When I consider what to photograph, one word comes to mind more than any other.
aspiration |ËŒaspəˈrÄ sh É™n|
noun
1 (usu. aspirations ) a hope or ambition of achieving something : he had nothing tangible to back up his literary aspirations | the yawning gulf between aspiration and reality. • the object of such an ambition; a [...]
Tom Wood might easily be categorized as a documentary or street photographer. His photographs fit comfortably within the finest tradition of a certain kind of “straight†photography: incisive, decisive visual moments extracted from the chaos of life and transformed, by the medium, into compelling images. To claim, then, that his photographs are receivers of sensations, [...]
One of the lecturers at my college was Tom Wood. At that time Tom had just completed his ‘Looking for Love‘ project on the Chelsea Reach nightclub (where incidentally I met my wife Jayne), and was already engaged on other projects around Liverpool. Also Martin Parr had just completed his ‘Last Resort’ project on New [...]
I was clicking through a few sites I like to look at, and one page leads to another, when I came across a name that sounded familiar. Turns out Andrew Hetherington wasn’t a lad I wen’t to college with, despite his connections with Liverpool, and his background in Ireland. He is though, a photographer living [...]
Well, a week to remember for this website. My host went out Monday, with no means of contact, no email just a message on his answer phone saying back in the office on 12th April. So I have no website, no email, if somebody sent me an email it didn’t bounce it just disappeared… so [...]
