Or should that be the ‘Street Photo Manuel Des Photographes Urbains‘, as they call it en Français? No, no, don’t go fiddling with your language defaults! We’ve not really gone French; it’s just another great review of Tanya Nagar’s New Street Photographer’s Manifesto that [...]
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Photographing the Elements is book of the month!
It might not be every day you get to photograph a volcano, a tornado, or majestic iceberg arches floating in the arctic. But should the opportunity arise, you’d like to think that you could, right? OK so we’re not likely to get anything quite [...]
April Exhibition Roundup
What a lot there is happening in April! Not only will Ilex of course be off to the London Book Fair (which we won’t concern ourselves with here), but it’s also THE month of photography prizes, with the Sony World Photography Awards, the Deutsche Börse [...]
Ilex ladies rule at this year’s [FRAMED] Awards
Huge congratulations in order for three of our authors as Natalie Dybisz, Brooke Shaden and Lara Jade all featured prominently in this year’s [FRAMED] awards – the photography award ‘voted and nominated by photographers FOR photographers’. If you’re already familiar with Natalie Dybisz a.k.a. [...]
March Exhibition Roundup
If your monthly exhibition roundup comes a little later than usual, blame it on the huge event at the beginning of the month that was Focus on Imaging, which you can undoubtedly expect a blog about at some point… But now that that’s out [...]
Tanya Nagar at Focus on Imaging 2013
Author Tanya Nagar quickly shows us her sell-out bestseller New Street Photographer’s Manifesto (don’t worry, there are more to buy on line and at your local bookstore). Excuse the rough edit, but we thought it’d be nice to see a bit more of the [...]
ilexinstant.com: Welcome to the Future
There’s an expression in Silicon Valley; if the product is perfect when you launch, then you launched too late. We don’t quite agree. What we’re launching is perfection itself, but it’s also a small fraction of the future that is to come, an exciting [...]
Michael Freeman exposed
‘…make images that are visually interesting, exciting, different, which comes from a combination of moment, light, composition, colour or lack of. That’s the aim, anyway. Success means working at it a lot.’ If you’ve been feeling a Michael shaped hole in your life since [...]
One final fling for February
As winter slowly gives way to spring, the first daffodils are bringing a little colour to our gloomy country and the sun’s finally showing it’s face (albeit shyly), I hope you’re feeling as inspired and creative as the cheerful folk of Ilex towers… And [...]
A deviant interview with `tanya-n
deviantART is a great platform for photographers and artists of all kinds to share their work and find inspiration. It’s where Tanya Nagar (known online as `tanya-n), author of our hugely popular New Street Photographer’s Manifesto discovered street photography in the first place, and [...]
See you at Focus on Imaging, at the NEC, Birmingham
If you don’t know it, Focus on Imaging is Europe’s biggest annual trade show, and it’s held in the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, on Sunday March 3rd to Wednesday March 6th, but best of all, we’re going to be there showing and selling the [...]

