Multi Disciplinary Photographic Artist - Including #Wetplate, #Film, #Video, #Aura, #Polaroid, #Abstract, #Glitch, #Digital, #Manipulation, #Theory. UK · http://www.fb.com/sammycTumblr (3.0; @samcornwell)http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4ea2fc2a78da317381ad5da6f3b3451c/tumblr_mmvblqCeLg1qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>For me, becoming a student was more about having a life experience than getting a degree in my chosen subject. Perhaps that’s why I chose the course that I felt I’d find easiest; Photographic Art at the University of Wales in Newport. You see, although I was lucky enough to retire at the age of 25 after having success in the computer industry, by the time I was 29 I considered myself a photographer, something I’d been practising in my newly acquired free time. However, nothing could prepare me for the experience of committing my life to studying a full-time degree and little did I realise how much the studying of photography as an academic subject would affect me.</p> <p>At first it was a surreal experience. During my first year of university I was still lecturing at camera clubs up and down the country, including Wigan 10, Chichester, Lytham st Anne’s and Winchester. Commercially I was already on my feet, however there was a deep nagging inside me that I had some how cheated photography by not learning the fundamentals. University changed all that. Within a year I became highly proficient in the darkroom and began a transition away from digital, modernist photography to more experimental analogue techniques. On reflection this was mostly due to the nature of the course I chose to study, which gave students freedom to work with a vast array of mediums.</p> <p>My practise developed quickly and I soon discovered my artist voice. Heavily influenced by Richard Billingham’s <em>Ray’s a Laugh</em> series and Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay <em>‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’</em> I found myself using primitive methods of photography to search for extra meanings within the pigmented dyes on film. This developed (pun very much intended) into an addiction to extreme photography, which has at current culminated in a collection of over 500 cameras, two home darkrooms and a fully functional wet plate collodion practise.</p> <p>As an online brand I have been somewhat successful in my years as a student, garnering 60,000 followers on a daily Youtube account, reaching the highly coveted #1 position in Flickr’s Explore page, Source Magazine and appearing on the front page of Reddit amongst other things. However, maintaining my blog and Twitter accounts are of most importance now.</p> <p>As far as paid work goes, I am now a writer for the second biggest photography blog in the world, PetaPixel. A position I took up after striking up a friendship with the owner and contributing some tips early on. This is a position I wish to pursue to develop my skills as a speed-blogger. This combined with sales in microstock and other online markets such as Fiverr.com have proved a financially rewarding monthly income prior to finishing my degree.</p> <p>Despite a heavy interest in social media, I am not concerned with having my own website as I would consider it pretentious on my part. I have however bought samcornwell.co.uk and linked it to my blog which generally features trivial and interesting updates regarding my photography. To find photographic work and art works that I have created in the last four years a simple Google search will guide you. This for all intensive purposes is how I consider myself to be discovered online.</p> <p>After taking a year out working as Community Manager for the uber successful small marketplace Fiverr.com I decided to return to university at Portsmouth to complete my degree. A decision I am immensely glad to have made. In a few weeks our year will be hosting the first of two shows featuring our work this Summer in which I’ll be exhibiting some huge photographs. I’ve been lucky enough to have success elsewhere, exhibiting as part of an Arts’ Council funded project in Doncaster called <em>‘Collections’.</em></p> <p>The future of my photography career will almost certainly involve my wife, Beverley who is also a photographer. I am working on several projects at the moment, including turning old vinyl records into photographs and continuing to advocate 35mm film. I have considered teaching as a career, however at the moment I’m content at spending as much time as home as I can to be with my 10 month old son.</p> <p>Going to university was the best decision of my life. I’m glad I took the risk in 2009, and I’m glad I chose to complete the degree in 2012. Right now though, I think I’ll hold off on doing a Master’s. At least for the next year.</p> <p>Sam Cornwell</p> <p>Blog: <a href="http://samcornwell.co.uk/"><a href="http://samcornwell.co.uk">http://samcornwell.co.uk</a></a></p> <p>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/samcornwell"><a href="http://twitter.com/samcornwell">http://twitter.com/samcornwell</a></a></p> <p>Portfolio: <a href="http://samcornwell.500px.com/"><a href="http://samcornwell.500px.com">http://samcornwell.500px.com</a></a></p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/50544225426http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/50544225426Wed, 15 May 2013 21:46:00 -0400portsmouth universitySam Cornwell<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ef3c39f981623076304ec60179b6af5a/tumblr_mm27264D9O1qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Four gigantic darkroom prints made from 35mm negatives from disposable cameras. Humanoid used for purposes of scale.