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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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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Back in China, and increasingly fascinated with the contrast between modern and old, and the way that they fit together. I just left the town of Leshan in Sichuan, a couple of hours drive south of the capital Chengdu. It’s famous for having the world’s largest Buddha, 71 metres tall, built between 713 CE...
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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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Back in Yunnan, following the tea road. After a couple of days in the capital, Kunming, I drive to Dali, which is well-established on the tourist map. So much so that, despite having been an important stop on the Tea-Horse Road from the tea mountains in the south of Yunnan up towards Tibet, it’s...
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One of the things I love about photography is the sheer variety, and the freedom to explore all kinds of ways, and reasons, for shooting. I’m constantly surprised, and delighted, at fresh ways of seeing, and fresh definitions of what is worth seeing. There was a time when photography was more-or-less neatly compartmentalised into...
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