Creativity Backgrounds News and Events

Marko Dutka SWPP training days

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:21:18 +0100

Creativity Backgrounds are pleased to be supporting some cracking training days that Marko is giving with the SWPP (Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers). He is using our Blue Muslin and background stand on the courses, so book yourself in with an expert to see how best to light and position your model to get the most out of using muslin.

Marko is a great photographer, and his course days are always engaging and informative.
For a� more info and to book ... http://www.swpp.co.uk/seminar_files/marko_members_training_days.htm

Interview: Carl Davis

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:23:32 +0100

Carl Davis is based in Telford, Shropshire. His combined use of coloured backdrops and such amazing styling and lighting sets his work apart in so many ways, and is an inspiration to many photographers. He has worked hard to set his portfolio apart, through the use of colour and direction, that we wondered what drove him creatively.

Interview: Hoss Mahdavi, FBIPP, FMPA, QEP

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:26:02 +0100

Hoss Mahdavi was one of the first photographer's in our gallery on creativitybackgrounds.co.uk, and has continued to contribute stylish images which make great use of the range of colours and tonal effects possible using Creativity Background papers, and which can be seen on many of the product pages on this site.

Hoss is known to many in the industry, from photographers to editors, exhibition organisers to models!

We ask him in this month's interview what makes him tick in that inimitable way of his.

Review of International Images for Science Exhibition 2011

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:25:43 +0100

photo credit Dr Michael Pritchard FRPS 2011

Creativity Backgrounds were pleased to be asked to sponsor this innovative and exciting "International Images for Science 2011" exhibition staged by the Royal Photographic Society.

More so, as this is the first time for nearly 40 years that the RPS has curated such a front-line and progressive exhibition celebrating scientific and applied photography. The collection of images, I have to say, are amazingly beautiful. Indeed, some of the images are quite breath-taking, which, when you find out what some of the images capture, it challenges your established perception of beauty and appearance.

Expats: Portraits

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:29:37 +0100

A photographic essay by Tony Slaughter

My name is Tony Slaughter and I lived from 1985 to 2005 in Brighton, on the south coast of England, where I worked as a full-time journalist and part-time photographer. Then, with my wife Sharon, I moved to Paraza a tranquil south of France village of 500 people on the banks of the Canal du Midi in the Aude, France's second poorest department. So began a new chapter in my life - living more as a European and less as a Brit.

What I discovered, among other things, was the wide variety of European nationalities who had chosen to make their life in this attractive part of France. They were fulfilling the real meaning of being an expatriate : a man or woman who chooses to live full time outside the country in which they were born.