Post World War the UK needed to build many new homes and place workers where manufacturing needed them. By the late 60s/70s they started to build upwards and created high rise habitats. In Grimsby, five blocks were built but when in 1976 the UK Government handed the deep sea fishing rights to Iceland the area…
Mary Ellen Mark at The British Photo Show in 2015 by Stewart Wall
Today is May 10th, living within the Covid-19 pandemic has become a way of life for many of us. Many are on the front line, such as nurses and delivery people, and others are living a life of lock down. Last night, Boris our leader urged us to ‘be alert’ since despite the number of…
Finding meaning and emotion in street photography This talk or course will help you discover three key ingredients to making superbly engaging street photographs: Creative, Meaning and Emotion. During this lecture you will discover street photography is not a venue but an approach to photography and by developing an understanding of the three key ingredients…
Getting Creative with Street Photography The Talk I find the experience of coincidence too powerful to resist reacting to. For 40 years I have experimented with post production techniques, for example when working as a press photographer the Mini Metro was released and having covered a launch event I composited an image of a metro…
Looking and reviewing the work of others can help us develop our own work Learning from the masters is a great way to develop our own photography. During this talk you will be introduced to a series of masterful photographers who are well known for great street photography. Many of the photographers Stewart refers to…
Brutalist Architecture I’ve spent the last five years studying brutalism architecture after coming across it when I led a day’s photography at Sheffield’s Park Hill ‘Streets in the Sky. During this lecture I argue there is a lot more to brutalism than big lumps of concrete, there are complete, intended ways of life entwined with…
Project based photography is becoming more and more popular and during this in-person or online lecture or in-person or online extended workshop you will develop the skillset to take your photography into areas that adds power and interest to your photography that others will engage with in a deep way. Colin the local Stonemason would…
I joined the RPS after being a professional photographer for over 30 years with an initial purpose to meet other photographers, and no interest in doing the RPS distinctions. Fairly quickly I decided to have a go and now I volunteer as an assessor, advisor and a member on the distinctions council. I also teach…
Its not what you photograph, it is what you photograph that makes you an image maker Brutalism architecture is very popular with a lot of photographers but when you begin to understand what brutalism is, and how it impacted on community and life, your images of brutalism will take on a new life. During this…