Afribeanne (on the right in the portrait) is a resident of Brixton and was visiting Birmingham during the Artsfest weekend.
An art student, she had some great insights into the unique nature of photography and the importance of it being part of the community as you can see in the video interview below.
She also had some [...]
One of the most important aims of Birmingham Photospace is to create a spiritual home in the city for the vast number of dedicated photoenthusiasts who prowl its streets.
One of the most enthusiastic photographers that we know has the Flickr name TheWishy and is an evangelist of the more esoteric areas of film photography. He [...]
One of the groups of people that have yet to be thanked by the Birmingham Photospace team are our families who have provided so much support for the cause.
And so here’s my mother-in-law, the fantastic Pat Flynn MBE, formerly head of Library Services in Leicester and lifelong Brummie.
As well as sitting for a portrait [...]
One of the joys of the Artsfest weekend was the sheer variety of people who were happy to be photographed, reflecting the diversity of Birmingham as a whole. As a photographer it was a brilliant experience.
Noel here and his wife (soon to feature) were a great couple of sitters, both being extremely dignified models and [...]
Our Friday Photo is the fabulous Karen Strunks, a very talented local photographer who came down on the Sunday to lend a hand.
She was a great help, both in guiding members of the public through the whole process and in assisting me behind the camera, especially late in the day when we had a few [...]
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde
Liz has handled the Birmingham’s People posts up until now so I thought it was about time I wrote one. I photographed the majority of the portraits over the weekend and it was both an incredibly intense [...]
One of the best things about writing these blog posts is occasionally being able to write about my friends.
The chap on the left is indeed a friend of mine, but more than that he’s a very talented bassist. Mike plays bass for a local band named Urge but also for spoken word events like [...]
Debra came to Artsfest with her kids and was a huge amount of fun to work with.
One of the features of our studio system was to link every sitter with a number, so we could match them with their name (and make these posts easier to write!)
The first photo for all of our sitters [...]
Irina was a visitor to Artsfest where she and her son appeared to be really enjoying themselves.
I like this portrait as I think our photographer has captured some of Irina’s spark and enthusiam, which is hard to do when your subject isn’t looking directly at the camera. I liked her earrings too, and asked [...]
Mrs Kaur is a very beautiful woman – that much is evident from the photo.
What you can’t tell from the photo is that Mrs Kaur is an incredibly talented craftsperson, who has spent her life promoting rangoli and textile art and encouraging people’s creativity. Rangoli is the art of creating floor paintings with coloured [...]