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Not for the faint-hearted
May 19, 2024
With his natural Brum charm, photographer Matt Peers captures street portraits in his home city of Birmingham as well as the rest of the United Kingdom. Armed with a smile and disarming approach Matt engages people in a relaxed and appealing way… Read More
Film Ferrania Stories
April 18, 2024
Some of my recent photos using the new Ferrania P33 black & white ISO 160 film were recently featured on their website page Film Ferrania Stories. See More…
Emotional Capture -
An Interview with Klaudia Nodobra
April 6, 2024
Combining her love of portraiture and film photography Polish photographer Klaudia Nodobra exploits the beauty of the analogue process… Read More
REVIEW OF THE Contax 645
November 30, 2023
Six months ago I changed cameras. Deciding that I needed a new medium format camera was for me, both a difficult and easy choice… Read More
a sense of mystery -
an interview with george kamelakis
October 20, 2023
Shifting beautifully between refined portraiture and fragments of landscapes, Greek photographer George Kamelakis translates a deeper sense of emotion through his camera… Read More
The Last Picture Show -
an interview with jennifer jean
October 14, 2022
Raised in Fargo, North Dakota and having lived in Canada and Scotland photographer Jennifer Jean only took up creative photography in the last ten years… Read More
Seeing and working with the
Nikon Coolscan
September 27, 2022
“But first how do I plug it in?” That’s the cheeky question I ended my last post with and of course, that bit is easy but what is not so straightforward is how to connect it to a modern computer… Read More
Contax iiia Review
September 1, 2022
Regular readers of this blog will remember reading Australian photographer Dom Ruikeh’s review of his CONTAX RX. So, last year when I discovered that he also had a Contax iiia I was quick to ask for a second write up of this iconic camera of the 1950s… Read More
Memories of the 1957 British Grand Prix
April 6, 2022
Recently I was out with my friend Charles Evens shooting his lovely Citröen DS and in a welcome distraction from the sheer beauty of focusing on the car, he asked me if I was able to scan Kodak Kodachrome? … Read More
what next - scanning
and the coolscan 8000
August 23, 2021
It’s been a while since I wrote about scanning. I’ve documented my own decade-old scanning journey on this blog because this bewildering and essential part of photography is endlessly interesting to me and because I want to contribute to the shared experience of other photographers out there…Read More
CONTAX RX Review
March 28, 2021
When my friend, Sydney based photographer Dom Ruikeh told me he was searching for a CONTAX RX of course, I was immediately interested in what he could find. Looking for and finding a good used camera is always an adventure and sure enough Dom's new RX was just that… Read More
IN CONVERSATION WITH
THOMAS BERLIN
February 5, 2021
Recently, I had the pleasure of talking to German photographer and blogger Thomas Berlin. It’s quite something to have my interview featured alongside some really great fellow photographers on his website… Read More
Unseen Connections -
an Interview with Mark Forbes
January 3, 2021
Some years ago I came across a photo of a smashed car wedged between two huge converging walls of concrete. I was immediately arrested by this photo's content, light and colour and its sense of destructive beauty. Like the tightly squeezed car, crammed into this single frame was so much potential story… Read More
Vogue Italia
April 4, 2020
I’m always happy to have one of my photos selected by the picture editors at Vogue Italia… See More
CONTAX RTS III REVIEW
March 13, 2020
Following my CONTAX S2 review in July, it got me thinking why I liked using my S2 so much more than my RTS II? After all the RTS II had some great features with its centre weighted meter and aperture priority mode, it was a more relaxed camera than the all manual S2. And yet, I did not use it nearly as much. The more I thought about it, the more I kept coming back to my perceived differences between the RTS II and S2…Read More
MISS COMPLEJO -
AN INTERVIEW WITH NADIA BAUTISTA
February 28, 2020
Argentine portrait photographer Nadia Bautista, who goes by the online name Miss Complejo, creates with her work a beautiful mixture of pose and story. Never afraid to stretch her subjects limits, she effortlessly captures their expressive physicality… Read More
