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A write-up of my presentation in Settle October 2025
15 October 2025
“What a great evening! On Monday 6th October John Gill gave an inspiring, illustrated talk about his approach to Street Photography. John comes from Yorkshire and his talk in part related to…
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‘ONE’ – a companion photography book to ‘TWO’
15 July 2025
A couple of years ago I was asked by Progessive Street to put together a collection of photos on the theme of ‘couples’. That photography book was called TWO. This has now been joined by…
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What AI thinks of me
23 March 2025
In a moment of vanity or masochism (it could have gone either way) I decided to let AI loose on me. The prompt used was “Tell me about the photographer John Gill from Yorkshire in…
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A review of the RETRO book
15 March 2025
Pleased to share a very nice review of the Retro book on the Progresssive Street website. John GillRetro I can’t really remember where I first came across John’s work, although it was most likely on…
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Zoom Presentation to Masham Photo Club – A Review
13 January 2025
A review of my Zoom presentation to Masham Photographic Society on January 7th 2025. Hello MPC Members and Friends, Our first meeting of 2025 took place last night and featured a brilliant presentation from Yorkshire…
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Review of the Year 2024
17 December 2024
For some reason, I’ve taken far fewer pictures in 2024. Maybe it’s a lack of motivation, maybe it’s because I’ve exhausted the ‘best’ subjects, maybe it’s because Castleford is dying and there’s less and less…
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Christmas Book orders
4 December 2024
If anyone is interested in any of the books before Christmas don’t leave it too long. The full list of books is as follows: RETRO – 300 pages hardcover 11 x 8.5inAfter the Coal Dust…
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RETRO – a 300 page retrospective.
25 October 2024
A new book of photos and written pieces is available from November 1st 2024. The book features images from the 1980s to 2024. Available in cloth bound hardcover with dustjacket the book has 300 pages…
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It’s not all black and white – some colour photography
26 May 2024
So why a series of colour photos? I think we need to place that responsibility firmly with Batsceba 🙂 After all, 95% of my pictures are in black and white, every picture in the ‘After…
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