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New Interest in My Photography Recently, there has been what I consider a surprising change, serious photographers have preferred to go back to using traditional film cameras, rather than the digital system. Because of this, there has now been a renewed interest in how I created my special effects. Projection Photography I have seen on the Internet that there are lots of sites about ‘Painting with Light’, sometimes under ‘Light Painting’, but also often under what was a new phrase to me ‘Projection Photography’. This certainly seems to describe what my techniques were all about, so, I decided to edit my webpages to make sure they included the terms ‘Projection Photography’, and ‘Light Painting’, hoping that the search engines would also then list my pages under these headings. Over the years I had not really tried to promote my photographic special effects, as I thought no one would be interested, because of all the digital software, the digital cameras, not to mention all the new mobile phones having digital cameras, I did not think anyone would want to go back to using film, especially as film had become expensive and hard to find. But because of this new trend I have been interviewed, and published in a few websites, and I have approached a few photographic museum curators who are showing some interest. The National Science and Media Museum The Photography and Photographic Technology section of the National Science and Media Museum based in Bradford is closed for redevelopment, but Claire Mayoh (the archive and library manager) has confirmed that a public reference about my technique is going to be added. Disturbing News Ivory Banned. In order to protect the elephants all ivory could no longer be sold, or cross borders. It could only be sold if you were able to register your item and successfully obtain an exemption certificate. Most auctioneers and dealers have decided not to accept any ivory items, even if known to be antique! So, suddenly our ivory netsuke collection had little value. Surprising News Ivory Netsuke sold for €1m. I was amazed to read the following news, as I had understood that Bonhams would not sell any ivory! "No fanfare as ivory netsuke sets a new record. A new auction record for netsuke – over three times the previous high – has been set in France. An ivory netsuke of the monkey king Songoku by Matsushita Otoman which sold for €1m (£860,000) at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr." https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/print-edition/2023/july/2601/in-the-news/no-fanfare-as-ivory-netsuke-sets-a-new-record/ This auction had not been shown online and not advertised, it was only announced that some ivory netsuke would be auctioned immediately following a really good wood netsuke and inro auction - so the main buyers were only informed, once they were already there. One of our ivory netsuke is by Otoman and according to Neil K. Davey is a very rare and a unique subject by him. So, we started to consider selling our Ivory Zodiac netsuke collection. The World is Becoming a Dangerous Place We have been shocked and depressed by the brutal attack by the Hamas in Israel, resulting in war. Also by the amount of antisemetism around the world, the obvious bias of the press, who broadcast lots of Hamas lies, without any attempt to verify the truth. Generally the press was showing Israel in the worst possible way. The surrounding countries all have terrorists brought up to kill Jews, that were controlled and encouraged by Iran. Russia invading the Ukraine and various other parts of the world seem set on becoming war zones.
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