Recapping Recent Articles

A couple of Conscientious articles alongside a couple of great Substack pieces!

May 18, 2023

Tracing back the origins of inspiration.

Lately, I have been focusing more on colour photography and in the process, I picked up a book from photographer Joachim Brohm called Areal. The images in the book span a decade, looking at a post-industrial area in Germany and its transformation into new urban development. I won’t go into detail about the work, but I highly encourage you to follow the …

2 years ago · 4 likes · 9 comments · Matthew Poburyny

A great piece from Matthew Poburyny’s newsletter looking at his inspirations in his colour image practice.

Jorg Colberg over on Conscientious published a great piece on AI photography.

FlakPhoto Digest

Five photographers

Years ago, I picked up an Instagram habit, and for better or worse, I’ve been using it every day since. I wrote about my love/hate relationship with IG last year: Every artist I know hates what Instagram has become. Yet, we all still use it. One of my IG friends called it “an unhappy marriage of convenience.” I’ve begun to wonder if my relationship with …

2 years ago · 74 likes · 22 comments · Andy Adams

The ever-productive Andy Adams picks up his old Five Photographers series from the Flak Photo blog, now conveniently housed at Substack! Love that last one by Cian Oba-Smith!

Another one from Conscientious, Colberg reviews Lewis Bush’s new self-published book, Depravity’s Rainbow, focusing on the life of Wernher Von Braun, a nazi scientist who ended up working for the US government developing their space program. Colberg using his own experiences growing up in West Germany as a reference point.

Paper Arts Collective Newsletter

It's The Print

I've said this here before, but it bears repeating. If you print your artwork it will no doubt make you a better photographer. I just returned from leading a photo trip in Patagonia. It was a grueling experience, with sustained winds every day that in several cases exceeded gale forc…

2 years ago · 14 likes · 7 comments · Lester Picker and Paper Arts Collective

A quick one from Paper Collective looking at how having an intended end point of a print can affect your process during a shoot.

Another Place has a great gallery of photographer Jack Smethers documenting the area around White Hart Lane.

Paul Graham Photo

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