Anatomy of Facebook Likes

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In a combination of interests, I have been creating a database of my Facebook ‘likes’ for quite some time, as a source of analytical understating, both of my photographs and on how Facebook works. That is the problem with being both a photographer and a data geek. I note which Facebook Groups are used, and record the details of the …

Fifty Years of Street Photography

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It is slightly ironic that when I started taking my photography almost as a full time job, about 6 / 7 years ago, I thought that the area that I was lacking was portrait work. And, by that, I meant candids, on the street. Mick Yates. Streets of Aswan. 1975. Yet, as I work my way through scanning my slides …