I’ve just been locked in the small airless basement of a cafe with two guys in their early twenties sat at the next table. One of them was declaiming loudly and authoritatively, through an overwhelming aftershave, on photography. I don’t normally listen in on other people’s conversations, but this one was almost shouted in an...
We have just come back from Lausanne, where we had gone for the aunch of reGeneration2 at the Musee de L’Elysee. Sylwia Kowalczyk, my wife, was one of the 80 photographers selected as ‘Tomorrow’s photographers today’, representing the best of the next generation of art photographers. Needless to say, I am incredibly proud of her,...
Tonight’s absolutely fantastic news is that the orphan works proposals have been struck out of the Digital Economy Bill (see my previous post). It was taken out literally minutes before the new law was finally adopted by the House of Commons. Fortunately, many MP’s on all sides of the house had seen the lunacy of...
The Government is planning to introduce a new law in just two weeks’ time that allows companies to use your photos without your permission and without paying you for their use. The law was proposed by the Intellectual Property Office, bowing to commercial pressure from publishers. Instead of seeking the owner of the photograph’s permission...
We paid another visit to Portobello beach to take some portraits with Joe Colligan – Joe took some photos of Sylwia and me, and we took some portraits of him. Because of a mix-up with meeting times/places we met up there a bit late, but still had time for a stroll and to take some...
