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Lady Clementina Hawarden started to experiment with photography around 1857, by 1865 she was dead. She died aged 42 from pneumonia,...

“I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth...

"For me the print is what matters most. Generally the biggest possible negative has the most clarity, presence and believability. Because...

I'm currently reading The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy. His writing transcends the experiential into a world of thoughts that range...

The birth of an idea is predicated by a passion to observe and there is no better place to observe than one's own children. The child and...

I've been working on the scanning, developing and collating of images for issue 2 of Utter Journal, out on July 6th, The issue will be...

I've been getting to grips with the next issue of Utter Journal which comes out on the 6th July and focuses on childhood. It's a body of...

"Placing the Romantic child under the aegis of the mother altered its meanings. The best and most important example of that...

I saw the work of Argentinian born Alesandra Sanguinetti at The Body Observed exhibition, showing at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual...

"We photograph everything for our photo albums: family images that take on a central importance in our lives ... The pictures become...

With photography, "I stole from nature more than a secret," as Michetti put it, so much so that it gave me "a new vision of art and...

Maria Dupovkina's photographic odyssey into understanding the self, or her self, is this emotional typology of the body and mind. Few of...

Mark Ruwedel is one of the four photographers nominated for this years' Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize. He was born in 1955...

Jacob Holdt travelled across the United States between 1970-1975 chronicling an America that seemed to be falling apart at the seams. His...

His imagery provides quotidian, intimate and autobiographic perspectives on the European zeitgeist spanning the period of the Second...

The Isle of Man, A Book About The Manx, published by the Arts Council of England in 1980, was the first time I came across the...

For all his adult life Ralph Eugene Meatyard worked in Lexington, Kentucky, as an optician making lenses for glasses. Born in 1925, he...

I spent an hour in front of Pierre Bonnard’s painting, The Dining Room in Vernon, 1925, currently on display at the Tate Modern in...

Another great book, published last year by Stanley/Barker, was Past K-Ville by Mark Steinmetz. His is a quiet aesthetic and deeply...

I first came across Plossu's work in a huge catalogue, beautifully published in 1997 by the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno. I was...

There's a quiet solitude about Ueda's photographs, almost luminous in their stillness and resonating with a surety that needs to show us,...

From the local library I took out a recently published retrospective on Joel Meyerowitz, published last year by Laurence King Publishing...

The start of the year is looking good for exhibitions. Closer to home there is Elisabeth Frink and Ken Kiff at the Sainsbury Centre for...

Just before christmas I went down to London to pick up a box of transparencies from the picture agency I worked with in the 1980's. On...