Category: Shameless Self Promotion
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#616 – Interview feature in Black and White Photography Magazine Issue 277
I’m delighted to announce that I have been interviewed for issue 277 of Black and White Photography Magazine. This is on sale in newsagents in the UK until mid-May 2023.
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#590 – New Zine published and on sale now!
Wrecked on the beach is my first zine, and is based on my ongoing wrecks project. OK, so ‘wrecks’ is a bit of a leap of the imagination, it’s more beached and derelict ships that I’ve photographed across the UK and abroad, but hey, let’s not split hairs eh? It’s 32 pages with a colour…
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#574 – Now Open – The Industrial Tourist Exhibition at Peak District Lead Mining Museum
My Industrial Tourist exhibition is now open at the Peak District Lead Mining Museum in Matlock Bath. This is my usual mix of mills, mines, steelworks and a dash of transport thrown in (although I’m beginning to think that I will remove those if I have another exhibition). Compared to the last showing of this…
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#538 – The Industrial Tourist exhibition – now open at Astley Hall, Chorley.
Further to my previous post, the Industrial Tourist opened at Astley Hall on Saturday and all the hard work has paid off! Rory from the Astley Hall staff and myself (but mainly Rory) put all the frames up on Friday and I had a small opening for family and friends on Saturday. Well, I call…
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#537- My next exhibition – The Industrial Tourist at Astley Hall, Chorley
I am pleased to announce that my next photographic exhibition will open on 16th November in Astley Hall in my adopted home town of Chorley. As usual this will be my usual Monochrome photographs of mongy old mills, derelict mines, beached ships and various other industrial artefacts that litter the northern landscape. It opens at…
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#512 – Professional Image Maker Article
It’s been a busy month for me, so this is a little late, but this month I’ve had the privilege of having a 12 page feature in Professional Image Maker magazine, the journal of the SWPP. I think the last time I had my work featured was in Amateur Photographer, not that I’ve transitioned from…
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#481 – A new look to the blog!
After four years of the last template, I’ve decided to have a refresh of the site as WordPress have some interesting new ones available – I hope you like it! It’s less noticeable on mobile devices, you very much need to see it on a desktop or laptop to appreciate it. I’ve also taken the…
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#478 – My next exhibition – ‘Millscapes’ at Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery
I’m excited to announce that my next exhibition is at the lovely Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery, opening on the 11th November and running until the 4th December. Unlike my previous exhibitions, this exhibition will be a display of the photographs I took of two Saddleworth mills – Bailey and Wellington – in 2007. Wellington…
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#477 – Reduced price copies of The View From The North 2007-2017 book!
OK, so I’ve bought a few copies of The View From The North 2007-2017 book for sale at my talks, so it makes sense to try and peddle it here as well. If you buy it direct from Blurb it’ll cost £26 (plus 7 quid P&P) but I bought these during a discount offer so…
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#471 – The View From The North 10 Year Retrospective – Book Now Available
In 2007, I decided to create a website. I can’t remember why, but it must have seemed like a good idea at the time. I’ve never looked back. To celebrate the first ten years, I’ve pulled together a book of some of my favourite images. Truth be told, I’d have liked to include a lot…
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#465 – Shadows of the North Second Edition now on sale!!
I am pleased to announce that having sold out the first run of Shadows of The North, I have produced an expanded second edition, with many new photographs from 2016 including Brierfield Mill, Hope Mill, Ancoats and several others. I’ve also had a shuffle round of the existing images. The book is now 94 pages…
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#462 – Mechanical Landscapes Website Relaunch
So after two years of wrestling with my Zenfolio hosted http://www.mechanicallandscapes.com, I’ve ditched it and moved to Squarespace. While I can’t fault Zenfolio’s customisation options, it drove me round the twist sometimes, and despite doing everything recommended on the SEO front, traffic was next to nothing. So I’ve cut my losses and built a much simpler site…
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Shadows of the North Book – last few copies / free PDF sample
Having sold quite a few of my books recently at my talks and online, I’m down to the last few copies of my self-published book, and I’m considering my options for a reprint. The safe option is to go back to Blurb, but good though they are, they are ridiculously expensive and I only ever buy…
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My recent Urbex shoot for O2 / Samsung
More to come soon, but I’ve recently been commissioned to take some urbex style photos using the awesome new Samsung Galaxy S7. Here’s the press release from O2: http://news.o2.co.uk/?press-release=urban-explorer-snaps-eerie-pics-samsung-galaxy-s7-o2 And a story in the Manchester Evening News: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/london-road-fire-station-urban-11055107 Finally a gallery of photos on my website of London Road Fire Station: http://www.theviewfromthenorth.org/london-road-fire-station-samsung More to come………
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Talk to Lancaster Photographic Society 3rd February 2016
My next talk is on Wednesday 3rd February at Lancaster Photographic Society (although it was originally advertised incorrectly on my websites as the 8th February). Doors open at 7ish, meeting starts at 7.30 and I will be talking for 90 minutes or so about my photographs. The venue is Priory Hall, Castle Hill, Lancaster, LA1…
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Shadows of the North Book Now On Sale!
It’s been a long time in the making, but I am proud to announce that I have finally got round to publishing a book to accompany the Shadows of the North exhibition! OK, so I’ve mistimed this quite spectacularly as the exhibition at Queen Street Mill is about to end*, but if you haven’t seen it there…
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Talk at Darwen Camera Club 24th August 2015
For anyone in East Lancashire who is interested in my work, I will be giving my Mechanical Landscapes talk at Darwen Camera Club on Monday 24th August 2015. The meeting starts at 7.30 and the talk lasts about 90 minutes (ish). The club meet at Hollins Grove Church Hall, Hawkshaw Avenue, Darwen, BB3 1QZ http://www.darwencameraclub.org.uk
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#406 – Shadows of the North Exhibition opens at Queen Street Mill, Burnley
I am pleased to announce that my Shadows of the North exhibition has moved to Queen Street Mill Textile Museum in Burnley, the last steam powered weaving shed in the world. This is the same exhibition that was up at Helmshore earlier this year, but reduced to 15 photographs due to space constraints. If I’m…
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#394 – Photographs from Helmshore Exhibition!
Finally – a few snaps from my Shadows of the North exhibition at Helmshore Mills Textile Museum. It’s not the biggest exhibition you’ll see, and on reflection it would have been nice to have had an extra display board to space things out a bit but they only own two. I’m working on bringing it…
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#393 – Shadows of the North Exhibition at Helmshore Textile Museum opens Monday!
The pictures have been delivered to the museum and are now on the wall, and everything is ready to go! The exhibition will run over the Lancashire half term period, and opens Monday 16th February. It is located in the room between the two mills (rather than the giant exhibiton space on the top floor…
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Follow me on Facebook!
My initial dip of the toe in the social media pool was in 2011 when I set up a Facebook page – and promptly did nothing with it. Four years on, I’ve decided that I need to do something with it, so this is the formal launch it never had four years ago! http://www.facebook.com/theviewfromthenorth My…
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