Magazine Research

Research: Charlie Waite

Charlie Waite is a famous British landscape photographer, well known for his “painterly” techniques with light and shade. For the first ten years of his professional life he worked in theatre and television before making the decision to change his career path towards photography. He runs and participates in a photographic tour company called light and land, which consists of worldwide tours and workshops run by top photographers. He is also a visiting lecturer throughout the UK, Europe and the United States and has many books published on photography and regularly contributes towards various photography magazines. 

Research: Ian Tilton

Ian Tilton is an award winning music/theatrical photographer who has taken some of the most famous pictures of rock icons. His career began in the mid 1980’s after moving to Manchester to follow his passion for photography in the midst of the explosion of the ‘Madchester’ music scene. Over the years he has had some impressive clientele such as: Sounds, Select, Melody Maker and Q magazine and has photographed some of the most famous and influential musicians of his time. His shot of an exhausted & tearful Kurt Cobain was hailed by Q Magazine as one of the 6th best Rock photographs of all time - while his photo of the Stone Roses front man Ian Brown with an orange in his mouth has gone down in rock n roll photographic legend.

Research: Bernd and Hilla Becher

Bernd and Hilla Beher met as painting students at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1957 and first collaborated on photographing the disappearing German industrial architecture in 1959. Their fascination came from the similar shapes in which the buildings shared and the great deal of attention towards their design. They shot only in overcast weather as to avoid shadow and early in the morning during the spring and autumn months. The subject of their photographs includes barns, water towers, coal tipples, cooling towers, grain elevators, coalbunkers, coke ovens, oil refineries, blast furnaces, gas tanks, storage silos, and warehouses. Apart from photographing in Germany they also took hundreds of photographs of the coal industry in Britain visiting Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham and the Rhondda Valley; in addition they did a tour of North America, touring sites in New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and southern Ontario, depicting a range of industrial structures, from coal breakers to wooden winding towers. In 2002 they were awarded the Erasmus Prize in recognition of their instrumental roles as professors at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 2004, the Bechers received a Hasselblad Award.