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 …
Inspiration
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 …
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. …
My Photographic Heros no 11: Joel Sternfeld
Joel Sternfeld The American photographer Joel Sternfeld, makes colour images and is known for this large format camera colour photography, he has since turned to digital, recently I had a …
Street Photography Symposium
Panelist on Photographing the City at Street London In August this year, I was honoured to be asked by Nick Turpin of the street photography collective iN-PUBLiC to be included on a …
Storytelling
What do social documentary photographers do? Or more importantly what do photographs do? If we accept that social documentary photographers are storytellers, then the photographs that we make are our …
My Photographic Heros no 10: Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander “I often find that the best and most innovative photographers have multiple interests, not just photography.” Eric Kim. I have been saying this to my students for years …
My Photographic Heros no 9: Alex Webb
Alex Webb Alex Webb has become influential not just to me, but a whole lot of street photographers, partly because he is rather good and partly because his work is …
My Photographic Heros no 8: Harry Gruyaert
Harry Gruyaert For me, Harry Gruyaert is one of the great colour photographers. Yet I don’t think he is as widely known as other photographers of his generation. A film is currently being …
My Photographic Heros no 7: Sam Abell
Sam Abell He thinks about the horizon line and where he is going to place it.The video below on the Cowboy photograph, I would show to my students as an …