Podcast appearances and mentions of david hurn

Roger Hutchings is an award-winning British documentary photographer who was mentored by the Magnum photographer David Hurn. Today he talks of a life spent making pictures about people and how they navigate their lives in the most extraordinary of situations. Also on the show today, your comments and letters: we revisit a letter from last week where Tony Lorenzo went about some pretty impressive detective work to find the identity of a mystery girl in a vintage photograph, two walks and a cycle ride that have helped to bring 2023 to a more positive conclusion and what's lurking in the clear Canadian depths of Lake Simcoe? Links to all guests and features will be on the SHOW PAGE as always and my sincere thanks to mpb.com who sponsor this show and the Extra Milers without whom we wouldn't be walking each week.

Thank you for listening to The Exposed Negative Podcast. Running this podcast takes a lot of time and effort, and we hope you have found it helpful and interesting. If you would like to support us by buying us a beer or coffee, or by helping with the running costs of the show, we would greatly appreciate it. Please consider signing up for our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exposednegati...) or making a one-time donation through PayPal (https://www.paypal.me/exposednegative).  Thank you for your support! Below are the show notes. Mola light modifiers: https://www.mola-light.com/ United Nations of Photography: https://unitednationsofphotography.com/category/audio-2/podcasts-a-photographic-life/ Miles Aldrige: https://milesaldridge.com/ Platon: http://www.platonphoto.com/ Jake Chessum: https://jakechessum.com/ Mark Mattock: https://www.instagram.com/mark_mattock/?hl=en Oliviero Toscani: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliviero_Toscani William Klein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Klein_(photographer) Don McCullin: https://donmccullin.com/don-mccullin/ Bruce Webber: http://www.bruceweber.com/ Herb Ritts: https://www.herbritts.com/ Helmut Newton: https://helmut-newton-foundation.org/en/ Corrine Day: https://www.corinneday.com/home/ Leonard Freed: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/leonard-freed/ John Swannell: http://www.johnswannell.com/about-john-swannell/ Terry O'Neil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_O'Neill_(photographer) Edward Westons Day Books: https://amzn.to/3VG8Jc7 Russell Miller, Magnum book: https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/russell-miller/magnum/9780436203732?cq_src=google_ads&cq_cmp=18059580451&cq_con=&cq_med=pla&cq_plac=&cq_net=x#GOR003449848 David Eustice: https://www.davideustace.com/ Dennis Stock James Dean photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/cinema/james-dean-photographed-by-dennis-stock/ Frank Ockenfels III: https://fwo3.com/ On being a photographer: Bill Jay and David Hurn: https://amzn.to/42qGLU0 Landry Major episode of a Photographic Life: https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2023/03/08/podcast-a-photographic-life-episode-plus-photographer-landry-major/ Daniel Meadows the Ten rules of being a photographer: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-photographic-life-121-plus-daniel-meadows/id1380344701?i=1000488539660 Bill Jay film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU And the website for the film is www.donotbendfilm.com A photographic Life on twitter: https://twitter.com/PhotoLifePod A photographic Life on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/photolifepod/ Desert Island Camera iPhone Desert Island Book The Best of Life magazine: https://amzn.to/44yxIlU

In this special episode the first of an irregular series of talks with non-photographers involved with photography, Grant Scott speaks with founder/curator/artist/publisher Craig Atkinson about his publishing project Cafe Royal Books. They discuss the pressures of the long form project, publishing decisions, marketing and the impact Cafe Royal Books has had on British documentary photography. Craig Atkinson/Cafe Royal Books Based in Southport, England, Craig Atkinson is a senior lecturer and researcher at the University of Central Lancashire. He founded Café Royal Books in 2005 and new booklets are published frequently, typically one per week and in short runs of 250 copies which are sold both directly and through bookshops in the UK, Europe, USA, Australia, Japan, Canada and Switzerland. The booklets have a consistent print quality, paper and layout, laid out to a grid system, of usually 36 pages in length, slightly under A5 size and predominantly black & white and affordable. The booklets predominantly document social, historical and cultural change, including themes of youth, leisure, music, protest, race, religion, industry, identity, architecture and fashion, using both previously unpublished work and photographs from archives. It has published work by over 100 photographers, including John Benton-Harris, John Bulmer, John Claridge, John Deakin, Ken Grant, David Hurn, Chris Killip, Daniel Meadows, Tish Murtha, Jim Mortram, Martin Parr, Simon Roberts, Homer Sykes, Ed Templeton, Arthur Tress Janine Wiedel and Grant. In 2022 Café Royal Books held a retrospective exhibition titled Café Royal Books, Documentary, Zines and Subversion of 500 publications and 127 prints of work from those books at the Martin Parr Foundation. www.caferoyalbooks.com Dr.Grant Scott After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby's, art directed foto8magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor. Scott is the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019), and What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) and Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018. Dr. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was first screened in 2018 www.donotbendfilm.com. He is the presenter of the A Photographic Life and In Search of Bill Jay podcasts. © Grant Scott 2023

