I’m running a bit late this month, but here’s the 6th instalment of Hidden Treasures. For those of you who are new here, once a month I offer a never before seen image from my archive for download as an 8×10″ file for printing. It’s available for 3 days only.
This month’s image is another outtake from “The Gathering Clouds”, this time from a short visit to Zaragoza in October 2009. You can download the image by clicking on the flyer above.
Just to clarify – the Hidden Treasure images are for personal use only, and are copyright of Ben Roberts.
This one is for both assistants and photographers (as I did this on a shoot as a photographer the other day, while my two assistants tried not to wet themselves laughing…)
- When photographing a celebrity, do make them feel at home and comfortable in your studio/location. Do offer them a cup of tea or coffee. Don’t then place the scalding hot mug of tea in to said celebrities hands, causing great pain and discomfort.
I found out over christmas that I had been selected to be one of this years ‘PDN 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch – 2010′ . It was a huge surprise, and now that I have seen some of the photographers (many of whom I admire greatly) that I have been placed alongside, it’s more than a little humbling.
You have to be nominated to enter the PDN30, and I had no idea who had done this for me until I got a really nice message the other day from Andrew Hetherington over at ‘Whats The Jackanory’. So a big thanks to Andrew for his endorsement.
I’m currently involved in Stuart Pilkington’s curated project “What is England“. Throughout 2010, 50 photographers (one for each county of England) will respond to 5 different assignments. The first assignment, “Person” – is online now. I am covering Essex – I have family there and it’s where my mother grew up, but its a county that I don’t know very well and am keen to learn more about.
I spent a day shooting in Grays and visiting relatives earlier this month – The first image is of a lad called Martin who was riding his trials bike on the roof of the infamous Lakeside shopping centre in Chafford. I’ve also attached a couple of other photographs from the day.
Massive congratulations to my good friend and agency stablemate Laura Pannack who just found out that she has won first prize in the portrait section of this years World Press Awards. My former boss Zed Nelson also picked up 3rd place in the ‘Contemporary Issues – Singles’ section.
Well deserved recognition for two of the hardest working and talented photographers that I know.
A day late (but hey, it’s my birthday today) – here’s Hidden Treasure no.5. Another outtake from my visits to Spain last year, this image was taken in Badalona, a coastal suburb of Barcelona. For those of you who are new to the “Hidden Treasure” series, once a month (usually on or close to the 1st of the month) I’m making a 10×8 image available for upload and printing. The link is active for 3 days, after which you’ve missed your chance!
Just click here or on the flyer above to download this months image.
Please only use the image for personal use; Any commercial usage will be invoiced for appropriately!
it’s hard to find much of Jay Maisel’s work online, although he runs a series of workshops in New York that get spoken about highly… Whatever – I like his perspective on photography from this interview.
Bids are taking place in the comments section below the image on flickr. At the time of writing bids are up to £62.50. There’s full details of how to bid, pay and receive the print if you visit the flickr page.
A bit of a delay for this months Hidden Treasure as I have been tied up in relocating to Bournemouth. This image is an outtake from my travels through Spain over the summer of 2009. I’ll be launching a more up to date gallery of the work in progress on my website sometime in February. Click on the flyer above to download the 10×8 image – you’ve got 3 days until the link closes. Just a disclaimer – please only use the image for personal use (printing etc)… and as I have mentioned before, if any of you are printing these out then drop me an image of the prints up on a wall and I’ll run a blog feature in the future… cheers!
