Category Archives: McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon
Simple Poster Art
Given my little rant about photography research last week I thought that this week I’d take a step back and share with you some rather beautiful and clean graphics based imagery I have been taken in by this week in my web wonderings. Whilst I have always been a fan of details, […]
Inspirational? Research
How do you feel about photography research? I find it rather soul destroying more often than not. I’m fairly confident in saying many art school alumni can relate to this. The agonising hours spent doing visual research for a new project. Sometimes I feel that when I’m researching, aside from […]
Extreme Photoshopping
Photoshop; perhaps the best and the worst thing associated with digital photography. Personally I use it cautiously with the rule ‘if I can’t do this in a darkroom, I can’t do it in photoshop’ in mind. It’s not as if I’m totally against the use of photoshop playing a key part […]
The Art of War
I’m intrigued, what has happened war photography? I’ve been doing some research into iconic war imagery recently and have been struggling to find a defining image from recent, or current wars and conflicts. I mean, anyone with who has studied photography has seen and admired Robert Capa’s Death of a […]
The Family Portrait
The majority of the people I know who ‘do photography’ have at some point been asked to take a family portrait. A group of rigid, un-impressed looking people gathered around a sofa or whatnot with fake smiles plastered across their faces. At some later point however, many of these have […]
Activist Images
In his series Running the Numbers: An American Self Portrait photographic artist Chris Jordan depicts contemporary American culture in terms of visual statistics as a way of ‘picturing’ the negative aspect of wasteful, globalised consumption. Whilst a written statistic (such as: one hundred million trees are cut in the U.S. […]
A Poetic Response to a Changing Country
Over the past couple of weeks Impressions Gallery in Bradford has been host to acclaimed photographer Mark Power‘s latest body of work The Sound of Two Songs. The work originated from a Magnum brief that in 2004 commissioned 10 photographers to produce a body of work in each of the 10 […]
Slow Impact
I’m going to go ahead and assume you’ve seen a car crash in a film. In fact, I’m going to assume you’ve seen a fair few – they’re pretty regular in actions films, and on tele for that matter. So I think it’s safe to assume at this point you’ve […]
Introducing…
Social documentary (which incidentally is one of the few genres popular in contemporary photography that did not make it onto to the list Martin Parr made.) has a long, often controversial, history in photography dating all the way back to the early days of the medium in the nineteenth century. The genre has been […]
Forward (or Upward) Thinking
After heading off on a tangent whilst researching for last weeks post, I came across an article Magnum photographer Martin Parr had written entitled Photographic Clichés in which he made a valid point about the predictability of photography nowadays. He talks about how it’s quite often clear to see where […]
