This morning I had a call from the Royal Photographic Society with the fantastic news that they have elected me as a Fellow – the highest distinction that the Society can award. It was awarded in recognition of my photojournalism. Apart from anything else, it means I get to add the prestigious “FRPS” letters after…
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I (Simon) am just back from ten days in St Petersburg, “on assignment” (I love using that phrase, it sounds so Clint Eastwood in Madison County) for children’s charity EveryChild. It was a roller coaster of a week, meeting some wonderful people, and having the privilege of glimpsing their lives, and taking their portraits. Speaking…
Today Simon is walking a few inches off the floor and stopping everyone he meets in the street – a passing policeman, a French poodle (slight exaggeration here), anyone in fact who will listen – to show them the latest issue of the Economist’s Intelligent Life magazine. It has 12 whole pages devoted to his photo essay on ballet in Ukraine….
Just a brief post this time – we’ve posted more of Simon’s ballet series on our editorial photography site, Seeing Dubble, under “Recent Projects”, and also some more of Sylwia’s recent arty studio portrait series.
I (Simon) finally had a chance to get through the pictures from the Ukrainian National Ballet. The idea was to avoid taking the usual pictures of the performance, but to concentrate instead on what’s happening behind the scenes – bits of the training they go through at school, ballet dancers at home, preparions etc. In…