His first commissions, shot in the 90s, were shot with a wide angle lens and grainy black and whiteįilm. To me, at that time, photography was about the images that were published in the weekend magazines and McCullin’s work dominated those pages.”Īt the age of 18, Edginton struck out as a freelance photographer. He captured the same kind of desperate characters who I saw walking or lying around on my streets every day.
As he said, “The black and white images that McCullin captured of London in the 60’s and 70’s were the same things I was seeing through the bus window on my way to school. Like many people from that era, Don McCullin had an outsize impact on how Edginton saw the world. Indeed, at the tender age of seven, every student in the school was taught how to print and processįrom there, Edginton continued to follow his passion. Growing up in London in the 1970s, Edginton had the distinct (but not uncommon at the time) privilege of having a darkroom in his primary school. Renowned photography critic Sean O’Hagan named the work the most haunting photobook of 2014 and described it as “an affecting meditation on age and mortality in sombre black & white.”īefore anything else, FullBleed founder Jude Edginton is a photographer. In his photo essay, “Mother & Father,” Summerfield produced a touching, profound masterpiece about the ever-present nature of own Despite some exposure in the late 60s, Summerfield spent much of his career in obscurity. This film focuses on the work of British photographer Paddy Summerfield. In addition, read on for a profile about the channel’s founder, Jude Edginton. FullBleed hopes to broaden its audience’s understanding of how photographers work, looking as much at the person behind the lens as the subjects in front of it.īelow, we have featured one of FullBleed’s first (and finest) films. Through a regular series of original short films, FullBleed takes the viewerīehind the images, unearthing the stories at the heart of photographers’ projects and the photographsįullBleed chooses its subjects with a completely genre-unspecific agenda, meaning their films run the gamut from the grittiest, most in-your-face street photographers to gentle, contemplative work. FullBleed is a new channel producing beautifully shot documentaries about photographic cultureįrom around the world.
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