Author:sgallagher
I am pleased to share the new of the launch of my new PATREON page. This is your chance to directly support my work and become a valued member of my community online. When you join my community, you gain access to my private WhatsApp/WeChat groups for daily communication with me. ‘Amateur’ and ‘Advanced’ members also get personalised portfolio reviews and are invited to my monthly group call on Zoom where we discuss and review your work, and share ideas […]
This week on Youtube and Instagram I introduced the latest photography technique of a ‘Frame in a Frame’. In this post, I go further in-depth into this technique and provide more examples for how you can use it to improve your photographs and make them more impactful. Composition is one of the fundamental principles that we need to think about when we make images. Personally, I obsess over composition. It is the framework to our image. Every image is a […]
If you happen to be a speaker of Portuguese, you may like to read this article published recently in Público, Portugal’s daily national newspaper in which I am interviewed about my work documenting the impacts of climate change around the world. The article is titled “They document a changing world so no one can say they didn’t know”, and was part of World News Day, which was on 28th September, with this year’s focus on climate change. Throughout the article […]
Thank you to China Dialogue for publishing this in-depth interview and feature about my work documenting the impacts of climate change along China’s Bohai Bay. This region has been identified as one of the most vulnerable coastlines in China and is predicted to be one of the worst affected in coming decades by rising sea levels and associated flooding, land subsidence and coastal erosion. The aim of my 500km journey was to understand how this region is adapted and prepared […]
Thank you to Amateur Photographer Magazine which has included my work as part of their environment special this month, ‘Documenting the Consequences of Climate Change’. “Photography is doing a big job in raising awareness of climate change and informing our understanding of how the planet is changing. The urgent need for action is strengthened by the work of photographers such as Cristina Mittermeier and Sean Gallagher, who show the dire state of the planet and crises happening around the world […]
In this one minute photography tip, I want to share with you the composition technique of a frame in a frame and how you how it can make your pictures more interesting. This advanced framing technique is based around the idea that you use an object within your picture to frame your main subject matter. The easiest way to do this is to photograph through a door or window, with your main subject inside the natural frame the door or […]
In this one minute photography tip, I want to share with you how capturing a bird in flight can make your photographs more interesting and dynamic. A quick way to make an average scene more interesting, is to try to capture a flying bird somewhere in the frame. It’s a trick that is often used by professional photographers and it can transform a landscape or situation that otherwise might not be very interesting. However if you can can combine a […]
I am pleased to share the news that Cambodia Burning will be screening this week (Sept 21-22) at The Nest Summit, as part of Climate Week NYC. “The Nest Summit, the official event partner of Climate Week NYC, is a 365 climate action platform and annual event dedicated to advancing sustainability in the United States. We convene the visionary companies, NGOs, researchers, activists, and influential governmental policy-makers to demonstrate how they are leading the way to a cleaner and safer […]
In this one minute photography tip, I want to share with you why the blue hour is one of the best times of day to make interesting pictures. The blue hour is a time of the day that falls just before the sun rises, or just after the sun sets. At this time the sun is still below the horizon but the sky will be lit in various shades of colours, such as blues, pinks and oranges which you can […]
Thank you to The British Journal of Photography for this interview and article about my film, Cambodia Burning, which was named the moving image winner of the inaugural Decade of Change award. I am pleased that the extra exposure from the current exhibitions, in both the US and in Asia, will bring more attention to this issue in Cambodia and the climate crisis at large, especially in the run up to COP26. Read the full interview and article HERE. This […]