In episode 2 of this new podcast series Grant Scott continues his search for Bill Jay and hears from photographers Homer Sykes, and Martin Parr, as he tracks Jay's career from school to magazines and the influence of David Hurn and Tony Ray Jones on Jay and his editorship of Creative Camera magazine. Bill Jay was a photographer, writer on and advocate of photography, curator, magazine and picture editor, lecturer, public speaker and mentor. He was the first editor of "the immensely influential magazine Creative Camera and founder and editor of Album magazine. He is the author of more than 20 books on the history and criticism of photography, and roughly 400 essays, lectures and articles. His own photographs have been widely published, including a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is also known for his portrait photographs of photographers. www.donotbendfilm.com Dr. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). © Grant Scott 2022

In episode 1 of this new podcast series Grant Scott begins his search for Bill Jay and hears from photographers John Benton Harris, Patrick Ward, David Hurn, Bryn Campbell, Homer Sykes, Brian Griffin, Martin Parr, Paul Hill and Bill's sister Sue Jay. He even hears Bill's side of the story. Bill Jay was a photographer, writer on and advocate of photography, curator, magazine and picture editor, lecturer, public speaker and mentor. He was the first editor of "the immensely influential magazine"Creative Camera and founder and editor of Album magazine. He is the author of more than 20 books on the history and criticism of photography, and roughly 400 essays, lectures and articles. His own photographs have been widely published, including a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is also known for his portrait photographs of photographers. www.donotbendfilm.com

Paul Reas is a British social documentary photographer and educator, born in Bradford in the north of England in 1955. Until he recent retirement, Paul was the Course Leader of the Documentary Photography course (established by Magnum photographer David Hurn) at the University of South Wales in Cardiff, UK. He has worked commercially and editorially for many years and publishes and exhibits work internationally.Paul is perhaps best known for photographing consumerism and various aspects of daily working class life in Britain, especially during the 1980s and 1990s and is a member of a group of hugely influential photographers commonly referred to as the second wave of British colour documentarists.Paul has produced the books I Can Help (1988), Flogging a Dead Horse: Heritage Culture and Its Role in Post-industrial Britain (1993) and Fables of Faubus (2018). He has had solo exhibitions at The Photographers' Gallery and London College of Communication, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester; and Impressions Gallery, Bradford. His work is held in the collection of the British Council and he is represented by the James Hyman Gallery in London.On episode 164, Paul discusses, among other things:Thoughts on retirement.Being politically motivated during the Thatcher years.Creativity sometimes being finite.How he has started to paint and why he paints photographs.Reflections on the future for documentary photography.His life-long lack of confidence.His father and learning about his WW2 trauma.How his love of Northern Soul sparked an interest in photography.Why from the start he photographed what he knew and what felt familiar.The Valleys Project.I Can Help.Criticism of the portrayal of working class life.Flogging A Dead Horse.Referenced:Andy SimpsonEileen Gibson CowanIan WalkerRon McCormickJohn DaviesPaul GrahamMartin ParrCharlie MeechamBob PhilipsJem SouthamWebsite | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook“Although I was photographing people, I never really think about my photographs as being totally about people. They're about the systems that we're all subjected to. Whether it's consumerism or unempolyment or whatever, they try to be about those bigger themes. ”

Felix Kunze has found a way to marry his passions with his art. His masterful use of lighting helps him to create dynamic portraits of people in extreme or exaggerated situations. Lately he's been spending time photographing the explorers, scientists, and adventurers who are looking for ways to move the world forward.   Listen as we discuss why he's so passionate about lighting, how he gains new clients, and what he's looking forward to in the rest of 2021. This was an amazing conversation with a true master of lighting and portraiture and speaks to the need of following your passion to find your success.    Don't forget to check out his free training, The Lighting Series, and join his group!    Links and Resources:  On Photography with Susan Sontag On Being a Photography by David Hurn and Bill Jay The Explorer's Club   Connect with Felix:  Felix's Website Felix on Instagram Felix on YouTube The Lighting Series Felix's Facebook Group   Connect with Adam:  Adam's Website Adam on Instagram Adam on Facebook The Bearded Tog on YouTube The Bearded Tog Patreon Group Download the Wedding Guide Template   Monthly Workshops

Mullins is having teething problems in 'New Bunker Malmesbury' and Boxgate continues. We talk about leaf shutters and why they’re not in our X-Ts and Ps, how an X100S deals with being sent to the bottom of a swimming pool, Mullins’ decision to upsize during a pandemic and we have news of an upcoming Kev and Neale documentary wedding workshop. Questions about the term ‘weekend warriors,’ two tier sensor cameras, the rights required for selling photos made at a music concert and a thought about company names. This week’s book of the week is ’The 1960s’ by David Hurn and he’s also our guest.

