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After the Coal Dust book – Softcover version
29 April 2024
A softcover version of After the Coal Dust is now available. The book contains the same content as the hard cover versions (which are now, unfortunately, out of print) and is in A4 format with…
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After the Coal Dust Book – an update
7 April 2024
The original hardcover versions of ‘After the Coal Dust‘ are now, unfortunately, out of print and it is very unlikely that there’ll be any further copies available in either the 12inch or 8inch versions. The…
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A review of my talk to Barnstaple Photo Club
3 April 2024
Just thought I’d share a review I received for my recent Zoom talk to Barnstaple Photographic Club. It’s always difficult to gauge reaction over Zoom, so it was nice to receive the following. Dear John,…
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Life’s A Drag – The Smoker’s Gallery
4 March 2024
I think I might be an incredibly dull person. I don’t eat meat; I don’t drink and I’ve never had a cigarette in my life. And yet I seem to have accrued a considerable number…
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Yorkshire History & Heritage – After the Coal Dust article
24 January 2024
Last year I was asked to write an article on After the Coal Dust for Yorkshire History & Heritage Magazine. The full article is featured below. AFTER THE COAL DUST If we were to do…
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2023 A REVIEW OF THE YEAR
28 December 2023
I seem to have taken fewer photographs this year. I’m not sure why, a lack of opportunities or lack of motivation? Anyway, here’s the world’s most depressing calendar for 2023
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One Hundred Faces
13 December 2023
I never really set out to create the ‘100 Faces Project’. All I really do is wander around and point a camera in the general direction of strangers on the street. It was all just…
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Masks – Street Portraits
13 December 2023
On the street, in real life, there is no Rembrandt or Butterfly lighting arrangements. We are illuminated by the fluorescent lights in cafes or the glow from a charity shop window. This is who we…
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Some feedback from Bromsgrove Photographic Society
16 November 2023
A big thank you to Bromsgrove Photographic Society for hosting the Zoom talk on the 14th November 2023. Thank you too for forwarding some of the feedback. I think as a Zoom presentation it was…
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