LATEST NEWS

July 2009

On Friday April 24, Gordon introduced Stanley Kubrick's The Shining at Sensoria: The UK's Festival of Music and Film, in Sheffield. The Film Programming & Development Director, Andrew McIntyre, later described it as 'an excellent introduction and contextualisation for both the film and Kubrick and perfect for Sensoria Festival.' Jo Wingate, the Festival Director, said 'it was great'.

For the record, Gordon has now collected together just some of the accolades he has received over the years for his work editing The Shining music score.

Gordon's highly acclaimed photographic exhibition The Crux, celebrating 150 years of British mountaineering and rock climbing achievement in 25 classic images, is on display at the British Mountaineering Council, 177-179 Burton Road, Manchester. This is now its fifth major venue in three years. Open to all. Further details.

Gordon's latest review, of 'An Interview with Joe Brown' by George Smith, can be seen at UKClimbing.com. His verdict: "For anyone with any interest in climbing history it is essential viewing."

Pictures of Christiane Kubrick's Childwickbury Arts Fair have now been added to the end of the July 2008 gallery of my 'Visual Diary'.

The Lakes episode of Griff Rhys Jones' programme Mountain, in which Gordon featured, was repeated on 14 May 2008 on BBC2. Watch excerpt (10.9 MB - can take quite a while to download - at least a minute, depending on your system. Be patient!) By the way, the reason I took the film crew there was that this was the exact spot I took this image for my first book, Eyes to the Hills.

On March 1st 2008, Gordon interviewed Joe Simpson at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. The audience response was such that organiser Matt Heason described it as 'the highlight of the festival. It went down a real treat with the sell-out audience when Gordon Stainforth weaved an enticing blend of film clips and insightful questions to festival patron Joe Simpson.' Watch three clips from the interview: first excerpt - second excerpt - third excerpt. Gordon was also one of the judges (with Ian Parnell and Niall Grimes) of the best films in six categories.

In November 2007 Gordon introduced Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' to a packed house at the Ritz Cinema in Belper, giving a 55-minute presentation about his work editing the highly acclaimed music score.

Earlier in 2007 Gordon featured in two TV programmes: the BBC1 Griff Rhys Jones' series Mountain and the BBC2 series Balderdash & Piffle.

In February 2007, Gordon's gallery on UKClimbing.com, which attracts over six million visitors per month, was voted 'best gallery', out of over 1000 galleries, two weeks running.

— Site last updated, July 1, 2009 —

ABOUT GORDON

Internationally acclaimed award-winning author and landscape photographer Gordon Stainforth is perhaps best known for his lavishly illustrated personal photo-essays on the British hills and mountains: Eyes to the Hills, Lakeland, The Cuillin, and The Peak: Past and Present; but in the course of his career he has also been involved in a wide range of other creative pursuits - film and music editor, book and exhibition designer, and novelist (see Biography). He is presently involved from day to day with book reviewing, lecturing and website design (using the latest CSS and PHP techniques - see GS Web Design), while concentrating on his main interest, philosophy.

Gordon's main project at present is a major book on philosophy which has been in preparation for eleven years. Further details to be announced soon. A later book will show how this quite radical theory applies universally both to cultures around the world and to geophysics and mountain landscapes. No less.