Life’s A Drag – The Smoker’s Gallery
John Gill Photography
by John Gill
2w ago
I think I might be an incredibly dull person. I don’t eat meat; I don’t drink and I’ve never had a cigarette in my life. And yet I seem to have accrued a considerable number of pictures of smokers and, more recently, ‘vapers’. I don’t really see the appeal of the smell of nicotine and tobacco (or unicorn sweat, or whatever flavours are in vogue for the vapers) but I have to admit that smoke… Source ..read more
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Yorkshire History & Heritage – After the Coal Dust article
John Gill Photography
by John Gill
2M ago
Last year I was asked to write an article on After the Coal Dust for Yorkshire History & Heritage Magazine. The full article is featured below. If we were to do an internet search on, let’s say, Castleford, we’d undoubtedly get references to rugby. If we scrolled down far enough on the results, Henry Moore might get a mention. We might even get some comments about it being a historic… Source ..read more
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2023 A REVIEW OF THE YEAR
John Gill Photography
by John Gill
3M ago
I seem to have taken fewer photographs this year. I’m not sure why, a lack of opportunities or lack of motivation? Anyway, here’s the world’s most depressing calendar for… Source ..read more
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One Hundred Faces
John Gill Photography
by John Gill
3M ago
I never really set out to create the ‘100 Faces Project’. All I really do is wander around and point a camera in the general direction of strangers on the street. It was all just street photography to me; a continuation of After the Coal Dust. It was only when I began to notice that I’d been far closer to some people than I realised. They were more like ‘portraits’ in some ways than… Source ..read more
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Masks – Street Portraits
John Gill Photography
by John Gill
3M ago
We have flawless skin and perfect teeth. We have wide and sparkling eyes. Sometimes we have rabbit ears and unicorn horns. Mirrors lie to us. We are in exotic locations eating expensive meals. We exist on 6inch screens. This is our social media life. There are more ‘photographs’ (although the definition is increasingly vague) taken of us than ever before. There are fewer photographs taken of… Source ..read more
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Some feedback from Bromsgrove Photographic Society
John Gill Photography
by John Gill
4M ago
A big thank you to Bromsgrove Photographic Society for hosting the Zoom talk on the 14th November 2023. Thank you too for forwarding some of the feedback. Source ..read more
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After the Coal Dust Book Review
John Gill Photography
by John Gill
6M ago
A great review of ‘After the Coal Dust’ from the Progressive Festival, Milan. After The Coal Dust Review Margaret Thatcher’s conservative government, with their forced closures of coal mines and privatisation, caused an enormous social shock, which was met with indignation across the media and throughout society. These photographs of John and Bridget Gill are full of that coal dust. Source ..read more
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Photos & Thoughts – August 2023
John Gill Photography
by John Gill
7M ago
Late summer, 6am. A field in England. Scavengers arrive like vultures to pick over the discarded fragments of someone’s life. “Got any gold or silver jewellery?”, “What about mobile phones or computer parts?” Welcome to a Bank Holiday car boot sale. To the uninitiated those first few minutes can be terrifying. No time to put up your folding table and arrange your old paperbacks, toby jugs... Source ..read more
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“Le Magazine” feature
John Gill Photography
by John Gill
8M ago
Pleased to be featured in the 2023 Special Edition of LE MAGAZINE. There is an interview and photographs over 12 pages of the German language publication. Source ..read more
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Photos & Thoughts – July 2023
John Gill Photography
by John Gill
8M ago
Photos and thoughts July 2023 I’ve never really got Twitter, perhaps I was too late to the party. From what I I could see, it was just a platform to insult each other. And then Threads came along. I could link to my Instagram account so I didn’t have the hassle of trying to find an audience. But therein was the problem. I was just speaking to, and sharing pictures with the same people as before. Source ..read more
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