After last year I was excited to go back and see this years Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. There were some real good entries and as usually my opinion on the best photo’s in there differed to that of the judges, thats photography for you. Although I did see some wonderful portraits and as inspirational [...]
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Taylor Wessing PPP 2010
Posted in Exhibition Reviews, Placing Photographic Practice in Context, tagged bored, gascoigne, johansson, martin, photography, ppp, taylor wessing, taylor-lind on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Steve McCurry
Posted in Exhibition Reviews, Photographers/Practitioners, Placing Photographic Practice in Context, tagged Afgan, birmingham, boat, ektachrome, exhibition, flowers, geographic, girl, kodachrome, mccurry, national, photography, steve, travel on October 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Steve McCurry has been a photographer I’ve been a fan of for many years but only recently have I seen his work ‘in the flesh’ at the Birmingham exhibition. Like always it was much more impressive seeing work close up and displayed in the manner and size chosen by the photographer. As my journey down [...]
A Talk with Chino Otsuka: Am I Japanese or British?
Posted in Exhibition Reviews, Personal Professional Development, Photographers/Practitioners, tagged british, Chino, family, japanese, Otsuka, photgraphy, review, talk on May 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Originally from Tokyo Japan, Chino Otsuka arrived in Britain at the age of 10 to attend boarding school. This sense of dual identity is the main theme in many of her photographs and other works, a kind of quest to find out where she belongs. Speaking at the Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry she eloquently talked [...]
Jim Goldberg: ‘Open See’
Posted in Exhibition Reviews, Personal Professional Development, tagged exhibition, goldberg, Jim, open, photography, see on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery in London, ‘Open See’ is an ongoing project by Jeff Goldberg. Made up of a selection of Polaroids, video, written text and both large and medium format images you are shown the lives of immigrants who have escaped to Europe in search of a better life. The subjects in Goldberg’s work [...]
The Taylor Wessing PPP 2009
Posted in Exhibition Reviews, Personal Professional Development, tagged photography, portrait, prize, taylor, wessing on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the weekend I took a trip to London to see the Taylor Wessing Photographic portrait Prize. Some outstanding work was on display from a variety of international photographers and I was pleased to see a lot of young British photographers in the line up. It is both uplifting and inspirational to view the work of [...]
