Curator of photographs at the National Media Museum, Bradford, Greg Hobson talks to Anna Ray Jones about her late husband Tony Ray-Jones most iconic photographs. Continue reading “Anna Ray-Jones in conversation with Greg Hobson”
‘Only in England’, work by Tony Ray-Jones & Martin Parr

An excellent overview of the recent exhibition (September 2013- March 2014) of work by Tony Ray-Jones. The first to be held at the London Science Museum Media Space, a new area devoted to ‘photography and art’.
The review is by Brian Human, a regular contributor to this site.
Only in England – Review

A review by Brian Human of Only in England, an exhibition of work by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr, held at the Science Museum, London, 2013-2014. Continue reading “Only in England – Review”
Robert Elwall 1953-2012
Me & Edwin Smith at Arbor Low
I’ve written an article on my ‘Real Photographs’ site about a discovery made whilst reviewing my collection of photographs made at the prehistoric henge site of Arbor Low in Derbyshire (featured on this site here). Continue reading “Me & Edwin Smith at Arbor Low”
On photographing cathedrals and parish churches


In 1990, Olive Cook gave me a signed and dedicated copy of ‘English Cathedrals‘, which had just been published. In the Foreword she says that the book was needed because relatively few of Edwin’s photographs of cathedrals had ever been published, yet it was a subject to which he was considerably drawn.
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Ray Moore Talking

This article was first published in the March/April 1981 edition of Creative Camera magazine, a special double issue entitled ‘British Photography Now’. Moore was talking to art historian Ian Jeffrey, and the interview took place just prior to the opening of Moore’s major retrospective, held at London’s Hayward Gallery. This show was only the second exhibition by a living British photographer to be held there. The first had been Bill Brandt in 1970.
Raymond Moore in Camera Owner, 1967
Raymond Moore – Creative Camera Yearbook 1977

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Moore Land
In 1984, in the September 15 edition of Amateur Photographer, David Brittain (later to become editor of Creative Camera) wrote an article entitled ‘Moore Land’.
Whilst inevitably geared in part to the kind of readership that Amateur Photographer attracts, the article was a thorough and enlightening look into Moore’s approach to making what he himself called ‘shots’.