HT0682 - Bill Jay's Photography Bill Jay would often tell the story of his failure as a photographer and how that led to a life in writing and teaching photography. It all began when he met David Hurn. For those who haven't heard it, let me share it with you.

Two new audio conversations on photobooks from Wales…I hope you had a relaxing Christmas - it may well go down as one of the strangest.As Hogmanay and 2021 are almost upon us, this Newsletter’s discussions on photography books from Wales (that extend the titles covered in issue #005 of the printed Offline Journal) continue with one featured here and another in a special Newsletter coming on New Years Day.Keep an eye on your email inbox on 1st January! Police Kicking Kids Collective & their new ZineBrian Carroll and Gareth Phillips talk with an interesting new photographer Collective comprising eleven students from the Documentary Photography course at the University of South Wales - listen to the audio clip above.Taking inspiration for their name from a quote by Tish Murtha who studied with David Hurn on the same course back in the 1980's, three members - Laurie Broughton, Ross Gardner and Nate Davies - discuss forming the Collective, its intended approach to making work and producing their first photo zine during Covid Lockdown in 2020.Check out their website at www.policekickingkids.com to purchase a copy of the new 72-page zine.And follow the Collective’s progress on their Instagram feed: @police.kicking.kidsPKK members are: Laurie Broughton, Ross Gardner, Nate Davies, Alice Durham, Tom Cronin, Teifi Davies, Sam Hunter, Tanya McGeever, Johan Buch, Curtis Hughes and Steve Bell.Subscribers to this Newsletter can leave comments (and I encourage them to do so!) to express their views and ideas around photography to hopefully stimulate further constructive and supportive discussion with others.Basic community guidelines: be active and supportive where possible in feedback and discussion threads, be respectful of others, avoid profanity - abusive and disrespectful behaviour will result in being immediately unsubscribed from the Newsletter. Simple.This Offline Journal Newsletter is published monthly online to offer the wider photography community an opportunity to discuss photography in, from and of Wales. Back Issues of and Subscriptions to the limited edition Offline Journal in print (published every April & October) with special print supplements are available via www.offline.walesI respect your privacy. You have received this Offline Newsletter because you provided your email address when purchasing a past issue issue of Offline Journal or you subscribed directly (thanks). If you would prefer not to receive future Offline Newsletters like this or participate in its community discussions, just click the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of this page. (Thanks again either way!)If you would prefer to read this and previous posts in your web browser, click here.If you came to the Newsletter via a link and haven’t yet subscribed, do the business with the button below! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit offlinejournal.substack.com

In episode 121 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering photographic ethics, common decency, empathy, inclusion and the importance of rules and knowing when to break them.  Plus this week photographer Daniel Meadows takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Daniel Meadows is an English photographer born in 1952. Meadows studied at Manchester Polytechnic. While a student he was inspired by a lecture by Bill Jay and rented a barber's in 1972, inviting people to come into the Free Photographic Shop to have their photographs taken for no charge. Inspired by what Jay had said about Benjamin Stone's travel around Britain, and for 14 months from 1973 he travelled around England in the Free Photographic Omnibus. Some of this work was published in Meadows' first book, Living Like This, 1975. Meadows went on to photograph the northwest of England and Factory Records in the 1970s and in the 1980s to study the people of a middle-class London suburb of Bromley the latter published as Nattering in Paradise. In 1983 David Hurn invited him to help teach the Documentary Photography course at Newport College of Art and Design. From 1994 he has taught at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. From 2001 to 2006 Meadows was creative director of Capture Wales, a BBC Wales project. The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford acquired his archive in March 2018. In autumn 2019, the Bodleian celebrated the acquisition with an exhibition of Meadows' work, Now and Then, accompanied by a book. www.photobus.co.uk You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life and Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Taylor Francis 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Taylor Francis 2019). His next book What Does Photography Mean to You? will be published in 2021. His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s. © Grant Scott 2020

