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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Raised in Brighton on England’s Channel coast, Martin Reeves created for himself a unique photographic career, one in which he combined a subject and a process both of which hold for him an aura of magic — pre-modern Asia and black-and-white infrared film. Stimulated by a Polaroid camera that he received at the age...
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Cary Wolinsky began working as a photojournalist for the Boston Globe in 1968 while completing a degree in journalism at Boston University’s School of Communications. By 1972, he was providing freelance photographic essays to many national magazines, including Natural History, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. His photographs have been printed in hundreds of publications throughout...
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Steve Vidler has a unique position in photography, but one that because of its very nature is unheralded, even practically anonymous. In the days when stock photography was almost exclusively professional, and when images of places were actually in limited supply, Vidler was the most prolific and the most sold travel stock photographer, bar...
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Laura El-Tantawy was born in Worcestershire, England and grew up between Cairo, Egypt and Dammam, Saudi Arabia. She graduated from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA (USA) with a dual degree in journalism and political science, worked as a staff photographer with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in...
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Tim Rudman began his involvement with photography in the 1960’s whilst studying medicine in London, pursued a career in medicine but now devotes his time to photography. He developed a distinctive style of black and white, pioneering the process known as Lith Printing, on which he is widely regarded as the leading authority and...
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Photographer Michael Yamashita
Mike Yamashita has combined his dual passions of photography and travel for over 25 years, working most notably for the National Geographic. Specialising in Asia, he has covered Vietnam and the Mekong River, Marco Polo’s journey to China, the Great Wall, the DMZ between North and South Korea, as well as almost...
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Born in Tuscany, Romano Cagnoni is one of the world’s great photographers in the reportage tradition, with a long succession of significant work that includes Biafra, Vietnam (the first photographer admitted into North Vietnam), Cambodia, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan (the Russian invasion), Chechniya, Yugoslavia and Kosovo. He left Italy for London in 1958, where he...
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One of the best-known names in British news photography, Brian Harris began his career in 1969 as a messenger for a Fleet Street press agency. After working for local newspapers in East London, and freelancing, he moved to the Times in 1976 as a staff photographer, staying until a major disagreement over his coverage...
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