The precise shot: karate & photography Images & words by Bernard Rose
My journey into photography began in 1972 with my first job as a black & white printer at the Liverpool commercial photographers Elsam, Mann and Cooper. From 1974 I worked at CJ Studios on the Wirral as a trainee photographer for Neville Kuypers FBIPP and Colin Jackson FBIPP; it goes without saying that I joined the Institute to be mentored by these two great photographers. I qualified for my Associateship with the BIPP in general practice in 1977 (then the IIP), which happened to be the same year I passed my 1st dan black belt in Shotokan Karate. It brought an opportunity to combine both my passions when I was asked to do a studio shoot of Keinosuke Enoeda Sensei, 9th dan, a world-renowned karate instructor for Fighting Arts magazine. All shot
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