Elina Brotherus is a Finnish photographer with degrees in analytical chemistry and photography. She uses a medium format camera and shoots ‘straight’ (Pulver, 2011). In 2015 she [...]
Davies is a British landscape photographer. Much of his work is large format black and white images of industrial and urban British landscapes. In 2008 he completed a colour series entitled Fuji [...]
In his essay entitled ‘Photographs and context’ Terry Barrett discusses category displacement in connection with one particular image and goes on to propose a framework for contextualising [...]
I recently listened to a TEDTalk by Tim Harford entitled ‘How frustration can make us more creative’ (Ted Talk, 2015). He discussed how difficulties encountered during creative activities can [...]
When introducing the EYV Project 4 Ex nihilo, the OCA manual states ‘ Studio work is highly technical and you really need to know your equipment inside out…’. How very true this proved to be. [...]
In 1945, following a conversation with Peter Rose Pulham (1910 – 1956), Brandt purchased a 70 year old wooden Kodak camera from a secondhand shop in Covent Garden. The camera, used for its [...]
Born in Vienna, Haas was famed for his early use of coloured photography. Aged 25 he acquired his first camera (a Rolleiflex) in exchange for a block of butter on the black market. His rise to [...]
Born Gyula Halasz in 1899 in Brasso, Transylvania, Brassaï (meaning ‘of Brasso’) moved to Paris at the age of 24. He stayed there until his death 60 years later. He is best known for his book [...]
Luxemberg is a German photographer and Reader in Urban Aesthetics at the Royal College of Arts. Her practice involves large format (often) long night exposures of urban London. (Blees Luxemberg, [...]
Mann is an American photographer born in Lexington, Virginia. Her book entitled ‘Southern Landscapes’ features moody atmospheric pictorialist landscape shots. (Mann, 2013) I watched an interview [...]
