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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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There’s a Storm Brewing
17. January 2012
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I have a blog crush, I have been stalking every post on Lensculture . This site is gorgeous. The work shown is inspirational. Here is one image by Mitch Dobrowner that blew my socks of, check out the website to see a high resolution Slideshow. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d374′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Continue reading...David Bailey at Hay Festival
31. May 2011
While at the Hay Festival I could not resist the opertunity to see David Bailey speek. He was there to promote his book ‘Heros‘ photographs from Afganistan rasing money for Help For Heros. The experience was interesting, David describes his work as “making photographs rather than taking photographs” and this book was more snaps. David [...]
Continue reading...VIVIAN MAIER- New Street Photographer discovered
29. March 2011
This story makes me cry. John brought a collection of a dead woman’s stuff in an attic clearance and discovers thousands of negatives from a photographer, that will have be slotted into the history books. John is bussy archiving her work as you read, he will be updating his blog http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/ VIVIAN MAIER 1926-2009 Bookmark [...]
Continue reading...Aaron Huey – The Pine Ridge Billboard Project
9. March 2011
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A new website is launched called Conscientious Extended it is sure to be a success. I found it by a link on Facebook shared by my ex-tutor (we did not fall out, I left college a few years ago), he linked to an article that opened by discussing, is photojournalism is dead. A topic that [...]
Continue reading...This is awesome too-by Amit Sha’al
12. February 2011
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Amit Sha’al, Israel, Calcalist. Altneuland, Israel Check out the full project and others here Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d318′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Continue reading...Escape from Somalia-World Press Photo
12. February 2011
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Ed Ou, Canada, Reportage by Getty Images. Escape from Somalia, March Ed Ou’s reportage from Somalia really moved me in a way a photography project has not done in a long while. I don’t think anything I can comment could be of use here…… Thak a look at the rest of the project here And [...]
Continue reading...America in Color: From The Denver Post
21. January 2011
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Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Clinton, Iowa, April 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress See the rest on The Denver Post Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d302′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Continue reading...PhotoPhilanthropy: Social Change
15. November 2010
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A brilliant award site bringing together NGO’s and photographers to bring about social change. The projects are really worth looking through not just for inspiration but if you have some spare money to donate. I think sites like these are invaluable to photographers especially when the competition is so tough to get into the magazines. [...]
Continue reading...6 Month Exposure-By Justin Quinnell
21. October 2010
Two well known stars of Bristol Suspention Bridge and pinhole photographer Justin Quinnell. His project Slow Light consists of pinhole photographs with an exposure of 6 months between the winter and summer solstace taken in 2007-2008. Thanks to Sinead sending me an article from Householdname blog check out the other images in this collection on [...]
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22. January 2012
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