objects, to turn them into sculptures and to photograph them.
The children will have photographed their work with school-owned and their own cameras at home, and will then manipulating them on computers at school, so learning the basics of good photography in the modern digital age.
Mr Duggan has shown the children works of photographic art by renowned photographers such as Ernest Hass, Joseph Koudelka and Walter PeterHans and asked them to come up with their own creations.
Jude Gidney, professional photographer has close links with the school. Her son is a pupil and he has been enjoying the creative classes of the after-school art club also run by Mr Duggan.
The studio will be open to the public from 9am until 5pm - 30th and 31st August.
There will be a preview evening on Friday 29th for Media and invited guests.
