A work in progress cover for the next photo zine A Good Start Releasing a new photobook is always exciting and the completion of my fourth book felt like an important milestone. The Territorial Army photo zine in July was a great way of celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the [...READ MORE]
An Army Gazelle helicopter flies overhead Territorial Army Photo Zine Released I'm pleased to announce that my fourth book Territorial Army has been released. The sixty page photo zine contains fifty images of Army reservists that were shot in 1996, and the book celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the project. [...READ MORE]
Photo zine front cover design Territorial Photo Zine Near Release The Territorial Army photo zine is getting close to release with the zine pencilled in for release in July. The photo zine will contain around fifty pages featuring great images from the Territorial project I worked on some three decades [...READ MORE]
Save On Photograph Copying, Repair and Retouching It's the Spring sale! Throughout March and April any photograph repairs and copying will include a 20% discount. Now is the perfect time to get that favourite family photograph copied or have that cherished old photograph digitally repaired. More details about the copy [...READ MORE]
Lost Crew Vintage photograph repair can be a long process and challenging at times, but the reward of expanding a photograph's lifespan is always a good motivator. While other forms of photography may get more attention or even have wider appeal, we all look after one of the most important [...READ MORE]
2026 Arrives Into a new year and a time to think about plans for 2026. I have to say that 2025 was for me, as well as lots of others, a mixed year of both success and challenges. This year looks to be no different and the only thing you [...READ MORE]
A World War Two pillbox partially submerged due to coastal erosion - near Garmouth, Moray, Scotland Photographer's Instinct Pillbox on the beach between Cromer and East Runton, Norfolk, 2009 It's been a bit of a slightly turbulent end to the year with a dose of flu interfering with a visit [...READ MORE]
Just Enough Time! Christmas is not that fat away now but there is still just enough time to get that special photograph copied, repaired or altered. Whether a small photograph or a big panoramic image, all sizes of photograph can be repaired, copied or retouched. Work usually takes between a [...READ MORE]
Behind the Lens One of the more interesting, if slightly disconcerting, aspects of photography as you get older is the anniversaries of projects or just images that come along. It is a strange blend of nostalgia and disbelief that so many years have gone. And yet here I am writing [...READ MORE]
The Print Shop is Back The website shop is open selling a range of 18x12 inches using Fine Art Giclée Printing with acid free papers and Inkjet technology available for £75.00 including postage. The image quality provided by Fine Art Giclée paper, in a choice of three different finishes – lustre, gloss [...READ MORE]
New Photo Book Release It's finally arrived. I'm pleased to announce that Southerly Point photo zine is now available to purchase via my Blurb store The book is described as 'A collection of forty images shot around the Mull of Galloway in May 2021.The Mull is the most southerly point [...READ MORE]
An AI World I don't often write about technology issues but you don't have to look far these days to hear or read about how artificial intelligence (AI) is going to improve all our lives. Indeed the first elements of AI 'assistance' have recently arrived in mobile phones and photograph [...READ MORE]
The Nightwatchman’s Story, March 1915. Photograph by Frank HurleyThere are some photographs that just stand out from the masses of images available online. The images by the Australian photographer Frank Hurley do just that.The Guardian's excellent gallery of newly digitised images from Ernest Shackleton’s 1915 Endurance expedition really are a superb [...READ MORE]
Image by the RSPCAAfter my last post, three or so weeks ago, talking about the increasingly blurring lines between what we regard as real or AI fake photographs, another image made an appearance in the news that was questioned over its authenticity. The above image of these beautiful dogs is, [...READ MORE]
This headline, along with the powerful image, got my attention last week. I guess it was meant to. It turned out that the schoolgirl graveyard image was real, although a number of sources incorrectly said it was not. Is it real or AI? has become an increasingly frequent question when [...READ MORE]
New Brighton, England, 1983–85 From The Last Resort © Martin Parr / Magnum PhotosThe news of the death of Martin Parr brought back some of my memories of photography discussions had a college and university back in the 1990s. No other photographer seemed to polarise a group of student photographers more than [...READ MORE]
