Lady Clementina Hawarden
Lady Clementina Hawarden started to experiment with photography around 1857, by 1865 she was dead. She died aged 42 from pneumonia,...
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Mark Cator
Jun 3, 2019
Harry Callahan
“I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth...
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Mark Cator
May 27, 2019
Nicholas Nixon
"For me the print is what matters most. Generally the biggest possible negative has the most clarity, presence and believability. Because...
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Mark Cator
May 20, 2019
Childhood
I'm currently reading The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy. His writing transcends the experiential into a world of thoughts that range...
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Mark Cator
May 13, 2019
Childhood
The birth of an idea is predicated by a passion to observe and there is no better place to observe than one's own children. The child and...
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Mark Cator
May 6, 2019
Childhood, Utter Journal Issue 2
I've been working on the scanning, developing and collating of images for issue 2 of Utter Journal, out on July 6th, The issue will be...
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Mark Cator
Apr 29, 2019
Childhood, Utter Journal Issue 2
I've been getting to grips with the next issue of Utter Journal which comes out on the 6th July and focuses on childhood. It's a body of...
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Mark Cator
Apr 22, 2019
Isabel and Ben
"Placing the Romantic child under the aegis of the mother altered its meanings. The best and most important example of that...
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Mark Cator
Apr 15, 2019
Alesandra Sanguinetti
I saw the work of Argentinian born Alesandra Sanguinetti at The Body Observed exhibition, showing at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual...
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Mark Cator
Apr 8, 2019
Anna Claren
"We photograph everything for our photo albums: family images that take on a central importance in our lives ... The pictures become...
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Mark Cator
Apr 1, 2019
Francesco Paulo Michetti
With photography, "I stole from nature more than a secret," as Michetti put it, so much so that it gave me "a new vision of art and...
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Mark Cator
Mar 25, 2019
Maria Dupovkina
Maria Dupovkina's photographic odyssey into understanding the self, or her self, is this emotional typology of the body and mind. Few of...
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Mark Cator
Mar 18, 2019
Mark Ruwedel
Mark Ruwedel is one of the four photographers nominated for this years' Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize. He was born in 1955...
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Mark Cator
Mar 11, 2019
Jacob Holdt
Jacob Holdt travelled across the United States between 1970-1975 chronicling an America that seemed to be falling apart at the seams. His...
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Mark cator
Mar 4, 2019
Ed van der Elsken
His imagery provides quotidian, intimate and autobiographic perspectives on the European zeitgeist spanning the period of the Second...
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Mark Cator
Feb 25, 2019
Chris Killip
The Isle of Man, A Book About The Manx, published by the Arts Council of England in 1980, was the first time I came across the...
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Mark Cator
Feb 18, 2019
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
For all his adult life Ralph Eugene Meatyard worked in Lexington, Kentucky, as an optician making lenses for glasses. Born in 1925, he...
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Mark Cator
Feb 11, 2019
Pierre Bonnard
I spent an hour in front of Pierre Bonnard’s painting, The Dining Room in Vernon, 1925, currently on display at the Tate Modern in...
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Mark Cator
Feb 4, 2019
Mark Steinmetz
Another great book, published last year by Stanley/Barker, was Past K-Ville by Mark Steinmetz. His is a quiet aesthetic and deeply...
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Mark Cator
Jan 28, 2019
Bernard Plossu
I first came across Plossu's work in a huge catalogue, beautifully published in 1997 by the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno. I was...
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Mark Cator
Jan 21, 2019
Shoji Ueda
There's a quiet solitude about Ueda's photographs, almost luminous in their stillness and resonating with a surety that needs to show us,...
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Mark Cator
Jan 14, 2019
Joel Meyerowitz, Where I Find Myself
From the local library I took out a recently published retrospective on Joel Meyerowitz, published last year by Laurence King Publishing...
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Mark Cator
Jan 7, 2019
Seeing what's on for 2019
The start of the year is looking good for exhibitions. Closer to home there is Elisabeth Frink and Ken Kiff at the Sainsbury Centre for...
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Mark Cator
Jan 1, 2019
A clear out at the agency
Just before christmas I went down to London to pick up a box of transparencies from the picture agency I worked with in the 1980's. On...
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