John Bigglestone: 2017

A photographer all his working life, John Bigglestone is (still!) working, at what he admits is an advanced age. Having experienced almost every form of our craft -- underwater photography escaped him -- he now studies why he's done what he's been doing for the past sixty-five years.

In that time he progressed from blagging half a crown (twelve and a half new pennies) for a still-damp single-weight half- plate print of DJ'd diners and their partners, through a spell of aerial photography in Iran, photomicroscopy, process camerawork and industrial radiography in a Midlands aircraft factory, to his dream job as lecturer at Salisbury College of Art (as was). Recognised there as the specialist in commercial and advertising photography he encouraged -- and some say, inspired -- a Who's Who of today's top names to achieve their potential, on the way becoming one of the country's two HMI's (Her Majesty's Inspectors, Photography) of colleges and universities.

Now, just as active, he delivers online courses up to NVQ4 level, sits on the Board of the Association of Photographers, runs a Corporate Photography studio in Wiltshire and, as previously mentioned, is a student on the MA Commercial Photography course at the hugely impressive Arts University Bournemouth.

He is just as interested as anyone else as to what happens next.

John Bigglestone

Monday, 27 November 2017

Been away a while

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