The Richard Flint Photography Blog

 American troops land on Omaha Beach on D-Day. June 6, 1944.  Photograph by Robert CapaEighty years ago Allied forces waded ashore on the Normandy coast and started the liberation of Europe. Quite a few photographers accompanied the armada...

 Lost running shoe - Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk - 2016There is a moment when you suddenly realise that your photography has aged. Those images you printed up in the darkroom, ah it seems like just yesterday, are in fact suddenly 25 years old...

 Small Field on the Isle of Skye, Scotland - 2015The last few weeks have seen me search for new sources of photography news after significantly reducing my use of social media these past couple of years. With the removal of Twitter (X) from my d...

 Photograph by Bert Hardy - The Gorbals Boys, 1948You can't really talk about British documentary photography during the mid-20th century without talking about Bert Hardy. So it's fantastic to see that The Photographers' Gallery in London is hav...

It's been a week or two of veteran bands making a return to the spotlight. Even The Beatles released their final song which I actually thought was a wonderful finale and liked a lot. The band I want to talk about though is Orchestral Manoeuvres in th...

 Sometimes we judge things before we actually get to see them. I did that many years ago with the photography by Linda McCartney. I blame naïve youthful ignorance and also the massive Beatle hype bubble that will go on existing until the end of...

 Claymore Swords - Edinburgh Castle, 2015It's been catch-up time over the past few days regarding the blog. A tweak or two to the design and a new background and the site is ready for another few years.Looking back through the old posts was a st...