Australian documentary and fine art photographer
Nick Bedford is a fine art and documentary photographer based in Brisbane, Australia.
Winter is slowly passing, and we're having some warm days here and there. The light is still quite beautiful most of the day. I find myself growing especially fond of colour film on the Rolleiflex and remaining true to my black and white 35mm style. I have no colour film scanning gear which influences my choice of film to generally monochrome.
Read MoreI've been enjoying the Rolleiflex, but square format is not where I want to be for landscape photography. I prefer a rectangular composition. I've also thought about investigating other medium format cameras but something about "going big" seems like the right way to go now, after having seen many of Ben Horne's videos and seeing photographers like Alex Burke at work.
Read MoreIt's a black and white kinda month, with a little more Rolleiflex street photography this time! It's a tough camera to shoot in the fast paced environment of the street but the results are very interesting. I think I prefer shooting colour on the Rollei, despite having to pay a lot more for outsourcing dev and scan.
Read MoreThe Leica M7 is back so I'm able to use my 35mm lens again. I've enjoyed being confined to the 50mm lens on the Nikon for the last month and a half but I'm looking forward to feeling less claustrophobic out on the streets and feeling more flexible again.
Read MoreIt's a nice feeling to have completely given myself over to the dark side — to have wholly accepted my fate as one of those film photographers, shooting on silver and not being able to show people the photo I just took. Here's some more of life.
Read MoreSince I seem to be shooting both black and white and colour a lot now, I'm renaming these posts to simply Photo Vol. X. Seems more fitting and flexible.
Read MoreI've sent off my Leica M7 to be serviced at Camera Clinic in Melbourne. The shutter curtain is tapering the exposure on 1/1000th (and possibly 1/500th), not to mention the dust that has built up in the rangefinder eyepiece. So I'm without a 35mm lens on a 35mm film camera.
Read MoreHey, hi. It's been a little while since I wrote a decent photographer's journal. The truth is that the last few months have been a deeply personal wake up call, and has resulted in a fundamental shift in the relationship I have with photography as a form of artistic expression and why I want to practice it in my daily life.
Read MoreMy relationship to photography and being a photographer is changing a lot. I think in a lot of ways it could represent a maturity in my vision and an understanding of the purpose of photography within the larger context of my life. Now I feel like I've given myself the reins back and photography is sitting behind me, leaving a trail of breadcrumbs of life and art.
Read MoreSo it turns out that acting class is like reaching behind the curtains right into the safe storage box of your personality and yanking out the person who is hiding there, kicking and screaming.
Read MoreIt's convenient that my Rodinal and 35mm negative sleeves ran out by the time I was ready for a bit of a break from shooting black and white film non-stop for the last few months since returning from New Zealand. I'll be back into it all once I've got some new supplies.
Read MoreThe result is the All In A Day's Walk gallery which is on display now until May 26th at Racquet Film, 6/608 Brunswick St, New Farm in Brisbane. With Racquet's larger fine art printer at my disposal, I managed the printing of all A2 prints on Ilford's beautiful Gold Fibre Gloss paper.
Read MoreFrom my perspective, to be a street photographer is to be human and to seek out humanity, the absurdity of it, the chaos of it, the irony, the elation, the fleeting and the ever present, from a man smiling with me in Kyoto while busking, to a little girl in the act of throwing a ball in a backyard, to the tale of two bins taking on an anthropomorphised relationship.
Read MoreI'm working on a local gallery showing opportunity that has presented itself, which is exciting as someone who only recently got into printing last year and has never exhibited any work before at all. I feel busy and not busy at the same time as wrestling with personal battles and finding new purpose, and I frankly can't foresee the result of it all in the near future.
Read MoreI've been reading a lot about street photography and certain photographers over the last several weeks, from the revised edition of Bystander: A History Of Street Photography and Elliot Erwitt: Home Around The World, to ordering Joel Meyerowitz' new hardcover titled Where I Find Myself.
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