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I know from the viewing stats that the fact that Stills is a closed group blog with no public commenting does not stop a fair number of you looking in from time to time. Occasionally I get to talk to one of the mystery viewers and that can be fun.
If you are a Stills [...]

My subjects were all around me…the mills and collieries around Pendlebury. The people who worked there were passing morning and night. All my material was on my doorstep.

There is no suggestion that L S Lowry was ever involved in photography, and even the fact that the Lowry Gallery is currently showing the National [...]

Keen watchers of this site [:-)] will know that it is about time for me to refresh my gallery pages. I’ll be working on that next week and will be posting a new picture set in the first week of September.
In the meantime, this is a last call for viewers for my sofobomo walking [...]

I’ve been catching up on a summer of missed blog posts, and tripped over this post on The Online Photographer. The post is about Duane Michals and the Pixchannel interview – remember folks: you read about Pixchannel here first :-) The blog post is so-so interesting, but the featured comment is worth [...]

How does it do it? Because it breaks convention. Follow me: if you spend/t a lot of time looking at Bresson, Frank, Friedlander, or even Winogrand, you might come to the conclusion that street photography can be as chaotic as it can be ordered, and that the overall organization of a scene was just as [...]

I’m probably not squarely in the target audience of Dispatches magazine – I don’t like being preached at and I’m not fond of doom and gloom mongering. But it is a new, well not photography magazine, but a magazine claiming to do the right thing by photography. I bought issue one.
Eventually, that is. [...]

This is a picture from Darwin’s garden – a place of blue white sky thinking?
Having looked at originality from a buyer’s perspective and concluded that its importance is largely either market value driven or frivolous, I’m now thinking about the question from the perspective of a producer (on the assumption that a seller has much [...]

A lot of emphasis is put on the question of originality in the art world. I’ve been doing some logic chopping to try and work out why this is so.
a) We seem to have a deeply embedded attraction to the new and novel. The whole of the fashion industry is based around this [...]

One of the more intriguing parts of the article that I linked yesterday was the idea that photos have to matter:
There is a word in all of this upon which I would like to rely more than I can. It is a word that hardly construes as a proper verb. It’s also difficult to translate. [...]

From the Financial Times – the Prix Pictet.
In choosing the shortlist of candidates for the Prix Pictet, we didn’t want to favour journalism over art, and we didn’t really mind whether the authors thought of themselves as documentary photographers, autobiographers, landscape artists or anything else. We wanted powerful messages with the ring of truth.
We set [...]