John James was a photographer at the Birmingham Post who is now freelance. His website has the usual portfolios but is worth an extra look for work that betrays his history as a photojournalist. Firstly go check the “award winning” section for shots of riots, crashes and pig competitions in the 80s. Then come back … [Read more…]
Birmingham Kitsch – a Flickr group “to put all your quirky and unusual images of Birmingham”.
A daily look at the last 12 months Over the year I posted a lot of photos taken from the Birmingham Flickr community. Here’s a small selection. Click on them for bigger. from richard314159 from Matt Murtagh from dan-ish from Garry Corbett from Karl Randay {pixelherder} from suselstahl from Simon Medlicott from nobody knows anything … [Read more…]
Let’s follow some links from the Woom website as part of their “Booby Hatch- Sexual and Disturbed” show and see what we find, shall we? Well, there’s Sarah Bereza from Michigan, USA… local boy Matt Burden… and New Yorker Alison Brady… Lovely! More on Woom in the new year. They’re quite an intriguing establishment…
A little known tradition amongst photog-types is the annual abusing of the disposible camera and subsequent intoxicated shooting with said travesty, as James Thornett explains…
Photographer Craig Holme’s Crowded Gallery website has had an overhaul. It has more of a black and white print focus. I also prefer the more modern home page, which has almost everything in one location – including an RSS feed for new images.
Substrakt announce the launch of photographer Kate Beatty’s new portfolio website. She’s a freelance based in Birmingham and her work looks like this: (Taken from screen-grabs and resized so quality isn’t the best.)
James Thornett took his his Clingfilm Camera on holiday and threw some expired colour film in it resulting in some rather nice photos. Here’s a couple. And there’s more here.