photostream

The V&A has a large and excellent photography collection, but doesn’t have the room to display much. This is understandable in that it has a large and excellent collection of lots of things. There is a print room where you can ask for individual specific photos to be brought to you and if [...]

I’ve just been to ‘Street & Studio’ at Tate Modern in London – the subtitle is ‘an urban history of photography’, and it is on until August 31st.
I’m not recommending it, and that isn’t the reason that I’m mentioning it. For the record I thought that the theme of the show was forced and [...]

Widely attributed to Laurence Peter (but no direct source ever quoted):
Originality is the art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it

Some words not to lose, I think.

This is a post for the ‘art process’ people :-)

I used to treat going to new places as an excuse for photography. Increasingly I find that I only want to photograph my block. The more time I spend with a camera the smaller is the list of things that I want to photograph. [...]

When I get the opportunity I look at my website on computers that are not mine. This is excellent for picking up errors of formatting – like using a font that isn’t commonly available – and for seeing what pages look like in browsers that I don’t normally use.
It is also an excellent way [...]

For anybody who has thought that there was too much grump in the last series of posts, here is a picture for some peaceful contemplation.

If I read one more time that digital makes it free to experiment photographically I shall scream. Chris Dickie, the otherwise quite sane editor of Ag, trotted this out in the same edition of Ag that David Lee was writing in. Experiment. It’s free. Yay!

The consumables were never the expensive bit [...]