March 20, 2022 • 56 mins
Geoff Howard, documentary and reportage photographer, based in London.
His archives cover commissioned editorial photography, personal and self-assigned work, and architectural photographs taken for publishers. The files contain many thousands of images, taken over five decades.
His photographs are in the National Portrait Gallery collection in London, the Museum of London collection, the London Guildhall Archive, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and private collections.
Geoff Howard:
" I photographed the people and places that caught my attention, shooting from an interest in, and a curiosity about, what was there and what was happening, happy to be working without the restrictions which often accompany commissioned projects. People have asked why I shot with flash – in those days, most photographers would only use available light – shades of Cartier-Bresson – but in the disco pubs, it was really dark – and I wanted to see, to show more clearly, what it was like, what was happening; less atmosphere, but more information. I stopped photographing there so intensively when I felt I had done the things which demanded to be photographed, and I didn’t want to make the same pictures over again. Then the whole area, the whole character of the area, changed – with redevelopment, new building, the yuppyfication of docklands; there were lots of photographers documenting the new docklands, and if I had continued, it would have been a different story, so it seemed like a natural end, a natural place to stop. I have been back, a few times – I was there last year, to try and check some locations when I started putting this book together; it was interesting, frustrating, indeed perplexing trying to identify places I used to know well, and now so changed."
[Rotherhithe Photographs was published in 2008, although images from the project had previously appeared in the legendary Creative Camera magazine in 1975, and a selection of pictures was also exhibited at London’s Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1978. Seen from the vantage point of 2012, Geoff’s photos capture the half-forgotten ‘Interzone’ between the dock closures and Thatcherite redevelopment and demonstrate, yet again, that there is nothing quite as remote as the recent past.] Source: Dave Seacombe. The London Column. https://thelondoncolumn.com/2012/09/0...
Geoff Howard
Web: http://www.geoffahoward.com/index.html
National Portrait Gallery: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/se...
Dance: https://www.gallearoy.com/photo-gallery/
Selected Books:
Cafe Royal Collection: https://archive.caferoyalbooks.com/ta...
Rotherhithe: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/6040715-rot...
Behind the Scenes: https://www.blurb.co.uk/books/8970840...
Japanese Moments: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/739812-japa...
Australian Pictures: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4546292-aus...
The Hitching Post Of The Sun: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/8970853-the...
Chilean Fragments: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/7950195-chi...
Serpentine Photography 73 (as discussed in this podcast)
43 photographers, including
Gerry Badger
John Blakemore
Colin Curwood
Robert Golden
Paul Hill
Larry Herman
Geoff Howard (Couples and selected USA travel images)
Bob Mazzer
Daniel Meadows
John Myers
Martin Pover
Philip Sayer
Paddy Summerfield
amongst others
Curated by Peter Turner, as photographers under 35, working in England, who had not had a major London show of their work. (Quote from Introduction by Norbert Lynton, director of exhibitions.)
Music by kind permission Martin Stephenson:
https://daintees.bandcamp.com/album/s...
To buy the song We Are Storm: https://daintees.bandcamp.com/track/w...
Camera is on:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Camerasnaps
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/Camerasnaps
Inst
His archives cover commissioned editorial photography, personal and self-assigned work, and architectural photographs taken for publishers. The files contain many thousands of images, taken over five decades.
His photographs are in the National Portrait Gallery collection in London, the Museum of London collection, the London Guildhall Archive, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and private collections.
Geoff Howard:
" I photographed the people and places that caught my attention, shooting from an interest in, and a curiosity about, what was there and what was happening, happy to be working without the restrictions which often accompany commissioned projects. People have asked why I shot with flash – in those days, most photographers would only use available light – shades of Cartier-Bresson – but in the disco pubs, it was really dark – and I wanted to see, to show more clearly, what it was like, what was happening; less atmosphere, but more information. I stopped photographing there so intensively when I felt I had done the things which demanded to be photographed, and I didn’t want to make the same pictures over again. Then the whole area, the whole character of the area, changed – with redevelopment, new building, the yuppyfication of docklands; there were lots of photographers documenting the new docklands, and if I had continued, it would have been a different story, so it seemed like a natural end, a natural place to stop. I have been back, a few times – I was there last year, to try and check some locations when I started putting this book together; it was interesting, frustrating, indeed perplexing trying to identify places I used to know well, and now so changed."
[Rotherhithe Photographs was published in 2008, although images from the project had previously appeared in the legendary Creative Camera magazine in 1975, and a selection of pictures was also exhibited at London’s Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1978. Seen from the vantage point of 2012, Geoff’s photos capture the half-forgotten ‘Interzone’ between the dock closures and Thatcherite redevelopment and demonstrate, yet again, that there is nothing quite as remote as the recent past.] Source: Dave Seacombe. The London Column. https://thelondoncolumn.com/2012/09/0...
Geoff Howard
Web: http://www.geoffahoward.com/index.html
National Portrait Gallery: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/se...
Dance: https://www.gallearoy.com/photo-gallery/
Selected Books:
Cafe Royal Collection: https://archive.caferoyalbooks.com/ta...
Rotherhithe: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/6040715-rot...
Behind the Scenes: https://www.blurb.co.uk/books/8970840...
Japanese Moments: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/739812-japa...
Australian Pictures: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4546292-aus...
The Hitching Post Of The Sun: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/8970853-the...
Chilean Fragments: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/7950195-chi...
Serpentine Photography 73 (as discussed in this podcast)
43 photographers, including
Gerry Badger
John Blakemore
Colin Curwood
Robert Golden
Paul Hill
Larry Herman
Geoff Howard (Couples and selected USA travel images)
Bob Mazzer
Daniel Meadows
John Myers
Martin Pover
Philip Sayer
Paddy Summerfield
amongst others
Curated by Peter Turner, as photographers under 35, working in England, who had not had a major London show of their work. (Quote from Introduction by Norbert Lynton, director of exhibitions.)
Music by kind permission Martin Stephenson:
https://daintees.bandcamp.com/album/s...
To buy the song We Are Storm: https://daintees.bandcamp.com/track/w...
Camera is on:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Camerasnaps
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/Camerasnaps
Inst
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