May 31 2012
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SW1 Gallery, Victoria: SHOW+ing exhibition
Olympus Pen EP-1 + 35mm f1.4 Voigtlander Nokton Classic: Photographer Tianshu Song
Olive green plimsols are a 1950’s Peoples Liberation Army design
May 28 2012
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Kings X Station
Samsung camera phone: Photographer Graham Hughes
Tim Marshall writes;
This is Graham Hughes who is not a rat down a tunnel, but a man who drives fast trains with big coaches through landscape.
He is also a celebrity photographer with the Queen, Prince Philip and Ben Elton under his belt.
He is based at Kings X.
May 27 2012
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PH - hard to find Japanese books and ‘zines
My friend Dan Abbe in Tokyo has a new website that makes available otherwise difficult to source books and photozines from new Japanese photographers.
From the PH website:
PH supports emerging Japanese photography, by facilitating engagement between Japanese photographers and foreign audiences.
We hold bi-monthly English workshops in Tokyo and distribute books and zines that would be otherwise difficult to acquire outside of Japan.
We hold bi-monthly English workshops in Tokyo and distribute books and zines that would be otherwise difficult to acquire outside of Japan.
PH is Andrew Thorn and Dan Abbe.
You can read Dan’s excellent article for America Photo magazine, ‘The Future of Photography is Alive and Well in Tokyo’, here.
May 18 2012
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John Patrick Driscoll: ‘JohnO’ - 26th March 1953 - 14th May 2012. Photographed at ‘John O’s’ darkroom in Turnmill Street, Farringdon 1988.
John was a grand master of darkroom craft. Like observing any great artist at work it was a wonderful experience to watch him gracefully contort his hands under the enlarger as he painted light onto a sheet of photographic paper.
It is a testimony to his extraordinary skill as a black and white printer that over a long and distinguished career he could count the likes of Nick Knight and Irving Penn as clients.
My good friend David Seacombe has written very eloquently about his life and the reasons why so many are heartbroken at his passing. You can read David’s very moving tribute and see an excellent portrait of John taken by Tim Marshall here .
John’s greatest pleasures in life were always derived from giving more than he took. In all ways he was such an incredibly generous man, as anyone who ever tried to get a round in at the pub will confirm!
He never at any point let the terrible illness that took him away break his spirit and in that respect he beat it, just as he said he would.
I feel so privileged and unimaginably lucky that John and his lovely wife Barbara have played such an important role in my own life.
Dave Hendley
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May 14 2012
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CSM KX ‘The Street’
Hassleblad + prism + 40mm f4 Carl Zeiss Distagon: Photographer Renata Westenberger and one of her photographs of our old building.
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CSM KX ‘The Street’
Hassleblad + prism + 40mm f4 Carl Zeiss Distagon: Photographer Renata Westenberger
May 11 2012
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