My interest in tableaux photography now spans nearly two decades. And one type of scene I like to enact can perhaps be described as stills from a fictitious 1960s Soviet film se...
29 December, 2021
The Influence of Other Artists on my Work – By Nik Stanbridge
We’re all subject to influences whether we know what they are and/or acknowledge them or not. As visual artists we’re influenced by our environment, other artists and photograph...
22 December, 2021
The Influence of Movies on my Work – By Nik Stanbridge
I saw Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up the other day for the umpteenth time and while it is a film that when I first saw it I did get excited about being a photographer, it didn...
23 November, 2021
Ten Years Gone: The Ricoh GXR
I have always been a film photographer: I grew up when there was only film and realised, pretty early in the digital age, that the tens of thousands of hours I had already spent...
5 November, 2021
Photographer or Photographic Artist? – by Billy Sanford
This article began as a post in the Photography Books and Theory group on Facebook. It is a friendly and informative group and as the name implies, it is a place to discuss book...
3 November, 2021
What do you do with all the photographs you take? Who actually sees them? – By Nik Stanbridge
In the olden days, before domestic computers, sharing images shot on neg film was all about physical artefacts. In order to share your work you had to produce something tangible...
29 October, 2021
“Blur is a Part of Life” – A Collaborative Project
When asked if blur in photographs is undesirable because it obscures what is there, William Klein disagreed: "If you look carefully at life, you see blur. Shake your hand. Blur ...
13 October, 2021
How Minimal Can You Go? How Minimal Is Too Far? – By Nik Stanbridge
How minimalist can you go and still represent a subject when the photograph appears to be almost abstract and of nothing at all?
I’ve been photographing the ground beneath our ...