Women in Photography

As it's International Women's Day, I thought that it would be great to emphasize women photography. Women photographers were overlooked in the beginning, with a few rare exceptions, like Margret Bourke White, a fearless documentary photographer, Or going back even further at nearly the invention of photography, Julia Margaret Camerot and her Victorian imagery the...

Samuel Fosso Post Colonial Self Portraits

We may be too far away to enjoy the full exhibition, but I'm really chuffed to see the retrospective of Samuel Fosso doing the rounds, and in turn increase the visibility and appreciation of this artist. Right now Fosso's work is in Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, with the first-ever large scale retrospective of the French-Cameroon photographer's...

Macro People

As we are winter break, I thought I'd add a fun photo piece into the mix. I do hope you like these images, and see the creativity in David Gilliver's images!  By Steven Brocklehurst, BBC Scotland News David Gilliver's entry in this year's British Photography Awards was a picture of a summer holiday with a difference....

Photography Emulating Art

There are artists who have emulated artwork among us; some of this came to the height of it's conception during photography's modern/postmodern transition and the concept of reproduction; Andy Warhol, Sherri Levine, Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman to name just a few. For some like Sherri Levine and Richard Prince, the idea was copying the...

2022 Wildlife Photographer of the Year

London's Natural History Museum, which runs the competition, announced the winning images this week and will display them in an exhibition which opened the past week in London. It will eventually tour across the United Kingdom and other venues in Europe, as well as North America (including Texas and Michigan), Australia and New Zealand. The...

Microphotography

In my Intermediate class this week, I was showing macro lenses and someone used the phrase "microphotography". I corrected them, because there is a different between macro and micro. It comes down to the amount of magnification; in macro, they are things you can still see with the naked eye, but micro has a 20x...