With four issues of Offline Journal now published since its launch in October 2018, I thought it might interest people to learn the story of each cover image: the where, when, what and why of each photograph described, when possible, by the photographer. In this new ‘Covered’ series - available here on the Newsletter - I’ve asked photographers to put themselves through the torture of recording their cover stories. To kick things off, Listen to Rob Law’s story behind his Offline Journal issue #004 cover in the audio clip at the top of this page.Photography Online - lots of inspiration!I had hoped to get this Newsletter out last weekend but distractions abound - even in lockdown it seems!The ongoing Covid-19 lockdown here in Wales and around the world has stimulated creative ways for many to stay engaged with photography. Many thousands of enthusiasts and professionals alike are finding new and some not-so-new routes to create and share projects indoors and also connect with others to learn more about photography through online talks and group video discussions.It’s interesting to note how some photography institutions and galleries currently closed in the Covid-19 crisis have been compelled to adapt their normal marketing and communication efforts. It will be interesting to see if and how these positive activities - appreciated by the seemingly vast numbers engaging with them - might continue when some form of normality returns. Wales should also embrace this opportunity to share its own talent with the wider photography world going forward.I thought I’d share a few that interested me and had me engaged…Photography from Isolation to Communication - ICPBased in New York, The International Centre of Photography (ICP) ran a series titled ‘Photography from Isolation to Communication’ with David Campany - the respected photography writer and curator.Costing $35 in total, his three sessions - delivered via Zoom (from what appeared to be his kitchen table!) - ran over consecutive evenings 15-17 April with roughly 300 participants watching and posting questions:Session 1. Collaboration in IsolationSession 2. Photobook EditingSession 3. The Photographer-WriterAlthough ended, you can read the outline topics covered by Campany on the event page here.I’m sure we’ll see more of these from ICP: $35 x 300 = $10,500.00 (from a kitchen table) - but well worth it when you have a quality speaker!Keep an eye on their website.Mack LiveSpecialist UK Photobook publisher Mack Books were very quick to react to the lockdown and have been hosting a new ‘Mack Live’ series of videos since late March with photographers and curators discussing photobooks. The recent ‘Alec Soth Bookshelf Tour’ video is a fascinating insight on this Magnum photographer as photobook collector: his diverse taste in photography and how and where it’s published in book form. One of my favourite parts has him showing a strange, run of the mill and mass-produced American cookery book titled ‘White Trash Cooking’ at 25:12 on the video - then revealing pseudo-William Eggleston photography included in the centre pages.You can watch the Alec Soth video and others in the ongoing series at https://mackbooks.co.uk/pages/liveMagnum Quarantine ConversationsCreative thinking is emerging from Magnum Photos in the form of pairing up its member photographers by drawing two names from a hat and having them discuss their work and approach in online video conversations. These are really quite inspiring - particularly when you consider the calibre and experience of the individuals taking part. Two of the series had me rewinding and relistening to parts of the respective discussions: Richard Kalvar & Jérôme Sessini discussing conflict photography, fear, and invulnerability; and Lua Ribeira & Susan Meiselas exploring collaboration, intuition, the importance of rich archives and how photographing revolution helped Susan understand the structures of power.I really hope Magnum continue with this series of random pairings for very unique conversations. You can watch them now at www.magnumphotos.com/theme/quarantine-conversationsDavid HurnOn the subject of Magnum photographers, Wales’ own David Hurn continues to demonstrate a seemingly unbounded enthusiasm for experimentation and making photographs despite his Covid-19 confinement. As the screenshot above (shown here with permission) demonstrates, he has set himself a brief to photograph his cottage as though working for an Estate Agent! Sounds easy but actually very challenging! If you don’t follow his Instagram feed (his only online presence away from the Magnum website) his weekly posts are worth browsing through as they form a visual journal on photography, life and memories.David’s text in the above post also has a complimentary mention for Offline Journal and the new Valleys book by Paul Cabuts coming in the next few weeks - read his Instagram post here.Ffoton LivestreamAlso in Wales, Ffoton has started experimenting with livestreaming these last few weeks with a new series of live conversations with photographers - each lasting approximately 30 minutes with questions from the online audience enabled via live chat. The first two talks were photographers who’ve had their work featured on Offline Journal covers - Matt Eynon on issue #002 and Nick Wynne on issue #003 - and the latest conversation with Rhodri Jones (based in Bologna, Italy) is well worth watching on the Ffoton YouTube channel.Issue #005 of Offline Journal now underwayWith the latest issue of Offline Journal now in the hands of subscribers and many others who have purchased a copy online, work has now started on issue #005 to be published in October. To help realise some very unique articles I’m delighted to welcome Ellie Hopkins as co-editor of issue #005. Many will be aware that Ellie has been a contributing writer in the first four issues and I’m looking forward to having her creative input help mould the next one.Subscription - supporting Offline in uncertain timesIt has been interesting to experience first-hand how the seemingly predictable process of printing and distributing a small printed publication can be knocked sideways through the disruption caused by a public health emergency. Printers can print, but only if their paper and ink suppliers can make deliveries and their own presses be manned. As things turned out, Offline Journal was printed with just over a week’s delay - so no big deal really.The most frustrating but uncontrolable impact on the latest issue is the loss of physical outlets (six of which had been secured for issue #004 and were prepared to take #005) but are currently closed due to social distancing measures. Had they been open as normal, this latest issue might have sold all 150 copies.Modern technology has transformed both photography and publishing. The benefits of digital assets, fast file transfers over broadband and digital printing allow flexibility in types and quantities of materials printed - such as my own self-imposed print run of 150 copies of Offline Journal’s first four issues. I considered this a reasonably low target that might see all copies sold in the six month period between issues and, as a result, the Journal would cover its own production, print and associated costs.Offline Journal would not exist without the enthusiastic support of talented contributors - the photographers and writers who have worked with me on the Journal in these early days and share a desire to develop a publication dedicated to photography in and from Wales. These wonderful people have donated their talents and enthusiasm thus far in exchange for free copies of the Journal or beer (a couple of tough-nuts have haggled for both). Going forward, I’d like to offer contributors a small recompense for inclusion of their images and writing but that can only happen if Offline Journal increases its print run and gains more subscribers, with particular emphasis on the latter.If you have renewed your subscription for the next two issues - I thank you sincerely.If you have been supporting Offline through purchasing single issues up until now, my thanks again and I’d ask you to now consider also receiving the special printed supplements that accompany subscriber issues. I’ve had overwhelmingly positive comments on both the Offline Essays and the Indie exhibition posters that accompanied Ron McCormick’s ‘How Green was my Valley’ and David Hurn’s ‘Ynyshir: 25 Mile Radius’ exhibitions (the limited edition ‘Ynyshir’ poster will accompany issue #005 for subscribers in October).You can support Offline Journal’s future issues in these uncertain times by subscribing via the link below. My thanks in advance! Brianofflinejournal.bigcartel.comNewsletter © Brian Carroll 2020Subscribers to this Newsletter can leave comments (and I encourage them to do so!) to express their views and ideas around photography to hopefully stimulate further constructive and supportive discussion with others.Basic community guidelines: be active and supportive where possible in feedback and discussion threads, be respectful of others, avoid profanity - abusive and disrespectful behaviour will result in being immediately unsubscribed from the Newsletter. Simple.Offline Journal Newsletter is usually published every first and third Sunday each month to offer the wider photography community an opportunity to discuss photography in, from and of Wales.Back Issues of and Subscriptions to the limited edition printed Offline Journal (published every April & October) available via www.offline.wales===I respect your privacy.You have received this Offline Newsletter because you provided your email address when purchasing a past issue issue of Offline Journal or you subscribed directly. If you would prefer not to receive future Offline Newsletters like this or participate in its community discussions, just click the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of this page.(Thanks again either way! - Brian)If you’d prefer to read this and previous posts on the website, click here.If you haven’t yet subscribed, do the business with the button below! This is a public episode. 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Whats it like to live in a small traditional community? Documentary photographer, Emma Drabble tells us about her fantastic Gwent Living Levels Project. About life under the Severn Bridge. Plus what happens then you have to photograph a Magnum Photographer?Keep in touch with Talking Shot Podcast updates and new episodes by subscribing to our Podcast on your favourite Podcast App. We'd love to hear your suggestions or wishes for future guests.Website: http://www.talkingshot.co.ukTwitter: @talkingshotpodInstagram: @talkingshotFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/talkingshot/Our guests views are their own, and may not be those of the Talking Shot team.Recommended Podcasts:He Shoots He DrawsMastering Portrait PhotographyPPN - Photography Podcast NetworkRecommended by The British Institute of Professional Photographers.

