As a fan of manual processes that have since become more automated over the span of history, I couldn’t help pondering the similarities between two of my main interests; quality...
2 February, 2022
Time, Zen and My Father’s Camera – By Eric Charles Jones
The trouble is, you think you have time.
– Buddha
Old cameras have always held a special place in my heart. Especially, the classic cameras of the past that were often built l...
24 January, 2022
Latent Postmodernism and The Act of Photography: Deconstructing the Yashica Y35 – By Michael Kaplan
I have been involved in some aspect of photography for forty-five years. I was 15 when I took my first precarious steps attempting to understand the complex simplicity of a pinh...
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...
17 December, 2021
Rebecca – Women Hold Up Half The Sky – By Gerard Exupery
This is from my new book “Women Hold Up Half the Sky” to be published in January.
The image is of Rebecca. Everyone called her Becks, and it would be hard to find someone who d...
16 December, 2021
The Joy of Photobooks – By Nik Stanbridge
Back in the early 1980s, in my 20s and in my formative photographic years, I read a lot of books about the craft and practice of photography. This obviously contributed enormous...
