Nik Stanbridge
Analogue photography and printmaking
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The influence of other photographers, and of a specific photograph, on my work
This article is mostly about the impact on me and my work (a few years ago) of Three Dasies by Sam Haskins. Sam was a fashion photographer in the 1960s and 70s and his work is very distinctive. I came across Three Daisies as a print at a show in London and was immediately captivated.
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The influence of movies on my work
I love movies. Films. I make time to watch them. I go to the cinema as often as I can because it’s better than watching films on TV. I often feel the need, the desire, to reach for my camera when I’m watching, of have just watched, a film. It’s often intangible to me why I get the feeling though.
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The pleasure of collecting photobooks and books about photography
when I was new to photography, back in the 1980s when I was in my early 20s, I gravitated heavily to books about the craft and practice of photography. I then sort of moved on to philosophy and essays; all of which I enjoyed and derived a great deal from. And all the while I was getting a frequent fix of looking at photographs by going…
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What do you do with all the photographs you take? Who actually sees them?
I’m an advocate for the enjoyment of photographs in the physical realm in some shape of form. I believe that no one enjoys looking at photographs on a screen, small (phone) or not so small (tablet, computer etc). What people love doing though is looking at prints, visiting galleries, holding albums/photobooks; anything that encourages taking time to contemplate, to stop and think. This article is all…
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How minimal can you go? How minimal is too far?
How minimalist can you go and still represent a subject when the photograph appears to be almost abstract and of nothing at all?
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5 Frames with an Olympus OM-1 taken back in the 80s
The Olympus OM-1 was my first real camera, I bought it as-new in 1981, when I was a student, for £95. That was a lot of money in those days, and my bank account didn’t recover for many years (in today’s money, that’s £350). That it was fully manual was all-important. My photography was going to be all down to me – forcing myself up the…
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Essay: Why the Nikon F6 died (and what the prospects of a replacement are)
My first article for 35MMC and despite being published in mid-December, made the top ten most commented articles of 2020 (with 80+ comments). Some people didn’t really dig what I had to say.
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PHOTOBOOK: On The Ground
The second photobook based around the 2012 New York thunderstorm images I took on my iPhone 4. This version is self-published and handmade in an edition of 100.
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PHOTOBOOK: Instagram 3
Another installment of my printed version of a fundamentally pointless internet photography presence. Because no one, NO ONE, seriously looks at photos online. It’s an emotionless and soul-destroying activity.
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The 1983 Vodka Bottle
I’ve always been fascinated by how difficult I find it to photograph the trivialities of life today – the trivial scenes that will be different tomorrow and that would reveal themselves as being historically interesting were I to take the photo. I know I want to take the photo(s). I take some but not enough. And I feel the palpable sense of regret for the ones I haven’t…