Favorites delivered in an Email

Posted on 18th Oct 2013 by lomokev

favorites logoAlmost three months ago Heather Champ (friend and Champion of all things community and photography on the web) launched a new photo related weekly email called Favorites. The premise is simple: it’s so easy to miss great photography that’s posted to different social media platforms, after a few hours great images will get lost in all the noise of selfies and food photos.

Favorites asks people to email them one image a week, and from all the received submissions they send an email every Sunday with a curated selection of the best images to the people that have signed up. At the moment it has a handful of contributors but the quality of images that reaches your inbox is great. You can subscribe to Favorites here and find out how to submit your photography here.

Below are a few photos and photographers I have discovered though Favorites.

photo by samuel wong

Instagram photo by Samuel Wong

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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Hands On Review

Posted on 6th Oct 2013 by lomokev

I was invited to the Castle Leslie Estate in Ireland to experience the Olympus OM-D E-M1. The E-M1 is Olympus’s new Micro Four Thirds camera that is aimed at professionals, it is not a replacement for the E-M5 but will be sold alongside it. Currently on the Amazon UK the E-M1 body only is £1,299 and the E-M5 body only is £730.

Clippity Clop Splishy Splashy - Horse Running Though Water

Shot with Olympus OM-D E-M1’s continuous autofocus

I only spent about 12 hours with the E-M1 which I don’t feel was long enough to really get to know it. But it is very similar to the older E-M5 which I had about a month with and got to know a little better. Continue reading →

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Irish / Dublin Photographic Awesomeness: Three Exhibitions & The Library Project

Posted on 4th Oct 2013 by lomokev

Last week I was in Ireland to review out the new Olympus OM-D EM-1. I arrived a day early so I could take a little look around Dublin as I had never been there before, and I was pleasantly surprised at all the photography there was to be discovered.

The Library Project

The Library Project is a photographic book library in a pop-up location in the Temple Bar area of Dublin. Photographers and publishers have been donating books to them since 2011. In the short time I was there I could see they have an excellent collection, I spotted books from big names like Simon Roberts and Martin Parr as well as publications from smaller publishers like Café Royal books. It’s not a lending library but anyone can show up and check out what’s on the shelves. 

The Library Project Dublin

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Only in England: Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr exhibition at the London Science Museum’s new Media Space

Posted on 21st Sep 2013 by lomokev

Update March 4th 2015: This exhibition is now at the National Museums Liverpool’s Walker gallery until the 7th June 2015, find out more on their website here.

The London Science Museum has opened its new Media Space Gallery with its first exhibition “Only in England”, showcasing work from Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr. The Media Space Gallery was set up in partnership with the National Media Museum in Bradford to show the National Photography Collection which the National Media Museum houses. The space is now one of the largest photographic galleries in London and each exhibition at the Media Space Gallery will also be shown in National Media Museum in Bradford.

Martin Parr

On show is Martin Parr’s first major body of work “The Non-Conformists” which was shot in black and white in and around Hebden Bridge in the 1970s. I know this work quite well from books but it was really nice seeing images as 30″ x 20″ and 24″ x 20″ prints. There was quite a lot I had not previously seen, like a queue of people waiting to see Jaws. The body of work is amazing snapshot of history of English people.

Jaws Queue - © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos

Jaws queue – Halifax, West Yorkshire – 1977 – © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos

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Help needed identify santas from the Brighton Christmas day swim 2005

Posted on 20th Sep 2013 by lomokev

This is a bit of a long shot but do you know, or will be able to pass this on, to anyone who might know the identity of the three santas who took part in the 2005 Brighton Christmas Day swim?

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Best of eight months of Brighton street style

Posted on 30th Aug 2013 by lomokev

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any montage portraits to my site although I have been trickling them onto my Fragmented Portraits Tumblr. I’ve been posting two a week (some new & some from the archive). I will have to up my posting rate as I have 295 montage portraits that are not on my Tumblr yet!

I’ve been shooting montage portraits regularly for over three and half years. Over that time I have shot just under 400 portraits, definitely enough for a book which I plan to start working on soon.

Spreads from Brighton Source's street style section

Spreads from Brighton Source’s street style section

All the montage portraits are shot on a Lomo LCA film camera and then are put together from five individual photographs. I recently shot a few of these up in London while being filmed for documentary on film photography by Anton. I will post the London pictures once the film is released. Continue reading →

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Three recently acquired photographic publications by Jim Mortram, MiniClick and Tom Groves

Posted on 18th Aug 2013 by lomokev

Below are three Photographic publications I have recently purchased. I should buy more photographic books, but rest assured when I do purchase a photo book / zine it’s always of the highest quality.

Electric Tears and All their Portent, MiniClick publication #2 & In the Box

In The Box, MiniClick Publication #2 & Electric Tears and All their Portent

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The Frank Hurley a portrait I wished I’d taken

Posted on 16th Aug 2013 by lomokev

At the last MiniClick along with nine other photographers I gave a five minute talk on a portrait I wished I’d taken. The format was that each speaker had five minutes and were only allowed to show the image they were talking about. For a little more context, I thought I would show some of the other images I referred to in my talk in this blog post. MiniClick has a blog post where you can see see the list of the photographers that were speaking with an example of there work plus the photo they were talking about here. After talking to some of the other speakers I found that I was in a minority in that no portrait had immediately sprung to mind for me like it had for them. After some thought I decided to talk about Frank Hurley’s 1915 portrait of John Vincent, The Bosun of the ship the Endurance.

The portrait theme was due to MiniClick launching their second publication which theme is portraiture. You grab a copy here but hurry it’s a limited edition of 200!

John Vincen Bosun Of The Endurance by Frank Hurly 1915

John Vincen Bosun Of The Endurance by Frank Hurley 1915

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