I Dreamed A Dream

I recently saw the Twiggy exhibition at the National Portrait gallery and was interested in the way Twiggy is being photographed as she approaches 60 years of age. I have just watched the Susan Boyle story on ITV and a quick glimpse of a photographer with a Hasselblad (I think) photograph Susan Boyle. Although there are no comparisons between Twiggy the model and Susan, the album cover is cleverly photographed.

Photographer: Gianni Galassi

I stumbled across the work of Gianni Galassi and admire the invention and creativity. An interesting article on what constitutes a photograph follows a blog article on The Online Photographer website stemming from Galassi's work.

Photographer: James Nachtwey

Getting into photography as a professional appears very hard, having read this article it must be virtually impossible. This is a job advert where you work for free to gain experience and the photography hiring you doesn't have to pay. I wonder how many thousands of applications he gets?

Photo of the Day: The Hot Melts (2009)

The Hot Melts Album cover. I am still trying to find out who designed the cover artwork. The aged look photo might come in handy for Visual Research's Dreamland project.

Canon Pixma ip4600

My new photo printer, the Canon Pixma IP4600 and rated highly by the Gadget Show for print quality.

Photographer: Adrian Brannan

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Harinezumi Camera

Digital Harinezumi: Lo-fi coolness! USA Video Blog from Some Like It Shot on Vimeo.



"Creating warm, dreamy and surprising videos, the tiny Harinezumi camera by Superheadz was inspired by the Super 8mm silent film of the '60s and can take two hours of footage (without sound), whilst being compact enough to carry with you just about anywhere. Don't feel like filming? The Harinezumi also takes colour-saturated, dreamy still photos." - Urban Outfitters


Hard to find in the UK at the moment and expensive to ship from the US but this camera is what I am looking at for the Dreamland Visual Research project and could also be used in Photography in Context for the next project.