Ed Thompson

Ed Thompson looks at battery hens and those that are being re-homed. As new European laws are coming in making battery farming illegal.

Images © Ed Thompson

Peter Beste

Peter Bestewor mainly follows musics sub genre's, these photos are from a selection of these projects my favourite being London's Grime scene. I like how it is almost a sequal to Ewen Spencer's Open Mic, even showing some of the same MC's but a few years further on.

Images © Peter Beste

Jill Cole

Jill Cole's "Birds" shows birds caught in netting for scientific and conservational research

Images © Jill Cole

John Angerson

John Angerson's series is inspired by the JB Priestly book English Journey and the sub-title "Being a rambling but truthful account of what one man saw and heard and felt and thought during a journey through England"

on a side note I used to live really close to the castle in the below photo.

Images © John Angerson

Marco Santucci

Today we had Marco Santucci come in to give a talk, Marco is the MD of Santucci and Co. a leading photographers agent, having started of by representing Elaine Constantine after they both left university, jumping into the deep end as Elaine's career took off. The main points that I found fromt the talk were:

- how he finds new photographers

• recommendations
• Work as an assistant for a photographer he knows
• un-solicted email/mail - getting 5-10 a day
• he also makes mental notes of emerging photographers work who he admires and follows their career.

©Jonathan Frantini

- The Eurostar campaign shot by Venetia Dearden, was shot using real customers as apposed to model/hyper reality that advertising is, it meant Venetia could shoot the campaign as an editorial/reportage project, I have never heard of an advertising campaign like this but I think it worked well, maybe this is the future.

©Venetia Dearden

- Sometimes insider knowledge can help gain contracts, having found a new photographer was needed for an Aerie campaign, they got together some Aerie clothes, sent the photogorapher to Cornwall with three models and showed the results to Aerie and gained the contract.

©Gemma Booth

- Don't be over confident, let the work talk for itself and every time you see a client take new work to show them.

© Gemma Booth

Nigel Shafran

Nigel Shafron's Supermarket Portraits,












































































All images © Nigel Shafon

Simon Roberts

A really great interview with photographer Simon Roberts Discussing Motherland and We English, both fantastic books, it's great to see Simon talk so passionately about his work.

Simon Roberts: Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers from Jim Casper on Vimeo.