Hi,
Has anyone read this months UK B&W mag, if you have what do you
think of it?
IMO it's the worst issue yet and I've read them all.
It seems all doom and gloom for silver photography
to them this month, what do you think?
We won't get the September issue on this side of the Atlantic for another month, however I think this is the issue that features some work by our own Kate Seymour (BWKate), whose shots all all traditionally based.
As to the future of the mag, I was a little worried about it's direction when I heard Ailsa was leaving. We'll see.
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I am not impressed; far too much digital. I am very close to cancelling my subscription, but will wait till the year end to see what the new editor brings to the table.
Hi,
Has anyone read this months UK B&W mag, if you have what do you
think of it?
IMO it's the worst issue yet and I've read them all.
It seems all doom and gloom for silver photography
to them this mouth, what do you think?
JON
Yes.
Film seems to be on the back foot.
But at last nights projected image monthly club competition about 25% were black and white digital images! As a sign that change is not necessarilly progress we now have to enter slides a week in advance instead of on the night because the digi. boys can't get their images sorted in a few minutes as we did with slides.
Will review my subscription December time.
Cheers
Jeff
Even under Ailsa it was starting to trend digi... not offensively, but nonetheless... If this becomes a standard modus operandi for the magazine I'll be quite disappointed. Only upside is that I'll be able to cut back on my monthly magazine outlay. Less crap to accumulate and bloat the library with.
One photo mag I truly miss was Photographers International - very much a portfolio magazine, but it had higher production values than all but the best clothbound book printers. And only a dozen pages of advertising or less in a 100-150 page magazine. Pricey, but worth every penny they charged for it. I have about twenty issues of it on my shelves. Almost exclusively black-and-white work, and more journalistic/documentary than anything else, but it was a true joy to examine each issue.
I agree, I thought it wasn't up to it's usual standards and also noticed the change in emphasis to digital.
Another thing which really worries me is the announcement of the new editor, David Corfield. Now, I know nothing about him at all, but what concerned me was the mention that he's been a deputy editor on Practical Photography and Photography Monthy. Two magazines which are very strong digital evangelists. The last time I brought PM a year or two ago, I chucked the mag into the bin after traditional photographers were derided as luddites and scared of computers. As someone who has a PhD in Computer Science I probably know more about computers than everyone working on that rag put together.
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