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…
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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 – Dorothy Wilding
Dorothy Frances Edith Wilding (10 January 1893 – 9 February 1976) was a noted English professional portrait photographer from Gloucester, who established successful studios in both London and New York. She is known for her portraits of the British Royal Family, some of which were used to illustrate postage stamps, and in particular for her studies of actors and…
The modern obsession with being a specialist in photography
When asked what sort of photography we enjoy or do, many of us in photography tend to want to narrow the field. The automatic answer is either portrait photographer, landscape photographer or street photographer etc…. This is all well and good, but the tendency with all of us is that when we find what we…
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….
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Nick Brandt
Nick Brandt is a photographer whose aim is to record the disappearing wildlife of East Africa. In 2000, he began working on a trilogy of photography books in which he captures both the splendour of the East African wildlife and also the threat posed. The first book, On This Earth was published in 2005, the…
Weekend Inspiration – Portrait Photography
Zanita Morgan has always been one those photographers that I admire quite a lot. What I like about her work is her use of natural lights, the ethereal feel of her images.The images are of Carmen Dell’Orifice, the world oldest working model at 81. Some stunning behind the scene image of Peter Alexander shoot. I must…
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