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These interviews and Q&A podcasts are not only very enjoyable in their own right (like listening to a radio discussion), but also excellent to listen to while scanning or post-processing images. Thanks Joe for introducing the two wildlife photographers you mentioned: they produce different but equally inspiring and unusual work. Adam [...]
- Adam Pierzchala, 22:12 11th Febon Put Your Questions to Hans Strand
Yes, medium format will have a tough future. Though there are still people (including myself) who think it is worth the extra cost to get an extra edge. The difference is more obvious when you make large prints. A one meter wide print from medium format will convince you about [...]
- Hans Strand, 20:37 1st Febon Samantha Gibbons
Hi Samantha, it was great to see your images and to read how you feel about photography! I like what you say, "how beautiful the landscape around us really is.. It’s almost religious", as I feel almost the same! Your vistas have this subtle but intriguing light but I also like [...]
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Part Three
Tim Parkin
Your humble editor, ex-mathematician, A&R for U2, web developer to the Queen, guitarist and general geek-boy.
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Just before Christmas we asked our readers for a bunch of questions that we could put to Joe Cornish when he visited next and the response was fantastic. In the end we recorded two hours of audio but to keep installments to a useful length (a lot of people say they listen to them over breakfast or during a commute) we’ve split it into half hour sections.
So, a big thank you to Joe and everyone who submitted their questions and here’s the fourth and final section..
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Another enjoyable listen and great insight in to Joe’s thoughts/workflow.
I particularly like the second last image in the article which looks like it was taken in Glen Orchy(may well be wrong), Very nice.
Joe – the pile of ironing had got rather high again so I had the ideal excuse to listen to your interview, whilst getting on with the dreaded chore! I could almost get to enjoy ironing like this
A lot of interesting topics covered, as always – and I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on cliched images, whether they exist and what makes one. I genuinely believe that if a given number of people visit the same place, regardless of whether they have seen what’s gone before, there is a good chance at least some of them will produce very similar photographs. So is it still a cliche? Probably we could argue that one both ways… and in the end it comes down to whether or not ‘you’ think it is, as you say.
I once got marked down for an English essay after being accused of paraphrasing some critic. Given I’d never even heard of said critic, I was somewhat annoyed by this. Again, if enough people read the same book, chances are some of them will come up with the same interpretation!
On the other side of the coin, I found myself photographing a statue in Venice the other day and felt the resulting image would be a cliche. I wasn’t copying anyone’s work (to the best of my knowledge) as I didn’t even know this statue existed, until I went for a little walk. It’s quite recent and apparently the Venetians hate it! Howevever, the subject matter and lighting struck me as cliched – I still like it and think it will make a good stock photograph but not one for the wall – not my wall anyway!
Anyway, thanks to you and Tim for a thoroughly enjoyable set of interviews. Lizzie