COOL, CREATIVE AND CONTEMPORARY IFC_BW_179.indd 1 6/12/15 11:21 AM ast week I was in a shop buying a take- translated to photography. I see, during the course EDITOR’S LETTER away lunch. A fairly uneventful situation of a day or a week or a year, an enormous number of © Anthony Roberts you might say, but then I started noticing photographs and I can guarantee that the ones that something about the young woman who was speak to me are the ones that say something about serving me. She was taking enormous care the photographer as well as the picture itself. It’s an and the salad she presented to me was just elusive quality that is difficult to capture with just Lthat bit better than the average. But her care extended the head, it needs the heart as well. beyond the salad to her manner which was friendly, Now, I’m not saying we should all be putting respectful and warm. I came away feeling that 120% into everything we do. We would be in danger everything about the experience had been special. of becoming a bit dull to others if we did – and be What struck me later was that she wasn’t the exhausted. I hope that young woman has an untidy owner of the shop but an employee and as such had bedroom and forgets to charge up her phone now and no extra vested interest in making her performance then – but if we decide that we will go beyond our exceptional, but what she did have was an approach in limits in certain areas – photography, for example which she demanded not just the best of herself, but – we might just come up with something that has Elizabeth Roberts, Editor something better. She gave something of herself. that added ingredient. Doing our best is great, but [email protected] I thought about how this approach could be sometimes going a step further would be greater. facebook.com/blackandwhitephotog follow us on Twitter @BWPMag PINBOARD A REMINDER OF TIMES PAST Looking more like a photograph taken at the beginning of the 20th century, Andrea Passon’s picture, titled Left, has a softness and warmth in its tonality we don’t often see in modern photography. This image is part of an ongoing series by Andrea called Hands. 01 B+W flickr.com/ andreapasson © Andrea Passon © Helen Bushe MARY’S SHELL Taken on Cleveleys Beach, Lancashire, this serene image shows Mary’s Shell – a giant seashell sculpture by artist Stephen Broadbent. The photographer Helen Bushe used a Canon 7D, a 10-22mm lens, a 10-stop ND grad filter and 30 second exposure. See more on Helen’s website. helenbushe.com © David Baker © Andy Parker TWO POSTS A PHOTOGRAPH WE LOVE We can’t stop looking at David Baker’s recent picture, Two Posts, We loved Andy Parker’s graphic image Detail of tourists on a cruise which he took on West Wittering beach in West Sussex. Probably best ship entering Venice when it popped up on B+W’s Twitter feed. Based known for his evocative seascapes from his Sea Fever series, David has in Venice for the last six years or so, Andy’s remained focused on a painterly approach to photographing the landscape quite unlike any photographing the essence of this fascinating city in black & white. of his contemporaries. @milouvision milouvision.com @andyparker72 cargocollective.com/andyparkerphotography 01_EDS_LETTER/PINBOARD_179/ABE/ER.indd 1 17/06/2015 10:52 © Alain Laboile 10 Issue 179 August 2015 © Alain Laboile © David Chow COVER IMAGE © Jennifer Shaw © Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen © Tim Clinch This month's cover is 24 50 78 by Alain Laboile. 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Edited by Mark Bentley. [email protected] © Sebastião Salgado / Peter Fetterman Gallery HIGH CONTRAST A new BBC TV series will celebrate British portraiture through the ages. Presented by art historian Simon Schama, The Face of Britain will feature paintings and photographs of key politicians, reformers, artists and others. The series begins in September and is accompanied by an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London from 16 September to 4 January. npg.org.uk Sebastião Salgado has been given two prestigious awards. The Royal Geographical Society presented him with the Cherry Kearton Medal and Award for his excellence in Amazonian photography and Photo London presented him with 04 the first Photo London Master of B+W Photography Award. rgs.org Iceberg between Paulet Island and the South Shetland Islands on the Antarctic Channel by Sebastião Salgado. Around 20,000 cameras are to be issued to police officers in London. The move follows trials indicating PHOTO LONDON IS A BIG HIT that Body Worn Video cameras A black & white picture of an iceberg by Sebastião Sebastião Salgado. Eye-catching sales included could reduce complaints and Salgado sold for $50,000 at Photo London. work by William Eggleston, Norman Parkinson, increase the number of early guilty Organisers of the big new event at Somerset Susan Derges and Robert Voit. pleas. London mayor Boris Johnson, said: ‘This is exciting technology House were delighted with the quality of the work There were also several commissioned that will build trust, help the police on show and the large number of visitors. Seventy exhibitions, including Beneath the Surface, do their jobs and allow the public to galleries from around the world exhibited at the which features pictures from the V&A archive hold officers more accountable.’ four-day event and more than 20,000 people and continues at Somerset House until 24 August. london.gov.uk came to see photographs by top contemporary Other attractions included talks, screenings A working darkroom plus photographers, vintage names and emerging stars. and awards. photographic experiments and Among the huge number of black & white The event proved such a success that organisers exhibits from the National Media pictures exhibited were photographs by Robert have confirmed it will return from 19 to 22 May Museum’s collections are on show as part of an exhibition celebrating Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Irving Penn, Nick Brandt and next year. the UNESCO International Year of Light. Light Fantastic: Adventures © Steve Gray in the Science of Light runs at the National Media Museum in Bradford SHOWCASING from 18 July to 1 November. nationalmedimuseum.org.uk THE BEST Pictures from the Photographic An exhibition at the Mall Galleries in Youth Music & Culture Archive are London will showcase work by some of displayed as part of the Festival of Love at the Southbank Centre in the best photographers to have studied London this summer. The archive under acclaimed photographer Charlie documents lifestyles, fashions, Waite and his team of tutors at Light and hairstyles, music and subcultures Land. Light and Land on the Mall features of young people from the 1940s landscape pictures by 100 photographers to the present. The festival runs until 31 August. and runs from 2 to 10 August. southbankcentre.co.uk lightandland.co.uk Ruined Chapel, Cwmorthin, Snowdonia, 2015, by Steve Gray. 4-5_NEWS_179 ER/MB.indd 4 10/06/2015 11:40 EARLY MARY ELLEN PIONEER MARK DIES Pictures by an early pioneer in American photographer Mary photography are on show at the Ellen Mark has died.