Anna delany photographer biography
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Photographers 1840 – 1940 Great Britain & Ireland
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Anna Atkins: Pioneering Botanist and Creator of the First Photo Book
Early Life, Early Photography
John George Children and Hester Anne Children gave birth to their only daughter, Anna, in Kent, England in 1799.1 Hester passed away shortly afterwards. Daughter and father would maintain an especially close relationship throughout their lives.2 John Children was a respected chemist and zoologist, and the first president of the Royal Entomological Society.3 He was also secretary of the Royal Society, a longstanding fellowship of preeminent scientists of various disciplines, first formed in 1660. Due to her father’s personal tutelage and professional connections, Anna Atkins (née Children) was exposed to art and natural science from a young age.
By her twenties, Atkins was a skilled illustrator and demonstrated an affinity for carefully representing the subtleties of natural forms. She completed hundreds of drawings of shells for an 1822 encyclopedia.4 In the years to come, n
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I’m Francisco Arteaga, a part time Spanish street photographer, which I match, with my other job, a teacher.
I always felt attracted by photography since I was a teenager, but it was 8 years ago when I’ve got really trapped into it. I have always been a self-taught person, studying and reading any time I have the chance about photography in all its branches; I usually work with a Nikon V1 and the FT1 adapter, which allows me to use all kind of lenses. It is a very discrete and small camera that nobody usually notices it is there when shooting. I realized about this when I started the first time capturing street moments with my DSLR, this one was very intimidating and hard intrusive, so I quitted shooting with it. Shooting out in the streets became my aim since I got deeply obsessed with this discipline.
Streets are the places where all kind of souls surrounds us. Strangers become part of you once you’ve clicked, they let you know them, get into them and see what lies behind them