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May.17.2013
Let me take the first thought that comes to mind and then let me run with it – the discovery of the pleasure of music. Many years ago when I was about seven or eight, it must have been 1962 or 1963, my father bought us a record player. Our first. Its arrival in our family home in Dublin, Ireland...
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May.05.2013
The purpose of this short article is an attempt to show my creative journey as it were underpinning my interest in entering the world’s largest annual open arts event, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. After going through many of my photographs to select something suitable for the Royal Academy...
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Apr.28.2013
Further to my previous blog on my submitting two pictures to this year's Royal Academy (RA) Summer Exhibition in London, UK - in the interests of accuracy - please note that this annual arts event is a competitive one in which many artists, some 12,000 people such as myself send in works for...
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Apr.27.2013
About January 2013 I began thinking about what pictures I was going to submit for this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London, UK. As a photographer I looked through my work over the past 2 years - mainly street photography and landscapes - and decided to use some pictures I had taken in...
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About Nicholas
Why do I write or take photographs? For me, it is spontaneous, instinctive even. For many years, in response to some relentless creative impulse that bubbles up from somewhere buried deep, I use my camera or my pen. And this impulse is an exacting, mercurial...
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