Stephen Sidlo Photography Blog

Systematically Raped Nation….Thank You George…Spiderman on Acid



Have we lost the plot? Have we descended into a puddle of never knowing beasts? Here we are, wandering around the paddocks of Britain, never ending stomping. A red, blue or yellow Rosette pins itself on every new race, on the brain damaged jockey that rides us, endlessly sat on us like a hungry whore crying with lust. Why does he blindfold us as well, while with the other hand on an iPhone he sends children to war? We public, the stiff lipped liberal persons, who now are being systematically ridden, now base our lives on the whims of the sensationalist stories that drivel from our politically controlled rag newspapers…who in turn take a heavy beating from the lobbyists, businessmen and political PR strategists. Why do we do this? Why do i want to keep buying useless items, things I wouldn’t normally buy. I sit at home bashing on the keyboard telling the world I wont fall for consumerism, but as I walk around a shop I feel a need to buy. Buy until my eyes bleed.

The horrible country we are now immersed in, that promotes doing nothing, doing nothing till we fall asleep. A nation of people who work until depression, brain bubbles and heart attacks.

Filed under: Lancaster, manchester photojournalist, morecambe, Morecambe photographer, piccadilly gardens, Stephen Sidlo, TTV

R.N.L.I TTV Photography – New Wave

Some initial photographs from the R.N.L.I meeting tonight, hoping to get more in depth with this type of photography..i can feel its opening up a new style for me. Oppostunity for portraiture and location shots with this TTV Kodak/Canon.


Filed under: RNLI, Royal National Lifeboat Institute, RSS, TTV

Through The Viewfinder – TTV

Through the Viewfinder photography is a new photography craze that seems to be picking up pace across various forums online. The concept is to design a contraption made of card that snugly fits on top of your Kodak Duoflex camera, I bought mine at http://www.sepiamemories.com in Morecambe, UK. Using these rough sketches I was able to draft up a non-black version of the TTV and thus create the image above. This will go nicely with the portrait work I am hoping to do within the R.N.L.I


Using the sketch above, some card from an old portfolio box, duck tape and compass, I was able to create the TTV. It works by sliding the DSLR over the opening above to read the bubble viewfinder on the Kodak, thus getting a cool old image using the 1970′s obsolete camera. Here is the first one:





And some of my first images…



Filed under: 20d, Duoflex, Kodak Duoflex, RNLI, Royal National Lifeboat Institute, Stephen Sidlo, Through the Viewfinder, TTV

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Stephen Sidlo Photojournalist

Head Publisher for Demotix. Photojournalist, Conflict & NGO documentarian. Gonzo participator in journalism. Humanitarian. Occasional Skydiver. Black coffee, two sugars. Views my own.

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