Camera Obscura

Have you ever try to make a camera obscura?
You can make it with a small black box or… with your own room!

Ken Lennox lecture

I attended a lecture last week. Ken Lennox was talking about his life as a photographer.

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Ken Lennox was picture editor of the News of The World and The Sun for the 9 years.
He has also worked in Fleet Street for 30 years, across titles such as The Mirror, The Express and The Today.
He is also a professional news photographer and has been awarded British Press Photographer of the Year four times. Having spent so long around celebrities, Lennox has captured thousands of definitive moments, which have become part of our history. Who can forget the frozen moments of Mrs Thatcher shedding a tear as she left Downing Street, Princess Diana running across a field in a school’s egg and spoon race, Terry Waite (a newly freed man), waving from an aeroplane, close-ups of Michael Jackson’s cosmetically altered face and Mother Teresa sitting with Bob Geldof in Ethiopia during the famine?
That lecture was really interesting. He showed us some of his press photography, I found hilarious the one of Princess Diana running across a field in a school’s egg and spoon race… He is a professional, also a funny person, he talked, laugh, joked, even he got exited.
Pleased to meet him!

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

On Tuesday I went to ICA, and watched an amazing documentary: Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens. This documentary, directed by her sister, is a fascinating portrait of a great photographer, featuring vintage footage of Leibovitz in action during the 1960s and contributions from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hillary Clinton, Mick Jagger and George Clooney

Photographer Annie Leibovitz has produced some of the most memorable and iconic images of the last 30 years, from her work with Rolling Stone magazine through to her Hollywood cover portraits at Vanity Fair. She has also recorded the horrors of war in Rwanda and Sarajevo and taken intimate shots her own friends and family, including Susan Sontag..

London Fashion Week 2008

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