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Mining the Diaries 63: Spain 2006

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Brian

Hotel Astoria Palace, Valencia, 19th March 2006 We are here for the Las Fallas festival.  Its origins lie in a carpenters’ tradition, from the Middle Ages, celebrating the spring equinox on 19th March by burning the pieces of wood, parots, … Continue reading →

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Fen Landscape

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Brian
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El Anatsui

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Brian

Popped in to see the work of El Anatsui in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern while I was in London Yesterday.

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Japanese Photography

Posted on October 18, 2023 by Brian

A day in London to see Daido Moriyama at the Photographers’ Gallery and Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hayward Gallery. Difficult to call to mind two more different photographers – chaos and order.

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Fen Landscape

Posted on October 17, 2023 by Brian

Two more from Saturday’s walk.

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Shutter Hub Open 2023

Posted on October 11, 2023 by Brian
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U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 1 Introduction

Posted on October 10, 2023 by Brian

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

Posted on October 3, 2023 by Brian

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

Posted on September 25, 2023 by Brian

‘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

Posted on September 24, 2023 by Brian
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Epstein and Leger

Posted on September 23, 2023 by Brian

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

Posted on September 22, 2023 by Brian
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Radical Art in Cambridge – Cambridge Darkroom

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Brian

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

Posted on September 18, 2023 by Brian

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

Posted on September 12, 2023 by Brian

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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