Category Archives: Technology
More News on Camera Obscuras
In a recent blog post about Fotonow we mentioned that they had been inspired by a Caravan Camera Obscura created by Derek Swindley. We asked for more information and happily his daughter Lesley Swindley has got in touch and agreed … Continue reading
New Wave 11: Ways of Looking
I take a two-carriage toy train from Manchester across the misty Pennines to Bradford. First a quick detour to visit the National Media Museum (unfortunately a few days too early for the opening of their Tom Wood retrospective) and then … Continue reading
New Wave 10: Photomobile
David Eaton is one of three who look after Photomobile, an itinerant 'Mobile Photographic Unit' currently parked in Cheshire on the forecourt of the factory of Harman Express (home to Ilford, Kentmere and Harman Photo products). The oldest surviving British … Continue reading
More Mobile Photography
There's been a lot of response to my last blog post about mobile photography projects so here's another batch of them. Daniel Meadows had cited Sir Benjamin Stone as an inspiration and thought he might have worked on similar lines … Continue reading
Mobile Photography (no, not telephones)
This coming week, as part of the new Wave season we have two blog posts about organisations that run mobile photography facilities (Fotonow and Photomobile). They both mentioned Daniel Meadows and some other pioneers in this field but were apparently … Continue reading
How to Curate a Digital Programme...
When the Photographers' Gallery reopened in May as well as redesigned gallery spaces it also boasted a new Curator of Digital Programmes, Katrina Sluis. Visitors to the Gallery were also immediately greeted by a large screen next to the cafe … Continue reading
PhotoIreland Reviews
Over the weekend I was at PhotoIreland in Dublin to view photographers' work as part of the Portfolio review sessions. The sessions took place at Moxie studios (one of the main venues for the Festival) which provided a relaxing setting for the event. … Continue reading
Endangered Archives
Small amounts of public funding can make an enormous difference to a photographer. But there are some objectives like, for example, ‘safeguarding the documentary heritage of humankind’ that require more substantial backing. The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library … Continue reading
Conserving the Archive
A photographic archive serves to preserve collections of photographs. Inevitably one of its responsibilities is therefore to conserve those pictures. In 2001 Elizabeth Martin and Martin Barnes of the V&A wrote an article for Source about the underlying conservation challenges that face … Continue reading
Inside the Magnum Archive
You are an internationally renowned photographers' agency with a massive collection of photographs that you supply to publishers as part of your business. Technology changes and now pictures are dealt with entirely digitally. What do you do with your archive … Continue reading