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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British photojournalist Stuart Freedman was born in Hackney, East London in 1967 and has been a photographer since 1991. It was in his final year at Sheffield University that he became obsessed with the potential of the storytelling photograph. Since then, as a member of FSP Gamma, Network and now Panos Pictures, he has...
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Simon Barber, one of our photography tutors at the OCA, has a special commitment to collaborative photography, and for me personally provides a fascinating contrast to the more self-absorbed method of photography that I grew up with. Indeed, Simon’s photographic career began after a very sharp change of direction from a science education —...
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Robert Golden began his career shooting photojournalistic assignments in the USA and England, and indeed his original intention was to be purely a photojournalist. Then for reasons explained below, he turned to what on the face of it seems a polar opposite — still-life food photography. He became on of Europe’s best known food...
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Jesse Alexander has been working professionally with photography since 2004, after graduating from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in Farnham (now know as the University for the Creative Arts). As well as a photographic practice, Jesse has written for several magazines, including Source and HotShoe Magazine and teaches photography within Further and...
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Photo © Steffen Becker
We’re making something of a break here in these interviews, because this month’s featured photographer is an OCA student at the beginning of the course, having just completed the first level – The Art of Photography and People and Place. We were all impressed with his photography. I was with the...
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Basil Pao began his photographic career in 1980 on his return to Hong Kong after ten years in the United States, where he was art director for recording companies Atlantic and Polygram in New York and Warner Brothers in Los Angeles. His work during that time included the book for the Monty Python film...
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As a 25-year veteran writer and photographer for National Geographic Magazine, Robert Caputo’s work has ranged from documenting traditional cultures and wildlife to covering wars, famines, and political strife. Assignments in Africa, Asia, South and North America included text and stories about the Nile, Congo, and Orinoco Rivers, the rehabilitation of orphan black bear...
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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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In the very over-subscribed yet normally under-rewarded world of photojournalism, Irish photographer Seamus Murphy is one of the most highly respected. Afghanistan, which he has been visiting and re-visiting since the ‘90s, has played an important part in his work and in the recognition he has won (which includes six World Press Photo Awards)....
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José Navarro
José Navarro is a documentary photographer in the humanist tradition, with an MA in the subject from the University of Wales, and who also happens to be one of our tutors at the Open College of the Arts. He works particularly on the relationships between people and their natural ...
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