Class 108 DMU leaving Keith Town station, Moray, ScotlandThe trip to Scotland in September ended up being a mixed bag of experiences. No fault of Scotland's, it turned out that I would end up in the second week gradually feeling worse and worse as a rather nasty dose of flu [...READ MORE]
Kuwait oil fields, 1991, by Sebastião Salgado. Photograph: Sebastião SalgadoSebastião Salgado died last week at the age of 81. Another photography hero gone. His photography was the very high quality benchmark that I have never managed to quite attain but always strived for. Salgado's superb blend of beautiful photography and getting [...READ MORE]
If you are a Formula One fan then the BBC and Getty Images have put together a great collection of Formula One photography going through 75 years of the sport.From Juan Manuel Fangio through to Lewis Hamilton, the page is a great introduction to the history of Formula One as [...READ MORE]
A dark sky over Old Boat Sheds - Lindisfarne, NorthumberlandLast week I got a message to say that my Tumblr blog had reached the grand old age of thirteen years old. I have to admit the number seemed slightly surreal as I looked at it. Then again, this blog will [...READ MORE]
Old Boat Shed on Lindisfarne, Northumberland - December 2024Another year started and hopefully it will be a good one. Two photo book releases are planned, one at the start of the year and then another around November. That's the plan I intend sticking to at least.The end of the year [...READ MORE]
A home on the Kintyre Coast, Scotland - September 2023Not long left now. Almost the end of the summer. It's been a summer of consolidation for me this year. Not much in the way of travel but plenty of progress made on a number of projects that I've wanted to [...READ MORE]
'Spain, Valencia, 1952, Robert and Mary Frank' By Elliott ErwittBack in November of last year, I posted about the OMD album cover for their brilliant 1980 album Organisation which featured the wonderful photograph shot by Richard Nutt of the cloud-covered peak of Marsco in the Red Cuillin mountains, on the [...READ MORE]
American troops land on Omaha Beach on D-Day. June 6, 1944. Photograph by Robert CapaEighty years ago Allied forces waded ashore on the Normandy coast and started the liberation of Europe. Quite a few photographers accompanied the armada across the Channel, but the D-Day photographs that get talked about most [...READ MORE]
Lost running shoe - Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk - 2016There is a moment when you suddenly realise that your photography has aged. Those images you printed up in the darkroom, ah it seems like just yesterday, are in fact suddenly 25 years old. The very age you were when to [...READ MORE]
Small Field on the Isle of Skye, Scotland - 2015The last few weeks have seen me search for new sources of photography news after significantly reducing my use of social media these past couple of years. With the removal of Twitter (X) from my day-to-day life, I suddenly realised that [...READ MORE]
Photograph by Bert Hardy - The Gorbals Boys, 1948You can't really talk about British documentary photography during the mid-20th century without talking about Bert Hardy. So it's fantastic to see that The Photographers' Gallery in London is having a long overdue retrospective of his work.I first came across Bert Hardy's [...READ MORE]
The first signs of summer arrived for the UK bank holiday. A hot day which reminded me of an image I’d come across during a spring clean of the main website a couple of weeks ago. The photograph was taken on one of those summer days that seem to stay [...READ MORE]
Wedding photography – Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, 2015 Walking the dogs on a beach near North Berwick, Scotland, 2019 Tourists visiting the Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge, Highlands, Scotland, 2015 [...READ MORE]
Post number seven. It’s bee a fun week of posting some of my images from the visit up Moray, Scotland at the end of last year. It’s also great to be using a blog that I’ve had for a long time now. Darker Skies started in 2009 around the same [...READ MORE]
It’s been a birthday week for me. Some more sand through the egg timer as my Mum would have said. Each year seems to go faster and faster. Each birthday starts to take on a new meaning when you realise that some of the images in your photo archive are [...READ MORE]
Tourists walk along the path at the Culloden battlefield site, The flag is one of many that marks where the government forces were placed on the field. A set of blue flags at the other end of the field marked where the Jacobite forces were located. [...READ MORE]
A farmer crossing a field to access another field – Near Archiestown, Moray, Scotland [...READ MORE]
I haven’t posted a Luna pic for quite some time. Here she is watching the world go by on a sand dune at Lossiemouth, Scotland. [...READ MORE]
