22 May
Night For Day
First sample from a series of night pictures made in April 2009
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Archive for May, 2009
20 May
40 ****ing Online Photography Magazines
‘Amazing’ is a non-word which reflects more on the amazed than the object of amazement. Nevertheless, there is some good stuff in this article, and it enabled me to find ‘Flak Magazine’ which, for me, made it worth reading the whole article. There tend to be more photography magazines devoted to reportage and documentary, its [...]
19 May
Blind Photographers
Blind photography: the very concept sounds like an oxymoron. But an intriguing and often striking exhibition of photographs in Riverside, California, argues that it emanates from the core of contemporary art. The show “Sight Unseen,” at the California Museum of Photography until Aug. 29, features everything from underwater scenes off Catalina Island, transvestites in New [...]
15 May
Toby de Silva gets ‘a Rhubarb’
My colleague Toby de Silva from the University of Westminster MA in Photography has just won a Rhubarb-Rhubarb bursary. So congratulations to him on achieving this. In case you don’t know or haven’t heard of it before, Rhubarb-Rhubarb is an organisation that supports photography and photographers. In the summer they have an ‘International Review’ that [...]
11 May
Space Lands available at Blurb
I’ve just published my Space Lands book on the Blurb website in an 8×10 format. I hope to publish a larger luxury version in 11×14 format in the near future. Some of the pictures featured here are in there, but not all, there are about 40 pictures in total in the book. I chose to [...]
11 May
Alexa Wright
Alexa Wright was one of my tutors during my MA course at the University of Westminster. Her work has interested me because of its concerns with the overlapping areas of art and science. To quote the bio on her home page…
She is interested in using new technologies to investigate the expression of human [...]
10 May
Canon Strobes with the 5D Mark II
In the past I haven’t given a fig for small strobe units. I found them far too fiddly to use, found the automatic features in particular gave poor exposures.
Then I had a demo of how the new Canon 5DII could be used with the newer Canon flash gun, the 580 EX II and it [...]
10 May
Studio before pics
Here are a couple of shots of the studio space I’m going to be renting soon. It looks a little unpromising at the moment, but I guess emptied of old washing machines and assorted tools it will look rather better. I think I want to keep all the rough walls and finishes though, everything gets [...]