Photography students and recent graduates – please read this.
Here is a cold hard fact: ‘Exposure’ won’t buy you shit. Before you look away, let me elaborate a little bit. As creatives, we do all need a certain amount of exposure; if you want those people who commission photography to hire you, then you need to get your work in front of them. There’s [...]
The Power of the Unconventional
Two nights ago, I did something that for me is quite different. I took 5 hours out of my day to execute a well planned photographic shoot. Most of my photography is very unplanned, and relies on a heavy dose of chance combined with many miles of walking. The photographs that I made at the [...]
Swatch Girls Pro
Back in June of this year I got sent on assignment by Huck Magazine to photograph the Swatch Girls Pro surfing event – an ASP official event for the world’s top female surfers. This was a really different assignment for me – I’ve never photographed sports before and have no real knowledge of surfing; Fortunately [...]
Website Update – The East to West Challenge
I’ve updated my website with a new gallery in the ‘Work’ section; While cycling from Southend to Galway wasn’t exactly ‘work’, the resulting images have the look of an assignment (all be it with a point and shoot camera!) so this felt like the best place to put them. Check out the ‘East2West’ gallery here.
Thoughts on getting to know those around you.
‘You know that guy or girl who makes your coffee every morning? chances are that they are a face that has become part of the furniture of your life. Have you ever taken the time to find out who they are or what they do apart from serve coffee’ read more…..
The East to West Challenge for Male Cancer Awareness
So it’s been a busy couple of months here – I finished my 18 month stint at the Arts University College at Bournemouth at the end of June, and took a month off to enjoy the Dorset summer before moving back to London just last week. While I spent time making new work for The [...]
Urbanautica Interview
Steve Bisson from Urbanautica set me some challenging interview questions earlier this year; I procrastinated over my responses for a few weeks, then decided to set them aside – I needed to make some new photographs and really work out the intent behind my work. I returned to Steve’s interview a few weeks ago, and [...]
‘The Gathering Clouds’ at the Third Floor Galley – Opens this Friday!
Sean O’Hagan writes in the Guardian: ‘Ben Roberts is the documentary photographer as flaneur. From 2007 to 2009, he wandered the urban fringes of Spain recording the evidence of the country’s unsustainable building boom and its subsequent implosion. His highly formal landscapes of abandoned housing projects and empty suburban hinterlands possess a suitably unreal undertow. [...]
Exhibition – ‘The Gathering Clouds’
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be having my first ever solo show at the Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff, running from the 18th June – 25th July, with a private view on Friday 17th June. I’ll be exhibiting a broad selection of images from my series The Gathering Clouds – a 3 year ongoing [...]
Passages From The Panel – Part 3.
Here’s the final installment of my responses from the Guardian’s ‘Ask The Experts’ blog from a couple of weeks ago. Just the one question and answer this time, but it was on a subject that I felt most able to give advice on; The question was posed by a man writing under the pseudonym of [...]