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.