Geraldine Moodie was a Canadian photographer who pioneered in capturing photos of early Canadian history. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1854. She married John Douglas Moodie in England in 1878 and the couple first moved to western Canada, and they briefly farmed in Manitoba, then moved to Ottawa in 1885. Living in rural Canada at…
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Augustus Washington
Augustus Washington was an African-American photographer and daguerreotypist born in 1820. He was born in New Jersey as a free person and immigrated to Liberia in 1852. He is one of the few African-American daguerreotypists whose career has been documented. Washington grew up in the Americas of the 1820s, a time when African Americans were denied even the most basic…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron née Pattle was a British photographer born in 1815 who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She was the fourth of ten children and one of seven to survive to adulthood. Her father was a British official from England in India while working for the East India Company….
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Gaspard Félix Tournachon
“Photography is a marvellous discovery, a science that has attracted the greatest intellects, an art that excites the most astute minds – and one that can be practice by any imbecile.” – Gaspard-Felix Tournachon Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist born in 1910. In 1858 he became the first…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – August Sander
” I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves. The portrait is your mirror. It’s you “ – August Sander August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer born in Herdorf in 1876. Described as one of the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century, August Sander was…
Thoughts of the week
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal” – Paulo Coelho For the past 3 or 4 years, I’ve religiously wait for each issue of Black and White Photography magazine. On a whim, I picked up National Geographic Wildlife and I must say that I loved it. As a visual person, I loved the…
Thoughts of the week
“The joy of life come from our encounters with new experiences” – Unknown This quote is a little reminder to make the most of our life and take time to savour those little experiences. 1 – This week I was reminded to always follow my instincts whether it comes to my own work or the…
Monday’s Inspiraion – Candida Höfer
Candida Höfer is a German photographer known for her large scale colour images of interiors. Born in Eberswald, Germany in 1944, this photographer likes semi-public spaces such as institutional architecture, in the absence of people as evidenced by he Räume series she started in 1980. Her photographs seem almost like portraits In each of her…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Alvin Langdon Coburn
An accomplished photographer by the age of eight, Alvin Langdon Coburn was an American photographer that invented a kaleidoscopic mirror to take ‘vortographs’. He took up photography at the age of eight after being given a 4 x 5 Kodak camera. At the age of sixteen, he was introduced to pictorialism by his cousin F….
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