Tag Archives: Colour

The Break Up

I have some sad news. Bessie and I have split up. Our relationship hit a rough patch a while ago. We did our best to overcome it, but in the end it was best that we go our separate ways. … Continue reading

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Food Friday – Fish

I’m going to run a new series on the blog for a while. Food Friday. I would like to do more food photography, so I should show more food and food-related photographs. I’ll kick it off with a fish photograph. … Continue reading

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Coloured Vision

Is it an inevitability, this sense of being a cheat? Does every documentary photographer eventually arrive at this unsettling juncture at which they question whether black-and-white documentary photography is, in fact, a contradiction? Big questions. The answers have great consequences. … Continue reading

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Bessie And Angus

There is something about the phrase “pure” that is, well… pure. Something to aspire to, something complete and unadulterated. Something good. Unless it’s pure evil. For many documentary photography purists, the purest tool is the rangefinder camera. And the purest … Continue reading

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Focus on Friday – Nicola Webster

More colour on the blog today. You’ll be wondering whether it’s been taken over by someone else. Fear not. The photographs here are by Nicola Webster, a Dublin-based photographer. While Nicola isn’t a documentary photographer per se, she does have … Continue reading

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