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Visual Flow – Ian Plant and George Stocking
Very rarely does a book look beyond some of the generally accepted ‘rules’ or try to dig deeper into the reasons why some compositions work and some don’t. more
Johsel Namkung – A Retrospective
The style, reminiscent of Eliot Porter but with echos of Harry Callahan in his abstract work, is one of considered detail. This are the illustrations to the never published Zen and the Art of Landscape Photography. more
Photographically Speaking: A Deeper Look at Creating Stronger Images
Photographically Speaking is a book by the Canadian based photographer David duChemin, to get some of the practical info out of the way first: It's 272 pages long and is available in paperback or Kindle format more
The Irish Light – Peter Cox
Peter Cox is a landscape photographer based in the south west of Ireland. He moved back from the USA, where he was following according to his own account a rather unsatisfactory career in computer technology, to his native Ireland in 2005. His dream was to make a living from landscape photography, a difficult goal in Ireland to say the least. Although Ireland has produced several world-class landscape photographers over the past decade, many of them still have to make more
The Coast – Various Arena Photographers
Various book reviews: Tony Worobiec, Trevor Crone, Paul Mitchell, Eva Worobiec & Susan Brown more
First Light – Joe Cornish
I first read Joe Cornish’s First Light about 7 years ago and it had a dramatic effect on my photography. First Light is not - as you might think - about the light first thing in the morning but about the light coming first. This could be first thing in the morning or the evening or infact any time of the day, but what is important is the quality of the light. The book is split into 7 chapters more
Peter Dombrovskis
Continuing in our video review of Peter Dombrovskis' work we look at the rarest and arguably the best of his books. Simply titled 'Dombrovskis', the book is a compilation of his work with exacting production standards. Joe Cornish and Tim Parkin look at and discuss a few excerpts. https://youtu.be/I3j8qIquDTg Read more on Peter Dombrovskis Peter Dombrovskis Master Photographer Endframe: “Deciduous Beech In Winter, Cradle Mountain – Lake St Clair, Tasmania” by Peter Dombrovskis. 1993 Endframe: Morning Mist, Rock Island Bend by Peter more
Peter Dombrovskis, On the Mountain
Continuing our overview of Peter Dombrovskis published books we move onto 'On the Mountain' which was published in the same year that Peter died. You can see more images from this book at the bottom of this article. This is quite a difficult book to find second hand and sometimes changes hands for over £300 https://youtu.be/YYD1XWG8oSQ Read more on Peter Dombrovskis Peter Dombrovskis Master Photographer Endframe: “Deciduous Beech In Winter, Cradle Mountain – Lake St Clair, Tasmania” by Peter Dombrovskis. 1993 Endframe: more
Olegas Truchanas
Continuing our series of video book reviews we take a short diversion to look at and talk about Olegas Truchanas, Peter Dombrovskis' mentor and friend. https://youtu.be/xmqeoqN3iSM more
Wild Rivers – Peter Dombrovskis
One of Joe Cornish's inspirations was and still is Tasmanian photographer Peter Dombrovkis. In this first of a series of videos Joe talks to Tim Parkin about the series of books that were published by Peter and his wife. The first book is 'Wild Rivers', the only book published during Peter's sadly too short life. https://youtu.be/fiJ7dGGFvxg Read more on Peter Dombrovskis Peter Dombrovskis Master Photographer Endframe: “Deciduous Beech In Winter, Cradle Mountain more
Sea Change – Michael Marten
Michael Marten's "Sea Change" recalls Ariel's song in Shakespeare's Tempest Full fathom five thy father lies: Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. And the book is all about a transformation and of that rich and strange - the movement of the tides and the opening and closing of the tidal zone. The idea more
Welsh Light – Glyn Davies
Glyn Davies has been living and working photography since an early age with a family connection with the arts that runs very deep. Educated in Photography, TV and Film he has taught photography and run a professional photography business for over twenty five years. His primary passion now is the landscape and after recent successes with his first three shorter books (including getting David Cameron to put his hand more
Essential and Advanced Filters – Darwin Wigget & Samantha Chrysanthou
Books on filters have historically covered everything but the kitchen sink. Whole chapters on how to add various coloured graduated filters (remember the tobacco grad? The ruination of many an amateur photographers holiday snaps). There have been a few attempts at writing books on filters for digital but mostly they have just skipped the 'tints'. Darwin Wigget & Samantha Chrysanthou have finally fixed this by writing a definitive guide to filters for more
Wales at the Water’s Edge – Jeremy Moore & Jon Gower
The Wales coastal path officially opened on the 5th of May, 870 miles of uninterrupted coastal footpath through some of the best countryside that Britain has to offer. To mark the opening of the path, photographer Jeremy Moore and writer and conservationist Jon Gower put together this book, celebrating it's beauty, history and people. Don't expect a book full of heroic landscape pictures though, the images have been taken and selected so they don't fight with one another. Jeremy has more
Quarries – Edward Burtynsky
Burtynsky's Quarries project was the work that initially drew me to him. The sublime beauty of these photographs and their compositional poise made it accessible without knowing anything about issues involved or the artistic reputation of the photographer. This is Burtynsky's goal as far as I can tell though - to engage through beauty and then let the visual facts do the hard moving. This isn't original, but it is effective. In the Quarries book the message isn't overtly political more