Lee Miller – muse and artist
There’s a great article in the Jan 21 issue of the New Yorker about American photographer, model and all-round amazing person Lee Miller. She went from being a model, muse and lover to Man Ray and...
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Shoot a roll, put it up
Bernhard Wolf‘s a street photographer in Vienna, and he does a simple/difficult thing very well. He shoots a roll of black and white film while going about his daily business – meeting friends, taking...
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Good morning, world
So I’m sitting in Ecco, my favourite cafe. It’s hard to believe what happened yesterday. I’m a green card holder, so couldn’t vote, but I knocked on some doors for the Obama campaign, and like...
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Do you really want to be a pro photographer?
Alec Soth – the photographer who would have been perfect to accompany me on my ill-fated bike ride down the Mississippi (but that’s another story) – recently had a simple but brilliant blog post over...
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Cobbler finally fixes his own shoes – a photo shoot for my daughter
Even though I shoot children’s portraits professionally, and take countless shots of my own daughter Fionnuala, it had been a while since I’d done a more formal shoot with her. With Finn’s mother and...
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Starting out as a Strobist
© Matt Roth - mattrothphoto.com I’m a natural light guy. Or have been until now. Hugely unimpressed by almost all uses of on-camera flash, and fascinated by the challenge of capturing the quality of...
View ArticleZack Arias speaks at Photocamp Utah
I’ve had a bit of photog-crush on Atlanta music photographer (and much more) Zack Arias, every since I watched his great Transform video. Here he is at Photocamp Utah with an hour of funny, honest and...
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I’ve come over all Disney
Just had a few days in Southern California, which included some Disneyland time, as you can see from the above shot our our daughter at the end of a busy day. As a confirmed Disney sceptic before I...
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Be the White House photographer in your house
I’ve just finished watching the National Geographic documentary, The President’s Photographer, about the White House photographer Pete Souza (it’s available on Netflix on demand streaming if you’re a...
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It’s Time to Get Real – Notes from a Documentary Photography Workshop
Jean-Luc looks out at life from his Airstream kitchen I’m not much of a manifesto guy, but the last week has made me want to jump up on the barricades and take a stand for a particular type of...
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