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An image blog by Tony Richards<\/h1>\n

Life after Uni …<\/h2>\n

I’d always been interested in photography but never actually got around to doing anything about it.
\nAs a late starter I decided to study Contemporary Photographic Practice at UNN. What an eye opener that was, not only to photography but to academia itself.
\nAfter graduating 3 long years later I became a photographer, whether that meant I was any good or not remained to be seen, but I had letters after my name and I wasn’t afraid to use them.<\/p>\n

10 years later…<\/h2>\n

Having worked as a photographer for the past 10 years I can honestly say I haven’t really taken any images for my own personal use.
\nHow can that be I hear you ask? Don’t get me wrong, I keep up to date with current methods and technologies for my professional photography. Its just if I’m doing it all day at work, I tend not to do it in my own free time.<\/p>\n

I dabbled a little with HDR and other digital techniques but it really wasn’t doing anything for me, so I started to shoot film again (but only briefly), which in turn led me to look further at other historic photographic processes.<\/p>\n

I now shoot wet plate collodion ambrotypes\/tintypes. What a refreshing discovery. It brings back that first “magic” one feels when processing and printing their first roll of film. Now I have this refound passion in what first got me started in photography. The smell of chemistry, the glow of a safe light, the anticipation, the success and the failure….so here we are, back in the darkroom. Full circle.<\/p>\n

About time I set up some sort of photoblog. Had a go at html, flash, pixelpost etc but have now settled on this WordPress theme called Autofocus. The blog and the images are a work in progress. The blog will change as I figure out how the software\/code works.<\/p>\n

So hopefully this will be updated quite often but we’ll have to see what develops…………see what I did there?<\/p>\n

2018 -2022<\/h2>\n

Has it really been 8 years since I started this blog and website? And 18 years since Uni?<\/p>\n

Its been a busy few years. I still have a small studio in an old mill in Ancoats, Manchester. I’m still very much shooting wet plate when I can find time. Highlights over the past few years have been John Coffers Jamboree, The European Collodion Weekends, The UK Wet Plate weekends, Phoenix festival and a number of very interesting TV and Movie jobs.<\/p>\n

This year I would like to concentrate on streamlining my workflows, selecting certain printing processes including photopolymer gravure, and getting my historic collection fully online with metadata.<\/p>\n

2023…<\/h2>\n

After a 150% hike in studio rent I had to give notice on my Manchester studio in December 2022. I put everything into storage and started to review my options. Luckily a space became available at Spinners Mill<\/a> in Leigh. I am currently in the process of converting the 1000 sq ft space into a studio and darkroom.
\nUpdated workshop information will follow in the coming weeks…<\/p>\n

Please feel free to contact me about anything of interest.<\/p>\n

My main website www.fourtoes.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

My Blog www.fourtoes.co.uk\/iblog<\/a><\/p>\n

My historic collection will be at\u00a0collection.fourtoes.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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