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Michael Kenna’s Darkroom Diaries
Reflecting on 50 years of silver gelatin printing, a somewhat arduous, slow and painstaking process, I believe the final prints have made the journey all very well worthwhile. more
Michael Kenna’s Darkroom Diaries
Retouching helps the viewer look into and around a print. It is also another option to edit out areas we do not want to attract attention to. Most of us are now familiar with digital retouching. more
Michael Kenna’s Darkroom Diaries
Today, in the third of five chapters from his Darkroom Diaries, Michael focuses on grain, cropping and toning. more
Mons Graupius, Allegoria Exhibition
An exhibition of historically themed landscape photography at the Trimontium Museum, Melrose, Scotland. From 11th September 2025 until 11th November 2025. more
Preservation: A Tribute to the Beauty We Might Lose
Around the globe, landscapes are changing at unprecedented speed—reshaped by the accelerating forces of climate change, human intervention, and shifting ecological balances. more
Michael Kenna’s Darkroom Diaries
In the second of five chapters serialising Michael Kenna’s darkroom diaries, we hear Michael discuss the work that he does to interpret each negative, and we see photographs of Michael at work in his darkroom in Seattle, USA. more
All the Wood’s a Stage
A collaboration between photographers Simon Baxter and Joe Cornish, this follows on from their 2022 exhibition, Woodland Sanctuary. more
Michael Kenna’s Darkroom Diaries: Part 1
Michael will discuss his process of photographing on film and will explain the patient and painstaking work of making prints by hand in his darkroom. more
Blåtone
Diptych as an art form traces back to antiquity. Art a thousand years ago was something different from today and served another function. more
The Royal Photographic Society Landscape Group
The RPS Landscape Group is set to launch its second Members’ Outdoor Exhibition, starting in May 2025 at the historic Southwark Cathedral in London. more
This Vanishing World
The story of a refugee migrant who healed himself from the horrors of war in his homeland and found a new purpose in remote country is one that continues to offer an important idea for all Australians. more
Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape
A major new exhibition opening at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter this autumn explores ways in which the landscapes of Dartmoor have inspired artists working in photography since 1969. more
Michael Kenna Exhibition
This touring exhibition calls at London, Los Angeles and Tokyo. I went to the London exhibition, which runs September 25 - October 20 2024, on 03 October. Details of the venue are at the end of this report. more
Ebb-Tide: Mudlarking finds from the River Thames
Ebb-Tide is a collaboration between Michael Thomas, photographer, and Monika Buttling Smith, mudlark. It is a photographic representation and interpretation of Monika’s ten year archive of finds and artefacts from the Thames foreshore. more
That Other Landscape
‘That Other Landscape’ is a rare collaboration of three creative Scottish Landscape Photographers showcasing their work in a touring exhibition. The aim is to find out if there can be a space within the ‘art world’ for photography to share the walls as a variant medium rather than a foreign entity. Photography will always be exhibited in galleries but rarely alongside paintings, sculpture, installations etc. and often only as a body of work, sharing a message or story as a more