Collater.AL Magazine
February 13, 2020
Milan based culture magazine Collater.al wrote a nice feature about my series In Animate… Read More
IMACON VS EPSON
December 22, 2019
First let me be clear this is not a consumer or technical review, really it is just a bit of fun born out of an opportunity. Last week I met up with my friend Mark Heaver so that he could give me a 4x5" negative that I had shot with his Chamonix large format camera. At the same time, he had booked the use of an Imacon 949 scanner at a nearby commercial lab… Read More
Pellicola Magazine
December 20, 2019
This week Italian photographic magazine Pellicola published a great article based on my series In Animate… Read More
ONFILM PHOTO
September 29, 2019
I was really pleased to be featured for a second time on today’s OnFilm Photo website… Read More
VOGUE ITALIA
July 29, 2019
It's aways nice to have a photo chosen by the picture editors at Vogue Italia for their daily photographic showcase PhotoVogue… See More
CONTAX S2 REVIEW
July 12, 2019
Two years ago at a tram stop in Antwerp, I misstepped on the pavement's edge and fell over. It was a bit embarrassing and it wasn't helped by my own wife and daughter doubled up with laughter at my expense. 'Why didn't you put your hands out to break your fall' they asked. To them, it was the strange rolling fall of a short round man, a funny slow-motion accident… Read More
FURTHER ENLIGHTENMENT
June 22, 2019
In my experience scanning is a bit of a dark art. It's not so much the actual scanning of the film, most modern scanners are straightforward to use with film flatness and focus height being the key issues. It’s what follows from there, the software driven inversion and colour correction.… Read More
TAKE TWO -
An interview with Clara Diebler
May 21, 2019
Paris based photographer Clara Diebler's work centres around mysterious assemblages of people, objects and views. Working with film her multi-layered photography conveys contrasting emotional stories all in one frame… Read More
JEFF ROTHSTEIN'S NEW YORK
OVER FOUR DECADES
January 13, 2019
Jeff Rothstein is a native Brooklynite who has been living in Manhattan for many years. He has been shooting on the streets of New York City since the beginning of the 1970s. I was very pleased to interview him recently for PhotoFoto magazine… Read More
VOGUE ITALIA
December 18, 2018
I always get a kick when one of my photos is left standing at the end of the day by the picture editors at Vogue Italia… See More
FRAME DUBLIN
November 21, 2018
I'm very pleased to have some of my prints for sale at Frame in Dublin. The guys there have been framing all types of art for over eight years. They have recently set up a new shop in the city's creative quarter on South Williams Street… Read More
BLACK MILLWALL
September 28, 2018
I’m very pleased to announce that I have my first photographic exhibition. It is showing at the Shortwave Café in Bermondsey, London during the month of October. Black Millwall is a series of portraits of black Millwall players and fans and is a part of a larger project called Millwall’s changing communities: Memories of football and neighbourhood in South London… Read More
UNTITLED COLLECTIVE
July 4, 2018
It was really nice to have my small series La Playa featured alongside some great work by fellow photographers in Untitled Collective magazines Issue #8 this week. Check out the Untitled Collective project there's plenty of excellent photography and some very good past issues available to download there too.… Read More
FEELING -
An Interview With Ian Howorth
June 16, 2018
Effortlessly slipping between beautifully cinematic portraits and a quiet documentary style view of the everyday, Brighton based photographer Ian Howorth’s work suggest still stories that evoke the subtle characteristics of the past... Read More
MONDAY MORNING SPECIAL
June 4, 2018
I was really pleased to have my photos of Rosie Gregory from a roll of cafe portraits picked for the weekly feature 'Monday Morning Special' of Italian photography website ISO400… Read More
PORTRAITS OF EMPLOYEES, DECEASED, LEFT, RETIRED -
An Interview with Matt Peers
May 17, 2018
Birmingham based photographer Matt Peers' series, Portraits of Employees, Deceased, Left, Retired portrays the shared spaces of a working factory in north Birmingham. In it, he explores what it means ‘to go to work' in a post-industrial north Birmingham and the fast disappearing traditional workplaces that are being replaced by an ever-expanding service economy, especially in England's industrial heartland. I wanted to know more about the project and his photographic influences and so I recently asked him some questions… Read More
