Michal Ozibko

BP portrait  Award 2010,  Oil with acrylic background on canvas, Even  though it is  a  painting , the  digitalisation and reproduction of the  image transforms it back into photography ( note to self:  re-read W Benjamin's  Art  in the  Age of Mechcanical Reproduction... it seems  to get ever more  relevant  in the digital age ).  Could  we see painting like this  as an honorable meditation on very  very  slow photography (with highly tuned rendering and observational  skills...).. A cross over image from painting  into photography

Zed Nelson

Good work , clean and  nicely lit,  some of these are really beautiful and poignant:

Shooting from britta thie on Vimeo.

This appears to be more of a look at the process of making fashion photography, much more fast paced than the work that we make. Still always looking for the moment that seems right though - the moment when no one (or machine) is looking

Magnum Archive - more behind the scenes

Behind the scenes of art project google

Tacita Dean calls for artists to save 16mm film processing

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/feb/22/tacita-dean-16mm-film?INTCMP=SRCH

sign the petition

We have had an overwhelming response from people concerned about the
closure of Soho Film Lab's 16mm print service. To coordinate the
response, we have set up an online petition aimed at persuading the
lab's new owners Deluxe to reverse the decision. Signing up the
petition is very quick and easy, you just need to go to
http://www.gopetition.com/petition/43288.html and click 'sign the
petition' at the bottom - the process only takes about 30 seconds.
Please also circulate this to anyone involved in working with celluloid.

Richard Nicholson

Richard Nicholsons, beautiful , flash painted 5 x 4 'portraits' of disapperaing darkroom spaces, damm it! you never appreciate how beautiful things are until they go.. ( wonderful pictures). Private spaces where magical things happen in the dark. These are places never normallly seen with such stark, naked lighting. It emphasises the sense of redundancy of such spaces in the digital age.... just keep holding on till some kind on mini renaissance that values process and not just results. (please)

More here Sean O Hagan's Blog Guardian

video at Guardian site here



and 'Analogue, trends in Sounds and Pictures' at the Riflemaker gallery london WC1

I like myself, as a stranger

...For weeks she'd been getting anonymous letters with black and white photographs showing her. Standing by a phone box, crossing a street ,flicking through a book in a antique shop.
To see what I look like to others.
In one of the photographs she is sitting in a pub garden, in conversation with an aquaintance. Laughing with lively hand gestures.
I like myself, as a stranger........

from Lillian Fashinger. Woman with Three Areoplanes Pub 1998

Valerie Belin

http://www.valeriebelin.com/

Great work , clunkly website (but that doesn't matter) In fact I like the honestly and lack of design.. separates it from the current PR drive for SEO twitter / blog / facebook etc. etc. tie ins..

Some of her new work currently on show at Haggerty 'The truth is Not in the Mirror'......with some of the usual suspects but it looks good
http://www.marquette.edu/haggerty/exhibit_2011_01_photo_portraits.shtml

Camera Bellows Ltd

It does what it says on the packet I think..( if it is still running as the www it came with doesn't work , but worth a chase up)
Camera Bellows Ltd Unit 3-5 St Pauls Rd Birmingham B12 8NG Tel: 0121 440 1695
Also could be useful:

http://www.rolandandcaroline.co.uk/html/isolette_bellows.html for pdf 'how to' as guide for a talented bookmaker.........

Warhol Screen Tests

From MOMA' s screen test show not the Warhols originals but inspired by....... I think interesting in their own way though some have a bit too much knowingness about them I think.. but when they work though they are quite vunerable, open, human and touching......

http://moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/warhol/

An orginal here (suggest turn the sound off)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhYfCWd5XQ0&feature=related

"The many Screen Tests evidence a variety of behavior of its portrait subjects, but amazingly little improvisation. The subjects actually look like they are captured and about to be interrogated, but the interrogation never happens, because Andy wanted to capture the essence of the person only, no interference, just like no interference with the camera as it recorded each “moving” still-life. "
Billy Name-Linich, Factory photographer

(Ground Glass) Screen Test

This was a test made by filming the image projected on the ground glass screen on the back of our Victorian Plate Camera. The sitter is waiting for the photograph to be composed, uncertain whether the process is being filmed or not. This work is part of our on-going exploration into how the use of old photographic equipment affects the response of the subject in front of the camera.

High Street Portraiture

This isn't what it sounds like, honestly:

http://www.sexypeople-blog.com/

A Celebration of the Perfect Portrait

1000 Words Photography Magazine Blog: Carrie Levy

1000 Words Photography Magazine Blog: Carrie Levy: "All images © Carrie Levy This project came across my desk a few days ago via one of our contributing writers, Susan Brig..."

The Process