#229 FINDING A CHEST OF PHOTOGRAPHS UNLOCKS A NEW CAREER
Today Karah Mew, AKA The Glass Narrator talks about how launching a career in documentary portrait photography during a difficult pregnancy that then became a pandemic business drought has helped her re-evaluate life and her love of making pictures, which starts with the most wonderful serendipitous house clearance, where she discovered a chest of photographs belonging to a lady who'd worked as a print developer.
Patron of the Day today is Alison Barclay and as you look down her Flickr photostream you’ll see a real fascination for the coastline along with urban observation and wonderfully, family days out. You’ll also find a short study of London’s brutalist architecture from a brutalism photowalk, which sounds like a wonderful way to spend an afternoon recording a future Friday Photowalk edition. Brutalism features in the work of many fine art photographers, it’s a style of building design from the 50s which up and grew out of a modernism; massive, monolithic, often very blocky buildings made out of poured concrete. Be sure also to check in with our Instagram and Facebook group.
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