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Shaped by War, Pictorial Biography of Don McCullin, Photographer

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 July 2011 07:11

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In candid language Don McCullin tells how war formed him as photographer and man. He describes his personal conflicts as he photographed war and disaster.

Don MCCullin is best known for his war and disaster photography although since his retirement he has concentrated on landscape particularly around his home in Somerset. His most recent book of photographs, Southern Frontiers, explores the southern frontier of the Roman Empire. His latest work many would describe as fine art.

However in his photographic autobiography, Shaped by War, Don McCullin explains that he is not comfortable being described as an artist preferring to be simply known as a photographer.

Movingly Candid Text and Photographs

In Shaped by War Don McCullin acknowledges his lack of formal education but describes the learning he continues to achieve through his own efforts. That personal development is important to him and although perhaps uneducated he can be described as learned. The text is straightforward and centres on McCullin's career as a photographer, particularly of war, conflict and disaster.

Jane Bown's Exposures, Sixty Years of Portraits

Last Updated on Friday, 29 July 2011 08:04

Exposures by Jane Brown, Portrait Photographer Jane Bown has had a long career as a photographer with The Observer and built a major reputation for her portraits. She has achieved a consistent style over sixty years.

Jane Bown's distinguished photographic career spans more than sixty years. She is principally known for her portraits of people in the news. As result she has photographed most of the influential figures of the second half of the 20th and start of the 21st centuries.

Major Retrospective of Talented Portrait Photographer

Exposures is a major retrospective collection of that work and shows why Jane Bown is so well regarded. Jane Bown has a consistency of approach that gives Exposures a sense of being a single piece of work. Fortunately Bown’s perceptive eye means that the work is not repetitive and many of the images are well known, even icons of their time such as the picture of Cilla Black.

Simple Technique That Works So Well

Jane Bown established her deceptively simple approach early in her career and it has remained largely unchanged ever since. Even to the extent that she still works with black and white film and uses forty year old cameras (Olympus OM). She shoots exclusively on location and by available light.

Southern Frontiers, Photographs by Don McCullin

Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 July 2011 18:25

Southern Frontiers by Don McCullin, Journey Across Roman Empire Don McCullin is known as a sensitive photographer of war and disaster. However since his retirement from such work he has built a reputation as a landscape photographer.

Southern Frontiers is Don McCullin's latest, very personal, book and adds to the growing reputation for his fine art black and white landscapes. It covers the southern edge of the Roman Empire in North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. It is A Journey Across the Roman Empire taken with the traveller and historian Barnaby Rogerson who provides the supporting text.

North Africa and Eastern Mediterranean

Southern Frontiers is in two parts. The first of which covers the Levant at the eastern end of the Mediterranean and is made up of Lebanon, Syria and and Jordan. The second section features The Maghreb of North Africa which includes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.

Large Format Hardback

The result is a large format, and heavy, hardback which really needs reading at a table. Because of its size it is not really suitable for reading in bed or on one’s lap. It very much moves McCullin into the fine art sector of the photography market.

The format does allow the photographs to be printed large which they need to do full justice to the details. Both McCullin and Rogerson provide introductions and comments on how the works for Southern Frontiers were produced.

Rogerson provides a brief background to each country and particularly the Roman Empires role there.

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Spiers and Boden, Folk Duo

Last Updated on Friday, 17 June 2011 10:05

John_Spiers_KE28060 I had the opportunity to take photographs of John Spiers and Jon Boden, the folk duo Spiers and Boden, at the Bonington Theatre, Arnold, Nottingham on Saturday 28th May 2011. Apart from performing as a duo they are members of Bellowhead who will be touring this year.

I had a great evening enjoying the music and a chance to do some challenging photography. It did much to refresh my photographic drive.

Spiers and Boden Gallery

The galley is now uploaded. so enjoy the pictures at the Gallery:

Boden and Spiers

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