September 17th, 7pm -8.30pm. Join me on this dusk photo walk through the beautiful Peak District town of New Mills, home to the famous Swizzles factory! It’s part of the New Mills Festival, As the day fades, and the lights illuminate the streets, the world feels changed, magical. On this gentle amble around the town of New Mills, I will discuss my approach to photographing in the half-light, as I do for the Not Quite Light project, exploring ways of […]
Not Quite Light is available for commissions, workshops and photowalks… The Not Quite Light project, exploring the world in the half-light of dawn and dusk, brings a fresh way to explore the world around us. And you can be part of this work through collabortaing on commissions, or hiring me for workshops, talks and twilight photowalks. COMMISSIONS The Not Quite Light project has been commissioned for a wide variety of projects and collaborations. This https://buttress.net/journal/2024/03/25/project-voices-rob-burgess-brunswick-villagehas seen work made across several […]
Since the start of the year I’ve been collaborationg with writer Adam Farrer on a project we’ve called ‘The Loss of England’. Adam has just released his first book ‘Cold Fish Soup’ and the film will feature his writing. In celebration of the release of his acclaimed book, I’ve created a trailer using film and sound from ‘The Loss of England’, with Adam reading an extract from a chapter entitled ‘Death Takes a Holiday’. It’s a beautiful book, full of […]
When I took ‘Rainstorm’, as it’s come to be known, on August 1st, 2019, just before 6pm, I had no idea it would become such a phenomenon. I almost didn’t post it, thinking there were details in the composition that could be improved, and that I might not want to further enhance the myth of Manchester being the rainiest city in the United Kingdom ( it isn’t, Cardiff is ). When I pressed send on Twitter, I put away my […]
Thurs Aug 1ST, 6PM 2024 Guided photowalk with Not Quite Light & Emma Fox THE FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPH ‘RAINSTORM’ IS 5 YEARS OLD ON AUGUST 1ST 2024! On a wet August evening 5 years ago, a photograph was taken of Manchester that went viral, retweeted by the actor Stephen Fry and Illusionist Derren Brown, amongst many others. It’s a photograph that has now travelled the globe and is on someone’s wall in every continent of the world. To celebrate the […]