I started out, pretty much, taking photos of bands at gigs but don’t really do to much of that any more. However I was thinking of asking the boys of NYC band Fun Lovin’ Criminals if I could get access to shoot their show as we go back a few years [OK about 20] when …
German born photojournalist Thomas Hoepker discusses is lifetime of photos & his new book Wanderlust. You will, no doubt, recognise some of his work, his iconic photo of Muhammad Ali with fist sharp in the foreground perhaps being his most defining. He speaks of his past and the opportunity and luck he has had in capturing …
Sheldon Nadelman worked as a barman from from 1972 to 1981 at the Terminal Bar on Eighth and West 41st, opposite the Port Authority Bus Terminal near Times Square. In this time he would ask his many customers to sit for a portrait producing a body of work amassing to 2,600 photographs. All these photos have been catalogued by his …
The name Vivian Maier probably won’t mean anything to you but recently the name is starting to make her life a more interesting one. Vivian was born in 1926 in New York and was brought up in France. Aged 25 she returned to America to work in a sweetshop and later as a nanny for the …
As part of their 100 years of pop music, the New York Magazine issued a portfolio of current shots of 26 musicians who helped shape the music scene of NYC over the last few decades. See if you can tell who they are now, I have to say quite a few caught me out despite …
The very iconic film stock, Kodachrome 64, has been used to capture some of the most famous images in recent history. First made available by Eastman Kodak in 1935 this colour film has helped shape how the colour and contrast that we see photos today. In this age of no film a great deal of …
We often think of big cities as playgrounds, at least for the rich anyway but what if there really where playgrounds? That’s what visual artists Black Sheep Films thought when they made this short promo of their abilities titled, NEW YORK PARK. Looks like a fun place to be I only hope the lines are …