Skimming through her impressively enormous portfolio, it becomes clear that Julia Fullerton-Batten’s famous images are a medley of alarm-bell bright colours, crowds and garish aspects of modern life. Add in the fact that she’s inspired by the transformation of girls to women and the differing attitudes towards this in contrasting countries. Often using the artificial […]

Photography is about telling a story. Whether it be through one frame or a series of images, I love making photographs that speak about the subject. I’m drawn to location choices that complement a subject yet recede enough to allow the subject to dominate the image. Since growing up in Houston, TX in my father’s […]

Adam Letch is a Cape Town based photographer with an extensive background in a wide range of photographic disciplines. He has attained formal qualifications in photography from leading South African institutions, and is presently Head of Photography at the Ruth Prowse School of Art in Cape Town. His photographic interests range from the production of […]

Robert Mapplethorpe (November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men. The frank homoeroticism of some of the work of his middle period triggered a more general controversy about the public funding of artworks. Mapplethorpe worked primarily […]

Bill Brandt, born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt, (2 May 1904 – 20 December 1983) was a German-British photographer and photojournalist. Although born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his high-contrast images of British society, his distorted nudes and landscapes, and is widely considered to be one of the most important British […]