Below are some of the publications I talked about whilst presenting to MyPhotoClub on June 5th 2025
Creative Camera
Joan and the Licentiate Assessors
When I was in Bristol to Chair the RPS Licentiate assessments in 2023 I invited the other assessors to join me on a ginko around Paintworks. Joan and David Jordan and Viveca Koh joined me and this is the photobook of our work.
The concept adopted for this book could be refered to as a ‘Visual Haibun’.
A visual haibun is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional haibun form, combining prose, haiku, and photography or visual art to create a layered, reflective experience. As you read through the book you should see that we all wrote and created photography in different ways.
I designed the publication as a homage / tribute to the great publication ‘Creative Camera’ whose owner Colin Osman and editors like Bill Jay published content with an aim to advance photography as a legitimate artform.
The real Creative Camera was published from February 1968 until 2000. I have the entire set from 1978, the year I started my career as a press photographer plus numerous other editions and annuals. I was not aware of the publication back then.
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and when there scroll down to view the preview
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When on the MIxma Page click the bottom righthand corner to make the page turn.
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on the Mixam Website
Norwich and District Photographic Society
NDPS are a very progressive camera club who engage with projects and photobooks. David Jordan is the president and he and Maurice Young the events organisor have invited me on numerous occassions to talk to the club, and on two occassions over the past couple of years to lead photobook workshops
Tomblands
Tomblands is an area of Norwich that is seeped in history. I set the group of photographers three areas to create a project in each:
1. A Documentary project about traders based in Elm Hill
2. A Visual Art project about the feeling of repetition based in the covered market
3. A Landscape project about the intimate landscape based around the castle
The photobook ‘Tombland shows the combined work with sections for each photographer
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on the Mixam Website
A Sense of Place
The Magdalen Street Project
Magdalen Street is another area of Norwich full of history. Again, I asked each photographer to create three projects, this time using keywords:
- Discarded
- Tension
- Rainbow
The photobook ‘The Magdalen Street Project’ shows the combined work with sections for each photographer
Just Click on the Image above to view the Photobook
on the Mixam Website
Bath and Bristol Area
Photo-Haiku Workshops
I have run a series of Photobook workshops in the Bath, Bristol areas.
Starting with the RPS Travel group I delivered a talk to the RPS Travel Group around the Paintworks area where the RPS building was situated. Paul Sanders, another experienced press photographer who now runs workshops though ‘Light and Land’ was doing the same and we remarked how our similar our current approaches are to each other.
A few months later one of the attendees at the Travel Group workshop, Peter Range asked me if I could run similar for his Sodbury and Yate Photographic Club in Bath which I did, and then Ken Clarke, one of the attendees there asked if I could run one for his club in Broadway.
The Portishead Photobook is not on Mixam.
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turn the pages by pressing the bottom right-hand corner