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
March 5, 2018
Until recently, I developed my black and white film using Paranol S a one shot Rodinal type developer by Tetenal. I’ve developed Neopan, Tri-x, TMAX, FP4 and even Ferrania P30 with Paranol S and up until recently never had any issues. A few rolls ago something strange happened, my negatives… Read More
ENGRAVING TIME -
An Interview with Dominique Conil
December 24, 2017
An interview with Frence analogue photographer Dominique Conil first published on Photo/Foto Magazine… Read More
IN THE BALANCE ON PIXSOUL
December 2, 2017
Some of my car photos including the series In the Balance were featured in today's web magazine Pixsoul… Read More
PHOTO/FOTO MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
October 27, 2017
Recently I interviewed Israeli photographer Gabriela Gleizer for Photo/Foto magazine's 200th feature. Check out her superb street portraits.… Read More
PHOTOGRAPHY ON A POSTCARD
October 12, 2017
I'm really pleased to have two of my photographs Suburban Stories and Winter Pool selected for this year's Hepatitis C Trust’s Photography on a Postcard fundraising lottery… Read More
PORTLAND STREET
October 5, 2017
This summer I went to Manchester twice in one month, on my first visit I spotted an area in the city centre just off of Portland Street and thought it would make a good photographic location. The area was a mix of Victorian brick passages and arches beside a 1960s office complex, a perfect urban landscape, maybe? So on my second visit not only did I bring a camera I asked my friend Paul Turner who lives nearby out for a beer-and-shoot. After, we chatted about how an area is worked by two individual photographers and how interesting it would be to compare our photos; especially as Paul shot digitally and I used film. It was from this discussion that I asked if he would like to write about the subject for this blog post… Read More
THANKS TONY
June 11, 2017
Unlike a lot of my photographer friends, I rarely go out for an unplanned wonder with a camera. Roaming around spontaneously searching for a shot is not my strong point and although I keep a camera in my car just in case it’s unusual for me to use it. Having said that it doesn't stop me trying and so last week when I found myself in between appointments with an hour to spare I got my camera out of the boot and went for a walk. I was in Brentford an area of West London on the Thames… Read More
CLOSE TO HOME -
AN INTERVIEW WITH TOM WESTBURY
May 27, 2017
I have been enjoying the photography of Southampton based photographer Tom Westbury for some years now. His work principally centres on urban and suburban vistas, comprising of compositions of the everyday and ordinary. Ordinary yet to my eyes quite compelling, his particular take on the tradition of the man altered landscapes is a balanced analysis of the space that together with his subtle use of colour and tonality creates a particular consistency; a sort of signature. I wanted to ask him some questions about the development of his photographic approach and to get a better understanding of his thinking and influences… Read More
SON OF A GUN
May 3, 2017
It’s really good to see some of my car photos featured alongside the work of some very creative photographers in today's latest Folio page on Son of a Gun Magazine. Check out their site you’ll find some very absorbing interviews and outstanding features from talented photographers all around the world.… Read More
ENLIGHTENMENT II
May 3, 2017
Following on from my previous blog post Enlightenment and after spending a bit of time this weekend reading Adobe Photoshop for Photographers by Martin Evening, a book so big that I seldom find the courage to pick it up let alone read, I discovered that Photoshop can automate the RGB levels procedure that I described in my previous post… Read More
ENLIGHTENMENT
March 10, 2017
About a year ago I purchased CF Systems ColorPerfect plug-in, I was looking for an effective scanning workflow that would allow me to skip my scanners bundled software EpsonScan. I covered my thinking in a blog post entitled Perfect Colour. At that time I had concluded that colour negative scanning was a three stage process consisting of scanning with no adjustments, removal of the orange mask and inversion then finally colour correction. Almost from the off I had my doubts about ColorPerfect… Read More
