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David Bailey at Hay Festival

While at the Hay Festival I could not resist the opertunity to see David Bailey speek. He was there to promote his book ‘Heros‘ photographs from Afganistan rasing money for Help For Heros. The experience was interesting, David describes his work as “making photographs rather than taking photographs” and this book was more snaps. David [...]

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USA-its Geography and Growth

Life is full of those precious finds, this is one of mine. A fabulous piece of documentary photography history brought for 20p in Hay-on-Wye at the Honest book store. Hay-on Wye has over 38 book stores, this book store is in the gardens of a church and the shelves are old filing cabinets, there is [...]

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Prefix Photo

Is it possible to fall in love with a publication? Well, if like me , you scanned in the library tickets of all the books you borrowed to write your dissertation at university, because you thought they where just as interesting when really you should have been reading them, then yes anything is possible. PREFIX [...]

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Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo’s book at Photo Paris I have been meaning to write about the work “The Hyene and Other Men” (2008) for some time, since I first viewed his work at Paris Photo. American Suburb X has done a fantastic article. For me this body of work is captivating, and unique. Although very formulaic in execution, [...]

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