What I’m doing now …is looking at websites on photography. Not an easy task, because there’s no filter I can think of that discriminates between interesting and worthwhile… and the rest. Gareth and I have been talking about the vocational aspects of the courses, now even more important since the BA (Hons) in Photography was [...]
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Peter Stuckings, whom I interviewed when we were both in Shanghai last month, is an Australian who calls Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam his home. As recently as 2005 he abandoned an academic future in Asian Studies to pursue photography fulltime and as a paying career. He relocated to Vietnam as a base...
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MF: You spent many years living in London, as well as in Tuscany. Has each place affected the way you work?
RC: It was very exciting to arrive in London as a young man from a small Tuscan town near the sea. I had only one Leica. To buy more cameras and lenses that I...
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Since World War II, we hadn’t seen such militarily-caused destruction in Europe like the recent conflict in ex-Yugoslavia. Many attractive buildings, charming old cities were partly destroyed. I had to show the beauty of the architecture and its history to communicate even more the sorry state of its destruction. Only with a large format...
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MF: The photographs you took of Ho Chi Minh were the first taken by a westerner during the Vietnam War. Do you consider that a coup? It certainly seemed like it. How did you make that happen?
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