{"id":20498,"date":"2025-01-18T23:13:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T23:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/2025\/01\/18\/master-photographer-and-inspirational-educator-john-blakemore-dies-at-88\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T23:14:00","slug":"grasp-photographer-and-inspirational-educator-john-blakemore-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/2025\/01\/18\/grasp-photographer-and-inspirational-educator-john-blakemore-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasp Photographer and Inspirational Educator John Blakemore Dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg?ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg?ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg?ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg?ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg?ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg?ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg?ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg?ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg?ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg?ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg?ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Grasp Photographer and Inspirational Educator John Blakemore Dies at 88\" title=\"Grasp Photographer and Inspirational Educator John Blakemore Dies at 88\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_776255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-776255\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-800x420.jpg?ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-800x420.jpg?ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-800x420.jpg?ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-800x420.jpg?ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-800x420.jpg?ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-800x420.jpg?ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-800x420.jpg?ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-800x420.jpg?ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-800x420.jpg?ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-800x420.jpg?ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-800x420.jpg?ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-800x420.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"An elderly man with white hair and a beard is seated at a wooden table, smiling warmly. He's wearing a black jacket and has glasses hanging around his neck. In the background, there's a window with potted plants and a curtain.\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-large wp-image-776255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-800x420.jpg?ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-320x168.jpg 320w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-1536x806.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-400x209.jpg 400w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured-550x288.jpg 550w, https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-776255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Blakemore (1936-2025)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Inspiring British photographer and instructor John Blakemore died this week at 88. <\/p>\n<p>John Blakemore was once celebrated for his panorama and nature images, particularly his use of lengthy publicity tactics. He additionally creatively used a couple of exposures in his paintings, on occasion taking pictures just about 50 pictures over an hour to seize the development of time in nature. <\/p>\n<p>The Centre for British Images describes Blakemore, who was once totally self-taught, as \u201cone of the most main photographers of panorama and nature on the planet,\u201d noting his fantastic regulate over tone and publicity. <\/p>\n<p>The video interview under, <em>Seduced through Gentle<\/em> through James Hyman, captures a lot of what made Blakemore and his paintings outstanding. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-iframe\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\">\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/851564315?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\" title=\"JOHN BLAKEMORE MOVIE LONG VERSION\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dr. Michael Pritchard from The Royal Photographic Society describes Blakemore\u2019s paintings as \u201cstunning, meticulously accomplished and considerate,\u201d to the <em>BBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn wasn\u2019t a diva,\u201d provides Blakemore\u2019s good friend and colleague Paul Hill. \u201cHe was once an especially enticing particular person who was once very beneficiant along with his time. His gentleness, his working out, his mind was once of an excessively top caliber.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Blakemore spent many years instructing artwork and pictures, together with thru formal categories at Derby School of Artwork, thru workshops, and in media. In 2001, Blakemore turned into Emeritus Professor of Images on the College of Derby. <\/p>\n<p>Blakemore\u2019s award-winning pictures was once featured in additional than 25 solo exhibitions throughout six many years. He received the 1992 Fox Talbot Award for Images and was once named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1998.  <\/p>\n<p>The photographer printed a lot of books during his long occupation, together with <em>Inscape<\/em> (1991), <em>Stilled Gaze<\/em> (1994), <em>John Blakemore\u2019s Black and White Images Workshop<\/em> (2005), and <em>John Blakemore Pictures 1955-2010<\/em> (2011). <\/p>\n<p>John Blakemore can be remembered for his fantastic portfolio of nature, nonetheless lifestyles, and documentary pictures and for his lasting affect at the generations of photographers he taught. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cVia his exhibitions and books, his paintings reached a large target audience,\u201d says Dr. Pritchard. \u201cHis legacy is his personal pictures but additionally the scholars he taught and who now produce paintings to his exacting requirements and train in their very own proper.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve loved it, it\u2019s been essential to me. And my private lifestyles has been ridiculous and all the time for me, pictures has been a form of strand of sanity thru it,\u201d Blakemore concluded in an interview in 2023. \u201cAnd so [photography] has been essential to me and I\u2019ve labored very laborious at it and I\u2019ve loved it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever on the finish of the day, there\u2019s a large number of bits of paper in packing containers,\u201d Blakemore laughed, smiling widely. \u201cAnd that\u2019s an appropriate finish, isn\u2019t it?\u201d <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em><strong>Symbol credit:<\/strong> Featured symbol is a screenshot from James Hyman\u2019s sensible video interview with John Blakemore in 2023, which will also be considered in complete above. <\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Blakemore (1936-2025) Inspiring British photographer and instructor John Blakemore died this week at 88. John Blakemore was once celebrated for his panorama and nature images, particularly his use of lengthy publicity tactics. He additionally creatively used a couple of exposures in his paintings, on occasion taking pictures just about 50 pictures over an hour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/01\/john-blakemore-featured.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20499,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20498\/revisions\/20499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}