Michael Ormerod: his legacy
Miichael Ormerod was born in Cheshire, but lived most of his life in Newcastle Upon Tyne. He died in a motorcycle accident in Arizona in 1991, about 5 years too early for the internet to have much of a record of his life or work. Certainly there’s no website.
There are approx 70 of Ormerod’s photographs with Millennium Images: click through to see the pages.
An annual competition amongst the photography students at Newcastle College was recently won by Pierfrancesco Celada. We’ll be interviewing Pier about his photographs and his travel plans in the next week or so. Adrian Lourie’s photographs of Blackpool were the result of last year’s Award.
We would like to develop a growing archive of entries to and winners of the Award as a continuing tribute to Ormerod’s life and work. If you are or have been a:
1. judge of one of the annual Awards (there’s been a different judge each year).
2. student who entered and won the Award
3. student who hasn’t won, but has a body of maybe 10, or a single photograph you’d like to show
4. a friend or colleague of Ormerod’s who would like to share thoughts or ideas
5. a trustee or similar of Ormerod’s estate
Please get in touch!
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Lovely idea B. Happy to be involved. Adrian
Great- that’s 3 of us, and there’s Vicki and a young woman who did some amazing US road trip photos. More will come, I’m sure. The name gets Googled regularly, so hopefully other people will this and respond. I’ll make a page soon.
Hi, I would be pleased to contribute to an archive celebrating Ormerods life and work.
I was a winner of the travel award in 2006 and I admire his work. Ann Taylor.
Ann, thank you so much for writing, and apologies for the silence, you just caught my summer hiatus.
I believe you made that set of work about a school in Africa, did you? Would be more than happy to include it in the series. Will keep you posted.
Pierfrancesco’s Celada (the 2009 winner) is working on his pieces now, and will be exhibiting in October, we think. Maybe a local meetup after his opening?