Category: Making Photographs
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Kate shines in the auction room
In the late 80’s a representative from Christie’s in London said my work would never sell at auction because I was viewed as being too ‘commercial’. After publishing eight books of creative photography plus dozens of exhibitions of personal creative work and hundreds of articles about my work, not to mention the slide show of…
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The Environment of the Human Mind
This week produced one of those distressing stories where a local event comes to symbolise a global crisis. A landowner in Australia destroyed one of the country’s premier wetland bird sites. An area equivalent to 750 football fields, with a unique variety of established bird colonies and many rare plants was simply leveled with bulldozers.…
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Darcey Bussell Retires
Ballet casts a unique spell. Words like ‘dreams’, ‘fantasy’ and ‘fairy tale’ are used to describe both ballet and the career of the extraordinary ballerina Bussell. While ballet certainly encompasses dreams and fantasy, it is also, among other things, a visceral projection of feminine mystique and power, precision, discipline and artistic and erotic refinement. Articles…
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Olympics
Once upon a time the Olympics was about, sport, beauty and art. In recent years we have had Olympics marred by excessive commercialism (Atlanta), terrorism (Atlanta and Munich), drugs (every modern games) politics (1980 USA boycott Soviet Olympics – 1984 Soviets reciprocate with Los Angeles games) and war (every world war and Soviet invasion of…