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few weeks ago I happened to

have an hour or so to spare and

decided to have a rifle through

some of the pictures I’d taken

over the last year but haven’t

done anything with. I wasn’t

really hopeful of finding anything I particularly

liked – it was more out of curiosity to see what

was there. I even had vague thoughts about

sorting through and deleting some (this was

never achieved).

I admit I was surprised. There was a set of

pictures I’d taken from a moving train in France

that showed promise, there were some quiet

interior shots that made a nice set, then there

was the...and so it went on. I realised that if I had

the time, and edited the images well, I could get

at least three of four passable sets or stories. And

that was from pictures I had all but abandoned.

How many images do we have stored away

that we’ve hardly looked at? Hundreds?

Millions? More?

I think part of the trouble is that I, like a lot

of photographers, like the act of taking pictures

but am less enthusiastic when it comes to

sitting down to edit – and the danger is that

we accumulate so many images that it becomes

daunting to tackle them. So we ignore them

and take more. And pretend to ourselves that

it isn’t happening.

So how do we solve the problem of picture

wastage? Maybe take fewer pictures and devote

more time to editing (put aside a whole day after

every shoot). Or maybe download the images

and then wait a month or so before editing them

• that way you tend to see them in a new light.
  Well, it’s something to think about now
  and then...

Elizabeth Roberts, Editor

[email protected]

EDITOR’S LETTER

© Eddie Ephraums

COVER IMAGE

This month’s front cover is by

Bruce Percy. Turn to page 24 to

read our full interview with him.

brucepercy.co.uk

PICK OF THE PICS

Not one to shy away from embracing a little risk for an unusual

photograph, Eddie Ephraums’ picture of his pinhole camera balanced

over a gully was an instant favourite in the B+W office when his

article came in. Turn to page 56 to see the resulting image.

ephraums.com

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AS LONG AS IT PHOTOGRAPHS

Swiss duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs make fully

functioning cameras out of radically different

objects, including armadillo shells, stones

and photography books (pictured

here). Their work is featured in

Thames & Hudson’s new book

Experimental Photography:

A Handbook of Techniques.

Turn to page 7 to read

our full review.

tonk.ch

A DARKROOM DELIGHT

When Augusto Schillaci shared his beautiful kallitype print on our

Twitter page, we wanted to try this intriguing alternative technique

ourselves. Invented in 1889, the kallitype process is often referred to as

the poor man’s platinum print as it gives a similar rich tonal range but

doesn’t use the costly chemicals needed for platinum printing.

d25studios.com @goosefilms

A FOND FAREWELL

B+W174 saw the last of Colin

Harding’s Behind the Scenes

monthly articles, which is one

of the longest running series

we’ve had in B+W. Curator of

photography and photographic

technology at the National

Media Museum, Colin’s

knowledge and expertise have

made him a key contributor to

the magazine. Filling his shoes

is Tate Modern assistant curator

of photography Shoair Mavlian.

Turn to page 52 to read the

first article of her series

A Modern Eye.

© Augusto Schillaci

© Eddie Ephraums

© Bruce Percy

Book Cam, 2011

© Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs

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