In an attempt to simplify my life a little bit in order to allow more time for actually taking pictures I am moving my writing from here over to my own website at http://nickturpin.com/blog/. Thank you for all the interest that has been shown in my ideas and opinions here and I hope you will [...]

“There remains a sizeable part of the art world that simply does not get photography. They get artists who use photography to illustrate their ideas, installations, performances and concepts, who deploy the medium as one of a range of artistic strategies to complete their work. But photography for and of itself – photographs taken from [...]

I felt I owed a brief note of explanation to sevensevennine readers for my absence here recently…this is down to three main factors. I spent the first half of this year establishing a Letterpress Printing studio at my home in the French Alps, a new business venture I’m passionate about and has taken a lot [...]

The renamed London Festival of Photography returns this year with a wider remit to present not just Street Photography but documentary photography in all it’s forms. With an expanded number of venues and exhibitions it promises to build on last years success. While it is a shame that the worlds first and only dedicated Street [...]

50 top street photographers, including members of in-public, have offered limited editions of their best work to raise money for Photovoice in an online sale between 18th and 25th April. The Street Collection includes beautiful, dramatic, comic and moving images that capture the energy and idiosyncrasy of everyday life on streets across the globe. Over [...]

The international march of Street Photography continues this week with the launch in India of a new collective called That’s Life, starting with just four photographers Arindam Thokder, Kaushal Parikh, Prantik Mazumdar and Suyog Gaidhani. The collectives work is largely strong and consistent using colour, harsh light and large depth of field in many cases [...]

This week saw the launch of a new Street Photography Collective, ‘Burn My Eye’. There is some really nice work on the site and the group feels like it has the energy and enthusiasm that the founding members of in-public had 11 years ago. There are a number of Street Photography groups online now but [...]

Nobody could say that Photography wasn’t thriving, it is cheap, easy and accessible to make, simple to share and distribute around the world in seconds. Photography has become a central part of our online social experience, the general public are doing workshops, talking about photography on forums and twitter, publishing books of their own photographs [...]

This week the record for the sale of a Photograph was broken when a German collector sold one of six copies of Andreas Gursky’s 1999 work “Rhein II” at Christie’s for $4,338,500. When I look at this as a Photograph and ignore what the Art World tells me its worth, my valuation comes in considerably [...]

I’m not obsessed with money but my local supermarket seem very keen on my paying for food with it before leaving, why is it then that in the virtual world there is an expectation that I should give away my products for free? Established magazines and publishers get in touch with no mention at all [...]