Category Archives: Street Photography

Night Moods 4

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Brian
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Night Moods 3

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Brian
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being you – David Runnacles

Posted on January 21, 2023 by Brian

A new photo book from David Runnacles – being you, Cambridge photos 2022. He explains: ‘In no particular order: pictures from my Saturday afternoon rambles around Cambridge city centre.  April to October 2022.’  It’s up to his usual high standard.  … Continue reading →

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Night Moods 2

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Brian
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Night Moods 1

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Brian

Exploring Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge, in the evening.

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Cambridge Darkroom – Planning and Photography

Posted on August 15, 2022 by Brian

What’s the connection between town planning and photography?  Not a lot you might think, but in one case of a relationship has emerged, albeit a secondary one. I recently had a Zoom meeting with two researchers, Alina Khakoo and Lucy … Continue reading →

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Postcards From Southwold 2

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Brian
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Cheltenham

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Brian

This gallery contains 4 photos.

Snaps while visiting the Cheltenham Science Festival at the weekend

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Man – Mango

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Brian
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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: The Decisive Moment

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Brian

The course I’m running for the Cambridge U3A, Five Facets of Photography, starts this week with ‘Ideas that Changed Photography’.  This post comes from that module.  Posts over the next five weeks will include material from subsequent modules. Henri Cartier-Bresson … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: New Documents

Posted on February 12, 2022 by Brian

The New Documents exhibition at MOMA in 1967, small, framed black-and-white pictures by Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand, was modest by today’s standards.  The work had a casual, offhand quality and the subject matter was apparently random and … Continue reading →

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David Runnacles – reality checkpoints

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Brian

A surprise arrived with a thump on the doormat last Friday: the latest book by David Runnacles, reality checkpoints – cambridge photos 2021. David is a man of few words and a brief text on the front cover flap sets … Continue reading →

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Shingle Street 30

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Brian

Spent some time at the weekend doing a first edit of photographs to go in a book recording my visits to Shingle Street.  They fall into 14 more or less well defined categories, hamlet, beach, percolation lagoons etc.  As always … Continue reading →

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Coffee Stop

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Brian

Bridges coffee shop, Tuesday 19th November; I’m on my way to the ‘Reading Women’ class.  Outside with a black americano and an almond croissant; it’s mild for mid-November, but a brisk wind rattles the awning overhead. I dip into Women … Continue reading →

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Reading Women 4

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Brian

Yesterday’s U3AC session looked at The Blessed Reader, images of the Virgin Mary, principally the Annunciation.  The pictures included: the Simone Martini altarpiece, 1333, in Byzantine style; the Fra Angelico fresco from San Marco, Florence, c. 1435; a Veneziano predella … Continue reading →

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