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AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantFebruary 21, 2020

My Photographic Heros no 13: Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange What I learnt from Dorothea Lange For social documentary photographers on the the icons is Dorothea Lange, we have studied her images and her work on documenting communities that where not highly visible is impressive. For example, her work documenting the lives of Japanese internees during the second world war is really good. she tackled …

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Posted in Inspiration, On Photography, Photographic Influences, PhotographyTagged Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Social Documentary photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantJanuary 23, 2018
Lily Gwynne-Thomas photographic portrait by Michael Wayne Plant

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 decide what it is. As I like most creative people have difficultly defining what is my own voice. That is one of the hard things of …

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Posted in Inspiration, Photographic Influences, PhotographyTagged Creativity for photographers, Developing photographic style, Developing your vision

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantDecember 27, 2017
London Street Photography By Michael Wayne Plant

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 am going to edit my City of London street photography based project to see how far I have got with it. 2) I am going to …

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Posted in Inspiration, Making new images, Marketing, Off topic subject, Photography, Photography TalkTagged New Year’s Resolutions

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantOctober 30, 2017
Walker Evans & Company

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. I originally learnt about Walker Evans as an influence on another of my heroes when I was exploring the work of Robert Frank, I came across …

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AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantSeptember 18, 2017

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 brief email exchange with Joel after his talk at the Photographers Gallery in London, as of January 2017, he was using a Nikon D800, a shift …

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Posted in Inspiration, On Photography, Photographic Influences, Photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantSeptember 14, 2017

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 panel discussion on photographing the City of London. The panel was part of the Street Photography Symposium held at the wonderful new D&AD building in Shoreditch …

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AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantJuly 24, 2017
City of London Street Photography By Michael Wayne Plant

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 stories and to make great photographs, we need to connect ambitions for our photographs with what we want to say as storytellers. It is really that …

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Posted in City of London, Inspiration, Making new images, Michael Wayne Plant, On Photography, Photographic Education, Photographic Influences, Photography Talk, Street Photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantMay 16, 2017

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 that they need to think about what their interests are outside of photography and develop these passions and they will be able to develop their own …

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Posted in Inspiration, On Photography, Photographic Influences, PhotographyTagged Lee Friedlander, Photographic Influences

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantApril 24, 2017

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 hard to do well. He likes to have everything in focus from close to back within the image, this is achieved by having a large depth …

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Posted in Inspiration, On Photography, Photographic Influences, PhotographyTagged Alex Webb, Photographic Influences, Rebecca Norris Webb

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantApril 17, 2017

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 made about his life and work, this might make him more widely known. Harry joined the photo agency Magnum in 1981, because he was a nomadic …

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