EMPTY PLACES AND BRUTAL ARCHITECTURE
November 30, 2016
I really enjoyed my interview with Cologne based photo website Kwerfeldien who have written a feature (in German) on my work entitled Empty places and brutal architecture… Read More
SHARING SPACE -
An interview with Alexander Veledzimovich
July 15, 2016
Portraiture is predominantly the representation of a single individual and for as long as there has been art there has been portraiture. Although the portrayal of a single person has the power to arrest the viewer and tell a story, without doubt, the traditional strength of an individual portrait is often amplified with a double portrait…Read More
PERFECT COLOUR
May 29, 2016
If you've read any of my previous blog posts you may have guessed by now that I see scanning as the dark art of the hybrid analogue/digital workflow. Using a standard Epson V500 I’ve been scanning my negatives for almost four years and frustratingly still have not achieved enlightenment. In February I finally purchased CF Systems ColorPerfect plug-in… Read More
MY WONDERFUL LADY
May 23, 2016
Last year I was approached by Анна Линеен the photo editor of leading Russian hair magazine Hair's How & Beauty. She was interested in featuring one of my photographs in the magazine and promised that when it was published she would post me a copy. So when a thick envelope covered in Russian stamps landed on my doormat last weekend… Read More
CONTROLLING FILM CURL
January 31, 2016
Something that has bugged me ever since I started scanning has been curly film. For 20 years I worked in the lithographic print industry and remember well the drum scanning machines and the lengths the operators went to mount transparencies on the drum. Air cans, squirrel hair brushes, wet mounting in oil to avoid Newton Rings and optically clear film overlays to secure the transparencies completely flat around the drum… Read More
VOGUE ITALIA
December 21, 2015
It's aways nice to have a photo chosen by the picture editors at Vogue Italia for their daily photographic showcase PhotoVogue… See More
ONFILM PHOTO
October 19, 2015
I was really pleased to be featured on the community work page of todays OnFilm Photo website. This is a great new site that amongst other things showcases the work of talented film photographers together with a short interview… Read More
MONDAY MORNING SPECIAL
June 30, 2015
I was really pleased to have my photo Urban Vignette picked for the weekly feature 'Monday Morning Special' of Italian photography website ISO400… See More
EXPIRED EXPERIMENTS
May 6, 2015
The resilience of film was made evident to me in my friends darkroom last week. Just for fun and experimentation we decided to mix some old powdered chemicals in the form of a Nova Pro-Speed 41 Press Kit… Read More
A SUMMER -
The Photography of Benedetta Falugi
February 15, 2015
Over the last couple of years, I’ve been following the work of Italian photographer Benedetta Falugi and in particular her series A Summer. In it, we share the sometimes unglamorous but always compelling world of La Maremma’s beaches close to her home in Follonica, Tuscany.… Read More
FINDING MID GREY
February 6, 2015
Scanning colour negatives can be a challenge, the orange mask can seriously interfere with a scan and not all scans look or feel right straight off. Scanner software can do a good job of automatically balancing out the orange mask but the verity and differences these masks make can still leave colour casts. These, therefore, need to be manually removed and so a degree of colour correction is often required… Read More
AQUAPHONIK - MIDNIGHT GLOW EP
January 19, 2015
I'm really pleased to have my photo Black Water featured as the cover for London based DJ Aquaphonik.… Read More
VOGUE ITALIA
December 15, 2014
How cool to have this pair of photos chosen by the picture editors of PhotoVogue, the daily photographic showcase for Vogue Italia. I guess it makes Elizabeth's endurance of a freezing cold floor and my clambering about high above it worthwhile!… Read More
SILVERLINE LANE
November 28, 2014
My photo Hushed Voices features on the Dutch website Silverline Lane's November selection. Silverline Lane is a website dedicated to film photographers and is a publication of the Unlimited Grain gallery in Rotterdam who specialise in fine art photography… Read More
