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  • Nature Writing,  Notes Made Whilst

    Notes made Whilst … An Introduction

    For a while now I’ve been posting short vignettes on my Instagram and Twitter.  A single image and jotted down streams of awareness notes always starting “Notes made whilst …”.  Usually, though not always these are nature or landscape based.…

    By Si Brown August 2, 2021
  • Nature Writing,  Notes Made Whilst

    Notes Made Whilst… on a bridge: 20 June 2019

    Notes made whilst on a bridge: 20 June 2019. ~ rumble of traffic, chatter of people ~ sand martins scooping river flies ~ shadow of heron passes ~ dragonfly hawking from typha ~ crowfoot trailing in the current ~ river…

    By Si Brown July 30, 2021
  • Book Review

    Book review – Modern Photojournalism

    I found this marvellous book, Modern Photojournalism: Origin and Evolution, 1910-1933 by Tim N. Gidal, in a local antique market. It turns out to be the first volume of a series Photography: Men and Movements. These particular men* are predominantly…

    By Si Brown July 26, 2021
  • Nature Writing,  Photography,  Writing

    After the closure

    A picture can paint a thousand words, or so the phrase says.  Perhaps so.  On a long office day, editing my back catalogue, a 5×4 slide starts talking about memories.   In 2001 my world, like many other people’s, was…

    By Si Brown November 5, 2020
  • Book Review,  Photography,  Reviews

    The Mind’s Eye, Writings on Photography and Photographers by Henri Cartier-Bresson

    A collection of writing by the epitome of the reportage photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson; The Mind’s Eye, Writings on Photography and Photographers. Henri Cartier-Bresson is perhaps(anyone else for Robert Doisneau?) the most influential photojournalist the world has ever known. A co-founder…

    By Si Brown April 27, 2019
  • Short Film

    Develop; processing in the digital darkroom

    just a spacer A short how I do it film this weekend.  I am, at heart, a monochrome photographer.  It is how I learnt the game with a home made enlarger in a spare room.  It is still often how…

    By Si Brown September 14, 2018
  • Book Review,  Reviews

    An inner silence: The portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson

    Now, I’ll admit to a little bias here. Henri Cartier-Bresson remains an inspiration to me. He and many of his contemporaries like Lee Miller, Robert Doisneau, Bill Brandt and Eve Arnold combined great technique, visual awareness and a deep sense…

    By Si Brown June 24, 2018
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