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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 25, 2017
Street Photography Ethics

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 the topic of Street Photography Ethics. As it is such big and for some contentious topic, I thought it deserved its own post, so todays article …

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Posted in Making new images, Photography Talk, Street PhotographyTagged Ethics of Street Photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantSeptember 16, 2017

Featured on Creative Londoners

Exposing Neoliberalism on www.CreativeLondoners.com   I have just had an interview on my City of London social documentary/street photography project published on Creative Londoners, it is a new website writing articles/interviews about you guessed it, ‘Creative Londoners’. Oli Gudgeon started the website to write about this subject. He has already done a few interviews and I …

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Posted in Documentary, Michael Wayne Plant, On Photography, Photographic Influences, Photography, Photography Talk, Street 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 PlantNovember 16, 2015

Making photography pay

I recently had bit of a light bulb moment in relation to who to approach with regards to making money, when doing my photography. I have for a long time been interested in the way capitalism works and live in London, whereas I know that the City of London, is one of the centres for global capitalism, …

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AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantFebruary 27, 2014

From The Daybooks of Edward Weston

“To really blossom, one must feel wanted, loved: must feel a place is open to one’s especial capacity —not just any job. One’s work must have social significance, be needed, —to be vital. Art for art’s sake is a failure: the musician cannot play forever to an empty house. There must be balance—giving and receiving— of …

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AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 20, 2013

An evening with Martin Parr, Kate Fox and Sean O’Hagan

Martin Parr in conversation with Kate Fox and Sean O’Hagan at the new Media Space, Science Museum, South Kensington. It was a rather interesting evening, Listening to ideas and discussion with these speakers. I went with three former students to the talk, which was held in the IMAX theatre and it was rather interesting to see …

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AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantSeptember 17, 2013

Martin Parr in conversation with Sean O’Hagan and Kate Fox at the Media Space, Science Museum

Martin Parr in conversation with Sean O’Hagan and Kate Fox This one will be worth going to I am going to do my best to be at this myself. It will mean getting someone to cover my class and I might even try to get my class to attend if I can. Documentary Photographer Martin Parr …

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Posted in Photography TalkTagged Kate Fox, Martin Parr, Media Space, Science Museum, Sean O'Hagan, Tony Ray-Jones Exhibition

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