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I rather like the current (I think still current as I initially wrote this a few weeks ago but forgot to post it!) exhibition downstairs in the Cardew space. I rather like the different use of presentation methods, from prints hung with bulldog clips, and various framed images. If it’s still there do go look!

I went to the National Portrait Gallery yesterday to see the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize. It was pretty much empty as it is near it’s end date, which was great as then there was no one in the way or having the feeling you have to move on so the next person can stare at […]

Being a tutor (for ten years now!) of two photography course in which students have to produce normally two photo projects, I have seen many different ones over the years! Here are some notes of help: First of if you are a beginner choose a project that will help you learn something somehow. If you […]

I was visiting family just before Christmas and was in Kingston Upon Thames so went along to see the Eadweard Muybridge exhibit at Kingston Museum. Muybridge was born in Kingston before travelling to America where he produced his famous images. His images are very important in the history of photography and film. The exhibit is […]

I went back to Hove Lagoon last Sunday and took a roll of film there, here are 3 images. I enjoy going to the same place again and again as you see different things, the light changes, the weather will be different. The people I see there and what will be happening that day will […]

Originally posted on Tracey – Photography:
Good DVD to watch

ok so a simple message here is go on and ask! I will explain, for many years I would class myself as a landscape photographer and not at all looking to produce portraits. Times change, and I am no longer traipsing through woods photographing trees. So if I am classing the work I am doing […]

I visited the Tate modern a week ago, mostly I was there just browsing and enjoying the building and being with friends. I did though while I was there go and see the Ed Ruscha room and look at his images of car parks from above. Wonderfully presented Square images in a grid on the […]

So I have asked my L2 & L3 to research their Ideal Camera Kit, I thought I would have a go too! This is hard as there are so many cameras lenses etc! I am also aware of GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome!) and I do think that you can get a lot more from less […]