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It’s special. spend time looking, enjoying, This is what we proudly present to the judges. really seeing beautiful prints This is the ultimate in photography, the finished framed and displayed on the wall. It’s a time for print. And, in an era of throwaway and disposable engaging fully with the photographer and discovering imagery, isn’t that something to be proud of? what it is that they are saying, what they want to I don’t think I’ll ever stop loving photographic reveal to the viewer. It’s an exceptional experience. prints, however many viewing devices are invented, And that’s why I love the fact that here at exciting though they may be. I have prints on my Black+White we run one of the few competitions walls that I will never part with, done by some of the that ask the shortlisted candidates to submit prints. photographers I most admire, but more than that – The Black+White Photographer of the Year 2015 they have come to mean something to me and have has just launched and it’s a time that generates become part of my life, and who I am. real excitement in the office. Looking at pictures I don’t think we should let printing go, I think we Elizabeth Roberts, Editor on a screen is one experience – and a good one at should develop the skills and give it the time that is [email protected] that – but when the shortlisted prints arrive that’s needed to learn how to do it well. PINBOARD facebook.com/blackandwhitephotog follow us on Twitter @BWPMag SHOOTING THE URBAN LANDSCAPE Known on B+W’s Twitter feed for posting his creative urban street shots, Roj Whitelock’s picture Run is a strong addition to his portfolio. With a dynamic composition that helps to draw us into the photograph, Roj used an Olympus OM-D EM-1 camera and a Zuiko Pro 12- 01 40mm lens. This picture was taken one B+W evening this summer in Norwich. © David Hixon OUTLET Follow Roj on Twitter: @rojwhitelock David Hixon’s exquisite image Outlet was taken near his home at Goodrington Beach, Devon. Combining his artistic eye with a long exposure and two lens filters, David has captured a mesmerising monochrome seascape. He used a Nisi 100 ND filter and a Kood 09 Gradient filter on his Canon 5D MkII. picture.devon.co.uk © Roj Whitelock © Andy Davidson SELF-PORTRAIT As photographers we normally stay behind the lens, keeping our faces out of shot and letting the way we see the world reveal a part of us instead. Andy Davidson’s intriguing image shows how © Steve Unsworth it’s just as important to experiment with A PHOTOGRAPH WE LOVE taking self-portraits. Turning the camera Having his Leica M6 camera close to hand at Germany’s Sinsheim Auto & Technik Muesum around makes us consider how we choose recently, Steve Unsworth took this photograph of motorcycles. Using the silhouette look to to represent ourselves. full effect, Steve’s image works perfectly in black & white. See more of Andy’s work here: Follow Steve on Twitter: @stunsworth flickr.com/photos/dan_gleebitz 0011__EEDDSS__LLEETTTTEERR//PPIINNBBOOAARRDD__MMBB//AABBEE..iinndddd 11 1166//0077//22001155 1100::2233 © Lisa Krantz 1100 ISSUE 180 SEPTEMBER 2015 © Elke Vogelsang COVER IMAGE © Brett Killington © Daido Moriyama © Tim Clinch 26 50© Alain Laboile 78 This month's cover is by Elke Vogelsang. See more of her work at elkevogelsang.com. GET IN TOUCH 02 Tel 01273 477374 B+W facebook.com/ blackandwhitephotog twitter.com/BWPMag EDITOR Elizabeth Roberts [email protected] DEPUTY EDITOR Mark Bentley [email protected] ASSISTANT EDITOR Anna Bonita Evans [email protected] FEATURES NEWS COMMENT FOR FULL 10 A LIFE APART 4 NEWSROOM 24 AMERICAN DETAILS OF Lisa Krantz’s The latest from the land CONNECTION compassionate pictures of a of B&W Susan Burnstine meets a HOW TO GET man suffering from obesity photographer with a difference PUBLISHED IN 9 ON THE SHELF 26 THE KILLING The best of the new 46 FACING FACTS BLACK+WHITE FIELDS photography books Thomas Peck looks at PHOTOGRAPHY Evocative pictures of World the choices facing portrait TURN TO War One battlefields by 20 IN THE FRAME photographers Brett Killington Photography exhibitions PAGE 54. across the country 50 A MODERN EYE 80 60-SECOND Shoair Mavlian on the EXPOSURE 22 EXHIBITION art of the photobook NEXT MONTH’S Ajit Menon is fascinated by OF THE MONTH ISSUE IS OUT ON the natural world The show to see 78 A FORTNIGHT AT F/8 3 SEPTEMBER Tim Clinch on lists for photographers 22__33__118800__CCOONNTTEENNTTSS //MMBB..iinndddd 22 1166//0077//22001155 1122::4433 © Tracy Hallett © Lea Murphy 38 32 © Lee Frost © Therese Lynch 60 44 03 B+W TESTS AND YOUR