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Portraits from around the world

have been collected as part of

a project by photography

website Blipfoto.

The idea was to send out

20 Ilford HP5 Plus Single Use

cameras to members of the

Blipfoto community. The brief

was to take a single portrait of

a stranger then pass the camera

on to someone else.

After 18 months, 14 of the

cameras have returned home

and the pictures developed. The

cameras had visited countries

as far afield as Australia, Brazil,

Canada, Japan, Uganda, the UK

and the USA.

The project was sponsored by

Ilford Photo and the results can

be seen on the Blipfoto website.

blipfoto.com

NOW READY

New cameras from Phase

One are now available. The

A-series medium format camera

systems include the 50Mp A

(€36,000), the 60Mp A

(€38,000) and the 80Mp A

(€43,000). Each model comes

with a 35mm Rodenstock Alpar

lens. Two other lenses are also

available – the ultra-wide 23mm

and the all-rounder 70mm.

phaseone.com

UNVEILED AT CES

Nikon’s latest DSLR was unveiled

at the Consumer Electronics

Show in Las Vegas. The Nikon

D5500 has a 24.2Mp sensor

and 39-point autofocus system.

It’s designed without an optical

low-pass filter, meaning it should

provide better image sharpness.

The camera also offers an

ISO range of 100 to 25600,

continuous shooting at 5fps and

a 3.2in vari-angle touchscreen

display. Price £640 (body only)

nikon.co.uk

STYLISH

A light and stylish interchangeable

lens camera has been launched

by Panasonic. The Lumix GF7 is

a micro four-thirds camera with

a 16Mp sensor. It offers Wi-Fi

connectivity, 22 filter options

and full HD video. Other features

include a time-lapse mode and

a stop motion animation function.

It’s available in silver and brown

and comes with a 12-32mm lens.

Price £429.

panasonic.com

Pictures from one of the world’s

greatest photography collections

go on show at the National Media

Museum in Bradford this spring.

More than 250 pictures from

the Royal Photographic Society

archive will be displayed in

the Drawn by Light exhibition,

which is currently running at

the Media Space in London.

The exhibition, co-curated by

B+W Photography contributor

Colin Harding, includes images

from the dawn of photography

by Nièpce and Fox Talbot, plus

pictures by Oscar Rejlander,

Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger

Fenton, Lewis Carroll, Hugh

Welch Diamond, Don McCullin,

Terry O’Neill and Martin Parr.

The pictures are on display

at the museum in Bradford

from 20 March to 21 June.

The exhibition moves to the

Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in

Germany in 2017.

SEE THE CLASSICS

© 1982 Rory Coonan; National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Simon Rattle

by Rory Coonan, 1982.

A picture of British conductor

Sir Simon Rattle, taken on

a 150-year-old camera, has

been acquired by the National

Portrait Gallery.

The picture was taken by

Rory Coonan in 1982, when

Rattle was 27 years old. He

was photographed in Craxton

Studios, London, a rehearsal

space for musicians designed as

an artist’s studio in 1901.

The acquisition of the picture

marks Sir Simon’s 60th birthday.

It joins six other photographs

of him in the collection, taken

by Sheila Rock, Tom Zimberoff,

Anne-Katrin Purkiss and three

by Trevor Leighton.

RISING

STAR

© National Media Museum, Bradford / SSPL

© blipfoto.com/MyEveryday

UNITED WORLD

Leicester Square, 1896, Paul Martin,

The Royal Photographic Society Collection.

Ice Cream Truck Driver,

Concord, CA (USA).

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