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The week in brief, edited by Liam Cliff ord
First Scottish Portrait Awards underway
The Scottish Portrait Awards
is accepting entries until 31
May and is open to anyone
aged 17 and above who lives,
studies or was born in
Scotland. The results will
feature in a month-long
exhibition and the winner will
take away £2,000 in prize
money. More info at www.
scottishportraitawards.org.
DJI debuts Osmo Mobile
Silver at CES 2017
The prolific drone producer continues to
introduce new products, showing off a new Osmo
device for turning smartphones into smart motion
cameras. By combining the selfie stick-esque Osmo
and its DJI GO app, DJI claims users will be able to
automatically track their subject, stabilise videos,
capture timelapses and stream live easily. The
Osmo Mobile Silver costs £319. Visit www.dji.com.
Free update for DxO One
DxO has announced a significant update
for its DxO One iPhone camera, based
around the increasingly popular
Facebook Live function. The free
upgrade is designed to give users the
first pro-level multi-camera solution for
live Facebook broadcasting. Users will
be able to use all three viewpoints for
their broadcast: DxO One, as well as the
front and back iPhone cameras.
New ‘Mirrorless Mover’ colours
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WEEKEND PROJECT
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Prepare for the Big Now that naturally
occurring supplies of
Garden Birdwatch seeds, berries and insects
are running low, most birds will
come to feeders. To attract the
Student Photographer
In 2016, more than 519,000 people took part in the
greatest number use quality
of the Year 2016 RSPB’s annual Big Garden Birdwatch – an event that feeders and roofed tables (to
helps build a picture of garden wildlife in the UK.
prevent food from going stale).
Henry Nathan, a University of Leeds Last year’s most frequently sighted bird was the
student who was praised for his house sparrow (although the starling was the most
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‘stunning and timely’ shot of a light commonly seen bird in Northern Ireland). Other If you’re having trouble
shining through a cave in America, popular species included the blackbird (appearing identifying a garden
beat 850 entries to win the Calumet in 88% of gardens) and the long-tailed tit. visitor, enter its size,
Student Photographer of the Year This year’s event takes place from 28-30 January location, colour of feathers and
2016 competition. He was presented and there are a number of things you can do to shape of beak into the RSPB’s
with his award at Calumet’s flagship prepare for it. Once you’ve done your bit for the online bird identifier (rspb.org.
store, and wins a package of prizes count, put your photography skills to the test (see uk). Alternatively, take a look
worth more than £11,000. page 12 for our in-depth guide). at Bird Id (birdid.co.uk).
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BIG
picture
Travel Photographer of
the Year 2016 winners
announced
Joel Santos is the fi rst ever
Portuguese overall winner in
the Travel Photographer of the
Year’s 14-year history, beating
photographers from 123
countries. However, here we
take a closer look at Russian
photographer Sergey Pesterev’s
image, which received a special
mention in the Best Single Image
in a Portfolio of the Land, Sea and
Sky category. The image was
taken in Lake Baikal in Russia.
Sergey lit his foreground with
fl ash, and used a 16mm f/2.8
fi sheye lens.
The winning images will go on
show at TPOTY exhibitions at the
UK City of Culture celebrations
in Hull from 18 May to 30 June,
and at 10 Stockwell Street,
Greenwich, at the University
of Greenwich, London, from
4 August to 3 September.
Words & numbers
This then: to
photograph a rock,
have it look like a
rock, but be more
3To get you in the mood The robin was
among the top ten than a rock
for the big event the
in last year’s count
RSPB has created an
hour-long birdsong track,
Edward Weston
featuring a symphony of garden
American photographer
sounds. It’s a great way of
1886-1958
listening to the dawn chorus
from your bed (see rspb.org.uk).
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Last call for
Pink Lady
entries
THERE are only a
few weeks left to
enter the Pink Lady Food
Photographer of the Year
competition 2017, one of
the world’s most
prestigious celebrations
about the vibrant world of
food photography and fi lm.
