IN FOCUS
MY PLACE by Paul Gallagher
Vareid, Norway What is your favourite location to photograph? Vareid, facing the Flakstad Mountains on the Lofoten Islands in Norway. What do you find attractive about it? It feels wild, remote and forbidding, but beautiful at the same time. It is often winter when I go and the rock outcrops on the shore are worn into amazing shapes by the mighty Norwegian Sea. There are hundreds of
potential photographs within a few hundred metres. Why do you return there? It has never been the same twice. The light on the mountains changes, the cloud alters the light, the time of day has a huge impact and storms come and go, affecting the waves’ actions. Vareid is like an old friend I visit and learn a little more each time we meet. Lastly, there is never anybody else there. Solitude is bliss for a landscape photographer.
ESSENTIALS Remote cameras in the goal at Wembley Stadium
‘Outstanding’ album could leave the UK Temporary bar on export of Julia Margaret Cameron work MARC ASPLAND HonFRPS ‘An essential part of my huge kit bag as a sports photographer has become a remotely fired camera. Placed where it is impossible to 176
physically be in sports venues, the remote camera offers a unique perspective. Whether clamped more than 100ft up in the roof space of an ice hockey arena or behind the goal at Wembley, by firing them using a wireless triggering system, I can file images to The Times which capture a different view of the action.’
THE UK government has temporarily halted the sale of an album of work by the photographic pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron. The export bar is intended to delay the album’s sale to give time for a UK buyer to be found who will meet the
£3.7m price and prevent it being sold abroad. Images from the Life, also known as the Norman Album, was given by Cameron to her daughter in 1869. Among its 75 images are portraits of Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Charles Darwin. Michael Ellis, the arts minister, described the
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