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 quite en...
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, succeeded i...
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 ...
28 December, 2021
Trying Concert Photography on Film – By Billy Sanford
I’ve been making photographs for most of my life. The first three decades on film, but it was always the traditional usage – family trips, memories with friends, special occasio...
11 April, 2021
Meraki Photo Shoot – Creativity In Isolation – By Gavin Bain
July 2020. The rest of the world was in lockdown and isolation, but in Townsville, Queensland Australia we still retained most of our liberties. We were advised to be wise and m...