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PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL GOODMAN

Welcome to my new home on the web, est. December 2010. Over the coming months I intend to explore my subjects in greater depth, as well as discuss issues surrounding contemporary photography. I hope you will take the opportunity to engage in debate as I attempt to express the ambiguities I feel in both the practice of and issues covered by my preferred field; documentary photography.

    A night on the road with a paramedic

    A night on the road with a paramedic

    A night on the road photographing Senior Paramedic Paul O’Neill, a “First Responder” in the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), during one of his regular twelve-hour shifts. The situation imposed a couple of restrictions, photographically. I travelled light within the confines of Paul’s car and didn’t use flash – it looks shocking against reflective stripes, [...]

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    World AIDS Day Commemoration, Manchester

    World AIDS Day Commemoration, Manchester

    The crowd in Manchester’s Sackville Park hold a candlelit vigil. Dozens of candles arranged in the shape of a red ribbon. For the first time, hundreds held a candlelit procession through Manchester’s “Gay Village”. A minute’s silence was held by the “Beacon of Hope” monument, in Sackville Park.

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    Flash bulb repair on Canon 580EX-II

    Flash bulb repair on Canon 580EX-II

    This guide assumes a faulty (blown or broken) flash bulb. Before you start this, do not do this. Flashes are dangerous. For a flash to fire, a very high voltage is required. This voltage is stored on a capacitor inside the flash, charged up by much lower-voltage batteries. Removing these batteries will not remove the [...]

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    11 months ago in Hackney

    11 months ago in Hackney

    11 months ago I felt like I was running for my life. The 8th August 2011 brought a third night of rioting and looting to London. After Tottenham on the 6th and Enfield on the 7th, on the 8th I was in Hackney. On Ellingfort Road a sports car was set alight. A bus was [...]

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    Photographing The Dalai Lama

    Photographing The Dalai Lama

    The Dalai Lama’s on a tour of the UK. Yesterday he held a press conference at the Lowry Hotel, in Salford. I don’t think I could ever get bored of photographing someone with such an expressive face.

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    Why I shoot RAW.

    Why I shoot RAW.

    I’ve been told that it’s bad practice to shoot RAW, that it just fills up my hard drive with bloated files, slows my workflow and that I should get things like exposure and colour balance right, in camera. It’s definitely faster to work through images that are shot right in the first place. But sometimes [...]

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