Open to everyone,
professional and amateur
As a keen amateur
photographer the Duchess has alike, in a number of
taken a number of official categories, the Pink Lady
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world – and boasts a prize
Duchess of Cambridge
pool worth almost
£20,000 in total, with
£5,000 set aside for the
overall winner.
receives RPS honour
With an international
judging panel, including
AP’s own Nigel Atherton,
it’s not one to miss if you
think you’ve got a shot.
The Duchess of Cambridge has accepted a lifetime
Visit www.pinkladyfood
honorary membership to The Royal Photographic
photographeroftheyear.
Society (RPS). She is the latest in a line of royals to
com to enter.
become associated with the RPS, an educational
charity dedicated to promoting photography and
supporting photographers.
As a keen amateur photographer, the Duchess has
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public’s attention. Taken at their home in Anmer Hall in A portrait of Princess Charlotte taken by the Duchess
Norfolk, they show Princess Charlotte alongside her
older brother, Prince George. Prince Albert and Queen Victoria were early patrons
A graduate in art history, Kate has always had an of The Royal Photographic Society, with Queen Victoria
artistic eye. She began publishing her work when her granting it use of the title ‘royal’ in 1894. The Duchess
parents asked her to take some photographs for their joins offi cial royal photographers who are RPS
Party Pieces website in 2008. The Duchess has also members, including Josh Olins, Matt Porteous and SAVE
released a series of photographs from the 2012 tour of Christopher Jackson.
South East Asia and the South Pacifi c that she took with RPS chief executive Dr Michael Pritchard FRPS says: 42%*
her husband the Duke of Cambridge, among which is an ‘The Duchess of Cambridge has had a long-standing
impressive shot of a misty Mount Kinabalu in Borneo. interest in photography and its history. She is the latest in
The Duchess continues to release portraits of her a long line of royal photographers and the Society is
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– beating thousands of
Five Glasgow-based artists, each with individual approaches to
other entries to victory.
the medium of photography, join forces for Tabula Rasa II, where
Titled ‘Park Life’, Kyle
each of them will explore the limits of the medium and how it can
took his image at dusk in
tell us about time and place. It’s a heady cocktail of ideas and
a park in Ilford, London.
practice, and a show likely to keep you thinking for some time.
He said: ‘I’m shocked to
have won but very, very Until 5 February, www.streetlevelphotoworks.org
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during an awards
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While group workshops are
London. As grand experts in wildlife creatures they’ve found in
great, nothing beats a
‘Arrivals: Making Sheffield
prizewinner, Kyle won a photography, led by their back garden, or
one-to-one session to ensure
Home’ is a powerful series of
weekend break to Springwatch presenter animals they’ve seen while
personal advice and attention.
portraits by Jeremy Abrahams
photograph deer and Chris Packham. He said of they were on holiday.
Landscape photographer David
celebrating the stories of
birds of prey, as well as the entries: ‘There were a These young people are
Taylor offers day-long personal
Sheffield residents who have
a number of Wex whole range of images going out and experiencing
tuition to show how to shoot
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Photographic vouchers. this year from pictures the environment around
landscapes effectively.
make a home in the city.
This year’s Awards were showing the relationship them. It is just fantastic.’
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Open Eye Gallery celebrates 40 years
Herb Ritts
This year sees one of the North of This exhibition celebrates the enduring
England’s leading photography legacy of Ritts’s photography and
galleries, Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery, Hamiltons’ longstanding relationship
celebrating its 40th birthday with a host with the Herb Ritts Foundation, with a
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people and communities. Street photography
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workshop
is titled ‘North: Identity, Photography and commitment to promoting the
Fashion’, in partnership with Adidas. The enjoyment and understanding of With street photography such a
exhibition considers why the region has photography as an art form. In 2011 the burgeoning genre, it seems fitting that
proved a steadfast inspiration to gallery migrated to a new, purpose-built there are a great number of workshops
designers, artists and image-makers alike. location in the freshly redeveloped on the subject. However, if you want a
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Passport
by Alexander Chekmenev
Following the dissolution of
the Soviet Union, Ukraine
found itself in a bureaucratic
quandary. Oliver Atwell
gets a fascinating glimpse
into the past
S
ometimes photographers find
Published by
themselves in extraordinary
dewi lewis
political circumstances. It could
Price £35
well be they’ve sought them out,
156 pages
such as Mark Power when he travelled to
hardback
Berlin in November 1989 to document the
ISBN 978-1-
elation of the crowds as they witnessed the
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fall of the wall that separated East from
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West. Or maybe a photographer is thrown Chekmenev erected a simple white sheet behind the sitter to achieve the passport images
unwittingly into a situation, a good example
being Stuart Franklin, who was there to boundaries began to shrink and the passports. That stands to reason.
