http://www.paulhardycarter.com//wordpress Paul Hardy Carter, Photographer Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:31:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've made the pictures I took in Tangier last month publicly accessible in the Client Area of the website here. A girl learns French at the DARNA charity in Tangier. The pictures were taken as part of a project on child migration from north Africa to Spain. The project is now, sadly, ... http://www.paulhardycarter.com//wordpress/tangier-pictures-now-public A glimpse at my last blog entry shows me I haven't exactly been keeping things up to date here for a while. The reason is I've been moving, slowly but surely, from Spain to London. The last few months have flown by in a flurry of flat hunting, studio hunting, packing, ... http://www.paulhardycarter.com//wordpress/im-a-london-based-photographer LAST POST by Carol Ann Duffy In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If poetry could tell it backwards, true, begin that moment shrapnel scythed you to the stinking mud… but you get up, amazed, watch bled bad blood run upwards from the slime into its wounds; see lines and ... http://www.paulhardycarter.com//wordpress/armistice When I picked up Robin's book at the London opening of his show last week I was chuffed to see he'd elected to put my picture on a spread opposite a Bill Brandt. What a complement! I don't know if it's fate taunting me after I mentioned Brandt in this blog ... http://www.paulhardycarter.com//wordpress/exalted-company Robin Bell's Silver Footprint show is moving to the Richard Young Gallery in Kensington, London - and it includes the picture of mine that Robin chose: Kapitulska, Bratislava, Slovakia. November 2003. I'm looking forward to the opening, and seeing the book which the exhibition has spawned. Drop by if you're in London, ... http://www.paulhardycarter.com//wordpress/robins-silver-footprint-show-moves-to-london I've finally got around to scanning some more pictures from the Theresienstadt story. Administration office in the military prison used by the Gestapo during the Nazi era to hold political prisoners. Small Fortress, Terezin, Czech Republic. November 2003. It really was an extraordinary day that I spent there in 2003, and quite ... http://www.paulhardycarter.com//wordpress/theresienstadt I've been going through old contacts because of a submission I'm compiling. One of the joys of this process is seeing the pictures you missed the first time through. In this case I found one from Sarajevo that I really like. Perhaps it owes more than a little to Brandt ... http://www.paulhardycarter.com//wordpress/an-old-pic-from-sarajevo Sadly it seems that a combination of the rapidly changing marketplace for photographic services and the tailspin that has taken control of the Spanish economy has caused the sudden closure of my local professional lab, BN Profesional in Valencia. Known to many simply as ByN, the Spanish acronym for B&W or ... http://www.paulhardycarter.com//wordpress/byn-rip Well, after months of pretending things were going to get better just by themselves, I'm putting some time into making the Client Area of the website work properly. It'll be back up and working in a couple of days. You don't have to be a client to have a look by ... http://www.paulhardycarter.com//wordpress/website-work I've had big problems with my web host since Affinity sold my account to Hostway a few months ago, and I've been trying to find a new home. The good news is, I've found one! I'll discuss this more later, but right now you may notice some problems with the ... http://www.paulhardycarter.com//wordpress/change-of-website-host-possible-problems