J.M.Read

J.M.Read, Derbyshire

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  • Woodland path. Impressionist A5 Laser print

    Woodland path. Impressionis...

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  • The field road. Impressionist A5 Laser print

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  • Sheepwash Lane. Impressionist A5 Laser print

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  • Figurative montage. Impressionist A5 Laser print

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  • Old mine incline. Impressionist A5 Laser print

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  • Saplings. Impressionist A5 Laser print

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  • Male nude. Impressionist A5 Laser print

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About J.M.Read

J.M.Read

That someone should want to own one of my prints is my reward.

I started photography as a teenager with a Kodak Brownie 127. What I saw was not what I got.

A little later in life I was able to buy the equipment I needed to make black and white prints. That satisfied me for many years. Much later on I bought a digital camera. Also a used roller scanner that came with some free software the program was a digital darkroom and I enjoyed using it, being a lot easier than hands under enlarger light.

The two pics above are my two workbooks for City & Guilds modules, I did them after helping the tutor for some years with darkroom printing. I was awarded distinctions in both. I also have an LRPS distinction from the Royal Photographic Society.

I often thought that Black and White is an odd but convenient name for something that is mostly varying shades of grey.

That set me thinking I might be able to obtain a reasonable image using only black. I had a go from time to time and eventually came up with various image dependant techniques that worked.

My name for them is Only Black and it is my opnion that they qualify as reductions and therefore impressions. I do hope you will agree and buy one.

Thanks for reading this - James