HUNTING THE EVERYDAY -
An Interview with PAVEL PETROS
November 15, 2014
It has been almost 40 years since the term “New Topographics" was coined by William Jenkins, when in 1975 he curated a show of American landscape photography held in Rochester, New York. The show consisted of over 150 black and white prints of streets, warehouses, city centres, industrial sites and suburban houses. Taken together their aesthetic was one of banal ordinariness… Read More
CONTAX 645 | A PERSONAL RE-VIEW
August 12, 2014
1999 and in a departure for Contax the company made what could arguably be described as the worlds most advanced medium format film camera system. Together with its range of excellent Carl Zeiss autofocus lenses, interchangeable vacuum film backs and superb build quality it quickly became a popular camera of choice for professional photographers… Read More
NOTES FROM THE RUST BELT -
An Interview with MarKus LEHR
July 17, 2014
When photographer Markus Lehr moved to Berlin from southern Germany in 1982 he brought with him memories of his father's keen interest in photography. Remembering as a child his fathers Voigtländer Bessamatic together with its impressive collection of lenses and filters that he used to carry around in his old leather bag. Later as a teenager, Markus was allowed into the darkroom of his father's camera club and a whole new and exciting world was revealed. The baton was passed and although Markus shot regularly from then on, it was not until three years ago whilst trying out night photography that a true and meaningful fascination with photography emerged.… Read More
MAMAN, LÈVE UN PEU PLUS LA TÊTE, REGARDE LE PLAFOND...
June 4, 2014
“Mummy tilt your head back and look at the ceiling”. An instruction from Dominique's seven-year-old daughter Lili as she took charge of her mum's Bronica SQ. … Read More
THE RE-ENACTORS -
An Interview with Amelia Britton
May 23, 2014
Last spring, my friend, Tony Britton, agreed to lend me his daughter’s camera without even telling her! She was away travelling and he had just spent a fortune getting it new light seals and having it serviced. We justified it as a way to test it for her return. Some weeks later, when I reluctantly returned the camera; Tony proudly showed me Amelia’s photography over coffee… Read More
“VEDI NAPOLI E POI MUORI” -
AN InterVIEW WITH ROBBIE MCINTOSH
May 1, 2014
When German writer Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe visited Naples in 1786, he was reported to say “See Naples and Die” implying that everyone should experience the beauty of the city before they died. Over the past three years, I have been enjoying my weekly fix of life in this bustling Italian port city. Photographer Robbie McIntosh captures its people, corners and stories almost like a photographic diary. Robbie’s images are engaging, humorous, emotional and curious, undoubtedly his work manages to reflect the city’s character and characters… Read More
Disused Spaces -
INTERVIEW WITH ANDY FELTHAM
March 31, 2014
Andy Feltham's distinct style of photography is a marriage of art and exploration. Through his eye for composition, simplicity and light, recently disused spaces, vital (and so often overlooked) infrastructure and neglected corners are bought to beautiful light… Read More
THE ALLURE OF NATURAL LIGHT
March 19, 2014
In a world of photography which is huge and varied, with subjects and stories everywhere from suburban streets to war-torn photojournalism, almost nothing is off limits. The many photographic verities, techniques and styles will always make for an exciting art form for both creators and viewers alike… Read More
THE HAPPY ACCIDENT
March 7, 2014
More often than not, a mistake is just that... a mistake. It wasn't what was intended and as such, can be disappointing or frustrating. A worst case scenario is the passing moment that's just not repeatable; best case is you learn something from it. That's unless what you find is the elusive happy accident… Read More
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
February 28, 2014
What's in a name? I had often been tempted by the idea that a photo should just speak for itself; that the artist need not influence the viewer with anything other than the image. No explanation is necessary 'make what you will of what you see'. Some people even believe that a good photograph does not need written guidance… Read More