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...things that are far from what I do, and in many ways, I often appreciate that work more. Some photographers I can't get enough of lately are Thomas Locke Hobbs, Jordanna Kalman, Barbara Bosworth, Raymond Meeks, Justine Kurland, Deanna Lawson, Sam Contis... this just goes on and on. Chris Killip passed away the other day, and I've been revisiting a...
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Paul Hill's early career in the 60s and early 70s moved from newspaper reporter to photojournalist. In 1974 he moved to academia, first as Lecturer and as head of Creative Photography at Trent Polytechnic. At this time he also set up the 'Photographer's Place', a residential photography workshop with a prestigious guest list - Martin Parr, Thomas Joshua Cooper, John...
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...an American West where huge estates of tract houses destroyed the natural landscape. This is a study of commercial greed and hypocrisy, with homebuyers lured to a better life “in the country” only to find that the promised Eden had been paved over. Modern masters such as Edward Burtynsky, Thomas Struth, and Bernd and Hilla Becher – with their student...
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Dav Thomas sent me an email recently saying to take a look at Joe Wright's photographs as he saw something interesting going on. After looking myself I had to agree and so called Joe for a chat. He's only been taking photography seriously for about four years but there has been a major change in his outlook over the last...
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...Glen Arroch looking back to the Knoydart Peninsula on the mainland. Kylerhea to Breakish road through Glen Arroch looking to Knoydart Peninsula. Looking toward Broadford and The Cuillins in the distance 8083 near Torrin looking over Loch Slapin towards Bla Bheinn Ian Christie Red Cuillins by Sligachan Harvey Lloyd-Thomas Elgol, Skye Boreraig, Loch Eishort, Skye Camas Malag, Loch Slapin, Skye...
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...Routledge. He thought that science was the opposite of art, an abstraction that neglects the subjective profundity of any phenomenon that it tries to explain. He suggested that, therefore science cannot provide complete explanations of the world. An interesting take on the view from within was provided by Thomas Nagel’s 1974 essay “What is it like to be a bat?”...
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When asked if I'd be interested in writing an End Frame article, two favourite landscape images immediately came to mind. Of the two, one I've only become aware of relatively recently (although the image itself is much older), but the other I've known for what must be around twenty years now (although again the image is much older), so I...
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...one week to Raymond Moore the next. This was fun but confusing, and, before the internet, it was also pretty random. Then in the mid-80s I saw two exhibitions at the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton that changed everything. One was a Josef Koudelka retrospective, and the other Thomas Joshua Cooper's touring show, "Between Dark and Dark". Duckspool, November 1995...
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It struck me today that I have a strange relationship with my new photos. I suspect that this has to do, in some way, with working with film and its lack of immediacy but mainly because these images are new to me – only ever previously glimpsed. Of course, we've seen the photo before in some form – through a...
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...his work to seek him out. Both myself and Dav Thomas have a background that includes graphic design, as does Andrew Nadolski. We talked on the phone about the fact that one of you other life careers was as a print designer. Do you think a background in graphic design makes a difference to your compositions (and...
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