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Interview with with Peter Marlow: Prestigious Magnum photographer discusses photographing his own family

British photographer Peter Marlow has worked for Magnum for the past 30 years yet has an approach that is unchanged. Marlow started his career as an international photojournalist but returned to Britain and discovered a new visual poetry that enabled him to understand his homeland. Having found this poetry, he has taken it back on the road: he now photographs as much in Japan, the USA, and elsewhere in Europe as he does in the UK.

Despite these broad horizons and the array of sights Marlow has seen to capture, his own home life is something he is still intent on shooting. In this interview with Peter I find out more about capturing those intimate, family highs and lows…

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Rachael Sharpe

How to win a photography competition

In my latest feature for Autographer, I get together with nine other photography experts and get them to share their top tips for doing well in competitions.

Lee Thompson, freelance editorial photographer shared this tip: “Don’t over edit. If you need to edit a picture too much, it’s not a very good picture to start with! There is nothing worse than a heavily photoshopped picture. Competition judges are really clamping down on over edited images after last year’s World Press winning picture came under some controversy by several picture forensic experts, who said the picture had been heavily altered.”

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This image of Lee’s shows a Libyan freedom fighter surrounding the dead bodyguards of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya is exactly how it was taken from the camera; just a slight bit of sharpening was applied. This picture was picked out of 12,500 images in this year’s Press Photographer’s Year. Image copyright: Lee Thompson

To read the other inspiring tips on the Autographer blog, click here.

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Rachael Sharpe

How to take amazingly atmospheric photographs

In my latest blog post for Autographer, ten professional photographers, including myself, explain how to create amazingly atmospheric imagery.

Here’s my tip:

Capture the whole picture

Try shooting wide to show the atmosphere of a place and the whole picture instead of isolating details.

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Shooting from a distance, and also from a high vantage point, gives the viewer a real taste of the city of Havana.

Read the other nine top tips over at Autographer.

Rachael Sharpe

10 stunning candid images captured by Magnum photographers

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Image by Elliott Erwitt – California, 1955.

Candid photos: un-posed, spontaneous and captured at the decisive moment, can make for truly magical images. In this blog post for Autographer, I have collated ten truly remarkable images taken by world-leading Magnum photographers – take a look here and prepare to be wowed. Read more of my articles for Autographer here & see more inspirational work from magnum photographers here.

Rachael Sharpe
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