by Julian Jackson Homer Sykes started as a photographer by grabbing his father’s camera and shooting in the backstreets of Nice in France, where they were holidaying in the 1960s. Streetlife and cultures of the UK have remained a major feature of his work. He is almost an anthropologist who instead of studying distant cultures, …
By Michael Masterson How often do you wish a film wouldn’t end, that it would continue to unspool and reveal more and more about itself? “Finding Vivian Maier”, part documentary, part detective story, part exposé, is that kind of film. Its subject is slowly revealed as one of the world’s great “street” photographers, rivaling Garry …
Photo lovers captivated and mesmerized by the story of the negatives in a suitcase and the mysterious nanny/street photographer Vivian Meier are in for a treat with the just released documentary, Finding Vivien Meier. See where it is screening near you here and go see it immediately. Her story is not what you expect and …