Workshops for early 2026 offer a chance to slow down and sharpen the way you look at the world. From BRLSI’s Camera Vision course to a series of online sessions with the Royal Photographic Society, the focus is on clear seeing, thoughtful storytelling and the language of photography. The RPS Skills workshops are more practical in nature, guiding participants through exposure, composition and creative technique in a straightforward, hands-on way…

An unexpected weekend assisting Martin Parr during Art Basel Miami Beach in 2004. What began as a late-night job printing Parr’s film for a charity auction turned into a surreal few days. When Parr’s camera broke, I lent him my Nikon F100 and then went on to help him on a spontaneous fashion shoot on Miami Beach. With designer swimwear in a plastic bag and strangers posing in the sun, the day unfolded in true Parr style.

Create striking 3D anaglyph photos in Photoshop with just two shots and a pair of red-cyan 3D glasses. This simple 3D photography tutorial shows how to combine left and right images, adjust colour channels, and fine-tune depth for that classic stereoscopic red-cyan 3D effect.

A long exposure or “Two Marlboro Reds at f/90”. Photographer and writer Benedict Brain speaks with John Blakemore (1936-2025), one of Britain’s most respected photographers, printers and teachers. Blakemore discusses the evolution of his photography (extracted from a 2006 interview which appeared in Amateur Photographer magazine.

In June 2023 took part in Paradise Found: New Visions of the Blackdown Hills at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, a contemporary response to the Camden Town Group. Inspired by Robert Bevan’s The Hay Harvest, Harts Farm, I photographed the same landscape, creating a diptych exploring the topography in a dialogue between past and present.