In a past life, I was a film teacher, photographer, theatre director and film editor. Now a psychogeographer and Jungian explorer searching for my Anima.
Liverpool photographer Edward Chambré Hardman appeared often in my life when I lived on Hope street and Gambier Terrace. It was wonderful to be surrounded by such magnificent buildings.
A colleague of mine at Open Eye gallery Peter Hagerty introduced me to his work.
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
Bergman's Dreams - An Original Video Essay.
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Nick Brandt visited five animal sanctuaries in Africa to portray the people displaced by droughts and the creatures whose very existence is under threat.
“We need to be far better stewards of the earth. We all need to learn to be good ancestors .”
2020.
Dulovits Jenő (1903-1972), was one of the most significant creators in the history of Hungarian photography and photo technology, treating aesthetics and technique as a distinctively individual photography style based on backlighting, softening and light-shadow balancing.
Hugh Hood.
Glasgow.
1974-78.
This Glasgow was a city of ghosts and rubble, its air a miasma of sandstone dust and occluded sunlight. Hugh’s work was local history reframed as National Geographic anthropology.
Local photographer Brian Lomas, taken over three decades ago, reveals a little of Manchester's urban history by celebrating its independent shops of the time.
The Story of Temple Drake.
1933.
Dir by Stephen Roberts
and adapted from the novel Sanctuary by William Faulkner.
Steeped in southern-gothic shadows by influential cinematographer Karl Struss and shot through with moral ambiguity, it is a harrowing vision of sin and salvation.
My old satchel.
It carried all my lesson plans, coursework, and every teaching resource under the sun for my many years of teaching.
I feel sad when I see it languishing in the cupboard.
Edvard Munch.
Self-Portrait with a Bottle of Wine.
1906.
He had already fallen into alcoholism at this point so the inclusion of a bottle of wine is symbolic. His mental health problems are also apparent in his sad demeanor. He sits alone, reflecting on all that haunted him.
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Edwin Romanzo Elmer.
Mourning Picture.
1890.
Elmer shows himself, his wife Mary, and late daughter Effie standing with a pet sheep in front of the house he had built in Buckland, MA. He and his wife wear mourning garb. Effie had passed away from appendicitis at the age of eight.
Ara Güler,
the eye of Istanbul.
Like Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929), which filmed life in Soviet cities over several years, he recorded the Istanbul of the 1960s and ’70s.
Before he became a photographer, he was a projectionist, working at the old Yıldız Cinema.
Chris Killip.
"His ability to get on with people shaped both his work and his life."
A wonderful man.
Whenever I need inspiration, or to simply reflect on the art, resonance and power that photography has to unite us all, I invite Chris back into my life.