Alistair Henning's photostream  

Right now I'm really enjoying using a Fuji X100 and a Sony NEX-5 as my 'pro' cameras. For more everyday shots at the moment I tend to use my iPhone 5's Hipstamatic app.

I am also a recording artist with John Zorn's www.Tzadik.com and complete details on my DJing and live performance are detailed along with that, at www.MikePathos.com

Check out more from the www.UnCalgary.com project, whose goal is to help people notice less obvious aspects of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Favorite quotes:

"My thought is the term 'documentary' is inexact, vague, and even grammatically weak, as used to describe a style in photography which happens to be my style. Further, that what I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach in photography is the addition of lyricism
"Further, that the lyric is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman – with certain exceptions. Further, that when the photographer presses for the heightened documentary, he more often than not really misses it. ...
"The real thing that I'm talking about has purity and a certain severity, rigor, simplicity, directness clarity, and it is without artistic pretension in a self-conscious sense of the word.That's the base of it – they're hard and firm. ..."
- Walker Evans, "Lyric Documentary," lecture at Yale, 3/11/64

"The illiterates of the future will be the people who know nothing of photography rather than those who are ignorant of the art of writing." - Walter Benjamin (1928)