Category Archives: Photography

Terakopian Archive Now At Photoshelter

Posted on October 30, 2008 | Leave a comment

Here’s the new archive. You can also search using the facility below:

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Sign Of The Times

Posted on October 30, 2008 | Leave a comment

Well, its a sad state of affairs. The credit crunch is all around and is going to get worst. Most freelancers are feeling the pinch as their news shifts get cut in numbers and commercial work slows down.

One early casualty has been Digital Railroad with whom I’ve had my archive for a while. They suspended operations on October 28 and it looks like members have until October 31 to access their archives.
Photoshelter has come to the rescue offering photographers a way of transferring their archives straight from DDR to their servers. I must admit to trying this four times and failing on all attempts. The best I could do was get little thumbnails saying image not present. You may have had a better result. In the end I ended up transferring everything from my Mac. Another good example of back everything up!
If you have a DRR account, you should have received an email from them and also from Photoshelter who are offering an extra three months membership for anyone migrating from DRR. If you haven’t, I strongly urge you too look into the situation and come up with an action plan.
My only worry is that if the DRR is liquidated, what happens to all the images on their servers? I can’t see the liquidation company taking time to securely erase all data before selling off the hardware. I urge everybody with a DRR account to contact Diablo Management Group and urge them to securely erase all customer data and image data: DRRinfo@diablomanagement.com

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Reuters Photographers On Covering The Olympics

Posted on October 23, 2008 | Leave a comment

I just came across a great short film of several of the Reuters photographers talking of their experiences and images from the Beijing Olympics. Its well worth a watch!

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War Exhibition At The Barbican

Posted on October 23, 2008 | Leave a comment

I had a chance to have a very quick look at the war exhibitions at the Barbican yesterday afternoon. I’ll definitely pop back as I only had 30 minutes before the place shut! Must say, that they are all worth a lengthy and thorough visit.


Robert Capa’s work was, as always, good to see again. There were a lot of images I hadn’t seen though, and some new prints from the recently discovered negatives have been exhibited. There’s an interesting section on the “Fallen Soldier” image, as well as some press cards and letters by Capa. My favourite has to be a letter he wrote to his mother and brother after the D-Day landings in which he said “Yesterday I had a bit of an adventure”!! Talk about an under statement!

I found Gerda Taro’s work really interesting too. Its such a shame that both Capa and Taro died so early in their careers. It would have been a joy and an education to see life through their cameras.

Geert van Kesteren also had an interesting collection of images worth checking out too.

Check here for some images.

The exhibition is on until 25 January 2009.

Barbican Art Gallery opening times:
Daily 11.00am – 8.00pm 
Except Tue & Wed 11.00am – 6.00pm 
Barbican Art Gallery is open late every Thu until 10pm.

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What Makes A Good Photograph?

Posted on October 20, 2008 | Leave a comment

Like it or not, a photograph is an art form, regardless of subject or style. One of the reasons I can make this generalisation is that as with anything artistic, its not a definitive thing; it means different things to different viewers and is totally subjective. To one viewer it may be crap, to another it may be superb. Just like music, sculpture, painting, the written word or film, it stirs up a different feeling and thought within anyone who looks at a picture. Its not finite like a mathematical formula but totally infinite in its communication.


I came across this very interesting “discussion” between the Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson and another photographer Terry Carroll on the Magnum Blog. Its well worth a read.

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Afghanistan Diary Updates by John D McHugh

Posted on October 14, 2008 | Leave a comment

John D McHugh has two new stories from his long term Afghanistan project.

The aspect that I like from John D’s work is that it paints a picture of the difficulties faced in this vast country with its complex society. What the second report lacks in “bang bang” it makes up for in bucket loads of information on just how difficult the situation is; both for the Afghani locals and the forces trying to bring back a normality of life to a place which in recent history has only suffered war.


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