John Oram's articles with the keyword: Photography

I have a concern about the very technology which brought about our digital photography revolution and continues to drive it. In the days of film photography both negatives and prints, cared for properly, could last more or less for ever. Digital files might not last as long if we are not careful. In the very age when the number of images has increased perhaps exponentially, the means by which we store them have a sort of inevitable obsolescence. Millions of the images created today record that w…

A couple of months have passed. I am happy enough with ipernity though mildly irritated by its minor quirks and, as it happens, still mostly happy with Flickr - until the next attack on its UI. Inevitably, ipernity has so far been used only for new uploads although the structure in place to add to albums from my massive library. Why do I do it? Simply because it is my legacy. I shall leave little in this world when I die. I am no great artist but my chosen role is that of documentary photogra…

As it says in my profile, I am primarily a documentary photographer. My interests range across most forms of transport, through architecture and urban life, art and culture to the entirely random and occasionally artistic. Away from the camera, I am gripped by history and, converging the two interests, I am acutely aware that photographs from only 30-40 years ago are already often of great interest. With that in mind, I hope that many of my photographs will be as much of interest to future gener…