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Promotional photography for University of Bristol’s Medical School

In 2012, I was asked to take pictures of the facilities, staff and students for the University of Bristol’s Medical School. I have recently been asked to return to update the images for their website and social media. Here are some of the pictures.

Students learning how to measure blood pressure

Students working in medical simulation suite

Teaching staff observing students in medical simulation suite

Student working with human simulation mannequin

Students wearing apparatus to simulate patient’s symptoms

Simulation of medical emergency on board a plane

Debrief session after medical emergency simulation on a plane

Simulation of medical emergency on board a plane

Staff and student swimming pool at RUH academy in Bath

Medical students gathering before graduation

Medical students just before officially graduating

Medical students just after officially graduating

Newly graduated doctors in streets of Bristol

Tijuana Vertical Film Festival

My art film ‘Grumbling Hive’ draws on a poem written by Bernard Mandeville in 1714 called the ‘Fable of the Bees‘ is to be screened at the Tijuana Vertical Film Festival in Mexico at the end of August. The festival celebrates experimental and art cinema from around the world. All the films in the festival will have been created in the vertical format.

This film was also on show at the Vertical Film Festival in Rome earlier in the year.

The poem describes how a society can only thrive if rules are broken and the citizens all live selfishly and to excess. Mandeville’s philosophy is often referred to by economists and sociologists.

Thanks to WEVAA for their support in producing this work.

Film still from Grumbling Hive

Print sales

Most of my images can be purchased as prints either framed or unframed or as digital files. Here are some examples of recent purchases but if you have a specific image you would like, please let me know and I will see what I can do.

Steps (60cm x 40cm print) £280 framed, £180 unframed.

Breakers AI (60cm x 40cm print) £260 framed, £180 unframed

Loading (60cm x 40cm print) £260 framed, £180 unframed

Ship breakers, Chittagong 12″x12″ £180

iPhone photography and videography training – 1:1 and small groups

I am now taking bookings for iPhone (or Android) photography and videography training.

In addition to learning how to master your phones technical features, the training can also look at improving the appearance of your pictures covering topics such as composition, viewpoint and framing for a range of different subject types.

Small group training is ideal for staff development, improving images for social media campaigns and as a creative activity for groups and clubs. One to one training can be for up-skilling individual team members or for personal interest or improving photographic skills before a major event.

Training can be delivered online or in person and is always tailored to meet the attendees interests and ability. Training can be delivered weekdays, evenings and some weekends. For more information, please contact mail@nigelgoldsmith.co.uk

Landscape picture taken with iPhone 14 Pro

Camera-less photography and mobile pinhole workshops and training

Camera-less and pinhole photography workshop

It is possible to produce photographs without the need for a camera. The workshop explores the purest form of photography, recording the unrepeatable shadows and reflections of light rays captured in a darkroom and resulting unique and ‘one-off’ images. This workshop explores photograms, luminograms, water-grams, cyanotypes, paper negatives and other experimental analogue photographic techniques. The results are unique, original and impossible to repeat.

The workshop welcomes anyone who wants to explore analogue photography in its purest form or learn the basic principles of photography and its continued relevance in a world dominated by digital imaging.

You can combine this workshop with a pinhole photography workshop. To deliver the session effectively I normally need an existing darkroom or a room which can be adapted reasonably easily (no windows etc). Alternatively, I can bring my own portable darkroom and equipment which is fine for smaller groups.

Photograms and luminograms washing

6 month pinhole photograph Cheney Court near Bath

Darkroom options

This workshop can be delivered to small groups on site using an existing darkroom or, I can bring a compact and temporary portable darkroom. The workshop can be delivered on-site anywhere in the UK or in my small darkroom near Bath in the UK. All I require to run this workshop on-site is a 240V mains socket and a nearby sink.

Prices for the camera-less photography workshop start at £425 per day for up to 4 attendees.

Nova darkroom tent. Left showing the outside of the tent, right inside tent

For information about my other analogue photography and darkroom workshops, click here

‘Broken bones and brake lights’ photogram with road debris

A photogram ‘ or watergram’ of ripples in water.