In episode 86 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering perceptions of creativity within photography, how the past ten years has impacted photography and the opportunities that technology has given us to tell visual stories and communicate. Plus this week photographer Homer Sykes takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' If you want to hear more about Homer's friendship with Bill Jay mentioned in this episode and find out why and how Bill Jay was one of the most important people in the evolution of British photography at the end of the 20th Century you can by watching our feature length documentary on Jay's life featuring Homer, Martin Parr, Ralph Gibson, Paul Hill, Anna Ray-Jones, David Hurn, Alex Webb, Brian Griffin and Daniel Meadows here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU www.donotbendfilm.com You can read the review of Grant's latest book by Cary Benbow here www.fstopmagazine.com/blog/2019/12/book-review-new-ways-of-seeing-the-democratic-language-of-photography-by-grant-scott/ Homer Sykes was born in 1949 and is a Canadian-born British documentary photographer. He was a keen photographer as a teenager, with a darkroom both at home and at boarding school. In 1968 he started a three-year course at the London College of Printing (LCP), and during his first year, went to New York, where he was impressed by the work of photographers - Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Burk Uzzle and Garry Winogrand — that he saw at the Museum of Modern Art. Whilst considering a new photographic project at college, Sykes came across a story on the Britannia Coconut Dancers in an issue of In Britain magazine. This led him to research other local festivals in Britain at the archives of Cecil Sharp House, London. Sykes' photography of these festivals was inspired by that of Sir Benjamin Stone, but he approached them with a modern sensibility and a small-format camera, after absorbing advice from photographer David Hurn, then a part-time lecturer at LCP, as well as other photographers that he met through Hurn, including editor and writer Bill Jay. Sykes moved on to photographing news stories for the Weekend Telegraph, Observer, Sunday Times, Newsweek, Now, Time, and New Society. He worked with various agencies including from 1989 to 2005 with the influential Network Photographers. Sykes also photographed the British landscape for various books but always found time for his own projects including Hunting with Hounds, and On the Road Again, photographs of four North American road trips taken over three decades. Sykes has taught on the Master's course in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication and in 2014, the Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau, Paris, held a major exhibition of Sykes' work from the 1970s. He photographed the glam rock, punk, new wave and other music/fashion scenes of Britain and his work has been consistently published as a series of short narratives by Cafe Royal Books and as a major monograph My British Archive: The Way We Were 1968-1983 by Dewis Lewis in 2018. Homer continues to document the British way of life today and lives in South-West London. www.homersykes.com Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His next book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019. © Grant Scott 2019

