Man In The White Suit

FilmDev is a small website I put together a few months back for people who develop their own film at home.

It allows people to input details of their developing “recipes” and then link them to photos (that were developed in that recipe) on Flickr.

It’s not got a great deal of data on there yet (around 50 recipes) but with a little more take up could prove to be a really useful resource.

Feel free to add your own recipes and/or tell your (film developing) friends.

That link again: FilmDev.

Howard Hopwood, marketing director of Ilford Photo comments on the future of film in this press release.

(The picture isn’t a comment on the article, it’s there because it was shot on HP5+ and developed in Ilford chemistry).

I first came across Martin Parr’s work through a comment someone made on one of my photographs last year (it’s a digital one, sorry). I have tried, occasionally and probably somewhat self-consciously, to incorporate some part of his aesthetic into what I do photographically, with varying degrees of success.

The discussion I’m about to give you the link for took place as part of the “Tous Photographes!/We are All Photographers Now!” exhibition in Lausanne. The show, and to some extent the discussion with Parr ponders the question of whether the “Digital Revolution” has blurred the distinction between amateur and professional, and the changing photographic landscape now that every mobile phone is also a camera.

The discussion is roughly an hour and a quarter long, and Parr is an engaging, witty speaker - well worth the download, I think.

Martin Parr Discussion (44mb)

There is also a “We Are All Photogaphers” Blog.

Hello world indeed.

Apologies for the bad image up top, I’ll get round to doing a better one next week sometime. In the meantime feel free to register and contribute…