Tag Archives: photography
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 […]
Photo-Artist Mohamed Nabil
I was lucky enough this week to interview Mohamed Nabil, an Egypian photographer and artist, living, as I do, in Cardiff. His attitude to his work is that of describing his hobby, and as a result, he has an inspiring attitude to work, dedication and making a difference in the […]
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 […]
Curly Wurly 19/4/12
Still getting back into the swing of writing after my unexpected hiatus so I’m not picking someone from my list to write about this week, instead a topic sprung itself into my brain today so I’ll be going with that. I’ve been going through some old ideas over the past […]
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 […]
Curly Wurly 9/4/12
Well, it’s been a while since I posted a blog on Focus unfortunately, I hadn’t missed a week since my uni deadlines last year, but instead of listing excuses- most of which involve moving house and starting my new old job and getting my schedule together, I’ll just dive right […]
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. […]
‘Bill Cunningham New York’
Just as Vogue editor Anna Wintour says ‘We all get dressed for Bill’, not doubt Bill Cunningham is simultaneously out on his bicycle, cheerfully taking photos of the best dressed in the Big City. This affectionate documentary film is centred around the life and work of 84-year-old Bill Cunningham, veteran […]
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 […]
