Incidental Images
Photography Note:
"Incidental Images: Photographs by Peter Brown" (Printlinx: Port Melbourne, 2009). 30x22 cms, 166 photographs.
As a segue to some more recent photographs of mine, another photography note. This time I want to introduce the work of passionate amateur photographer Peter Brown. Like me Peter was also born in Brisbane, Australia. He moved to Melbourne to train as a dentist and also completed a degree in Fine Arts and Languages at the University of Melbourne. He has had a lifelong love of hiking in the Australian wilderness, and has spent plenty of time visiting Tasmania.
On a trip to Greece in 1972 Peter started to take an interest in photography. The only film he could get there at the time was black and white. He fell in love with that and has shot black and white film ever since, even in this digital age. Peter was using a Nikkormat camera at the time, and it remained his "old faithful" until he purchased a Nikon FM2 with a single 55mm lens in 2000. Peter says he has no interest in moving beyond film photography or these simple to operate cameras.
In 1993 Peter tells the story of how he discovered an inspirational book in the Dymock's bookstore in Melbourne. [This is a store I frequented myself in the 90s, and I wonder whether we may have actually been looking at the same books.] The book he found was by English photographer Edwin Smith (1912-1971). www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/sep/10/edwi...
Peter was so taken with Smith's work that he began a wonderful correspondence with his widow Olive Cook. This continued until her death at 90 in 2002. Olive Cook described her husband's work in a way that all photographers (especially amateurs - the ones who do it for LOVE) should embrace:
"Photography is a way of offering praise in the form of an objective record, not flaunting the photographer's brilliant originality and skill. Edwin spoke of being intoxicated with the privilege of being permitted to pay a glorious building the homage of his craft."
I hope you take the time to look at this sample of Peter's fine work in light and shade. You'll see how the rendition of light is essential to his artistic vision. Better still, copies of this limited edition book are available online. I highly recommend it for your collection.
* All the copies in this slideshow were taken with the Leica D-Lux 7 in natural light. The print quality in the book is so much better.
Incidental Images
Photography Note:
"Incidental Images: Photographs by Peter Brown" (Printlinx: Port Melbourne, 2009). 30x22 cms, 166 photographs.
As a segue to some more recent photographs of mine, another photography note. This time I want to introduce the work of passionate amateur photographer Peter Brown. Like me Peter was also born in Brisbane, Australia. He moved to Melbourne to train as a dentist and also completed a degree in Fine Arts and Languages at the University of Melbourne. He has had a lifelong love of hiking in the Australian wilderness, and has spent plenty of time visiting Tasmania.
On a trip to Greece in 1972 Peter started to take an interest in photography. The only film he could get there at the time was black and white. He fell in love with that and has shot black and white film ever since, even in this digital age. Peter was using a Nikkormat camera at the time, and it remained his "old faithful" until he purchased a Nikon FM2 with a single 55mm lens in 2000. Peter says he has no interest in moving beyond film photography or these simple to operate cameras.
In 1993 Peter tells the story of how he discovered an inspirational book in the Dymock's bookstore in Melbourne. [This is a store I frequented myself in the 90s, and I wonder whether we may have actually been looking at the same books.] The book he found was by English photographer Edwin Smith (1912-1971). www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/sep/10/edwi...
Peter was so taken with Smith's work that he began a wonderful correspondence with his widow Olive Cook. This continued until her death at 90 in 2002. Olive Cook described her husband's work in a way that all photographers (especially amateurs - the ones who do it for LOVE) should embrace:
"Photography is a way of offering praise in the form of an objective record, not flaunting the photographer's brilliant originality and skill. Edwin spoke of being intoxicated with the privilege of being permitted to pay a glorious building the homage of his craft."
I hope you take the time to look at this sample of Peter's fine work in light and shade. You'll see how the rendition of light is essential to his artistic vision. Better still, copies of this limited edition book are available online. I highly recommend it for your collection.
* All the copies in this slideshow were taken with the Leica D-Lux 7 in natural light. The print quality in the book is so much better.