Recently in my post The Decisive Moment I considered that moment when you make a decision to stay, or go from a situation, and what might result from your choice. And if you’ve read that post you may remember Chissoe D Iron, the man I met by chance, and allowed myself to be ‘taken’ by, [...]
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I met the tree once before. And I met it again today. Angry. “They cut me!” it barked. ”Can you believe it, they cut me! Me. A tree in my position. Can you believe it?”. I could believe it. I could clearly see they had cut it. “Stupid, stupid, stupid man. With a chainsaw…….cut me.” [...] I was asked to photograph a Scottish castle, for a whisky company. A long way from home. On Christmas Eve. It was snowing when I left home in the Land Rover. In the afternoon I got lost, just before another blizzard hit. Stupidly I took a wrong turning up a small farm road. I was [...] I can do anything © John MacPherson
Before this one night of frost, the discarded piece of plywood had had some life or other, perhaps a builder’s sheathing layer, on a house. A good life. Then demolished. Cast onto a tip. From where a fisherman, seeing it’s potential (as they do) took it [...] duckrabbit weekend exclusive. ‘Instagran’ – photographing your child’s grandmother with a digital camera.
William's gran. © John MacPherson
No filters required. Should be massive I expect. And worth more than a $ billion. Priceless in fact. (Take yours now while you still can. If you still can).
[...] I’ve been doing an ongoing documentary project on inshore fishermen on the lovely island of Mull off Scotland’s west coast. For those who choose to do this its hard hard work, in an economically and socially deprived area; but an area that the residents are committed to, and devoted to the way of life required [...] The RMS Titanic left Southampton 100 years ago today, April 10th 1912, on her fateful journey across the Atlantic. And the Titanic exerts a powerful influence still, 100 years after the vessel’s untimely and unfortunate demise. And the ongoing story of it’s rediscovery at the bottom of the Atlantic in 1985, and the lives of [...] Something for Easter Sunday. Religion? Hmmm. The older I’ve grown the more intolerant I’ve become of its uglier excesses. Sadly there are many. And consequently I distance myself from it. I’m Scottish, that means I have been brought up in a rather peculiar mix of ‘tensions’. I had not realized just how absurd those tensions [...] “Oh Donnie, Donnie, please…..please….straighten yourself up, please! Oh god………..what will the neighbours think…………..” So spoke my mum, emotionally, fighting back tears and trying desperately to look ‘normal’, on the day we removed my severely depressed dad from home. ‘We’ being the family doctor, and two ambulance men. And there was little ‘normal’ about the [...] My previous post about the danger of editing ‘in the field’ as opposed to a more considered edit later in the computer seems to have been well received by many of you. Thank you to all who commented and tweeted and retweeted. As one commentator remarked, one wonders just how many ‘good’ images are lost [...] “Daddy, daddy, daddy, look look look! Look! There! Look daddy! It’s my name. W for William, there, on the road! LOOK!” said William (aged 3 yrs and 10 months) with great excitement as we cycled along the community woodland bike path.
Whoosh! © John MacPherson Then pensive for a moment he continued “Daddy, [...] 
I met him in the woodlands, years ago. I’d come upon him without him seeing me as he was bending over and sticking something into the ground. He was a giant of a man, his full camouflage clothing made him blend in with the surroundings. I walked on towards him. He was surprised to see [...] Mr. Wazir says he is haunted by guilt. “It hurts me a lot when I remember occasions when I shouted at my sons because I asked them to do something and they ignored it,” he says. “I feel so very sorry now.” At least, he says, he can take solace in knowing he had bought [...] I was struck some time ago by the emotional impact that Gustavo Germano’s images of ‘absence’ had on me. A simple concept, applying ‘rephotography’ techniques to the human/political landscape to show the evidence of absence in Argentina, the empty spaces previously inhabited by the ‘los desaparecidos’ (the missing), victims of the political upheaval of the [...] Deaths and taxes – we know all about both, thats for sure. But what I love about the former is the fact that you can often have a good laugh at them. Well in my world that’s often the case. Funerals are certainly more fun than handing over money. Here’s a couple of tales from [...] Photographers are witnesses to………………..well to be perfectly honest I’m often not quite sure. Are you? You might think you are recording ‘the truth’ but all you are recording is a moment, one single piece of the bigger picture. And sometimes that ‘moment’ might seem to be the reality of the situation, the one you take [...] This is a post that’s all about people, but without people. Only empty spaces where they’ve been, and the evidence of their passing. One of the things that continually delights me in photography is the way you can plan, worry about, pursue, and compose the elements that will make the image you have in mind, [...] One of the delights of having your photographic work ‘out there’, is having it seen. Unfortunately most of the time other people see it too. I say ‘unfortunately’ because sometimes ‘interesting’ things can happen as a consequence of it’s visibility. Such as the deluded “do you realise that little smudge in the bottom corner of [...] |
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