Photographer, documentarian and digital storyteller Daniel Meadows (b. 1952) has spent a lifetime recording British society, challenging the status quo by working in a collaborative way to capture extraordinary aspects of ordinary life through pictures, audio recordings and short movies.He is best known for his 1973-74 journey around England in the Free Photographic Omnibus when he travelled 10,000 miles in a converted double-decker and made 958 portraits in "free studio" sessions on the streets of 22 different British towns and cities. This is a project he revisited in the 1990s, photographing again some of the subjects of those portraits for his widely published series National Portraits: Now & Then.His pioneering community storytelling project BBC Capture Wales (2001-08) encouraged many hundreds of people across Wales to embrace the arrival of the digital age in pop-up workshops by making their own two minutes of TV, framing their memories and pictures into digital stories, "multimedia sonnets from the people". Capture Wales won a BAFTA Cymru in 2002.Daniel taught the documentary photography course with David Hurn in Newport (1983-94); also photojournalism (1994-2001) and digital storytelling (2000-2012) at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies where he also completed his PhD in 2005. In the 1990s he taught photojournalism workshops in the emerging democracies of eastern Europe, also in India and Bangladesh. After 2000 he travelled repeatedly to Australia and the USA lecturing about his pioneering work in participatory media.His photographs and (more recently) his short films have been exhibited widely both in the UK and on the continent of Europe. Solo shows include the ICA London (1975), The Photographers' Gallery London (1987) and the National Media Museum Bradford (2011). His books include: Living Like This – Around Britain in the Seventies (1975,) Nattering In Paradise – A Word from the Suburbs (1987), National Portraits – Photographs from the 1970s (1997), and The Bus – The Free Photographic Omnibus 1973-2001 (2001).A detailed and scholarly overview of Daniel’s early work, Daniel Meadows: Edited Photographs from the 70s and 80s by Val Williams, was published in 2011.His photo-essays done in the industrial north of England in the 1970s are celebrated in the Café Royal Books boxed set edition Eight Stories (2015).The Daniel Meadows Archive was acquired in March 2018 by the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, where there is an exhibition of Daniel’s work entitled Daniel Meadows: Now and Then until November 24th this year, and the accompanying book, Now And Then: England 1970 - 2015, was recently published by the Bodleian. On episode 116, Daniel discusses, among other things:- His show at the Bodleian library and how they acquired his entire archive.- His formative experience of boarding school.- Being taught the science of photography at Manchester Poly. And meeting Martin Parr there.- HIs Greame Street project.- Photographing Butlins holiday camp with his friend, Martin Parr - and starting to shoot colour.- The June Street project, also with Martin Parr.- His love for digital storytelling and a loathing for ‘antisocial media’.Memories of his English road trip by double decker bus and of finding some of the people he photographed 25 years later.- Always thinking his work was 'rubbish' and not feeling a success. Referenced:Pete JamesVal WilliamsColin FordTracey MarshallBill BrandtMartin ParrBrian GriffinGarry WinograndDiane ArbusBBC Omnibus documentary Beautiful, Beautiful (1969)Bruce DavidsonIrving PennPaul TrevorCliff Richard Summer HolidayWilliam EgglestonCraig Atkinson’s Cafe Royal Books Website | Instagram | Facebook“I spent a lot of my life wishing that I’d taken pictures like Cartier-Bresson or Diane Arbus or Bill Brandt. And it took me a long while to learn that I’d actually taken pictures like Daniel Meadows.”

