Portrait lighting at Studio Time »
Describing my experience going on my first photography course, Introduction to Fashion & Portrait Lighting, at Studio Time in London.
Attention all artists: your old work isn’t THAT bad »
Exploring the way in which artists judge their earlier work as inferior, and how it is worth considering the artistic merit of your earlier work.
Is Facebook the way forward? »
Some musing on social networking…
For the past three and a half years, Flickr has been the site where I share new work and the place I have considered my main ‘portal’ of communication with my viewers. Nearly 30,000 people on Flickr call me a contact.
I first joined Flickr in 2006. It’s the photo-sharing community vibe [...]
“To Kill the Indian in the Child”: 100 Years of Genocide in North America »
A friend of mine has entered Microsoft and Lenovo’s competition ‘Name Your Dream Assignment’ and needs your votes…. have a read, and click the link if you are up for supporting his project idea.
His assignment is as follows:
“To Kill the Indian in the Child”
100 Years of Genocide in North America
“To document Native North American survivors [...]
Copycats and underdogs: the behaviour of online communities »
The title of this blog post is rather academic, but I got so complacent after thinking of the cat and dog bit that I couldn’t think of anything more exciting for the bit after the colon.
This is a long one, but this is my blog, so I won’t apologise or demean it by calling [...]
‘”Miss Aniela” and the photo-sharing site’ – at the Pro Photo Summit, Seattle »
On 9th July I gave a presentation on my work at the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit in Redmond. I had been invited to talk about photo-sharing and how it has impacted on my work and opened up some doors for me. During the presentation (20 mins with 10 mins for questions) I did as best [...]
An ignorant article I read… »
Tried to upload a picture here (of me looking shocked) but it won’t work. I’ll try later.
In This Week’s Magazine: Sepia No More by The New York Times.
Warning: its ignorance and snobbery might be too overwhelming.
I wrote this response which should appear on the Comments of the article shortly. I even put my swear word [...]
Pretty ugly »
Here’s my rant on beauty. I hope that some parts of this will appear in my press release for my exhibition at Camara Oscura, Madrid, April 17th – May 31st, along with some other issues my work seems to have raised…
There is one remark that lots of people make about my work, even when they [...]
Picture what? »
Picture what?
Three weeks ago I sat down to watch the first installment of a programme called Channel 4’s ‘Picture This’, slightly disappointed that I hadn’t heard about the competition in time to enter, as digital photography and photo-sharing are a big part of my life.
By the end of the programme, instead, I was confused, angry [...]
How disgusting? »
There seems to have been a number of artists experiencing appalling cases of copyright infringement, someone in the latest line being Lara Jade, a self portrait of whose (an image made when she was 14) was used by a pornographic film company.
Lara has tried to approach the company but received rude, pathetic responses. I hope [...]