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Fen Landscape

Two more from Saturday’s walk.

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Shutter Hub Open 2023

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U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 1 Introduction

I’ve signed up for the Photo Forum again this year.  It’s described in the U3AC’s course brochure as follows: ‘This course is a rejuvenation of the pre-pandemic Photo forum, in format and style. The aim is to provide an interactive, … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 62: Greece 2005

Fotini, Kaminaki, Corfu, 28th August 2005 We drove north to Kalami, Kassiopi and up to Ano Perithia (sometimes signed as ‘Old’, I prefer ‘Ano’).  The road from Loutses has been much improved since we visited in 2001, widened and surfaced, … Continue reading

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RIP Photojournalism

‘Photojournalism is dead’, according to Don McCullin in the ‘This much I know’ feature in the Observer for 17th September 2023.  He goes on, ‘We’ve become obsessed with glamour and gloss: footballers, narcissism and gossip.  Nobody wants the pictures I … Continue reading

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Fen Landscape

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Epstein and Leger

Third Portrait of Oriel Ross, 1931, Jacob Epstein and Young Girl Holding a Flower, 1954, Fernand Leger, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

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Fen Landscape

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Radical Art in Cambridge – Cambridge Darkroom

Three previous posts (22/09/22, 31/10/22, 24/02/23) have covered the Radical Art in Cambridge project and the role of the Cambridge Darkroom.  The penultimate meeting in the programme of Radical Art events to date looked at the community roots of the … Continue reading

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Pavel Buchler

Helping to establish and then work with the St Matthews Photo Workshop and subsequently the Cambridge Darkroom between 1978 and c.1992 was one of the most rewarding parts of my life.  Not only did I learn a great deal about … Continue reading

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Looking Down

I’ve started rewatching Robert Hughes’ 1980 TV series ‘The Shock of the New’.  In episode one he lauds the Eiffel Tower, completed in 1889, as the symbol of modernism, the ‘Tower of Babel of the new Machine Age’.  He argues … Continue reading

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Maternal Affection

Sculptor, Edward Hodges Bailey; white marble, carved in the round; made 1841. ‘The son of a ship’s carver, Baily began his career as a modeller in wax. He spent seven years in John Flaxman’s studio, acknowledged as his favourite and … Continue reading

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Marriage

‘Marriage a-la-Mode is a series of six pictures painted by William Hogarth between 1743 and 1745, intended as a pointed skewering of 18th-century society.’

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Yucca

Seen on my way home from an early visit to the hairdresser this morning.

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Origins

Photo sent to me by friend, MichaelH. I always knew I had peasant origins, but the Fens, not somewhere on a pilgrimage route deep in rural France!

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