witness a defiant student stand his ground countries held within its iron grip were However, now Ukraine was no longer part
against a military tank in China’s finally in a position to claim independence. of the Soviet Union, every single citizen’s
Tiananmen Square. These are examples of One such nation was the newly passport was nullified. This would require
grandeur, of world-changing events. But autonomous Ukraine, a country that a headache-inducing solution. Every
sometimes the photographer finds himself continues to struggle in its relationship citizen needed a new passport, one that
or herself involved, through circumstance, with Russia to this day. Once Ukraine had identified him or her as a resident of
in something small and intimate, but no wriggled free of its shackles it was in an Ukraine. You can see how this could be a
less extraordinary. odd bureaucratic quandary. When it was problem. As can often be the case with
In the early 1990s, the mighty Soviet part of the Soviet Union, Ukraine’s 52 these things, the government of Ukraine
Union had all but dissolved. The empire’s million citizens held Soviet Union set themselves a mind-boggling deadline
to achieve this – just one year.
One region of Ukraine that was forced
to undergo these changes was Luhansk,
which sits in the southwest of the country.
Between 1994 and 1995, social services
in the area began employing
photographers who were tasked with
travelling to the homes of the elderly and
ill, individuals who lacked the funds to pay
for a photographer themselves. One of
those photographers was Alexander
Chekmenev. This book, Passport, is a
record of the work he did during that
year-long national campaign.
Door to door
Perhaps the first thing that strikes you, as
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Chekmenev’s images give us an insight into the conditions in which some of his subjects existed citizen had this inconvenience thrust upon
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Also out now
The latest and best books from the
world of photography. By Oliver Atwell
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NIGEL HICKS
Often the social workers assisted in propping up the sitters for Chekmenev’s shots
Wild Southwest
by Nigel Hicks
Aquaterra Publishing, £14.99, paperback,
160 pages, ISBN 978-0-99279-701-0
FOR MORE than 20 years, Nigel
Hicks has been travelling the world
documenting the natural landscapes
and wildlife that inhabit different
regions. Like the best photographers
in his fi eld, Hicks’s images are about
more than just beautiful pictures –
his work is often presented within the context of
conservation and acts as a demonstration of the
incredible diversity of the world. However, in this book
Hicks is showing us an area close to home: the
southwest of England. Anyone who lives in or around
places such as Devon, Cornwall, Somerset or Dorset
will know just how much these incredible lands have to
offer a photographer. Whether it’s the natural
A closer look sometimes reveals fascinating details – note the medals and tattoos
formations of the landscape or the wildlife that inhabits
it, Hicks is on hand with this book to help you get the
them? Clearly Chekmenev’s sitters were uncropped images. Each of the sitters is in
best images. It’s clearly written and beautifully
in no rush to set off on a jolly jaunt to the their living room or bedroom. There’s a
illustrated. Even if you’re a long-time resident of the
African savannah any time soon. Some, as white sheet behind them. Around them is
areas he discusses, there will likely be something new
I’ve said, were bedridden and incapable of the paraphernalia of their lives: pictures,
★★★★★
for you.
even telling you their own name. cups, books, bed sheets. It’s a deeply
Perhaps it has something to do with moving experience to see these sitters
Ukraine’s newfound independence. For within their own personal context. Border: A journey along the
years and years, the relationship between On one occasion, Chekmenev took 60 edges of Russia
Russia and Ukraine is one soaked in blood pictures in one day. He discovered soon
by Maria Gruzdeva
and warfare. Events in the 20th century after that one of the subjects had died.
