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Immersive images

By Dhiren | Published: February 17, 2010
Roger Ballen talks about photobooks from Jim Casper on Vimeo. Roger Ballen is old-school and in this video he makes some great points about the role books play in learning. I agree with him because paper adds a certain depth to photos that just cannot be recreated on the screen. I’m greedily building a beautiful photography [...]
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X–Ray Photos by Nick Vasey

By Dhiren | Published: October 16, 2009
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Shots of the Big Apple

By Dhiren | Published: September 15, 2009
Group pool from Flickr – Good luck Sis.
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Raving 89′

By Dhiren | Published: August 23, 2009
Pic by Gavin Watson, a masterpiece of low-light exposure balancing. Great set of rave pictures taken by Gavin and Neville Watson. This guy seems to have been at the centre of every other significant cultural movement in recent decades. If you like the music, Where were you in 92? by Zomby is worth a [...]
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Skins and Punks by Gavin Watson

By Dhiren | Published: June 9, 2009
Pic courtesy of @Rojo This is one of those cliche books you’d expect to find in Urban Outfitters (and yes I did see it in there), but it really is amazing. Another must have for the collection. Just like The Americans, there are some excellent examples of mono work in this book. I’m thinking of [...]
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The Americans

By Dhiren | Published: May 31, 2009
I’m one of those photography geeks that has all the kit, but rarely finds time make use of it. Last weekend I visited the Tate Modern to see Bodyspacemotionthings but it wasn’t that exhibition that really inspired me. Instead it was the contact sheets taken by Robet Frank, for his iconic book: The Americans. Every [...]
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The power of tagging

By Dhiren | Published: October 27, 2008
A seasonal post from me today… People often ask me why the hell they should bother tagging content? Lot’s of reasons for this and I could sit here and yammer on about tagging, taxonomies and folksonomies etc etc. Instead of me giving you guys a drawn out explanation I’ll let you do the reading into the [...]
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Street and Studio exhibition

By Dhiren | Published: July 3, 2008
It’s been a while since I picked up my SLR, and put it to worthy use. The Tate Modern has the Street and Studio exhibition on at moment and I cannot wait to go and see it. I hope it will drum up some inspiration and motivation. Go go check it out!
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