Simply the Best? My favourite or best image seems to be a popular theme with the photography blogs. I enjoy seeing what photographers pick and it seems to fall into two categories. An image from early in their career or a recent photograph. I’m not going to be too ambitious [...READ MORE]
Back Again It’s been a while since I posted. Time flying by and a dose of ill health didn’t help, but time to post a few images from last year’s Scotland trip. Sadly the visit was curtailed slightly by catching flu which always ruins any exploring for photographs. No visit [...READ MORE]
The recent ‘Southerly Point’ Photo zine release featured black and white images from the Mull of Galloway, but the original idea was for a colour project. I am glad that I went down the monochrome route for the book, however, I do like these colour images a lot too. There [...READ MORE]
The book Southerly Point featuring a collection of forty images shot around the Mull of Galloway in May 2021 is now available to purchase. Source: Southerly Point Photozine Released – Richard Flint Photography [...READ MORE]
The good, the bad and the ugly. AI is increasingly going to be part of our lives, so why am I blocking the AI bots from crawling the website? Source: Accessing the Archive – Richard Flint Photography [...READ MORE]
With the eighty year anniversary of the end of World War Two fast approaching, i thought posting the photograph of my Grandad celebrating the end of the war would be the perfect image. The photograph was found on my late Uncle’s Facebook page a good few years ago now. I [...READ MORE]
The Christmas decorations are down and packed away. Another Christmas over. I did think, though, that there should be just one more flash of colour before it’s back to drab January. Both photographs are of the Tenantry Column in Alnwick. The images were taken with a new Nikon 50mm I [...READ MORE]
joeinct:Guggenheim Museum, Silhouette, Photo by Ernst Haas, 1961 [...READ MORE]
thevaultoftheatomicspaceage:Apollo 15 spaceman Dave Scott on the slope of the Moon’s Hadley Delta, August 1, 1971 [...READ MORE]
whoknowswherethetimegoes:Dolly Parton photographed by David Gahr in New York, 1976. [...READ MORE]
paolo-streito-1264:Oscar Marzaroli. Glasgow, 1963. [...READ MORE]
joeinct:View from Notre Dame, Paris, Photo by Ernst Haas, 1955 [...READ MORE]
joeinct:Butcher, London, Photo by Irving Penn, 1950 [...READ MORE]
paolo-streito-1264:Morris Huberland. East Side, New York, 1940. [...READ MORE]
paolo-streito-1264:Thurston Hopkins. Scarborough Beach, North Yorkshire, England, 1952. [...READ MORE]
henk-heijmans:Harlem, New York, 1948 - by Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006), American [...READ MORE]
henk-heijmans:A small boy and girl stand in front of a pile of coal dumped in the street in Peterlee, County Durham, England, 1966 - by Colin Jones (1936 - 2021), English [...READ MORE]
joeinct:David Fahey with gang, Golden Beach, FL, Photo © Bruce Weber, 2019 [...READ MORE]
paolo-streito-1264:Leonard James McCombe. A Navajo girl hugging her dog while watching over sheep on the high plateau, 1948. [...READ MORE]
irenelichtensteinblog:Erich Hartmann, Snow in New York, 1967 [...READ MORE]
lascitasdelashoras:The Police, NYC, 1978, photographed by Lynn Goldsmith [...READ MORE]
paolo-streito-1264:Bert Hardy. Twirling Girl, 1958. [...READ MORE]
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In this episode..... With the release of the Territorial Army Zine, the benefits of a change over to the zine format is discussed, along with the future of the hardback books projects.The photography links look at great photography from two recent big sporting eventsTom Jenkins top 20 ’ best Commonwealth Games photographs brings together images from swimming, boxing and other events. Motorbikes and mountains: photographing the 2026 Tour de France
In the podcast... The Territorial Army photo zine is released along with a few changes to future planned books. In the links we have stunning images of jazz greats in New York by Steve Schapiro, incredible images from World Cup 2026, Marilyn Monroe by Magnum photographers and the excellent new high definition digitised images by Frank Hurley of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition of 1915.Richard Flint photography Website https://www.richardflintphoto.comRichard Flint Photography
In the Podcast: A couple of links to two blog posts i made about real photographs that were thought to be AI generated. Also in the main podcast links we have great images by Magnum's Raghu Rai, who died at the end of April, NASA images from moon flyby by Artemis II, Spheres of influence: the Bauhaus’s radical female photographers and a brilliantly presented photo essay by Thomas Dworzak looking
