Toby Webster Photography
Martin Henson Photography
Martin Henson is a Yorkshireman and a professional photographer who specialises in black and white landscape photography, and one to whom I owe a great deal. His work is astonishing for its luminosity, tonal richness and emotional depth, and it is under his straight-talking tutelage via the Digital Monochrome Learning Forum that I have developed some grasp of the essentials of light and tonal depth in B&W photography. My inadequacy on compositional matters is entirely my own fault.
Martin Henson is a Yorkshireman and a professional photographer who specialises in black and white landscape photography, and one to whom I owe a great deal. His work is astonishing for its luminosity, tonal richness and emotional depth, and it is under his straight-talking tutelage via the Digital Monochrome Learning Forum that I have developed some grasp of the essentials of light and tonal depth in B&W photography. My inadequacy on compositional matters is entirely my own fault.
Ian Barber Photography
Ian is a tutor on Martin Henson's Digital Monochrome Learning Forum. As well as being a superbly accomplished fine art photographer who specialises in richly toned and atmospheric work in a number of genres, he is a technician extraordinaire, a fount of profound technical knowledge on the deeper mysteries of Adobe Photoshop and its various third party add-ons, of a number of which he is also author.
Ian is a tutor on Martin Henson's Digital Monochrome Learning Forum. As well as being a superbly accomplished fine art photographer who specialises in richly toned and atmospheric work in a number of genres, he is a technician extraordinaire, a fount of profound technical knowledge on the deeper mysteries of Adobe Photoshop and its various third party add-ons, of a number of which he is also author.
The Digital Monochrome Forum
For any photographer interested in developing their skills in B&W photography, this may well be the finest resource on the web.
For any photographer interested in developing their skills in B&W photography, this may well be the finest resource on the web.
Western Front Photography
My efforts on The Somme pale into insignificance beside the substantial body of work which professional photographer and accredited battlefield guide Michael St.Maur Sheil has built up, one which spans the entire Western Front from the Channel coast to Switzerland, as well as the Dardenelles. His work, which admirably shatters my stated conviction that colour photography is inferior at conveying emotion, is to be exhibited throughout the country during the forthcoming commemorations.
My efforts on The Somme pale into insignificance beside the substantial body of work which professional photographer and accredited battlefield guide Michael St.Maur Sheil has built up, one which spans the entire Western Front from the Channel coast to Switzerland, as well as the Dardenelles. His work, which admirably shatters my stated conviction that colour photography is inferior at conveying emotion, is to be exhibited throughout the country during the forthcoming commemorations.
Marc Wilson
So too does the work of Marc Wilson, who uses large format cameras and colour film to bring a quite different expression to that of St.Maur Sheil. His series 'Last Stand' is a series of beautifully desaturated landscape photographs depicting surviving fortifications of WWII, and at the time of preparing this website (2015) was being toured around the country. As of 2020 he is releasing a second edition of his book, with additional plates.
So too does the work of Marc Wilson, who uses large format cameras and colour film to bring a quite different expression to that of St.Maur Sheil. His series 'Last Stand' is a series of beautifully desaturated landscape photographs depicting surviving fortifications of WWII, and at the time of preparing this website (2015) was being toured around the country. As of 2020 he is releasing a second edition of his book, with additional plates.
Robert Perry
A landscape painter from The Black Country who has a very particular interest in The Somme - a great uncle, himself a talented artist, was killed there. Robert Perry paints from life, on location, and I think that his work is astonishingly beautiful, very much in the tradition of Turner or Corot as well as the war artists, somehow bridging the gap between then and now in a way no photograph could do. Having painted inside Mametz Wood at night under paraffin lamp, he is also notably braver than I am!