Max Whitaker’s Official Blog…

My Blues musicians’ archive is now going to be represented/ managed and sold in limited editions by the PROUD GALLERY , London(www.proud.co.uk)…specializing in MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY they have 2 galleries in Central London (one near the Strand, and the other in Camden). They tell me they are launching a new website in September where some of my work will be featured…this follows on from the exhibition of these photographs at Glastonbury festival in 2005 and in Gloucestershire last September, 07…I am keeping a mounted exhibition of these photo’s for exhibiting purposes and welcome any enquiries, particularly from charities wishing to put something on in Gloucestershire, Bath area or West country generally.

Please use my website contact details to enquire about any House/Garden property photography -the new house-hunting season will be here soon, and Easter is early this year!My prices represent very good value for money-check the quality on my INTERIORS/PROPERTY page!

My selection of photographs from my Blues music archive, shot between 1985 and 2007 goes on show at HOBBS HOUSE BAKERY /Cafe between Sept 15th and October 12th…this is a permanent exhibition which is viewable daily from 10a.m.until 5p.m. at Hobbs House’s excellent cafe/restaurant at 4 George St, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire (www.hobbshousebakery.co.uk).
Hobbs House Bakery’s  largely organic and local ingredients policy and superb cooking makes for a great lunch, too..so worth a visit!!
This exhibition was shown in reduced form at the Glastonbury Festival in 2005 in their Jazz Lounge.

The selection of photographs of Blues musicians include well-known artists, such as BB King , Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown and Junior Wells, as well as lesser-known ones like Rooseelt ‘Booba’ Barnes and Big Bo, and were shot in the UK, Italy and the USA.

*Prints are for sale in Limited Editions of 100 each image… it is equally possible to order prints via my website- please email after Sept 15th for thumbnail sized images and price-list if you aren’t able to visit Nailsworth in person….Max.

Photography and design- I  will be talking about this on here SOON…why are there so many LOUSY web-designers?!.. because most of them aren’t proper DESIGNERS, that’s why….so, let’s hear it for the relatively few good GRAPHIC designers left (many have gone out of biz, perhaps not knowing-or wanting to know- the technology to do web design, also maybe finding it too CONSTRICTING!)..more on  this soon, as I have a new initiative involving a designer with whom I have recently started a  professional collaboration …

weddings weddings weddings - the first two photographic jobs I ever did were two ( both Jewish) weddings in New York City: I made a note (they were for colleagues at University) that that was a hard way to go if I ever photographed for a living; they are very challenging and are about quantity as much as quality!… imagine that I am now doing so - three this year- I still am of the same opinion, but have to say I enjoy it even if it does mean dressing UP….I just pretend I am a paid guest! A lot of people are doing photography themselves now, with friends all snapping away- it gets in the way if you are the official photographer, though…I only ever say I’ll do the job or be a guest, never the two together, it’s impossible to concentrate otherwise, and the champagne tends to get in the way….!

Thanks to my super-tech-Website-building-whizz Joshua, I welcome you to my newly rebuilt website …. it should be up as of today, July 10th 2006…please let me know what you think, any comments on my work, views on the site’s layout and quality, etc…as it is my portfolio I am quite protective about it and the subjects who are present on these pages : including the statues!! I have just finished a shoot for a terrific new Italian deli/cafe in Bath/Somerset called Del Sole (”from the sun..”)and one of these photographs is on the ‘Reportage’ page….it is in the spirit of this theme, sunshine, that I launch this new site!! o sole MIO……quite approriate , as Italy managed to win the Coppa Mondiale! see you, Max.