For the last five days I’ve been leading a photography workshop in Yunnan, China, a favourite area of mine. We’re based in a converted Naxi courtyard farmhouse in the old village of Shuhe, about half an hour from Lijiang. Called The Bivou, it’s the idea of an architect friend of mine with a practice in [...]
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Little talked about, and yet an essential tool of the trade in documentary photography of all types, the picture script, otherwise known as the shooting script, was invented in the heyday of magazine journalism, and is as useful today as ever. I touched on it in an earlier article, Shooting a Profile, where I...
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Edouard Fraipont is a Brazilian fine art photographer who began in documentary photography. At the start of his career, he spent a year studying the world of the Aymara, a native ethnic group in the Andes, which proved to be challenging but rewarding, and...
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A couple of months ago I wrote about shooting in square format, once upon a time compulsory thanks to Rolleiflex and Hasselblad, but now that digitally there are no square sensors, the only way to achieve it is by cropping. Given that back then...
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This is a rather nerdy technique, but very effective, so I thought I would pass it on. It needs Photoshop because it uses layers. Sensors, like film, are not perfect in how they record bright areas contrasting with dark areas right next to them....
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Dong Yoon Kim, is a young contemporary fine art Korean London-based photographer, represented by the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London. Contemporary fine art photography continues to expand in its variety of style, as it interacts with the rest of the contemporary fine art market...
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