Photography and the Black Art [Printmaking]
Life-As-It-Is-Now has inspired! For anyone to use to start their own Lockdown Life Diary, I’ve made a free set of templates from some drawings. Please feel free to download, use, reuse, and -absolutely- please share this on any platform. Web Preview (Hover/click to navigate pages)
When an artist says they’re having ‘a bit of a creative play’ they are being serious; deadly serious. Because … it can only be serious business when you pour very wet watercolour over bog-standard sketch paper to see what may happen. Using a dilution of Payne’s Grey and Ivory Black with quite a lot of
Or … Why Does Everything Taste So Sour? In the algorithmic-mined sludge that is a Facebook feed, random things can find their way into what is, purportedly, a bespoke, personalised experience based on your click history. And FB must be right because when I saw a post labelled ‘Popular on Facebook’ (and when did that
There was a buzz in the Scott Building at Plymouth Uni. A new cohort, new looks, new ways of doing things. I was there to meet with our External Examiner Guy Moreton; one of the last details to grace the culmination of the degree. Well, that and the upcoming final show in the newly re-named
Continue Reading “Cyanotype Day One: New Things, Old Things, Good Things”
Apparently it is. Not exactly a textbook definition for photograms, but with a parallel history to photography dating back to the 19th century, photogrammetry measures ‘the distance between two points that lie on a plane parallel to the photographic image plane’ (thank you Wikipedia). So, photogrammic would be anything to do with using a photograph
the desert It’s terrifying was my first thought. We were driving into the edges of the Mojave Desert on the Arizona-California border, looking up at the sharp edges of granitic up thrusts, blasted and sheared into the walls and channel of an excavated hill. The view expanded to an endless surge of stone in its
NB. This is a post pulled from my archives (seven years old). Happily, The Network Photographers Agency –and its rich history– has found a home online at Network Photographers Online. Last week, I caught the tail end of BBC Radio 4’s five-episode “Picture Power”, radio interviews with five different photojournalists. Delicious irony that radio can