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© Michael Wayne Plant All rights reserved.

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Posted on October 26, 2026

My Photographic Heros no 17: William Eggleston

AuthorPostedbyMichael Wayne Plant

For me, William Eggleston is one of those Marmite photographers. You are either going to love him or hate him. Often when I would show Eggleston’s work to students, often I would get a big shrug as they would struggle …

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Posted on October 21, 2026
Michael W Plant at Camera House, Brisbane

Why make art? A journey into my photographic history.

AuthorPostedbyMichael Wayne Plant

Is photography art? That is a question that I never really have an answer for. People way more intelligent than myself, have already answered this, probably definitively, so I’m going to sidestep this question and just assume that my work …

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Posted on September 14, 2026

My Photographic Heros no 16: Margaret Bourke-White

AuthorPostedbyMichael Wayne Plant

Margaret Bourke-White would have been a very interesting person to meet, her drive to achieve great images is impressive. She started out on commercial and architectural photography genres ending up being a photo journalist at a time when magazines support …

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0 Posted in Inspiration, Photographic Influences, Photography

Posted on July 29, 2026

Being visible as a Street Photographer

AuthorPostedbyMichael Wayne Plant

As a social documentary based street photographer, on any weekday morning on the streets of the City will fill with people who work in money. Suits, badges, coffee, phones held up to faces. I stand in it with a camera …

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0 Posted in Documentary, On Photography, Street Photography

Posted on June 30, 2026
Lens Focal lengths Used

Street photography examining my images

AuthorPostedbyMichael Wayne Plant

I have been editing my images made in the City of London, I am now up to the end of 2017, still have 2018 to go. I have made some discovery’s in the process of editing, that I want to …

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0 Posted in Equipment, On Photography, Photographic EducationTagged What cameras and lens did I use?

Posted on June 1, 2026
Street photography as documentary

Street Photography as Documentary in the City of London

AuthorPostedbyMichael Wayne Plant

I am a social documentary photographer working with street photography as documentary method on the City of London. Some of you may know that from late 2015 until the streets emptied at the start of the pandemic, I walked the …

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0 Posted in City of London, Documentary, Michael Wayne Plant, Photography, Street Photography

Posted on May 6, 2026

Learning to See the City

AuthorPostedbyMichael Wayne Plant

A woman hands out free drinks from a branded bicycle in the City of London while office workers reach past her without really looking at her. I keep returning to the photograph because I still cannot decide if it belongs …

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0 Posted in City of London, Michael Wayne Plant, Street Photography

Posted on December 13, 2025

What kind of Britain do we want?

AuthorPostedbyMichael Wayne Plant

When we think about the United Kingdom, do we ever stop to think about the type of country that we want to live in. I am a social documentary photographer and I am interested in the social landscape we inhabit. …

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0 Posted in Capitalism, Economics, Politics

Posted on November 13, 2025

In Oz, GR Event Space, Brisbane, with Michael Wayne Plant, Ricoh and DxO

AuthorPostedbyMichael Wayne Plant

Hi everyone, Sorry for the radio silence these past months, I have been a bit busy and I had an issue with my website. I installed a caching plugin that caused me no end of problems uploading files, as it …

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0 Posted in DxO, Photography, Photography Talk, Street Photography, Workshop

Posted on April 24, 2025
On the Streets of Mayfair, London

Street Photography Thinking, by Michael Wayne Plant 

AuthorPostedbyMichael Wayne Plant

Street Photography, Thinking on approaches to making images in public spaces with social documentary ethos as a street photographer …

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1 Posted in Documentary, On Photography, Street Photography, TheoryTagged Michael Wayne Plant, Social Documentary photography, Street photography, Tony Ray-Jones

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