Schilt Publishing, £27.50, hardback, 360
had seen Russia run roughshod over One woman he visited was so near the
pages, ISBN 978-9-05330-878-3
Ukraine soil, using it as a pawn in military end of her life, she had prepared her own
strategy and desperately clinging to it due coffi n. She lived in one room. The coffi n CONTINUING the theme from our
to its position on the world map. The was in the other. On more than one main review, here we fi nd an incredible
mountainless Ukraine is an inviting occasion, the intrusion of Chekmenev and document of Russia. Starting in 2011,
invasion ground for Western forces the social workers was so traumatic the Maria Gruzdeva began a journey along
wishing to strike at Russia – with that in sitters broke down in tears and begged Russia’s border, which, at around
mind, it’s in Russia’s best interests to keep them to leave. 60,000km, is the longest national
Ukraine under its control by any means After all this, the process went well over border in the world. Her journey ended
necessary. Perhaps, then, this was deadline. The passports ended up being in 2015 and this book is the result and it’s almost
Ukraine’s desire to quickly establish itself, several years in the making. The Soviet breathtaking in its scope. It is essentially a visual diary,
in a small bureaucratic way, as passports remained valid until 2000. All interspersed with notes detailing her experiences. We
independent of its lifelong tormentor. in all, Chekmenev’s incredible and haunting get a fascinating and existential perspective on a land
Passport opens with a small collection of study of rampant bureaucracy puts things that for many may seem culturally impenetrable.
the fi nal prints used in the passports. in perspective. Maybe think twice next time Gruzdeva is Russian (she’s now based in London),
Nothing special there. But when we move you fi nd yourself complaining about which makes her insights all the more valuable. This
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on to later pages, we fi nd the original fi lling in a tax return. is a truly brilliant account.
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Viewpoint
Social life
Jon Bentley
Here are some of our favourite images
from the world of social media this week
As in-camera USB charging is such a useful Twitter
function, why aren’t more manufacturers
including it in their products?
I
think it’s high time all camera there were plenty of appropriate chargers
manufacturers enabled in-camera and cables round the house to save the
USB battery charging. I know Sony day. The chances of fi nding the unique
generally does, and Fujifi lm is (well, nearly – certain Panasonics use
slowly coming round to the idea (the the same one) charger on a Saturday
X100T supports the function though the afternoon were virtually zero.
X-Pro2 doesn’t). But Canon, Nikon and Of course, USB charging mustn’t result
others still require you to take the battery in the demise of replaceable batteries.
out of their more expensive cameras and There will be times when you need more
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to me recently. I was looking forward to cells no longer hold charge. Steve Palmer @SillyPigsPlay
trying out the Leica Q that The Gadget And it shouldn’t kill off the ability What may seem mundane at first can often offer a great deal of
Show offi ce had borrowed for a to charge your battery outside the potential. This is a lovely example that utilises a variety of colours.
programme on ultimate Christmas camera. External chargers should still be
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presents. I collected it one Friday evening, available and reasonably priced. Sony,
so I could familiarise myself with what whose external charger for the Alpha
promised to be a quite delightful piece of 6000/6300 lists at an exorbitant £42,
Facebook
product design. A glorious late-autumn please take note. But the USB-powering
weekend awaited, and I looked forward option means fewer chargers to carry. If Jorel Cuomo
to revelling in the super- sharp f/1.7 necessary, you could even charge your
Jorel photographed this
Summilux lens, the precise manual camera from your laptop or borrow
Barbary macaque in
controls and the gorgeous 3.68MP someone’s phone charger for a quick
Morocco. It’s a great
electronic viewfi nder. boost while you’re out and about.
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