Harold Cazneaux was an Australian pictorialist photographer. A pioneer whose style had an indelible impact on the development of Australian photographic history. Harold Pierce Cazneaux was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 30 March 1878. His family moved to Adelaide in the 1890s and Harold started working in his father’s studio and attended H. P. Gill’s evening classes at…
Tag: Black & White
Chaotic state of thinking
They are a few questions that I have been asking myself lately. Why am I doing this? What are my goals? Who am I and most importantly who am I as a photographer? Although I love technology, I am not a gear head. I have been using the same camera for as long as I…
Learning to experiment
I am often in awe of others ability to experiment when creating. Whether it is photographers, illustrators, painters and even more multi-disciplinary artists, you will find a various array of artists whose work that often inspire me. However, I haven’t allowed myself to experiment as much as those that I admire. Perhaps, it is because…
Learning to see is about Patience
‘Luck is where preparation and opportunity meet’ – Seneca Seeing so many great images of others and hearing about how long they’ve been inn the field can give the misconception that everything happened overnight. The truth is that there’s an incredible learning curve. It takes times to learn, to observe light, the quality of available…
Timelessness of Film
Even though I started photography in the digital era, I’ve come to love film and all of its qualities. My first choice has always been black and white and my favourites being Pancro 400 and Kodak 400 Tmax. I love their strong contrast, grain and tonal range especially the atmospheric result that it gives. I…
Monday Photography Inspiration – Philip Jones Griffiths
Philip Jones Griffiths was a Welsh photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War. Born in 1936 in Rhuddlan, Wales, Philip Jones Griffiths studied pharmacology in Liverpool, and worked in London as the night manager at the Piccadilly branch of Boots, while also photographing part-time for the Manchester Guardian. His first photograph was of a friend, taken with the family Brownie in a rowing…
Photographic Thinking
It is easy to think that one should be able create stunning and creative images will all the cameras, softwares at our disposal. This is not often case. We are all aware that the most expensive gears do not have the ability to create alone. The main process that is often overlooked is the thinking…
Monday Photography Inspiration – Sid Grossman
Sid Grossman was was an American photographer, teacher, and social activist. He was born in New York. During his high school years in the Bronx he became an avid photographer and joined the Camera Club. In 1936, with the photographer, Sol Libsohn, he founded the Photo League whose purpose was to use and promote photography…
Quality vs Quantity- Where do you stand?
While mindlessly scrolling through the internet, I came across a thread debating quality versus quantity in art. If you’ve read my previous posts, you would probably already know where I stand. But allow me to break it down…. Henri Cartier – Bresson once said that our first 10,000 photographs are our worst. After seeing a…
Everything is about perspective
One of the ways that I pass the time on my break at work is to scroll through media as a way to decompress. Recently I came across a quote that hit home. To paraphrase “Instead of worrying about our end goal and how hard it is to achieve, one should concentrate on the next…
Photography & Vision 