In this first English episode of our PicDrop Podcast Andreas met none other than the famous documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos David Hurn. They talked about David's understanding of photography, what makes Magnum special to him, how the situation of a “man buying his wife a hat” influenced his enormous photographic career and how he likes to surround himself with “do-ers” rather than “talkers”.

In this first of a three part Ffoton conversation, influential photographer and educator Ron McCormick talks with guest interviewer and former student Paul Reas. Photographer Ron McCormick in conversation with Paul Reas. Hailing from Liverpool, Ron McCormick moved to Wales in the mid 1970's to teach with David Hurn in Newport.

Paul Reas is a photographer highly regarded for his social documentary and advertising work in Britain in the 1980’s and 90’s and an important name in the new wave of Colour photography of that period along with others such as Anna Fox and Martin Parr. With many exhibitions, awards and books to his name - the latest being his retrospective monograph ‘Fables of Faubus’, Paul is also course leader of the respected documentary photography course at the University of South Wales, established in Newport by David Hurn in the early 1970’s - Ffoton are delighted to bring the long-time friends together for this special conversation on Paul’s career and work.

Poet/Songwriter/Singer artist Ingrid Chavez (www.ingridchavez.com) announces that her new single, “All the Love in the World,” will be released on February 14, 2019." “All the Love in the World,” is a deep winter track inspired by a friend who was coming out of an abusive relationship." stated Chavez. I wanted to remind them that they are beautiful and to not to give up on the poetry of love. Ingrid Chavez is taking flight anew with captivating intimacy. In new intriguing collaborations with Charles Webster, Ganga, Mashti, Deep Dive Corp., Marco Valentin, and David Hurn. Her new solo album "Memories Of Flying," invites a soulful sojourn for listeners to spread their wings along with her. "Memories of Flying," soars above a soundscape of spoken-word, dripset vibes, and electronic majesty. Chavez is perhaps best known for her diverse and innovative international collaborations that include Prince, Lenny Kravitz, David Sylvian, Madonna and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Memories of Flying worldwide album release date 5/17/19. Pre-order available 2/14/19 on all digital media outlets. #  "Memories Of Flying,” invites a soulful sojourn for listeners to spread their wings along with her. Chavez is perhaps best known for her diverse and innovative international collaborations that include Prince, Lenny Kravitz, David Sylvian, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. 

In episode 18 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering memory in photography, the practice of photographers swapping prints, printing your family photographs, and the David Hurn exhibition at the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol. Plus this week photographer Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert grew up in Scotland, where on his 13th birthday he received the gift of a camera. A few years later he began working as a UK based freelance photographer for editorial, corporate and NGO clients. His work has appeared in magazines such as Time, National Geographic, Italian Geo, Le Figaro, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and many others. For the past decade Jeremy has been one of the principal photographers for Greenpeace International. Recently based in Japan, he has now relocated back to his home country of Scotland. His work has taken him to over 100 countries, from Antarctica to Outer Mongolia. His personal and commissioned work, has been recognised through a number of photojournalism awards, and he has been widely published and exhibited in Europe and in the USA. https://jeremysuttonhibbert.com You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto and on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer in Professional Photography at the University of Gloucestershire, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His next book #New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in January 2019. His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay will be screened across the UK and the US in 2018. © Grant Scott 2018

