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Tag: Photography

  • Analogue Skill 007: Print out photos of your friends

    Analogue Skill 007: Print out photos of your friends

    Print out photos of your friends. Stick them on your wall. What are they doing? How can you support them? A regular reminder to give them a call.

    Printing out photos of your friends speaks to at least five points on the Analogue Skills manifesto:

    • Don’t delegate responsibility to the machines/ Resist life as content
    • Much less is much more/ Embrace inconvenience
    • Share, swap and learn from others
    • Forget the unimportant and remember the valuable.
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  • Eiffelovercast #5 – Nick Cobbing: photographing the Arctic

    Eiffelovercast #5 – Nick Cobbing: photographing the Arctic

    Photographer and photojournalist Nick Cobbing talks about photographing the Arctic, what happens to photographic equipment at minus 38 degrees, using drones to take photos, the role of the audience in the creative process, being reduced to tears by the beauty of the planet, the best places to swing dance north of the Arctic, life hacks for creative people working on their own and whether penguins tango or waltz.

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  • Archive photos/early attempts at developing/les arcs

    Archive photos/early attempts at developing/les arcs

    Ski lift, high contrast, les arcs
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    Probably the best module I studied during my year at ENPC was not engineering-themed – but photography. The module was run as an English language course: the subject of the lessons was photography, and the lessons were in English. Being a native English speaker I was not able to get any credits for the module, but I gained much more. I still vividly remember the magic of seeing images emerge on pieces of paper submerged in solution. In just a few short hours of teaching I learned somethings that have been much more valuable to me than the hours of lectures I sat through on other subjects.

    These photos were taken on a weekend trip skiing at Les Arcs. Getting from Paris to the Alps by overnight train is easy by the way. The night train leaves from Gare d’Austerlitz, and arrives Bourg St Maurice, where there is a lift straight up to Les Arcs.