Category Archives: Photography

felix the cat Here’s a fun image – fancy dress time and someone feels like going as Felix the Cat!   Felix the Cat started to appear in silent films in the early 1920’s and it’s popularity was on the … Continue reading →

We’ve been collecting old photographs for a number of years now and thought it would be good to share a few of our favourites. This image was used as a postcard by a German soldier serving at the front, covered … Continue reading →

Picnic in a gasmask Sometimes we get lucky in our search for photographs – this image of a lady in a gasmask was in a large collection of photos in a plastic shopping bag that we bought in Camden market … Continue reading →

It’s the London Photography Fair this Sunday 20th February at The Holday Inn, Bloomsbury WC1N 1HT. Hope we can pick up some interesting stuff.

A while ago we were walking back along the South Bank after visiting Tate Modern when we stumbled across an excited crowd. We were carrying our camera’s as we’d been out photographing details to complete our work. The option of photographing some people in a … Continue reading →

I was pleasantly surprised to turn on the T V and come across Alan Yentobs Imagine on William Eggleston. Entitled ‘The colourful Mr Eggleston’ – if you know of his work it is an obvious one, in that he is … Continue reading →

When Roland Barthes wrote about his experience while viewing a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother Jerome in the book Camera Lucida, he “realized then, with an amazement I have not been able to lessen since: “I am looking at eyes … Continue reading →

 I acquired this photograph the other day because I was intrigued by it. I have no personal relationship to the people in it and only know it was taken in Yorkshire. It is of a group of men proudly posed … Continue reading →

 I’ve been intrigued by photography my whole life, recently through working with digital technology, I was drawn back to studying the beginning of photography and the first experiments of capturing an image. The daguerreotype (photo displayed) was one of the … Continue reading →