In the podcast links for this belated February podgram, we have just links, but some great articles including Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation, Was it real, or AI? the tidal wave of AI photo slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war and Brad Rimmer photographs the faded glory of Western Australia’s wheatbelt halls... plus a few more links as a bonus.Podcast Links‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon
In this episode..... With the release of the Territorial Army Zine, the benefits of a change over to the zine format is discussed, along with the future of the hardback books projects.The photography links look at great photography from two recent big sporting eventsTom Jenkins top 20 ’ best Commonwealth Games photographs brings together images from swimming, boxing and other events. Motorbikes and mountains: photographing the 2026 Tour de France with some great insight from a photographer Pete Goding on what it is like to photograph the epic cycling event.Richard
In the podcast... The Territorial Army photo zine is released along with a few changes to future planned books. In the links we have stunning images of jazz greats in New York by Steve Schapiro, incredible images from World Cup 2026, Marilyn Monroe by Magnum photographers and the excellent new high definition digitised images by Frank Hurley of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition of 1915.Richard Flint photography Website https://www.richardflintphoto.comRichard Flint Photography Redbubble Store for a wide range of photography prints and more - http://richflintphoto.redbubble.comThe Photography Podcast Page - https://www.richardflintphoto.com/photography-podcastPodcast LinksThe new
In the Podcast: A couple of links to two blog posts i made about real photographs that were thought to be AI generated. Also in the main podcast links we have great images by Magnum's Raghu Rai, who died at the end of April, NASA images from moon flyby by Artemis II, Spheres of influence: the Bauhaus’s radical female photographers and a brilliantly presented photo essay by Thomas Dworzak looking at the new iron curtain along the border with Russia.For more details about the podcast and to view some of
In the podcast links for this belated February podgram, we have just links, but some great articles including Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation, Was it real, or AI? the tidal wave of AI photo slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war and Brad Rimmer photographs the faded glory of Western Australia’s wheatbelt halls... plus a few more links as a bonus.Podcast Links‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregationhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/mar/04/camera-weapon-gordon-parks-shots-segregation-martin-luther-kingA photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI?https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/17/atrocity-ai-slop-verify-facts-iran-minab-gravesBrad
In the podcast,.. A small change of format for the pod, a Martin Parr exhibition starts on 6th February at the Photographer's Gallery in London and in the links we have some photography theory with John Berger, the winners of the World Sport photography awards and fantastic images by photographer Ed Kashi.Podcast LinksMartin Parr exhibition - A Fair Day: Photographs from the West of Ireland https://website-tpgallery.artlogic.net/exhibitions/59-martin-parr-a-fair-day/overview/‘A front row seat to witness history’: Ed Kashi’s astonishing global imageshttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/jan/06/ed-kashi-astonishing-global-images-in-picturesWorld Sports Photography Awards 2026 winners revealedhttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2026/jan/17/world-sports-photography-awards-2026-winners-revealed-in-picturesTearing down our icons | Thoughts of a Bohemian
Just a few thoughts about the recent death of the highly influential, and controversial to some, photographer Martin Parr.Martin Parr, 1952 – 2025 https://www.1854.photography/2025/12/martin-parr-passing/British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5m0mnvnvmoThe 1980s seaside snaps that sparked a controversyhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gdx7r4w02o
In the podcast.... Some changes to the website store after a few months of database issues, some memories of The Two Towns project ten years after and discussing the upcoming book, and in the links there are two great articles from the Magnum website celebrating the life and photography of Chris Steele-Perkins who died in September of this year.Podcast LinksRemembering Chris Steele-Perkins (1947–2025)https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/remembering-chris-steele-perkins-1947-2025/A Tribute to Chrishttps://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/a-tribute-to-chris/
So the scotland trip hits a snag... a dose of covid, flu or cold spoils the second week. The first week did have a trip to Culloden Moor Battlefield, though, and the slightly strange photo interactions by visitors.
