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I photograph life as it happens around me, and am always looking to photograph life.
I use an old Nikon F3 with a 35mm, 24mm and 14mm.
All of my work is black and white and all of it is uncropped, I shoot on Ilford HP5+ most of the time but will use FP4 when it's not available. I never use flash and I love studying and photographing life and the people around me.
I've been learning photography for about 18 years and I work as a photographer at Aardman Animations in Bristol, UK.
Please try not to use my images without permission.
I now have a book on Blurb. It's a retrospective of my work so far.
www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/599720
You can also buy selected images here
ljesmith.imagekind.com/
Photos of ljesmith (1)
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- Hasselblad 50mm Zeiss Distagon 1,279 photos, 129 members
- Dust Magazine 2 photos, 147 members
- Boing Boing 47,662 photos, 3,908 members
- Flickr Duel - MONO 10+ contest results (Invited winners) 1,543 photos, 489 members
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- 6x6 magic 244,564 photos, 7,966 members
- St Austell 283 photos, 13 members
- Bristol 89,530 photos, 3,419 members
- Environmental Portraits 9,631 photos, 1,729 members
- Rural Cornwall 1,417 photos, 90 members
- Bert Hardy Lives! 268 photos, 17 members
- On the trail of Henri Cartier Bresson... 477 photos, 439 members
- Guardian Camera Club 22,483 photos, 11,201 members
- A Tribute to: August Sander 526 photos, 97 members
- Humanistic 7,224 photos, 1,821 members
- Sharpness is Such a Bourgeois Concept 772 photos, 2,968 members
- Social Documentary Cornwall 477 photos, 40 members
- Its Hip to be Square..Portraits 11,150 photos, 2,274 members
- James Ravilious, a tribute. 277 photos, 37 members
- The Film Fanciers’ Guild 154,444 photos, 5,485 members
- Classic Moments, the Book 104 photos, 92 members
- Hommage à Doisneau 21,202 photos, 1,710 members
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Testimonials (9)
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pikture [OFF] says:
"He glanced over the reasons for humanity.
In a fair way to pay attention.
Thank you Master."31st January, 2008
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El Inglés says:
"Luke is not only one of my favourite photographers but his gallery about Cornish life will one day provide a rich vein of resource for social historians. And all this peerlessly captured in the digital age with a Nikon F3 and HP5."
20th January, 2008
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Ben Grader says:
"How nice to see a photographer who still works using monochrome.
I still have my set-up but just can't find time or space for it."16th September, 2007
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Christophe Negrel says:
"it s real pleasure to see yours photos !!!!"
14th August, 2007
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StormCab says:
"Yes fantastic photos. I am amazed that they are film, you must have a fantastic scanner. You make me want to get off my backside and take more pictures; that's it, no more excuses. Keep it up."
1st August, 2007
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Roby1kenobi says:
"Stunning use of wideangle for life portraits! A shooting artist."
31st July, 2007
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j-wokaaa says:
"Amazing pictures, no cropping or jiggery pokery, taking good pictures is bloody hard work, this dude make it look easy .I am sure it wasn’t
thanks for sharing your work"26th July, 2007
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Cri_Leto says:
"Your photo are fantastic!
Tones, light, composition...
I like a lot.
Compliments."20th July, 2007
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NoNo Joe says:
"I do not believe you have a single testimonial!
You're one of my new favorite photographers, making such skill and ability with black and white photographs look easy! I look forward to every photo you grace the flickr crowd with!
keep them coming!"5th December, 2006
- Name:
- Luke Smith
- Joined:
- November 2006
- Hometown:
- St.Austell
- Currently:
- Clevedon, UK
- I am:
- Male and Taken
- Occupation:
- Photographer












