Weekly Inspiration: Blade Runner 2049
These wintry, foggy days remind us of the visually stunning film, Blade Runner 2049. See some our favourite film stills below and if you can brave the early morning/late night cold, go out and create your own Blade Runner inspired landscape photographs.
Weekly Inspiration: Mr Babies Psychedelic Analogue Collage
Feast your eyes on these psychedelic works by Arizona-based collage artist who goes by the name Mr Babies. They use analogue based imagery and we're inspired to pick up some vintage mags and start some collage ourselves.
Weekly Inspiration: Carolyn Young 'Grassy Woodlands
The Grassy Woodlands photography series, captured over a decade, consists of landscape and still life photographs
Weekly Inspiration: Saul Leiter's Secret Street Photography
Saul Leiter shot the majority of his street photography work in the two blocks surrounding his home in the East Village, where he lived from 1952 until his death in 2013. He kept his personal work a secret until toward the end of his life.
Weekly Inspiration: John Divola's Cibachrome Images.
American contemporary visual artist John Divola has launched a new book, Chroma, revealing a body of work from around 1980. The work explores visual metaphors using the rare luxurious printing process Cibochrome, used for the reproduction of film transparencies.
Weekly Inspiration - Jan Groover
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.
Weekly Inspiration: Associated Press
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.
Weekly Inspiration: Maddie the hound dog and her bestie Theron Humphrey
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?
Weekly Inspiration: Elsa Bleda
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.
Biennale Photo - A quick review of my Venice favourites of 2019 - By Dave Hume
CCP Student David Hume visited the Venice Bienalle and shared his thoughts with us
Dave's Biennale - I don't know much about art
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!
Weekly Inspiration - Amanda Mustard, Documentary Photography
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.
Weekly Inspiration: Bill Cunningham, the first candid fashion photographer.
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.
Inspiration: Silvia Grav
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.
Weekly Inspiration: Sam Wordley Stock Photographer
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.
Weekly Inspiration - Film is not dead because David Burnett is keeping it alive.
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:
Budget cameras under $1000 for new photographers studying in 2020
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?”
Takeshi Mizukoshi - Japanese Landscape Photographer
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
Weekly Inspiration: Christina Broom
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.
Weekly Inspiration - Alessio Albi
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.