</p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/49247436153http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/49247436153Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:18:05 -0400darkroomcolour35mmprintsphotographers on tumblrfunnypic<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/096999677b3825e5f6a70f632b56a43e/tumblr_mleofrQ0Vm1r9uwqao1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8db14f00e0e6696015fd5ab80def6e2d/tumblr_mleofrQ0Vm1r9uwqao3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5e3d5e817f2379a76ac93be4434329ef/tumblr_mleofrQ0Vm1r9uwqao2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://yearoftheglitch.tumblr.com/post/48525290367/top-10-student-works-from-my-illuminated-errors">yearoftheglitch</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Top 10 Student Works from my <a href="http://www.skillshare.com/Illuminated-Errors-Create-Visual-Glitch-Art/663009154/28747861/classroom">Illuminated Errors</a> course on Skillshare</strong></p> <p><strong>#4</strong></p> <div class="info left"> <div class="title"><em>Dorothea Lange, Russell Kirsch, The Scream, Sun & Moon, Drive OST, Stearns - Glitch’d</em></div> <div class="author">by <a href="http://www.skillshare.com/profile/Sam-Cornwell/4681081">Sam Cornwell</a></div> <div class="author"></div> <div class="author">See the full project here: <a href="http://www.skillshare.com/Illuminated-Errors-Create-Visual-Glitch-Art/663009154/28747861/projects/7429"><a href="http://www.skillshare.com/Illuminated-Errors-Create-Visual-Glitch-Art/663009154/28747861/projects/7429">http://www.skillshare.com/Illuminated-Errors-Create-Visual-Glitch-Art/663009154/28747861/projects/7429</a></a></div> </div> </blockquote> <p>My glitch work featured on Year of the Glitch Tumblr blog. Click the link above to see more.</p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/48535057220http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/48535057220Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:43:05 -0400photographers on tumblrartists on tumblrglitchartexperimentalsam cornwell<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/25b5bc770a6e2287150e73a3673cd3bd/tumblr_mlkquutt2W1qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/44cbfe2cdec5c4255ce805dd2fe53c21/tumblr_mlkquutt2W1qbcavto2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/37605806318c909e821b195530eafa6f/tumblr_mlkquutt2W1qbcavto3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Took a trip to Artful Dodgers (London) this week where I spent an entire day with Bryan working on three more gigantic 48x60” enlargements of 35mm disposable camera negs. Above you can see Bryan spotting one of the prints and also the giant enlarger and mask we used.</p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/48471763042http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/48471763042Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:08:54 -0400believe in filmphotographers on tumblr35mmphotographyprintersdarkroomanalogue<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/78029683e35ccc45c11e18678c257518/tumblr_mkwd3j8JXz1qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Top tip: When taking photographs of your children, don’t attempt to do this with iPhone’s panorama tool.</p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/47382950549http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/47382950549Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:07:40 -0400iphonepanoramaglitchyotgfunnyfacepicbaby<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/88687144613103d980add17b871ddb4c/tumblr_mkgyxxRxQv1qbcavto1_400.gif"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother - Glitch’d.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.skillshare.com/Illuminated-Errors-Create-Visual-Glitch-Art/663009154/28747861/projects/7429" target="_blank">Sam Cornwell, 2013</a>.</p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/46662227909http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/46662227909Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:39:33 -0400photographers on tumblrYOTGGIFmigrant motherdorothea lange<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/eb65ce152a711c2122a55cc2a11af1ba/tumblr_mkbkmi4GHE1qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Popped in to the Tate yesterday to check out Lichenstein’s retrospective.</p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/46416835537http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/46416835537Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:40:00 -0400roy lichensteinlichensteinquortartyellowism<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c53bcc93c1b402f3a5e697348d43ef77/tumblr_mk6jd9WWLN1qbcavto1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>This is a picture of Earth from 6 billion km away, taken by Voyager-1 in 1990. I’ve zoomed in and enlarged the image to emphasise the fact that all human beings are all contained in just a couple of pixels. In the original image Earth was actually just 0.16 pixels until it was enlarged.</p> <p>We are merely, as Carl Sagan put it, a pale blue dot.</p> <p>Original image via <a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00452" target="_blank">NASA</a></p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/46183449699http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/46183449699Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:27:09 -0400pale blue dotsciencespaceNASA<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a47f20d7dca6cca35d7d80768e748598/tumblr_mjyfsmZqkA1qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>National Geographic. Vol. 161, No. 2. February 1982.</p> <p>Arrived this morning. An important issue, significant because of the ‘Photoshopping’ (digital manipulation) performed on the photo of the pyramids on its front cover. It has been said that this signifies the beginning of the digital era in photography. A fantastic collector’s item for any photography historian.</p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/45827540262http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/45827540262Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:22:42 -0400photographyhistorydigitalmanipulation<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/bd3a5bd904d83130d3a22353fbf40395/tumblr_mjtiljx2zm1qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tested an old quarter plate camera this morning with some tin and collodion. Two disasters struck. 1. My smaller silver bath has leaked severely which has cost me a litre in silver, 2. As you can see from the plate above my chems are in need of replenishing big time. Ugh. </p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/45603980842http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/45603980842Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:41:43 -0400wetplatephotographyphotographers on tumblrtintypebelieveinfilm“One never sees things, one always sees them through a screen. The multitudes of photographers now intensely staring not at the surrounding world, nor their loved ones being wed or graduating, but at their camera backs or cell phones searching for an image on the small screens, or summoning the past as an archival image on these same screens, is symptomatic of the image’s primacy over the existence it is supposed to depict. It is as if we have banished the actual experience and instead flattened it into a small rectangle, preferring its commodification as a picture show.”