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 a piece written by J. David Sapir called Walker Evans and his’ Documentary Style’ a personal reading. I read it with interest as I had studied my MA in Photography and Urban Cultures in the Sociology department of Goldsmiths University, it resonated with me. …

Future of Cities Report. The UK government has a report on The Future of Cities written in conjunction with Lancaster University. The report outline four types of possible future cities and my guess is we will get a mixture of all four elements in most cities of the future with varying mixtures depending on location and economic position of each city and its relation to its history and place in the geopolitical spheres of influence. All have advantages and disadvantages for residents. Some have more advantages that disadvantages though. You can download the report form this link or directly from the …

Career development is something we all need to think about as photographers. I have been busy behind the scenes, working on what I need to do to move my work (i.e. projects) forward. I now have a working outline for what I want to achieve over the next few years and an ambitious goal that will see me produce a series of smaller project books and ultimately a larger overview book of the area of photography that I aim to work within. Those of you who know me, know that I am interested in how our economies function and how …

Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen. by Fred Ritchin Available from: Amazon US Link, UK Link,   I have been reading the above book and think it is a book that anyone interested in documentary photography and photojournalism has to read. It discusses a wide range of ideas about contemporary photography and how documentary is evolving. I have read the first chapter and am finding that I have to keep putting the book down to think about what has been written and its impact on the practice of documentary photography. I am now on chapter two and it is just as …