Two exhibitions
Palermo Mon Amour I was in Turin recently and whilst there visited two photography exhibitions that were very different. I’m a big fan of Letizia Battaglia and I knew that her work was part of an exhibition called Palermo Mon Amour (Palermo My Love), which also included work by Enzo Sellerio, Franco Zecchin, Fabio Sgroi, […]
Documentary photography assignment
Documentary Photography for FSMU Last week I travelled to Uganda with a British educational charity, Okwasa and FMSU, who currently support two schools in a rural parish in Eastern Uganda a few miles from Busembatia, and a house for former orphaned students in nearby Jinja. My role was to document the school, the students and […]
CSR Photography
Employing documentary photography to document CSR impact Despite the pressures of rising costs that are squeezing the margins of businesses, I’ve spent much of this year on CSR photography; working with businesses who want to engage their employees with corporate sustainability objectives, or CSR, or ESG, or whatever else they may call it. I’ve been […]
Why can’t corporate photography be art?
Any photographer who considers themselves to be a creative or an artist, is usually delighted when they are ask to photograph for a corporate client, and then almost certainly frustrated by the constraints. So why can’t corporate photography be art and be recognised for the quality and power of the image? This is front of […]
Ice Cream Economy – a photo essay
Photo essay – Part 1 The first in a series of photo essays about Bognor Regis and what I call, the Ice Cream Economy. Late last year I came across a number of reports and articles about the growing poverty in coastal towns around the UK. Some of these reports were several years old but […]
Visual Branding
How I approached a series of portraits from a visual branding perspective. Spotify states: Any artist who thinks they can build a career just on the merit of their sound would be wise to take a glance back at history. From Elvis’s hypnotic hips to the Rolling Stones’ impudent tongue logo to Madonna’s outré Jean-Paul Gaultier cone bras, […]
What is photography?
We all take photographs but what is photography? And would understanding what photography is, help us to make better pictures and identify where photographs can be used to best advantage? To paraphrase Stephen Shore: Photography is an analytical discipline. Photographers start with the messiness and complexity of the world and simplify the jumble through analysis […]
Thinking Photography
Great photographers are also editors – they are always thinking photography “I don’t just take photographs, I think.” Don McCullin Storytelling requires thinking photography Thinking photography is about about making considered decisions from the outset of a project so as to end up with the story you want to tell. Like all stories, documentary is […]
Looking for visual interest
Last year I was taking photographs for a client (Pilon) who operates in the Social Housing Sector providing construction and refurbishment services throughout the London and the South East. The challenge, as always, is to find visual interest in situations that might not present the most glamorous of subjects. Business Photography can be visually interesting In addition to […]
Effective Employee Engagement
As a business or leader, you know you have achieved effective employee engagement when the connection that people feel towards the organisation leads to a willingness in them to go the extra mile – in other words the communication has an effect on the employee. A report on Workplace Communication (2022) cites that employees who […]