In the podcast, the recently released photo zine 'Southerly Point' gets its own page on the website plus some hints for a photo book project in 2026.In the links, there is excellent Vietnam war photography from the legendary Catherine Leroy, newspaper picture editors’ picks for Visa pour l’Image, northern lights over Scotland and a great collection of photography from Australia and New Zealand.Links mentioned in the PodcastThe Southerly Point photo zine website pagehttps://www.richardflintphoto.com/photobooks/photobook-southerly-point-the-mull-of-galloway/One-way ticket to Vietnam: Catherine Leroy’s fearless war photography https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/aug/23/one-way-ticket-to-vietnam-catherine-leroys-fearless-war-photography-in-picturesA deeper story: photography from Australia and New Zealandhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/sep/02/a-deeper-story-photography-from-australia-and-new-zealand-in-picturesNewspaper
In the podcast: Southerly Point, a 44 page photozine featuring 40 images(photographer Richard Flint) of the Mull of Galloway is now available via Blurb. The new website store is opened and in the links we have Chris Killip's excellent website and the painting like photography by Joann Randles.Podcast LinksPhotographer showcases her work at French Celtic Festivalhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2p6qp1e4goChris Killip's excellent websitehttps://www.chriskillip.com/Southerly Point photo zine on Blurbhttps://www.blurb.co.uk/b/12497265-southerly-point-the-mull-of-gallowayNew fine art print web storehttps://www.richardflintphoto.com/shop/BONUS LINKSThe Cloudflare blog postsContent Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and
In the podcast: Links to the photography of two great documentary photographers who died recently - Sebastião Salgado and Nick Hedges.Also the webstore is due for changes, website speed woes solved and the text is complete for the Southerly Point Photozine.Podcast LinksSebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/23/brazil-sebastiao-salgado-death‘I photographed the world’: the career of Sebastião Salgado – in pictureshttps://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2024/feb/08/i-photographed-the-world-the-art-of-sebastiao-salgado-in-picturesAmazon in pictures: Sebastião Salgado's last frontierhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-57162597Sebastião Salgado Gallery at ICPhttps://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/sebasti%C3%A3o-salgadoNick Hedges Websitehttp://www.nickhedgesphotography.co.uk/Nick Hedges obituaryhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/20/nick-hedges-obituary
If you are a Formula One fan then the BBC and Getty Images have put together a great collection of Formula One photography going through 75 years of the sport.F1 at 75https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/v7yykmbyey/f1-at-75-by-bbc-sport-and-getty-images
In the podcast: Changes to the website store, a post about a found WW2 family photo and more. In the links, the winners from the 2025 World Press Photo awards and a camera lost in Loch Ness for 55 years is found!The Podcast LinksPortrait of injured Gazan boy named World Press Photo of the yearhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm347kpljkoCamera set up to catch Loch Ness Monster discoveredhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20g82y1k8o
It's an iconic image from the Vietnam War... but who took the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture? The strange story of a new documentary castings doubt over whether Nick Ut took that remarkable image after a napalm attack on the village of Trang Bang and the six month investigation by Associated Press. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Ut AP Report: Investigating claims around ‘The Terror of War’ photograph https://www.ap.org/about/ap-report-terror-of-war/ He is credited with one of history’s most indelible photos. A new documentary questions who took it https://www.ap.org/media-center/ap-in-the-news/2025/he-is-credited-with-one-of-historys-most-indelible-photos-a-new-documentary-questions-who-took-it/ Nick Ut Photography Gallery https://leicagalleryla.com/gallery-view/nick-ut-from-hell-to-hollywood/
In the podcast: Richard talks about The Bang Bang Club Book he recently found in a second hand bookshop as well as the Northumberland images shot just before Christmas in the fantastic locations of Bamburgh, Seahouses and Lindisfarne. Podcast links include recent photography from the L.A fires Links Photos: The Palisades Fire Scorches Parts of Los Angeles https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/01/photos-palisades-fire-los-angeles-california/681241/ THE BANG BANG CLUB The Bang Bang Club Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang-Bang_Club Capturing Humanity Through the Lens: Kevin Carter https://fstoppers.com/historical/capturing-humanity-through-lens-kevin-carter-662720 The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich (Author), Joao Silva (Author) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bang-Bang-Club-Snapshots-Hidden-War/dp/009928149X
