Photographer
I first came across Chris Bickford’s work on the NY Times LENS blog a couple of months ago and really enjoyed his dark contrasty surfing images from North Carolina, not the first place that springs to mind when you think of surfing ( and I live on Vancouver Island where the main surfing happens during the cold, wet winter months, again not the first place …
I came across a few prints and contact sheets I has tucked away in an envelope from the very early days of the Vancouver punk rock scene. Please send a note to correct me if I’m off on names etc. These were taken quite a while ago (1977ish? ) and I didn’t keep the notes I should have. The Furies at the Japanese hall. I …
The Independent has a story about how photojournalism images are being sold as fine art. British photojournalist Jason Fraser has an exhibition of limited edition prints that are being sold for prices ranging from roughly $9000 to $50,000.
I’ve posted a couple of new interviews over at Literary Photographer. One with Toronto based writer Ken McGoogan about his new book Race To The Polar Sea and the other with Victoria based artist Robert Amos and his James Joyce inspired artworks.
This show opens tonight in Calgary. I wish I was there.