BOP22 with Mike Goldwater

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BOP is like an annual pilgrimage for photographers and photobook makers.

Mike and I seemed to recognise each other, but we were not sure why.

He showed me his book, printed by Hoxton Mini Press. The print run was in the thousands

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When I take a photograph that really interests me I often write a little haiku. I write them in three lines of 5/7/5 syllables. They do not have to rhyme, they do not have to describe the photograph, they are simply what the image led me to write. I only allow myself 60 seconds to write it. It is about being in the moment of seeing the photograph, just as my photographs are made in the moment of seeing.

the click of a kiss
a private moment in time
now shared forever

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Mike Goldwater

Mike has been a photographer for a long time. He showed me his instagram feed, and I saw one amazing image after another, well worth a look.

Mike also told me he was also a founder member of Network Photographers from 1981 to 2005, an agency that had a long list of photographer who are now well known in the industry

Mike Goldwater’s website click here

Mike Golwater on Instagram click here

Network Photographers click here

Hoxton Press London Underground 1970 – 1980 click here

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• Forget Everything You’ve Learned About Photography and Just Shoot
• The Snowdrop Finale
• Test post
• Abstracts of Whatton Photobook
• Ginko009: Bristol Paintworks in May

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In a haiku world a ginko is a walk through nature observing

and as I ginko I make images of the things I notice

I then write a haiku in a moment as a response the images I make, that makes me stop to think

Finally I blog here about what the image and haiku make me think about

© Stewart Wall 2022