In the Podcast. remembering the photojournalist Paul Lowe who died in October and who was a big influence during my photography students days. In the links, a look at Paul Lowe's work, Ian Macdonald’s magnificent north-east and Is the era of the pro photographer over? An interesting article about the future of professional photography. The Podcast Links Bruce Gilden says "I'll be broke in a year". Is the era of the pro photographer over? https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/features/bruce-gilden-says-ill-be-broke-in-a-year-is-the-era-of-the-pro-photographer-over Son charged with murdering war photographer father https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj4e9p1nw3o A kid playing with a ball next
In the podcast... A WordPress website optimization recommendation plus links to great photography from the Paris Olympics, images of the beach defences of WW2, remembering the Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker and Paul Fusco is captured in a photograph as he photographed America from Robert F Kennedy's funeral train in 1968. PODCAST LINKS Remarkable images from the Paris Olympics fhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-c9425ca9-5c30-4ae0-b059-3eae6abcc18f Remembering Thomas Hoepker (1936–2024) https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/remembering-thomas-hoepker-1936-2024/ The Nazis’ Atlantic wall that failed to prevent D-day https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/03/the-nazis-atlantic-wall-that-failed-to-prevent-d-day RFK Funeral Train: The Reversed Perspective https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/rfk-funeral-train-the-reversed-perspective/ Robert Capa Podcast Episode https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/richard-flint-photography/episodes/The-Ageless--Changeless-Robert-Capa-e2k8d2c John Steinbeck's excellent book
A new post on the Magnum website looks at the life and legacy of Robert Capa, along with a superb letter from John Steinbeck written shortly after Capa died in 1954. The Ageless, Changeless Robert Capa https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/the-ageless-changeless-robert-capa/ John Steinbeck - A Russian Journal book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russian-Journal-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/014118633X Robert Capa - the rare 1947 radio interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYe4ynXnqug
In the podcast... the main website gets a BIG, and rather unexpected, spring clean to give it a bit of a refresh. A quick discussion about the recent royal photo manipulation story. In the podcast's recommended photography links we have four great photographers covering the last five decades including Chris Killip, Akihiko Okamura and Tim Hetherington. Podcast Links The extraordinary life and photography of Tim Hetherington The work and legacy of photographer Anja Niedringhaus endure 10 years after her death A new exhibition brings together Chris Killip and Graham Smith’s
In this podcast: Richard heads back to the RSS feeds as a way of getting new sources of photography news and content after stepping away from social media. Dusting off those old blog feeds and seeing what works. The main website gets a new portfolio gallery with Northumberland: Castles and Coast added to the site. The podcast links look at the legendary photojournalist Bert Hardy who has a retrospective exhibition on at The Photographers' Gallery in London until June 2nd. Podcast Links The Gorbals of the 1940s - through Bert
Podcast links look at the diverse work work of legendary Magnum photographer Elliot Erwitt who died back in November 2023. A big influence to many photographers, his ability to capture iconic images of events, portraits, and even dogs showed the broad range of his skills. Magnum Profile - https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/elliott-erwitt/ Guardian Obituary - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/21/elliott-erwitt-obituaryhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/21/elliott-erwitt-obituary View the podcast links page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast
In the podcast: I'm looking back at 2023 and my favourite images from my travels during the past year. Also, I take a look at what may be coming in 2024. No podcast links in this episode but an Elliott Erwitt link podcast will be recorded soon for the end of January.
A location podcast from a wet and windy Campbeltown (Mull of Kintyre) looking back at two weeks of travels around the Isle of Arran and the Mull of Kintyre. Lots of photography with the weather adding some drama to the skies and coastline. Check out the websites and the richardflintphoto Instagram feed for some images from my travels.
In the podcast: With Twitter, now called X, making further changes to its platform and its lifespan up for debate, is it time to move back to blogging? Four great photography links including a history of photography TV series via YouTube. Photography links International Portrait Photographer of the Year 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/aug/15/2023-international-portrait-photographer-of-the-year-in-pictures BBC | Extraordinary photos of July's extreme weather https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-bcea7bff-641f-4cbf-b091-26491409fbdc BBC History Of Photography Complete (Episodes 1,2, and 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMZsjYCUfpo Zak Waters - Birdmen. Great Documentary photography about Pigeon Racing https://britishculturearchive.co.uk/zak-waters-documentary-photographer-birdmen-british-culture-archive/
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