{"id":8223,"date":"2018-03-09T12:13:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=8223"},"modified":"2018-03-07T12:17:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T12:17:32","slug":"nine-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=8223","title":{"rendered":"Nine Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine photojournalists talk us through the story behind their favourite photos in a feature published by XCity+<\/a>, a site I’d not heard of before which is produced by alumni of London’s City University<\/em>, which recently had a rather confusing name change to City, University of London<\/em>. Formerly the Northampton Institute, it has its base in Northampton Square, Clerkenwell, and was one of the CATs which given university status (part of Harold Wilsons “white heat of technology<\/em>“) in 1966 as The City University, changing its name after becoming a part of the wider University of London (which boasts 18 constituent colleges\u00a0and nine\u00a0research institutes)\u00a0in 2016.<\/p>\n

It had always had a close connection with the City of London and the trades of that city, and it is perhaps surprising that it only formed its journalism department in 1976 offering a diploma in Newspaper Journalism, when it is less than a mile for any crow flying from Fleet St.<\/p>\n

One of the photographers included is David Hoffman, and his picture from the 1983 Stop the City protest against globalisation, big business and the banks is a stunning image. But it is a little disappointing that the text that accompanies this – and the others is so short. The feature promises us more:<\/p>\n

“we rarely have the full story. How were these photos taken, and why?<\/p>\n

As the photographers talk us through their most powerful images, we are given a rare opportunity to see these pictures through their eyes.”<\/p>\n

Fortunately in David’s case it gives a link to a much more detailed story <\/a>about the image\u00a0, both about the situation in which it was taken and how it was the vital evidence in a court case. Its also well worth going to his web site<\/a> and seeing more of his work.<\/p>\n

There are also links in the XCITY+ article to the web sites of the other 8 photographers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nine photojournalists talk us through the story behind their favourite photos in a feature published by XCity+, a site I’d not heard of before which is produced by alumni of London’s City University, which recently had a rather confusing name change to City, University of London. Formerly the Northampton Institute, it has its base in … Continue reading Nine Photos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8226,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223\/revisions\/8226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}