Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Jacques – Henri Lartigue

The word “Amateur” has 2 meanings in itself. The first being the antonym to professional and refers to those who pursue something based on love instead of reward. In this sense, it identifies the most sophisticated in a particular field. Many of photography’s great names can be found in this, notably the French photographer and…

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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt was an American advertising and documentary photographer born in Paris in 1928. He along with his family immigrated to the US when he was 10 years old settling in Los Angeles. He studied photography and filmmaking at Los Angeles City College and the New School for Social Research. He was drafted into the…

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The BMW Welt

The more I get restless, the more I day dream, the more I dream of discovering new places, meeting new faces. The more I yearn  for the next step in this adventure we call life. The more I get restless, the more I realise that time is passing me by. While I am dreaming and…

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Safe Choices

There is so many quotes and so many encouragements one can get. But the only way to truly to change things round is by braking old habits. Only by breaking habits and by taking on new challenges that we truly know what we are capable of. I’m one filled with doubt but it is only…

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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Fan Ho

Born in Shanghaï, China, in 1931, Ho fist picked up a camera at the age of 13 when his father gave him a Rolleiflex twin lens camera. After moving to Hong Kong later on, he bean to document life on the streets of the bustling city. Largely self- taught, his photos display a fascination with…

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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Frederick H. Evans

Frederick H. Evans was a British photographer known for his platinum prints of architectural interiors of English and French cathedrals. Little is known of Evan’s early life. He initially owned a small bookshop in London where many artists and writers, including George Bernard Shaw and Audrey Beardsley came together. Frederick Evans took some portraits of his…

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Thoughts of the week – Life

I came across this video by philosopher Alan Watts thoughts on life and how thinking of it as a journey is the wrong way to go about it. It seems as though we are constantly waiting for something, waiting to graduate, waiting to enough money to do something, waiting for success and we continue to…

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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Auguste Sander

Since the mid- nineteenth century, photography has played an increasingly vital role in the recording and interpretation of history. One of the most amitious documentary projects ever undertaken was conceived by the German photographer, August Sander. He took up photography as a teenager, while working at a local mine. He spent his military service from…

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