TECHNIQUE INSPIRATION PRODUCTS BLACK+WHITE 60 RAISE YOUR 6 BLACK+WHITE 70 LEICA M 32 PORTFOLIO STANDARD PHOTOGRAPHER MONOCHROM Prize-winning pictures Lee Frost on the versatile OF THE YEAR 2015 Leica’s high-spec B&W camera 50mm lens Win a fabulous Leica camera put to the test 82 SMARTSHOTS Send us your 66 PHOTO PROJECTS 38 MINDFUL 74 CHECKOUT smartphone pictures Tim Daly has an PHOTOGRAPHY The six best toy cameras intriguing challenge for you How to stop looking and 86 NEXT MONTH start seeing 84 BLACK+WHITE What we’re planning next 72 SMART GUIDE LOVES TO PHOTOGRAPHY 44 READER Cool kit for photographers 94 SUBS OFFER Tim Clinch on an app you’ll love ASSIGNMENT Have B+W Prize-winning pictures delivered to your door 56 ALL ABOUT 96 LAST FRAME PRINTING A single image we love Explore the power of the print with Eddie Ephraums 22__33__118800__CCOONNTTEENNTTSS //MMBB..iinndddd 33 1166//0077//22001155 1122::4433 NEWSROOM NEWS News from the black & white world. Edited by Mark Bentley. [email protected] © National Media Museum, Bradford HIGH CONTRAST Black & white photographer Matt Black has been made a Magnum Nominee at the prestigious photo agency. Black, who grew up in California, explores themes of migration, farming and poverty in his work and was named Time Magazine Instagram Photographer of the Year in 2014. mattblack.com A day of photography talks is in store at the University of Warwick on 20 September. The event, organised by the Royal Photographic Society, features Joe Cornish, Photoshop artist Steve Caplin and B+W contributor Eddie Ephraums. Visitors can also hear talks on colour management, mono and colour 04 printing, Lightroom and Photoshop. B+W rps.org/DIExpo Portrait of Christina, 1913, by Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn O'Gorman, the Royal Photographic Society Collection. Saturday Night at the Movies is the theme for this year’s MYSTERY REVEALED Student Photographer of the Year. The Harman/Ilford competition invites photography students to submit images that inspire them The mystery surrounding the identity of a young Museum in Bradford. It was spotted by retired of a scene from a film. Deadline: woman in a historic photograph has been revealed. technician Stephen Riddle, who contacted Colin 31 January 2016. The picture of a girl called Christina is an early to say he had a set of stereoscopic slides by harmantechnology.com/ colour photograph by Mervyn O’Gorman. Despite Mervyn O’Gorman. studentcomp2015 its modern look, the photograph was taken in The slides feature colour autochrome pictures The best in contemporary 1913. B+W contributor Colin Harding wrote about not previously seen by anyone at the museum. photojournalism goes on display it in B+W 169, saying initially the girl was thought Captions refer to Edwyn and Daisy Bevan along at Perpignan in France from 29 August to 13 September. to be O’Gorman’s daughter, but research showed with their children Anne and Christina. The The 27th Festival of International he had no children. pictures were taken at West Lulworth in Dorset Photojournalism features The image was used as the promotional picture and Chelsea Embankment in London. exhibitions by top news for Drawn By Light, the major exhibition of Colin said, ‘It was a genuine thrill to see these photographers plus talks pictures from the Royal Photographic Society images. After all the recent attention Christina had and awards. archive curated by Colin that ran recently at the been getting I hoped they would give us sufficient visapourlimage.com Media Space in London and the National Media clues to finally confirm her identity. It turns out More than 140 photography Christina wasn’t O’Gorman’s daughter. Indeed, she galleries will show work at this wasn’t a relative – either close or distant.’ year’s Paris Photo. The world’s largest art fair for photography is Christina Bevan (1897-1981) was the daughter of at the Grand Palais in Paris from Edwyn Bevan, a philosopher, writer and lecturer in 12 to 15 November. Hellenistic Studies at King’s College London. The parisphoto.com family lived at Chelsea Embankment, not far from Canon equipment worth £5,000 the O’Gorman’s home at Embankment Gardens. is on offer in the annual Lombard Colin said: ‘Whatever the link, both families manufacturing photography were clearly on friendly, first name terms. competition. Photographs can cover Christina, Daisy and Anne, walking to the beach in Certainly, the friendship was sufficient for Mervyn traditional or high-tech sectors. West Lulworth – the location of Christina’s portrait to accompany Daisy and her two daughters on a Deadline: 30 September. shots, August 1913. Picture by Mervyn O’Gorman, trip to Lulworth Cove in August 1913, where he eef.org.uk/photo courtesy of Stephen Riddle. took portraits of Christina.’ 