Field Work

• 2010-07-28

  

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  Aisha on her houseboat in Vauxhall. Rudkin has arrived in London- hooray!

• 2010-06-04

  

  Psst… we’re having an exhibition in London this June at HOST.

• 2010-05-25

  The ephemera of people’s living and working space had an obsessive order or disorder. From the first photographs I made, I felt the world couldn’t be like this. It seemed as if it were full of finished works of art. You could say I saw myself photographing readymades.

  — Lynne Cohen neatly sums up my approach to photography of the last two years.

• 2010-05-02

  

  

  Henry Austwick, of Smugglers’ Brewery, for University of Exeter. Full story here.

• … the sixteenth-century Japanese swordfighter Miyamoto Musashi counselled,

  “Never have a favourite weapon.” Warriors know they need to enlarge their arsenal of skills in order to avoid becoming predictable to their adversaries.

  […] A photographer who can work with both small- and large-format cameras, in a controlled studio and outside in the real world, has exponentially enlarged his potential for developing his career.

  — Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit

• 2010-04-30

  

  andrewurwin:

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  Elina Brotherus
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• 2010-04-18

  At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honour what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect- a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known.

  — Robert Adams, Why People Photograph

• 2010-04-11

  I am not especially interested in anonymous photography, or pictorialist photography, or avant-garde photography, or in straight, crooked or any other subspecific category of photography; I am interested in the entire, indivisible, hairy beast—because in the real world, where photographs are made, these subspecies, or races, interbreed shamelessly and continually.

  — John Szarkowski, here

• 2010-03-28

  

  Shooting inside boats is pretty tough so I’ve decided to play with stitched panoramas. Thank God for Photoshop, eh?