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Published by Lenswork Publishing. ISBN 1-888803-06-1 Third edition 2004
This book was originally written in 1996 and contains copyright notices from 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2004. Actually the book was not so much written as recorded. The subtitle on the cover of my version says ‘David Hurn in conversation with Bill Jay’ and that is precisely [...]

(this post was originally written in April 2005)
I don’t know what camera clubs mean to you but there is an unhealthy tradition in the UK where camera clubs have been an homogenising influence. When I first became interested in photography I made a point of going to the seasonal competition exhibitions of a couple of [...]

(originally written May 2005)
Gomma and JPG are two new print photo magazines. Their only connection is that they both arrived in the same week and they are both exploiting new online technologies in an attempt to create a market in an area that print magazines have long struggled.
I will start this review by admitting a [...]

I had just finished reading an article in “The Jackdaw” about how young British artists are increasingly faced with an early career decision to market their art through private galleries and sales, or to pursue state funding via one of the big public galleries, and how these two routes were mutually exclusive, when I read [...]