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Norman Parkinson @ Mshed
An Eye For Fashion exhibition @Mshed The exhibition opened this Friday and I had the opportunity of going and experiencing the wonderful fashions of the local people that all made a super effort to dress to impress. On show was a pioneering photographer Norman Parkinson; was the first fashion photographer to take his camera out [...]
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In Space with David Malin
24. October 2011
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David Malin 2011 Last week I went to an astronomical exhibition by the pioneering astronomy photographer David Malin at the Bristol Gallery. The images where very beautiful and are the last of there kind because they where taken from glass plate negatives. Now space photography is digital. The prints in the show are scans from a [...]
Continue reading...Invisibility Cloaks
1. December 2010
Torijon Grasslands 2010, Zhao Renhui at Hereford Photography Festival 2010
Continue reading...I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree
7. October 2010
Sometimes real life gets in the way of your virtual life. I have wanted to write about Perpignan for some time but it all felt a bit contrived to write the posts until now. The star of the show was Michael Nichols, composite by Ken Geiger for the National Geographic. 84 images stitched together of [...]
Continue reading...Willy Ronis at the Monnaile De Paris
21. August 2010
Girl looks lost on the Paris Metro Willy Ronis: A poetics of Engagement exhibition has been running since April this year and I was lucky to catch it in its last few days. It is the anniversary of his death and this exhibition also marks the centenary of his birth. There is no better place [...]
Continue reading...Donovan Wylie: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010
3. February 2010
Donovan Wylie: the Maze prison Photo: MAGNUM PHOTOS / DONOVAN WYLIE I was delighted to see the work of Donovan Wylie again. I first saw his project ‘The Maze’ at a lecture he gave years ago at my university. The course was outstanding and had some fantastic connections due to the quality of the lecturers [...]
Continue reading...Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
7. December 2009
The exhibition is in the National Portrait Gallery from the 5th of November 2009-14 February 2010. The selection on show are 60 works selected from more than 6,300 images-That’s loads! Therefore, it seems a disappointment to see some photographs that you make you question why they were chosen, and make you wonder why they picked [...]
Continue reading...When in Rome, visit Elliott Erwitt’s Rome
26. November 2009
Elliott Erwitt’s Rome @http://www.museodiroma.it Posted via web from roomnoir’s posterous Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d106′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Continue reading...NASA at Paris Photo
25. November 2009
The first exposition I saw on first entering Paris Photo was one of the best. The Daniel Blau Photography Gallery was exhibiting vintage images from the NASA celebration of the 40 year anniversary of the moon landing. The exposition contained a panoramic “Moon Surface, Day 320”, Nov. 16, 1967. I managed to get a poster, [...]
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22. January 2012
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