Articles

Short pieces written in a variety of contexts and for a non-academic audience interested in popular or current issues around photography, photographic praxis, and/or Web2. A selection is listed here, or use the drop-down menu under Articles on any page.

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What to do if you inherit a 35mm film camera

January 2008

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Nineteen useful things to know about using slide film

November 2007
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Ten Reasons Why Sending Mass Emails to Your Customers is a Really Bad Idea

Marketing a photography business [1]: Winter 2007

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Self Publishing

A review of current web based photobook and marketing items (postcards, badges, business cards). November 2007
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Fluckr
Opinion(s) on the state of the popular photohost Flickr. Summer 2007

There have been several incidents at the shrine that is the world’s best loved and most popular photosharing site. From humble beginnings at the endearingly named Ludicorp, based in Canada, where the founders delighted in making and improving the Game Never Ending (gne is still in many of Flickr’s urls), the site grew exponentially as the digital photography evolution took a fevered hold among the moneyed computer owning geekocracies of the westernised, developed (sic) world.

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Toscani Tested
The controversial Bennetton adverts of the 1980s. Originally an essay written for an undergraduate degree course and redrafted in July 2007.

“There are three ways of looking Toscani’s work, and at the last 17 years of Benetton advertising. The first sees him as a pioneer in mass communication, no matter what his motives. The second involves the refusal of Benetton – or Toscani – to admit to any charitable giving on the back of its “social commitment” causes, and paints them as cynical and corporate and cowardly. The final way is that of NGO’s and the stars of the campaigns, like the family of David Kirby, whose death from AIDS was a famous photo and campaign in 1992.”

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Usmanov
Short statement of solidarity with the bloggers who were shut down after Craig Murray revealed the history and business dealings of Arsenal football team’s new majority shareholder. September 2007.

Look, I really have no particular interest in this Usmanov bloke, except of course that censorship is tedious in the extreme, since it is appearing in all sorts of places at the moment, and it’s pointless because everyone’s curiosity is piqued in the extreme. “What’s that say under there?” said a woman on the bus. “It’s a visual pun”, said I. “Visual pun? It says visual pun? Why?” Me: “I mean, if it wasn’t crossed out, you wouldn’t care, would you?” She: “Wouldn’t you? Why not?” Exactly.

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Miscellany:

Quotable
Chronological list of photography related quotes that have appeared on the homepage.

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The JM Debacle
Occasionally you just have to fundraise, that’s all there is to it.

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