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Joe Cornish is back with another Hindsight review of three photographs in that usual order, one well known, one not so well known and one that didn't quite work. This time Joe is looking at photos taken on his summer sojourns from his house near Stokesley in North Yorkshire. Part One Part Two Read the other Hindsight articles in this...
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...use the Paramo smocks because they allow me to put things in one place. I also have a whistle attached to the jacket in case I get into trouble See more of Bruce's work here. Joe Cornish Lairig Ghru winter daw - Joe Cornish Joe was down in London on business but I managed to get a few minutes to...
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...work. After years of using the camera to record my children growing up I started to become interested in patterns and textures in the landscape and a few local viewpoints. After being made redundant from a 15 year career in newspapers I bought a Canon 10D in 1994 and embraced the digital era. I had absolutely no idea that Joe...
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Alongside the exhibition by Joe Cornish and Simon Baxter detailed elsewhere in this issue, the two photographers also collaborated on a book to work alongside it (and as a showcase for those unable to visit the exhibition). Designed and printed very quickly, the book follows the structure shown in our recent article but with a few extra chapters and many...
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...Joe Cornish do just that. When arriving at a location new to him, he will spend some time studying his surroundings then start making images. This is a process I call sketching. Each image forms a part of directed play - and may also be a stepping-stone to flow. But I think it’s important to point out that Joe is...
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It has long been photography's cross to bear that of all the crafts and communication media it is the one whose image is most tainted by associations mechanical (as I suspect David Ward once wrote); that, and its apparent easy-ness. It seems that the vast majority of camera advances involve automation of one sort of another. Make photography easy and...
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A few years ago I was in Edinburgh when the G8 summit was held there. A widespread good-humoured protest rally marched through the city. One group that caught my eye was the one in skeleton costumes carrying banners that said “Save the planet – join the Mass Suicide Movement!”. I couldn't help smiling and thinking that this was unlikely to...
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It may be a sign of the times that this year my schedule has included four workshops that were either dedicated to printing, or that have had a significant component of printing in them. (Prior to this year there have been no such workshops). It could be too that only now am I feeling confident enough to lead such an...
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There is something slightly odd about making a living out of something you absolutely love to do. It sounds as if it should be idyllic of course; getting paid to travel the world and make photographs? How much better can it get? Yet somehow pro photographers often seen as grumpy, dissatisfied, cynical and frustrated (sometimes even more so) as everyone...
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Very recently I gave a talk on behalf of the Beacon Camera Club at the Swan Theatre in Worcester. In the q&a session at the end, I was asked the (apparently innocent) question, “Do you manipulate your images?” In fact I had already covered this territory with some deliberation earlier in the evening, and the question reminded me, a. that...
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