Telling the Truth
Share Documentary Photography and Photojournalism as Tool and Art in the Chinese Context[1] The invention of photography as the first possibility of the ‘fixation of shadows’ falls into the year 1839 and soon spread from Europe to the rest of the world. In China people were also engaged in photography, but – as in the...
“Autumn in Paris” Personal Photographic Exhibition by Fabio Chiarini
Share Fabio Chiarini at RAVAL GALLERY, via dei marsi 50 in Rome. “Some call me a tramp, some a call me traveler, but every single picture, evokes to me a poem, an experience, a person, something that will be remain for all my life”( Fabio Chiarini). Fabio was born in Rome on August 14, 1985...
Shadowplay: The Art of Camera-less Photography
Share The popular conception of photography today is of an instantaneous, digital medium, enjoyed by the everyman and driven by the number of megapixels our cameras can produce allied with intuitive software, boasting features such as multi-point focus and face recognition. All but the most basic of mobile phones sport a camera with a tiny...
A Muse in Obtuse Hues
Share A Muse in Obtuse Hues You are a stock character, boy with matching shoes You are a free spirit with nothing to lose But turn around: on your back you’ll find a bruise Your clowning will diffuse, and cease to amuse It is in that bruise that I stored my clues Honest,...
Artist Interview: Justin Coombes
Share Justin Coombe’s exhibition at the Paradise Row Gallery, Halcyon Song, was a compelling series of photo-text vignettes which told the story of a female Kingfisher on her search along the Regent’s Canal for a nesting site. I spoke with Justin about the relationship between art and literature, words and images. FB: The way the...
Street Style, Cardiff and Newport
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Loneliness, an interview with Silvia Alvarez Adalia
Share Silvia Alvarez Adalia is a Spanish photographer based in Rome. She has worked for magazines, websites and festivals such as Partiamo Viaggiando, L’Arena di Verona, La Stampa, Oggi, Les Flaneurs and Belvedere#2 International Visual Magazine Festival. Winner of the Roman School of Photography’s prize and the ‘Sustainable Living in Changing Economy’ photography award, she...
Semana Santa
Share Photographs taken in Spain, Malaga, at the Semana Santa parade. Confraternities wear special robes and hoods to add solemnity and a sense of repentance. Rate this post by clicking on the stars
Bob Carlos Clarke T shirts from COLLECTIVE
Share COLLECTIVE have launched a collection of limited edition T shirts featuring prints by iconic photographer Bob Carlos Clarke. The collection is pat of a collaboration with the Little Black Gallery, featuring the very same prints that will be hung in the first Bob Carlos Clarke Photography Bar at the Imperial Arms in the 17th...
Spongebob in Rome
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Cardiff Street Style 16/03
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My high school art class and how I became inspired to shoot portraits
Share It was during my senior year of high school that I decided to sign up for an Advanced Placement art class. Not really knowing what to expect, I imagined that it would be interesting and at the same time fun. It wasn’t until soon after attendig the first class that I realized an art...
Would you start the night like this?
Share My first post: B/W Drinker On a night out, I came across this guy looking pretty fly … His name is Jack and was wearing a vintage Wranglers jacket he’d got from his dad. He’s a fashion student in Cardiff, and lives/breaths fashion. He’s wearing black Topshop skinny jeans, navy vans, Primark glasses. I...
The Bigger Picture: Tom Craig and A. A. Gill
Share Photographer Tom Craig and his partner in crime, A. A. Gill, have joined forces once again, this time to bring us a tandem exhibition. Held in The Gallery on London’s Cork Street, the bone marrow of London’s art world, the display of their work is succinct, amusing, and moreover, it is rare; the notorious...
My Studio: Lisa Chandler, painter
Share Name: Lisa Chandler About my studio: My studio is in Mapua, a small seaside town in the South Island of New Zealand. It is only temporary as the commercial complex is up for sale but it is perfect for me. It is a long and skinny space and I can stand my large-scale paintings next...
Hannah Troy Fashion Photography
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Nightwish in Helsinki by Anders Lonnfeldt
Share Photographer Anders Lonnfeldt captured some great images of the Finnish band Nightwish at a gig in the Helsinginjaahalli. You can catch more of his work at http://www.anderslonnfeldt.com/ Rate this post by clicking on the stars
Hisaji Hara, Michael Hoppen Gallery
Share At eighteen, lying on a carpet of cushions in the garden-summer after my exams. That would have been the first time I read Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. ‘Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.’ Nabokov’s ‘tangle of...
I laugh therefore I am
Share Humor is the 1st step to wisdom….. Humor and laughter are at the heart of my photographic work. With laughter comes a letting go of fear; the tragedy of life is that we do not come out of it alive… Laughter teaches us to live fully in the present, to keep things...
Carpe Diem
Share A poem to remind us to live each day and not to waste it… Carpe diem; seize they day, Don’t let life pass you by. Be full of colour, not shades of grey, Carpe diem; seize the day Don’t you let it waste away. Tomorrow could be the day you die So carpe...
The World is Still Big – Alex Hartley Photographs
Share Large scale, (approximately 90 cm x 100 cm) colored photographs fill the Victoria Miro Gallery in Islington, North London. Seen together, the earthy vistas suggest a narrative of an un-peopled universe, but also include evidence of human intervention. The geography represented depicts arctic terrain, muddy jungle rivers, mossy, green woodlands and arid, desert spaces....
Utopus – Architecture and Utopia
Share Since I was introduced to photography as an art form, I have repeatedly been drawn to architecture as subject matter. Burgeoning from an interest in form and composition in college, this fixation is now being honed into a more focused interest on certain issues and topics. Therefore, it is the intention of this; my...
Review: Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Share The competition for 2011 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year received over 41,000 images from 95 different countries. The esteemed and experienced judges were looking for photographic stories that tell of the wonder and beauty of nature and how impoverished we are in its absence. This display of the winners, runners-up and those...
The Day the Music Died (and they were singing)
Share As Don McLean sings in American Pie, the line becomes title to the new exhibition at Proud Galleries, Camden, on an extended show from 14th December 2011 until 4th March 2012. Suggesting a time when not merely music but mainly a musician has died, this collection plays a tribute to the vast circle of...
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