Just three days to go before Vision 2008 – British Journal of Photography’s annual event for aspiring pro photographers



More than a thousand visitors are expected at Islington's Business Design Centre on Friday 07 November as BJP opens the doors to Vision, its annual event for aspiring pro photographers. Vision 2008 offers young professionals the chance to get their portfolios reviewed by experts from across the industry, take advantage of one-day only deals on the latest photographic kit and hear top photographers speak about their careers.

Attendees will hear a speech by Jacob Aue Sobol, one of Magnum Photos' rising stars and the subject of this week's cover story. He won the Leica European Publishers’ Award for his I, Tokyo project, which will be published by Dewi Lewi next month and which he’ll present at Vision. He’ll also present images from his first, celebrated, book, Sabine, which documents life in an isolated Greenland community.

Simon Roberts will also give the first public viewing of his latest photo series, We English - a follow-up Motherland, his acclaimed book exploring Russian identity. This time he's focused on ideas of nationhood closer to home, taking to the road in a motorhome for six months with his wife and daughter, 'documenting landscapes where groups of people congregate for a common purpose and shared experience'.

Another keynote speaker will be photojournalist Sam Faulkner, who gained wider attention for his...

I know when it's coming. A wave of nostalgia-like emotion takes over all rational thought after a rummage through the refrigerator in search of a snack only to find a roll of film on the wrong shelf; a session on the light box, or as now, a quiet moment spent flicking the pages of another good book.

The tome in question is nothing special in photographic terms, but Cote D'Azur by Pierre Borel published at thirty five shillings (one pound seventy five pence to you.) by Nicholas Kaye of London in 1957, contains 169 b+w heliogravure printed photo illustrations.


Hardly any of the photographs are what one might label outstanding, but they have, nonetheless, the characteristic appeal of an era now well past; content is arranged in a more formal compositional way, the emphasis on each frame of directional and contrasting lighting effects brought to bear on a potter's hands, or to give extra dimension to an image by way of contre-jour, to the carpet weaver's labour of love. This is a collection of workaday travel photos, but they are endowed with a certain charm rarely seen today in the colourful interpretations of stock photographers.

The 1950s and early 1960s marked the end of a period during which this treatment proliferated across a wide range of subjects since the late 1920s. The French exploited the technique more delicately perhaps than the Brits, but in either camp,...

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FUJIFILM UK, Bedford. 10 September 2007:

MacLive Expo 2007 will be showcasing the very best in the digital world, and giving visitors the chance to get close to major players in music, photography, film and design. Given which, it will come a no surprise that FUJIFILM, the global leader in imaging hardware, software and consumables, will be participating in this year's staging of this popular event.

FUJIFILM, world famous for its digital imaging products, will be establishing an important presence at the MacLive Expo 2007 show which takes place at London's Olympia over 25 - 27 October.

With a market-leading product range on show, including software packages, large format inkjet printers, consumables, colour management solutions and cameras (FinePix S5 Pro, FinePix S9600 and FinePix Big Job HD-3W), FUJIFILM will be demonstrating the advanced technologies which have propelled the company to the top of the digital imaging market.

Recognised throughout the graphics, photographic and imaging sectors for its commitment to high-end research and development specific to producing the best output for both black-and-white and vivid full-colour images, FUJIFILM has long aligned its products to the creative Mac-based sector.

With its distribution of HP Designjet and FUJIFILM/EPSON Stylus Pro large format printers providing an extensive range of solutions, FUJIFILM has captured the image output field and made it its own.

When you have created the perfect graphic or colour proof, you need the best possible rendition of it in order to judge...