We went along this weekend to The Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol for the premiere screening of the new Do Not Bend film on the life and influence of photography writer, educator and maverick Bill Jay - and a full day of fantastic talks from influential photographers making work in the UK during the 1970's.The premiere screening last night (Friday 20th April) at The Martin Parr Foundation had a packed house and those attending weren't disappointed. Co-producers Grant Scott and Tim Pellatt created a very informative and touching tribute to Bill Jay - respected by many photographers and students in the UK where he was first editor of the influential Creative Camera magazine which ran from 1968–1969 before founding and editing twelve issues of the equally respected Album magazine from 1970-1971. Jay then moved to America in 1972 and founded the Photographic Studies program at Arizona State University, where he was professor of art history and taught photography history and criticism for 25 years.To a wider community of photography enthusiasts, Bill Jay will be remembered as co-author with long-time close friend David Hurn on their popular book On Being a Photographer, first published in 1997 and still in print.Ffoton's Brian Carroll caught up with Grant Scott to hear about the inspiration for making the film and his response to the audience reaction at the Premiere screening. Listen below... View fullsize Conversations between presentation sessions at The Martin Parr Foundation. © Brian Carroll View fullsize A lovely moment of mutual respect: photographers and old friends Markéta Luskačová and David Hurn catch up after many years. © Brian Carroll The following day (Saturday 22nd April) was packed with talks from influential photographers working in the UK during the 1970's; with the programme consisting of...John MyersMyers was shooting a mixture of portraits and urban landscapes in the Birmingham area in the 1970s in a project called ‘Middle England.’ He is currently working with RRB Photobooks to publish his full archive and their first book together, titled ‘The Portraits’, will be launched on the 21st April to coincide with Myers’ talk.Markéta Luskačová in conversation with Ken GrantLuskačová has lived in London for almost 45 years and photographed in the East End in the 1970s. This work culminated in a show at the Whitechapel Gallery.Peter MitchellMitchell’s landmark colour exhibition ‘A New Refutation of the Viking 4 Mission’ was shown in 1979 at the Impressions Gallery, York. Peter will discuss the ideas and concepts behind this and his other bodies of work.Sirkka-Liisa KonttinenFinnish photographer Konttinen has lived and worked in the Newcastle area for nearly 50 years and is a co-founder of the Amber collective. She will talk about her Byker work from the 1970s which was recently acquired and shown by the Tate Modern. More recently Sirkka returned to Byker and photographed the new estate and it’s inhabitants that replaced the original community for her project Byker Revisited.David Hurn in conversation with Martin ParrHurn was a pivotal figure of this decade, working both as a fashion photographer and photojournalist. At the time, his London flat was almost regarded as the creative hub of British photography. He will be in conversation with Martin Parr. David Hurn in conversation with Martin Parr in the final session. Hurn had the audience entranced (and often in stitched with laughter) with his anecdotes, views and trademark frankness. © Brian Carroll

Ffoton talks with photographer, and UK champion of Digital Storytelling, Daniel Meadows. A fellow student at Manchester Poly and close friend of Martin Parr, Daniel is highly repected for his social documentary work across the UK in the 1970-80's and as a teacher at both David Hurn's original Newport course from 1983 and at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies for several yeard from 1994. Meadows has an important place in the development of photography and Digital Storytelling in Wales and Ffoton were delighted to capture a fantastic conversation with him.

Our audio recording of photographer David Hurn giving his special talk his photography at the Aberfan Disaster at the National Museum Cardiff on 2nd September 2016.

Second of two parts. Ffoton Wales in conversation with the highly respected Wales-based Magnum photographer David Hurn. Born in England but brought up in Wales, David Hurn is one of two critically important Magnum Photo members hailing from Wales: the other being Philip Jones Griffiths. In this final part of a special conversation to mark Ffoton Wales entering its second year, we discuss Magnum Photo; Hurn's role in establishing and running the Documentary Photography course in Newport and why he felt he had to part company; the formation of Ffotogallery in Wales and why Hurn feels it has lost its way; and reflecting back on his career as a photographer. In part one of our conversation we discuss Hurn's route into photography from an early career in the Army, the areas of photography and photographers that interest him - from the 1960's to present day - and the lasting impact of the 1966 Aberfan tragedy that Hurn's photographs recorded graphically but sensitively.

Part one of two. Ffoton Wales in conversation with the highly respected Wales-based Magnum photographer David Hurn. Born in England but brought up in Wales, David Hurn is one of two critically important Magnum Photo members hailing from Wales: the other being Philip Jones Griffiths. In this special conversation to mark Ffoton Wales entering its second year, we discuss Hurn's route into photography from an early career in the Army, the areas of photography and photographers that interest him - from the 1960's to present day - and the lasting impact of the 1966 Aberfan tragedy that Hurn's photographs recorded graphically but sensitively. In the second part of our conversation we discuss Magnum Photo; Hurn's role in establishing and running the Documentary Photography course in Newport and why he felt he had to part company; the formation of Ffotogallery in Wales and why Hurn feels it has lost its way; and reflecting back on his career as a photographer.

The alumni of Newport's photography courses include some of the key figures in contemporary photography. The exhibition at the City Campus was primarily focused on the period between 1973, when David Hurn established the acclaimed Documentary Photography course, and the present day. The 2013 exhibition celebrated the significant influence Newport has had on the world of photography. For more, visit the website http://100yearsofphotography.newport.ac.uk

This podcast discusses the book "On Looking at Photographs: A Practical Guide" by David Hurn and Bill Jay. The book is published by Lenswork Publishing and provides some great insights on how to look at , or read, a photograph (which hopefully in turn helps us as photographers make better photographs).