Art Photographic

Contact Sheets - A Closer Look

As long as there has been photography there have been contact sheets. Once an essential component of the photographic process, their existence has diminished as the digital age progresses.

Contact sheets however, represent an important era in photography and are destined to become a significant part of photographic history. They possess an inherently precious quality, as they are not manipulated, an extreme rarity in this day and age. In addition, they provide us with an invaluable insight into the photographers’ method of thought, as well as revealing the largely unseen and fascinating editing process.

Elephants - Born To Be Free

Where humans and elephants come into conflict, Born Free tries to find ways to create tolerance that sometimes means relocating individual elephants from places of danger to safety. With support, orphaned elephants in Sri Lanka are cared for at the Elephant Transit Home’s intensive care unit and ultimately returned to the wild. And, of course, Born Free continues to oppose the keeping of elephants in captivity in zoos and circuses, their capture from the wild and their exploitation as diplomatic gifts. Shrinking elephant habitats and expanding human populations mean people and elephants increasingly come into contact.

Robin Bell Silver Footprint

Robin Bell celebrates 30 years of black and white printing with an exhibition at the Richard Young Gallery in London throughout November 2009. This retrospective illustrates Robin’s passion for the silver gelatin print and his anecdotal captions reveal a personal insight into his life and career. All one hundred and twenty images, selected and printed by Robin, are described as some of the favourite or most memorable photographs he’s printed over the years, each with a personal slant.