I love showing all the folios in one go. You get to meet all the creatives and they get to see all the work of all the guys, in one move – makes real sense.
Today it was to the good folk at Krow Communications. They have a really smart new room and as always it was great to see them all.
I have always really liked this agency and today proved with good reason!
Clive has been out shooting landscapes of the rural, hilly area around his home in Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
It amazes me how great photographers manage to produce images of any subject and yet retain their thumb print on the style.
These images are so obviously by Clive. Fashion, beauty, reportage, still-life or landscape, it easy to see one man has taken them all. That is what it is all about.
Please call me if you wish to see anymore and I will send them across.
A film documenting Don McCullin’s Career, directed by Jacqui Morris, has just been nominated for two BAFTA awards.
One for best Documentary and one for Outstanding Debut Director.
The film is the only documented work showing Don’s career with extensive interviews of Don himself. It is a legacy for his work which has been a long time coming, and certainly deserves these two nominations.
It is showing at The Curzon Cinema in London.
In December of 2012, Don McCullin, after a 15 year break, once again returned to war.
The situation in Syria had been playing on his mind for some time and teaming up with Anthony Loyd, a long serving and well respected war correspondent, he went across the Turkish border to shoot a story for the Times Magazine.
The fact that he, the greatest living photographer of war zones and trouble spots, should decide to once again go to war, is a sign of how deeply entrenched has been his desire to show the “safe” world what is happening in places far away, where death, cruelty and destruction are a part of every day life.
A life far removed from our own.
John has been busy shooting a series of portraits for a personal series and I have placed some on his page (one is here). I love these as they have a strangely period feel and yet are most definitely very contemporary.
They will be in his folio shortly and if you wish to see them please give my office a call and I would be happy to bring the book across or drop it off.
Clive has been put onto Canon Camera’s Ambassador programme. This is a privilege given to only a few photographers and which allows him to have a first crack at their new cameras and equipment (often before they are officially released).
This means he is aware of what is coming and what is going to be possible, and with the world’s current situation of rapidly changing technology, is an extremely useful asset.
For example, he is aware and has used a new camera that shoots at a resolution high enough for cinema projection, which in turn, means he has been able to time the shoot of a new project, that requires high resolution, so that it co-incides with the release of this piece of kit.