<br/><br/> - <em>Fred Ritchin, 2009.</em>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/45086831280http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/45086831280Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:57:14 -0400Shoot film<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8c5596b375722f059dd31b2123ddc53a/tumblr_mj9aosW1qN1qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My brother, Harry. Impossible Project Polaroid, 2013.</p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/44726288630http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/44726288630Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:38:52 -0500polaroidimpossible projectbrotherportraitharry cornwell<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/39e0f45de780dd776a39bffb13d1b82d/tumblr_mj7dc2PQxw1qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Contact sheet from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/collectionsprojectuk" target="_blank">Collections</a> photo shoot, Sam Cornwell, 2013.</strong></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.revolog.net/" target="_blank">Revolog</a> Kolor film, handheld Blackbird TLR.</strong></p> <p><span>The Collections Photography Exhibition opens on Monday 11th March 2013. Funded by Arts Council England. Supported by darts (Doncaster Community Arts). Featuring photography by James Mulkeen, Beverley Cornwell & Sam Cornwell.</span></p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/44643850960http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/44643850960Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:40:50 -0500revelogkolorfilmlomo35mmsprocketsphotographyanaloguephotoscontact printprint<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e8e790ffbc1db9efe9295b14ce192672/tumblr_miylcll6k01qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://markhilton.tumblr.com/post/44248970461/a-while-ago-i-visited-a-friend-of-mine-to-shoot">markhilton</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>A while ago I visited a friend of mine to shoot some wet plates, which was amazing.. in the spirit of analogue photography I took my box brownie along, which I picked up for £1, to see if it works. Amazingly, it does! So heres a couple of test shots and the camera itself - it even has a little portrait lens attachment which i’ve yet to try. The caravan is a portable darkroom which<a href="http://samcornwell.tumblr.com">Sam</a>used for his previous project. </p> <p>I will get back out with it again soon, such a fun little camera. </p> </blockquote> <p>That is a very sweet picture of my caravan and one of my cameras. Thanks <a href="http://markhilton.tumblr.com" target="_blank">Mark!</a></p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/44261405532http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/44261405532Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:55:33 -0500black and whitecaravandarkroomfilmlomocameralarge formatmedium format<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3862b946e1427dd0736d84b115f5dfc5/tumblr_miyb8mSAbH1qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I picked up ever such a lovely collection of black and white films today.</p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/44244425313http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/44244425313Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:17:10 -0500black and whitefilmphotographylithilfordbelieveinfilmXP1DeltaFP435mmlomolomographyHP4old filmexpiredphotographers on tumblr““The blurrier, less studied, and more nocturnal a picture is, the more it suggests the scurrilous, the confidential, the taboo.””<br/><br/> - <em>Luc Sante, Voyeur, 1999.</em>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/44141830548http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/44141830548Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:07:35 -0500photographyquoteluc santevoyeurgrainyvideo stillsmerry alpern<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/76a3bced6320e89656be13724a843158/tumblr_mir1viCefw1qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Fogging on final frame of 35mm roll of film #5.</p> <p>Epson V750 Pro Scan, Fujifilm disposable 27exp w/flash</p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/43937957602http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/43937957602Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:11:42 -0500photographers on tumblrartfireflamespiccoolabstract35mmfilmphotography<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a1602492ed38bbb6f81c858c8f81ba62/tumblr_mir1u0Snh41qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Fogging on final frame of 35mm roll of film #4.</p> <p>Epson V750 Pro Scan, Fujifilm disposable 27exp w/flash</p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/43937884348http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/43937884348Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:10:48 -0500photographers on tumblrfilm35mmnegativesroll of filmlinesabstractshapescoolpicweirdexperimentalphotographic artart<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6095587ad458fc07abb04d8af9a2609e/tumblr_mir1s8PLKM1qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Fogging on final frame of 35mm roll of film #3.</p> <p>Epson V750 Pro Scan, Fujifilm disposable 27exp w/flash</p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/43937797174http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/43937797174Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:09:44 -0500photographers on tumblrbelieve in filmfilmphotography<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/456340b77ea10b93e9b4206f9fc8e33f/tumblr_mir1r4OBG41qbcavto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Fogging on final frame of 35mm roll of film #2.</p> <p>Epson V750 Pro Scan, Fujifilm disposable 27exp w/flash</p>http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/43937744022http://samcornwell.tumblr.com/post/43937744022Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:09:04 -0500photographers on tumblrabstractweirdprettydarkcolourcolorfilmphotography