5 Photographers

Pete Turner

Born in Albany New York in 1934, from a young age Pete Turner had a great fascination with chemistry and the reactions it caused. It was this interest which steered him towards photography, which resulted in a life long affinity for the subject, especially colour photography. It was an assignment to Africa with National Geographic which was the turning point for his career. It was here that his greatest inspiration was drawn, and was also the time and place where his work began to be recognised and published in places such as Esquire, Holiday and Sports Illustrated. As he developed as a photographer his focus shifted from editorial photography to that of advertising photography, while pursuing his personal work in conceptual photography. His work has been exhibited all around the globe, is published in numerous books and continues to go back to Africa for constant photographic inspiration.

Ian Jeffrey

Ian Jeffrey, living in East Anglia but stretching his photographic to the far corners of Eastern Europe, Jeffrey seeks for art within the world. Believing that once things have been left alone for a time, developing within themselves, then can something be turned into art. He focus tends to be towards to old and rundown aspects of the world, and then gives then glamour through his work, emphasising and bringing out their own beauty. He believes photographs give us the ability to look at things for longer periods of time, and therefore, reflect on them.

Beaumont Newhall

One of Beaumont Newhall's earliest recollections was putting his hands in the hypo bath of his mother's darkroom trays to see how this strange smelling chemical tasted and felt, like any young child. It was from then that Newhall chose that his career was in photography, which later led to him becoming a curator, historian and practioner. Influenced by the German expression movement, which can be seen in his intimate portraits and architectural studies, Newhall looks at photography as a record of what has he has seen and experienced through his life, documenting his interests and inspiration in his life. As he is a photography historian he believes to understand photography you have to takes photographs. Thanks to Newhall, the George Eastman