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 …
Photographic Education
Photographic education
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 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 …
My Photographic Heros no 4: Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt For me Helen Levitt, is important because of the way she used colour during the 1970’s in New York. I love her way of working and how she …
My Photographic Heros no 3: Tony Ray-Jones
Tony Ray-Jones For me Tony Ray-Jones with his exploration of the English eccentricities was really influential, he made black and white images mostly. That is what he concentrated on when …
Leaving teaching Event
On Monday, 13th February. That is this coming Monday, I have having an evening to celebrate leaving teaching. For the past 9 years I have been the Lead Photography Lecturer at Idea …
Freedom of Freelance working
This week, begins the first time in 9 years that I have not had a part-time position teaching photography. I have spent the last nine years teaching, working as the …
On Portrait Photography
Michael Wayne Plant discussing Portrait Photography. Michael Wayne Plant on Portrait Photography from Michael Wayne Plant on Vimeo. I have recently been experimenting a lot of video and how to …