From Adams & Atget to Edgy! New York is proving to be a hub of great photography, this week.A wonderful show of classic Ansel Adam images at the Robert Mann Gallery, in Chelsea – including a huge print of Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico and the iconic Moon and...
Farewell to a Mayne Man of Monochrome Just read on Film And Darkroom User that one of my heroes, Roger Mayne, died on June 7th. The first time I came across the work of Roger Mayne was in (for me) an eye-opening exhibition at the Barbican in 1989 entitled Through the...
RIP FE The demise of an old friend… Since I started serious photography in 2006, I’ve used my all-black Nikon FE, which I purchased in 1979. Last September, the tripod it was fixed to (for a shoot on my City Shapes project) toppled – the camera hit the ground...
A Photography Festival Extraordinaire! The 50 exhibitions of Les Rencontres D’Arles 2014 are housed in over 20 locations: in halls, churches, unoccupied office buildings – amazingly, in a set of vast disused railway sheds. Then there is the “fringe” – 60 shows...
Stardust or Star Ruse? Spending a few days in Provence at the Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographic Festival and distributing a bundle of flyers for my Paris show! The line-up is a bit too “Photographers Gallery” for me, but out of the 20+ exhibitions I certainly want...