Do you ask yourself questions such as
• How do I make a career in photography?
• How might I become a successful photographer?
• What does a body of work look like?
• Do I have to photograph only one kind of subject to make a career?
Read this book and learn by example! Be transformed just by looking.
Be inspired. And, yes, you too can do it! Learn from someone who been in the photography business for over 30 years (sometimes right at the top…. my that was fun.)
It’ll be like having photography career advice for the price of lunch!
And there are lots of pictures to look at. Plus camera and lens details.
The book’s sections are divided into:
• Silver days – black-and-white work on film, ranging from Scottish Highlands to Turkey
* Travelling in search: colour film work from Zanzibar to Asia
* Woven Images: first experiments in image manipulation
* Enlightenment in grain: work on Polaroid Polachrome
* Digital days: shooting for books from Marrakech to Thimpu, Udaipur to Agra
* TV intermission: presenter work for TV (shooting on the way) from England to Singapore
* On the move: exploring Europe
* Pictures as people: relations with portraits
* Finding Aotearoa: images from New Zealand
It’s a snap-shot overview of over thirty years of work from the silver days when I enjoyed processing favourite films like Agfapan 25 through hybrid digital work i.e. scanning films followed by software-based image manipulation. This was, to give it chronological context, at the turn of the 21st century: I like that, it makes it sound rather historical.
I’m delighted that my first volume of pictures – presented as self-standing images instead of being used to illustrate some editorial point – should be in electronic format; or what I call ‘elastic- book’. Quite apart from saving rather a lot of paper, I think the eBook is today the right medium to enjoy digital images.
This volume is the first a series of collections of Tom Ang’s pictures and picture-making projects. More volumes are planned, which will go more into back-story and background … or according to what you, reader and visitor, request. So please request away!
Other versions
For the multi-touch iBooks version with please visit this page.
(The multi-touch version adds a few interactive panels showing alternate shots but, unlike the version on this website, is not available in all countries.)
