Happy Holidays
It is Christmas Day and I am sitting around having Breakfast prior to helping the family get the roast dinner ready for a hearty lunch. I hope all of my …
Michael Wayne Plant is a social documentary and street photographer, currently located in London.
Thinking about making new work.
This morning, I was telling a photographer friend of a thought, that lead to a revelation in my thinking. On Wednesday this week, I was back in the City making …
Finding your own voice
Developing vision as a photographer. I know that a photographer and their blog should have its own voice and I am guessing that mine does, that is for you to …
New Year’s resolutions
Hi all, I hope your Christmas was good, New Year is next and with that comes New Year’s resolutions. What are yours? I know what mine will be: 1) I …
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas
it is Christmas time and I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I am looking forward to a great year of working on …
Raw conversion software comparison
Raw Convertors for Raw image conversion I have been using a new camera for a while now for some of my street photography based social documentary work and I have …
Why Use Street Photography
“Street Photography to what we recognise today … a documentary form that celebrated the candid public moment” Nick Turpin As a social documentary photographer you might ask, why do I …
Documentary Style Street Photography
An approach to making work. Documentary Style, Street Photography. I think this term ‘Documentary style street photography’ is rather good at describing how I think about my own approach to …
My Photographic Heros no 12: Walker Evans
Walker Evans Walker Evans was a documentary photographer, famous for working in the 1930’s his images helped to define along with Dorothea Lange what the Depression looked like in America. …
Thinking about Street Photography Ethics
Some thoughts on the ethics involved in making Street Photography images. I originally started to write about my approach to street photography and before I knew it I had started on …