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William Neill assisted at Ansel Adams’ studio in Yosemite and has worked with many of the top photographers in the world and in the process has himself become part of the group he studied with. His work has been published around the world and, living in Yosemite, he has formed an intimate relationship with the [...]
Pinhole photography is photography taken to it’s most simple form. Just a small hole and some photosensitive material. There are a few people in the UK who have really mastered using this technique (see Paul Mitchell’s work in one of our featured photographer issues). Steve Gosling has mastered this process over the years and has [...]
Back in the late 1980’s my darkroom (and bedroom, though that is incidental to this tale) was a windowless coal bunker in Catford you had to crawl on all fours underneath the floorboards of the sitting room above to reach. It smelt of its past and I remember the odour of stale coal to this [...]
Pete Bridgewood has organised another ‘Masters of Vision’ exhibition at Southwell Minster and we went down to the preview night to see what’s changed since the last exhibition.
In the past few weeks I’ve been chatting with Beyond Words about reviewing books on a ‘return’ basis (i.e. if I don’t want to keep them I return them, otherwise I pay for them). This looks like it may be turning into an expensive agreement as out of the first three books I’ve ‘borrowed’, I’ve [...]
I’m currently developing a couple of websites for colleagues and I thought it would be a good idea to discuss the aspects that need thinking about when doing so. I’ll cover a few different points here but please let me know if you have any questions and I’ll expand on things here. Image Size First [...]
We’re featuring a photographer that I met on a trip to the lake district in January. I didn’t realise quite what a large amount of great work he had generated in such a short amount of time and I had great fun going through his photoblog whilst putting this together. David Baker! In most photographers [...]