We are beyond excited to welcome our new lecturer Greg Balcombe to the CCP team. Greg will be teaching camera portfolio 1. There is so much to learn from this two talented and passionate photographer. We thought we’d ask him a few questions to find out where he comes from and what drives him to create as a photographer.

In Extended Frame dispLAced, I look for singular moments that can be combined to convey the complexity of everyday life. These photographs – and the subjects within them – are placed in conversation with each other to explore dichotomies of public vs. private, unity vs. isolation, the collective vs. the individual.

We are rarely shown images of people with scars. In popular media and film culture, scars are often used as visual shorthand for evil — a defect reflective of the flaws within. But scars are beautiful and should be seen as a sign of strength and resilience.

One person who is seeking to change the stereotype is Cardiff-born photographer Sophie Mayanne, whose Behind the Scars portrait series is a celebration of the unique beauty of scars and the stories of recovery and acceptance behind them.

At the CCP we are always trying to find ways to encourage and support our students into getting their work out there. We know it can be a daunting experience, especially if it’s your first time.

So we thought we’d ask CCP student Jiri Bruderhans a few questions about his process and experience in the world of photography competitions.

Jiri’s work was recently selected to be part of the Praxis Gallery exhibition - The streets, in Minneapolis

Marcus Yam Ukraine-based journalist on ‘a dignified way to photograph these horrific scenes’

there always has to be a dignified way to photograph these horrific scenes without possibly traumatising their loved ones who could see this. But also remembering that these are the reality of wars. Americans and the world need to see the horrors of this violent chaos. I feel like if we saw this, we would understand and not be so quick to wage war.

Kate Woodman, A storyteller, A practical polymath, A former engineer, An educator. Always striving to create powerful narrative imagery that connects you to your humanity while paradoxically helping you escape it. When worlds don’t exist, I make them up in Photoshop.

Regardless of genres, we wanted to celebrate the beauty and wealth of black & white photography. Be it in street, fashion, portrait, landscape, documentary, or any other form of photography: we want to be moved and inspired.

One of the longest and most celebrated creative partnerships in art history was the one between portrait photographer Philippe Halsman and Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. Having first met in 1941, Halsman and Dalí embarked on a creative partnership that lasted for thirty-seven years and resulted in thousands of pictures, including 1948’s Dalí Atomicus. A few years after this technical feat, they produced Dalí’s Mustache (1954), a humorous book exploring myriad depictions of Dalí’s mustache.

In images and words, Anna Ostoya and Chantal Mouffe create a passionate manifesto about global politics.

Philip Montgomery’s Up-Close Portrait of an America in Crisis

For nearly a decade, the photographer has been chronicling the country’s historic struggles, with an intimacy that can be achieved only by getting uncomfortably close.

LA-based photographer Simon Needham

Simon Needham has worked in pretty much every photographic genre and discipline you can think of. From conservation to advertising, the artists has almost done it all. His work is diverse, colourful, vibrant and always unmistakably with his signature style.

"The idea of the City of Shadows emerged quite unexpectedly and quite naturally during the collapse [of the Soviet Union] in the fall of 1991. I mean that the concept itself stemmed from my impressions nourished by the everyday reality. At that period, I continued to work on my series Nomenklatura of Signs. Suddenly, at some point I realized that I was struggling with emptiness and that my creative impulses – initially absolutely sincere – were running the risk of contemplating upon ideas no longer valid. This happened because the Soviet people, all these human beings deprived of their individuality and turned into “signs” by a criminal regime, began transforming from smiling and happy-looking “signs” into wandering shadows, even though rejecting the role of a “sign” could result in the loss of life. The year of 1992 was approaching…

After the success of her first book Young American (Paradigm Publishing 2019), Marie Tomanova (b. 1984, Czechia) now presents her second monograph NEW YORK NEW YORK published by Hatje Cantz. This time, her book can be considered as a fresh extension of Young American, reflecting on New York’s new generation through portraiture in the post-pandemic era. Eccentric characters with their own stories and backgrounds start to form a unique portrait of the city and a captivating vision of the future…

Platon is a communicator and storyteller. Shooting portraits for a range of international publications including Rolling Stone, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ and the Sunday Times Magazine.

Robert Mapplethorpe became infamous for his transgressive black-and-white photographs, which often celebrated the artist’s queer community. During the 1970s and ’80s, he photographed himself and his New York City coterie, which included musicians such as Patti Smith (his one-time Chelsea Hotel roommate), artists, socialites, porn stars, and members of the gay S&M underground. While his content could be shocking, Mapplethorpe was also highly attuned to his medium’s formal, more traditional elements; his pictures are deeply concerned with composition, color, texture, balance, and beauty.

GHOTI XXIV student show and 2021 Graduation ceremony

Blak Lens: emerging Aboriginal photographers join forces – in pictures

The Black Photographers Rethinking What History Is All About

In these 11 photobooks from Kwame Brathwaite to Deana Lawson, artists envision beauty and poetry, fashion and resistance.

In this exhibition, Empire: Impressions from China, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery offers a look back through the work of three photographs, James Whilow Delano, Marc Riboud (1923-2016) and Fan Ho (1931-2016). The whole exhibition brings together forty photographs that retrace this vast country from the end of the 1940s to the beginning of the 2000s. As a multifaceted and ancient civilization, China becoming, the world power of the 21st Century, continues to intrigue and fascinate.