Jan Groover (April 24, 1943 – January 1, 2012) began her career as a painter but quickly moved into photography. Groover caused a sensation in 1978 after exhibiting a series of dramatic still-life photographs of objects in found in her kitchen sink.

Last Friday, Associated Press photographers arrived in Bergamo, Brescia, and Rome to photograph doctors and nurses on short breaks from working in ICU. Italy had faced the most COVID 19 fatalities in one day since the beginning of the virus breakout.

The world outside is feeling a bit hectic lately, with corona warnings, dunny paper disappearances, the stock market taking a hit and so much more - who else is feeling a smidge like they need some goodness in the world?

Hailing from Johannesburg South Africa, Elsa Bleda is the surreal night time photography we always wanted. Her colour work sometimes hurts our brains, but that's the glory of it. Its neon, surreal and hauntingly beautiful. It's a perfect example of breaking the digital rules as a stylistic choice done right. Frankly, we are here for it.

CCP Student David Hume visited the Venice Bienalle and shared his thoughts with us

This year one of our students David Hume went to the Venice Bienalle. We thought we might share his great blog post about his experiences. Grab a cuppa and settle in!

We are absolutely in love with Amanda Mustard's work, whose portfolio is a collection of empathetic documentary photos that reflect her experiences of living in Cairo at the age of 21 during times of conflict and now living in Thailand.

In 2020 we have long since taken for granted the simplicity of a classic street style photograph. Pick up any magazine relating to fashion, find the hot or not column and within moments you can see the legacy of Bill Cunningham echoing through modern-day fashion culture.

Moody, whimsical and sometimes a little creepy, Silvia Grav's work is enough to make our hearts sigh this week. Mad March is around the corner, the year is in full swing and Term 1 is happening, it's nice to take a moment just to look at beautiful work. Be sure to check out Silvia's Flickr feed. It's a gosh-darned delight.

Stock photography is a whole lot more than photographing women laughing alone with salad. Our inspirational photographer this week, Sam Wordley could tell you a thing or two about what the real world of stock photography entails. Sam is an Australian photographer currently residing in Madrid, who has taken on photographic work all over the world. He's worked for some of the most famous newspapers including The Sun, The London Times and New York Post.

The photo above says everything we want to say about David Burnett. It was photographed at the recent impeachment hearing of Donald Trump, surrounded by the fanciest digital cameras in the business, David Burnett is seen here with his trusty large format camera. What a guy! It's not the first time that he has been photographed like this. He has been caught with a similar camera at the Olympic Games in Rio:

As a photography school, we get asked the same question by brand new photographers about to start Introduction to Photography, “What camera should I buy?”

You can't find a lot of information about Takeshi Mizukoshi online, even though his work is exhibited all over the world and published in many books. Considered up there with Ansel Adams, Michael Kenna and the greats of Landscape photography, Mizukoshi

It's been a huge week in UK politics, so we thought we would share some of the historic images photographed during one of the UK's biggest political movements, the suffragette movement, by the first female UK press photographer Christina Broom.

Alessio Albi hails from Perugia, Italy where he also works as a nutritionist with a degree in Medical Biotechnologies. We love his moody evocative lighting and dreamy tonality in his photographs.

This week's inspiration is the multi-skilled Micky Hoogendijk (pronounced ɦoːɣəndɛik). Hoogendijk was raised in the art scene in the Netherlands, her father a photographer and painter Roelof Frankot. Her career has taken many paths, most notably acting and modelling.

On this day in 2011, one of the most popular video games of all time Minecraft was released. Largely celebrated as the biggest independent video game ever published, Minecraft is instantly recognisable for its blocky graphics and creative gameplay. Parents everywhere have been hailing it as both a blessing and a curse when it comes to screen time!

Is Ryan Gosling a real-life photographer?

Upon looking through our calendar today, we discovered that it was the birthday of Dorothea Lange. Most famous for her photograph Migrant Mother, Dorothea was a photojournalist commissioned by government organisations often shooting for political reasons. She documented the effects of the depression era on America and gave a human face to the struggle.

Today’s inspiration comes from two hugely influential photographers, Irving Penn and Bill Henson, They both share today as a birthday - so what better way to celebrate than to share their work with the CCP community.