44--55__NNEEWWSS__//MMBB..iinndddd 44 0099//0077//22001155 0099::3322 © Christina Broom/Museum of London FUNDING FOR PROJECT French photographer Claude Iverné has been named winner of the €35,000 HCB Award 2015. ON THE PHONE The biennial prize is given by DxO has unveiled a high quality Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson camera that attaches directly to to fund a photo project. Previous the iPhone. The DxO One features winners include Chris Killip, Josef a 20.2Mp sensor and f/1.8 lens. Koudelka and Vanessa Winship. It offers full manual mode and henricartierbresson.org uses the iPhone display as the camera’s viewfinder. Price: £499. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London dxo.com Life Guards S. Raper, Sidney Crockett and William H. Beckham, 13 September 1915 by Christina Broom. PIONEER HONOURED Pictures by the UK’s first the exposure she deserves.’ female press photographer are Soldiers and Suffragettes: The on display at the Museum of Photography of Christina Broom London Docklands. runs until 1 November. PAPERS REPLACED Christina Broom became the family breadwinner when Permajet has withdrawn its Fibre her husband was injured in a Based Warmtone and Double Sided Portrait papers. The two cricket accident in 1903. She papers have been replaced by photographed newsworthy Fibre Based Gold Silk 315gsm and Whisper of the Muse by events in London and sold them Double Sided Portfolio 230gsm. Julia Margaret Cameron, 1865. as postcards. By the time of her permajet.com death in 1939 she had taken IN CELEBRATION 05 around 40,000 pictures. B+W Plans are underway to celebrate The exhibition features the bicentenary of one of the photographs of suffragettes, First most innovative photographers World War soldiers, royal events of the 19th century. and sporting occasions, as well as Julia Margaret Cameron was letters, notebooks and a cuttings born in 1815 and became a bold album. Sharon Ament, director and experimental photographer of the Museum of London, said: Christina and Winifred Broom, whose portraits helped define ‘This retrospective gives Broom unknown photographer, c.1915. the Victorian age. The V&A in London will celebrate her work with an LOMO ART LENS exhibition, Julia Margaret Lomography has launched a Cameron, featuring more than Kickstarter campaign for the New 100 pictures, including portraits Petzval 58 Bokeh Control Art Lens. of Alfred Lord Tennyson and The lens has a 58mm focal length Charles Darwin plus some of and an aperture range of f/1.9 to her most experimental work. f/16. It will be available in Canon The exhibition runs from and Nikon mounts and is expected 28 November to 21 February. to be released in December. Meanwhile the Science lomography.com Museum’s Media Space hosts Julia Margaret Cameron: OVERLAPPING Influence and Intimacy from Pictures that explore the overlap 24 September to 28 March. The between photography and the show features 94 images Cameron © Bhar Dipayan moving image are on display at Families are Living Under the Bridge by Bhar Dipayan. compiled for her friend, the the Wapping Project Bankside in astronomer Sir John Herschel, as UNDER THE BRIDGE London until 21 August. Work by Lillian Bassman, Elina Brotherus, well as rare pictures and objects. Deborah Turbeville and Thomas A series of events will also be This black & white picture by Indian photographer Bhar Dipayan won Zanon-Larcher are on show. held at Cameron’s former home, him the Atkins CIWEM Young Environmental Photographer of the thewappingprojectbankside. Dimbola Museum and Galleries Year 2015. An exhibition of winning pictures from the competition is com on the Isle of Wight. at Grizedale Forest Visitor Centre in Cumbria until 7 September. 44--55__NNEEWWSS__//MMBB..iinndddd 55 1166//0077//22001155 1100::3322 BPOTY.COM 06 B+W 66--77__BBPPOOTTYY__CCOOMMPP__118800//MMBB..iinndddd 66 1166//0077//22001155 1100::4422 BLACK+WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY COOL, CREATIVE AND CONTEMPORARY + BLACK WHITE PHOTOGRAPHER O F THE YEAR 2015 07 B+W WIN THE NEW LEICA M MONOCHROM CLASSIC LEICA DESIGN NEW 24MP BLACK & WHITE SENSOR BUFFER MEMORY EXPANDED TO 2GB SHOOTS FULL-HD BLACK & WHITE VIDEO NOW TAKING ENTRIES FULL DETAILS ON THE WEBSITE BPOTY.COM DEADLINE: MIDNIGHT 20 SEPTEMBER, 2015 66--77__BBPPOOTTYY__CCOOMMPP__118800//MMBB..iinndddd 77 1166//0077//22001155 1100::4422 000088__BBWW__118800..iinndddd 88 77//1144//1155 44::3333 PPMM