Category Archives: Photography

On Julia Margaret Cameron, Making Mistakes

Out and About, Photography, Silver and Salt, Watching and LookingBy Elanor Dymott January 10, 2017

Julia Margaret Cameron championed errors. Her prints were contact prints, and her photographs made on glass. Starting out as a photographer at the age of 48, she used a coal-bunker for a darkroom, and a hen house as her studio.

Remembering Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912 – 7 October, 2016)

PhotographyBy Elanor Dymott October 20, 2016

Wolfgang Suschitzky came to London (from Vienna via the Netherlands) in 1935. A prolific cameraman (Get Carter is one of the cult classics he helped create) and photographer, whose favourite of his own works was his portrait of Guy the Gorilla (1958), he died this month at the age of 104. I was drawn first…