Alan Powdrill’s photographic project Reality Football is not about football.  A fairly brash statement I agree but please read on. Granted, portraits of footballers on scraggy,...

All but unknown in the English speaking art world, Marcos López is one of the finest artists working in photography today. His first retrospective in Paris this winter...

Optical (dis)illusion – (Dé)Trompe l'oeil – a viewing matter

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        It's often customary to reduce every image from utmost...

I first saw Jefferson Hayman’s work on the mutating simulacra of our lives that is Facebook. I don’t remember how or why I stumbled across the work, but my reaction was immediate. This time the thumbnail in front...

An Introduction to the Concept of the Ephemeral in Photography

The word ephemeral derives from the Greek ‘ephemeros’ – “lasting only one day”.  This word can be used...

I have been taking photographs of rubbish for a long time, and, judging by the looks I sometimes get from passers-by, it’s an eccentric thing to do. There’s a mix of attraction and repulsion in the subject: the...

The Doctor Is In(sane) : The Questionable Reality of Asger Carlsen

What are these?  They appear at first, like so many photographs do, as candid moments, mundane vernacular portraits or documents of small news...

Many art photographers enjoy reducing the world around them into a series of simple forms; considering the most fundamental relationships between themselves and the objects they encounter as crucially important to their...

Garry Fabian Miller first gained attention in the late 1970s with The Sea Horizon, a photographic series that explored subtle variations in light and texture where sea and sky meet.  In the mid-1980s, Miller...