Sunday, 23 May 2010

• Photomarketing consultancy ST&A claims UK event photographers may be turning to 8″x10″ and 10″x12″ instant prints to recover falling print revenues.
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• David Hobby, the American off-camera-flash blogger known as “Strobist”, spends a day teaching for The Flash Centre in London UK.
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• The new “London Road” studio in Gloucestershire marks it’s official opening with an open day of models and motorbikes.
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Saturday, 22 May 2010

• The twitterverse wakes up to photo lab Photographique’s “Bristol Festival of Photography”!
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• Photography trainer Damien Lovegrove appeals for exemplars of beauty, vintage, boudoir or latex photography to study!
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• Photo model Lex Eleven issues a tentative travel notice for Berlin, “soon”.
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• Gary Fong posts a YouTube video of gels for his Light Sphere flash gun diffuser.
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• The Sygma photo agency shuts down.

Friday, 21 May 2010

• David Hobby has his first engagement on the Strobist tour of Britain.
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• Norfolk wedding photographer Antonella Muscat reveals her rock’n'roll wedding will feature on “Four Weddings” on June 21.
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• Photographer Jonathan Worth announces the accession of his portrait of British comic-book author Alan Moore to the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
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Thursday, 20 May 2010

• Mark from Hasselblad UK visits commercial photographer Jay McGlaughlin in his studio.
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• Photomarketing consultancy ST&A claims debs photography is developing in the UK, and that the crews cleaning up have come in from event photography, not from schools photography.
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• Peter Galassi converses with Gerry Badger at the National Portrait Gallery about photographer Henri Cartier Bresson.
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• Business Start-Up expo is on at Excel, London. Quite a few photographers attend.
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010

• The overhauled BAPLA Picture Buyers’ Fair concludes at its new venue, The Barbican in London. Few photographers have attended.
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• Kiss and Tell: Bankrupt celebrity photographers Markus Klinko & Indrani claim to the New York Post that Indrani is seeing Lindsay Lohan!
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• David “Strobist” Hobby shoots Domestic Sluttery blogger Sian Meades in London, on a catamaran and in a driverless train.
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• The BIPP North West holds its AGM.
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• Wedding photographer Julia Boggio comes home (eventually!) with a “highly commended” from the HSBC South London Entrepreneur of the Year awards.
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• Italian photographer Fabio Polenghi is shot and killed in the Thai street clashes.
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010

• Photographer Craig Fraser brings home his new son, Oscar James.
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Monday, 17 May 2010

• Nothing much happened.
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