Patrick Shanahan is someone I’ve been meaning to write about for a while. An English photographer-turned-academic whose work strikes a chord with its unique Englishness. We are swamped with various US-centric aesthetics, the German School etc etc so it is nice to see something so essential English.
His last published project, Esperantis also contains [...]
The rollei has survived initial open-heart exploratory surgery, but now needs a new heart, I mean shutter. A donor has been found and the transplant is scheduled for early next week. In the meantime, some square pics…
A bit late I know, but when I was in Logroño (capital of La Rioja, where the wines come from) at Christmas
I used the family digi ps for something other than family snapshots. I’d forgotten totally about these and only came across them when I was doing some digi-spring-cleaning.
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All a bit too digi-holga for me [...]
Out of the blue I had an email from Keith at the weekend, and I’ve been spending some time since then going through his new work, and re-looking at his older stuff.
Keith is an intereresting guy. He’s done/doing the pj and documentary photographer stuff, he’s now also producing documentary video work. He works 35mm, digi, [...]
Tim Atherton beat me to talking about Mike’s work , but for a long time, I’ve been totally captivated by Mike’s photography. The reasons for this are numerous, but I’ll mention just three;
His way of working is to not edit or work with his images until significant time has passed. From personal experience I know [...]
…is to be able to do this stuff so that I can resolve the fine detail detail that makes this kind of image so compelling - although the web is hardly the place to do it justice…
From Tim Atherton’s ‘Muse-ings’ blog.
Green Thing 2… I’m always seeking for ways to cover the material found in my ‘Only a Green Thing’ project in colour. Here’s a couple from two weeks ago
I’m always interested in photographers who try to construct narratives within single images. Frank Rothe is one - check out his Shanghai work…
Spent the weekend here a while back - 3 pics from the backlog whilst the rollei is being sorted
This pic of Ralphs had me going back to the archives for this…
I’ve a great fondness for a lot of the colour work coming out of Memphis - notably Chris Patterson and Huger Foote.
However, another photographer whose work I like a lot who has the same personal use of colour as the ‘Memphis School’ without actually living in Memphis, and who has an intimate style reminiscent [...]
Don’t you worry I’ve done hundreds of these. There’s a strong probability you will be impotent and incontinent, but you’ll be alive and that is a result, isn’t it? (Doctor to Peter O’Toole in ‘Venus’ 
I normally try and avoid this part of town as it really is a tourist hell-hole. If you enjoy watching tourists each drinking a 2 litre jug of sangria through a straw that locals use for a family of 6, go there. I’m really surprised Martin Parr hasn’t shot the location…
My parents tell me that as I kid I used to spend ages looking through gaps in fences and chain link lining up ‘patterns’…
Tree from the Olympic Village, scraggy and uncared for - NOT what you normally find in Barcelona green spaces, especially not semi-pijo places…
Oh happy day…
BTW, it isn’t my thing, but if anyone is looking for a project idea… internet cafes
Whilst the rollei is in for open heart surgery, I’m going over a backlog. One worrying thing, my repair guy is going out of business as he’s not getting enough analogue work, so he’s now working for canon and he has his workshop up for rent. Good thing he is still servicing old customers at [...]
