A new installation on show at Blast! photography festival presents found images of beauty queens, discovered in the community centre of a small town in the West Midlands,England
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Growing up, photographer Tom Roche learned about his Romani Gypsy heritage only through fragmentary stories and speculation. “My great, great uncle was stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake because he owed money for land,” says Roche, a recent University of the West of England graduate. “Then I had one aunt, aunt Liz, who used to pick crops, one aunt that made baskets, and another who sold pegs – or so I’m told; I don’t have any images, records, or concrete facts of my ancestors.”
1854 was a big year for photography. Kodak founder George Eastman was born, and the…
“Before photographically-illustrated magazines or newspapers, before television and Facebook networks existed, in the first decade…
Martin Parr has found a permanent home for the foundation he set up in 2014, giving visitors access to his archive and to his formidable collection. “I’ve been very lucky,” he told BJP’s Gemma Padley. “I have secured a very good living from doing this, and so the foundation is a great way to feed some of that back into the system.”
News that the National Media Museum is losing the world-class RPS Collection to the Victoria…
From the title of his photographic blog, Ugly Moments Strung Together, you sense that Robin…
As a child, Patrick Willocq spent seven years in the Democratic Republic of Congo; with…
“It was very unusual. I’ve been to a few Chinese weddings, but I had never…
Bianca Jagger rode a white horse through it on her birthday. On Andy Warhol’s special day,…