Celie Nigoumi (@celie.photo &. www.celiephoto.com) is the next of Photo|Frome’s featured photographers. ‘Shaved Heads‘ reflects her curiosity about why shaving your head is seen as such a symbolic move and the varied reasons behind doing it. Celie has learned that… Read More »Celie Nigoumi – Shaved Heads
Parallelograms is a project by our first featured local photographer, Gitte Morten. It combines two of the great loves of Gitte’s life: photography and music. Inspired by Linda Perhacs’ 1970 album of the same name, she conjured up images that she… Read More »Gitte Morten – Parallelograms
We came across an interesting YouTube video from The Raw Society on Street and Travel photography. Some of it is as you might expect – basic compositional ideas (thirds, odds, triangles etc); how to behave on the street and so… Read More »Street and Travel Photography – The Raw Society
One of history’s most famous photographs is Dorothea Lange‘s ‘Migrant Mother‘ taken during the Great Depression, in California (Nipomo), in 1936. Dorothea Lange. 1936. Migrant Mother of Seven. Nipomo. Dorothea was commissioned by the Farm Security Administration to document the impact of federal programs in… Read More »Dorothea Lange & ‘Migrant Mother’
How a broken dog helped to heal an anxious family in lockdown is one of the many personal stories told in a photography exhibition documenting the pandemic. The image of the dog appears in an exhibition by Frome Wessex Camera… Read More »Somerset photographers document their lockdown experience – BBC News