1 November, 2024
Young Band Rocks at a Youth Rock Concert
This past weekend I attended a rock concert, in one of the youth theatres around here. The reason of my presence there was twofold: the theatre is run by a good friend of mine, ...
28 October, 2024
5 Frames with a Minolta XGM at Go Your Own Way
I have a multitude of cameras and lenses, collected over many years, including some left over from my professional photography days, Sadly I sold my Hasselblad 500CM, but ...
3 September, 2024
My Asylum Years
Back in 1979 I decided I’d had enough of the daily trudge of my office job for the past four years and considered it was maybe time to try something different. As I was q...
For most of the 1990’s, I knew nothing about photography. My teenage passion was for the rambunctious grunge guitar rock that, for a seemingly forgotten time, succee...
22 March, 2023
Help! I like Dirty Pictures! – By Alex Kreisman
Yes I do! But maybe not in the way you might think! A couple of years ago, I had the chance to post an essay on one of my visits to an extermination camp in these very pages. I ...
30 November, 2022
5 Frames of ‘… And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead’ with a Leica M6 and Kodak Tri-X – by Neil Milton
Though I've largely ploughed my creative furrow in street photography, I got my all-important start in being paid to photograph by shooting gigs on the Glasgow and Edinburgh mus...
10 July, 2022
B.B King on a Canon AE1 – By Ron Duda
Blues legend B. B. King came to my town, Hamilton, Canada in 1983 to play at what was then called Hamilton Place. What that venue lacked in architectural character it more than...
I might say, pushing the boundaries of film in this case is more like returning to its roots.
When rock ‘n roll and hard bop burst through the famed and now widely regarded as ...