Photographer
I’m a sucker for self-portraits. I like taking them and I like looking at them so I had to take a peek when I saw the Globe and Mail was running a Share Your Self Portrait page. I kind of like the smily face finger image. If you really want to want to spend some time looking at self-portraits check out the many pages of …
Basically, I go and have an adventure and write about it.
Like most people when I notice my bookmarks page is getting out of control with far too many links I’ll go through and delete those links I’m not visiting any more, that no longer work, or that simply are not updated anymore. There is one site though that doesn’t get updated that I still leave on my list. That site belongs to the British photographer …
A very positive offshoot of the boom in the interest in photo books is that we’re not only seeing more professionally published volumes but we have so many independent publications available. One of my daily stops on the internet trail is The Independent Photo Book site put together by Jorg Colberg and Hester Keijser which posts about books and zines published by photographers and/or very …
We are working hard to create a place where people can engage with photography
I think I was pretty realistic about what to expect when starting a business.
In these days of unemployment and cuts to the arts its always a thrill to come across someone who has a different idea of how to improve things. Eighteen months ago Martin Bright, a resident of London, got such an idea. He called it the New Deal Of The Mind. He wrote about it in The New Statesman, where it received a lot of attention …
I ‘ve mentioned it before but I’ll say it again. I’m a big fan of photographers’ collectives. Collectives aren’t a new idea of course. Magnum, the prestigious photo agency is perhaps the oldest photographer’s collective or cooperative having begun in the late 1940’s. The past few years however have seen, if not quite an explosion, then certainly a surge in the creation of collectives. Collectives, …
Dave Aharonian is a fine art photographer who creates platinum palladium prints
A link to an interview with Ottawa photographer John W. MacDonald by Bookninja’s George Murray at Open Book.
A few months ago Neil Burgess caused a stir with a posting on the EPUK site when he declared that photojournalism was dead. His comments created quite a debate in the world wide journalism community.
DIY photographer Arnold Lim takes advantage of colleagues Travis Paterson (hand model) and Kyle Slavin (backdrop holder) to create a photo illustration in the offices of Black Press.