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AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 5, 2019

11 months and not even one blog post…..

I have taken me a while to write my posts this year, I have not been able to think of much to say related to my photography or that which I want to share publicly, so I have been a bit quiet this year. I just realised that it has been 11 months since I last …

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Posted in Henley Royal Regatta, Michael Wayne Plant, Street Photography, Workshop

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 13, 2017
City of London Street Photography By Michael Wayne Plant

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 use street photography techniques, in making my work. Why is it important to my practice as a photographer? Documentary photography is also a technique, which has …

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Posted in Photography, Process, Street Photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 6, 2017
City of London Street Photography By Michael Wayne Plant, Documentary Style Street Photography,

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 making images, for my current project on the streets of the City of London as a street photographer. In writing about Walker Evans, I happened across …

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Posted in Documentary, Making new images, On Photography, Photographic Education, Photographic Influences, Photography, Process, Street Photography, Theory

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 13, 2017
City of London Street Photography By Michael Wayne Plant

Street Photography in London

In January 2016, I started a social documentary project to photograph the City of London. This projects is ongoing and evolving over time. When I started I thought it would take me about a year to make a set of images and I would move onto something else. Part way into the project England voted for …

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Posted in City of London, Documentary, Michael Wayne Plant, On Photography, Portfolio, Street PhotographyTagged Social Documentary photography, Street Photographer London, Street photography

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 PlantJune 27, 2017

Portugal

Recently, My wife and I visited Portugal for the first time and I really loved it. We travelled around the country, first arriving in Farovisiting Olhåo, Fuseta and Albufeira in the Algarve before driving up country to Coimbra and then Porto. We then drove down the coast to Aveiro and onto Lisbon, while in Lisbon we …

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Posted in Off topic subject, Street PhotographyTagged Portugal

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantJanuary 31, 2017
City of London Street Photography By Michael Wayne Plant

Photography is Easy, Meaning is Difficult

I have been working towards a way of working that is part documentary and part street photography for a while now and I have come to the conclusion that Photography is Easy, Meaning is Difficult. I have an idea for what I want to say with my photographs and the making of images is easy especially …

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Posted in City of London, Inspiration, Street Photography

AuthorbyMichael Wayne PlantNovember 10, 2016

Photography Interview

Michael Wayne Plant Featured in Inspired Eye Photography Magazine. You can see the article via the link:www.theinspiredeye.net/inspired-eye-issue-39 That is not me in the first image by the way. The interview is rather long I got a bit carried away with answering the questions, I must have been feeling rather talkative. It is not free, but I …

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Posted in Michael Wayne Plant, Street PhotographyTagged Inspired Eye, Photographer Interview, Street photography

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