Wise Words

The Guardian Newspaper recently interviewed grizzly Vogue photographer David Bailey. They asked him " Who's really good and who's mediocre? "

Mr.Bailey answered "Oh I don't know. But most photographers just take pictures. They just come and go "click" – anyone can do that. Which is great – the more people that do that the better it is for me. If I take a picture, I know the person. I use plate cameras most of the time, so they're not looking at cameras, they're looking at me. I don't say "laugh". If I want them to laugh, I make them laugh. If I want them to be grumpy, I'll probably be rude to them."

Good point, Mr.Bailey.

Photographer: Anders Linden

All this time I have been increasing the contrast in my photos. Turns out that I am a fool!

Head over to Mr. Linden's very spooky, very Swedish website for more haunting, timeless pictures.

www.anderslinden.com

Photographer: James Mollison

Wow! What intense, honest, painterly pictures. Check out the Guardian Newspaper story on radio presenters to see some more of James Mollison's portraits.

I was thinking that I should stop posting so many links on my blog, and concentrate instead on just my own work. But that went out the window when I saw these pictures. Once again: wow!

A little search engine investigating revealed Mr.Mollison's group portraits of music fans dressed in their best clobber. Also not bad at all. Talented bloke is this Mollison.

Real photographers shoot in their socks.

Last week I assisted the very talented Genevieve Marie Blais on her Dia De Los Muertos shoot. She paid me in cake.

www.genevieveblais.com