Photography

By Gareth Coxon, 2 Sep 10

Photographer Interview 16 – Darren Newbery

1. How long have you been a photographer?
I’ve been a photographer for 13 years. I started out using black & white film and hand printing in the darkroom. I followed inspiration mainly from the American landscape photographer Ansel Adams. His b/w images of the American National Parks and his amazing skills in printing inspired me to spend countless hours in the darkroom trying to perfect every image I hand printed. I then moved into hand printing colour photographs and eventually into digital photography. In the last few years i’ve been working in travel & documentary photography and last year started my own Commercial & Editorial business in Exeter. (more…)


By Gareth Coxon, 19 Aug 10

Photographer Interview 13: Belinda McCarthy

1. How long have you been a photographer?
Professionally, I’ve been working under my own name for about five years, but I’ve been a photographer literally since I was old enough to hold a camera, for my father was a professional photographer and also ran his own broadcasting company. So, he enlisted my ‘free help’ to work on shoots at the weekends – both still and broadcast. By the time I was ten, I could rig up an entire outside broadcast van in under ten minutes whilst moving at sixty miles an hour! (more…)


By Gareth Coxon, 7 Aug 09

AgeMaps – Bobby Neel Adams – Photographer

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Recently came across this really interesting work of the photographer Bobby Neel Adams. Called ‘AgeMaps’

“Two photographs of the same person, from different periods in time (child and adult) are spliced together.
In this fusion a jump of time is established at the tear.”

I found this work really interesting and for some reason slightly disturbing, (more…)


By Gareth Coxon, 19 Feb 09

Photographer Interview 7: Olgeir Andresson

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1. How long have you been a photographer?
I’ve been a photographer for 35 years and semi-pro for two years.

2. What inspires your work?
The land and seascapes and natural phenomenon like the Northern (more…)