I went to the opening of the fantastic exhibition ‘Salt and Silver’ at the Tate Gallery earlier this week; first off what a brilliant introduction to the very origins of photography developed by Henry Fox Talbot. One thing that occurred to me when looking at some of these extraordinary prints from 150 years ago was how much a good photograph stood out from an ordinary one. I’m not saying there were any bad photos here because there weren’t, but some were more special to me as a ‘people photographer’ than others. Every one of these Victorian pioneering photographers deserves huge praise and admiration in their own right. However for me, Roger Fenton’s portraits drew me in, just as a modern actors headshot would do too. Looking at the portraits of Captain Lord Balgoine and Captain Mottram-Andrews, both photographs grabbed my attention but for very different reasons; Balgoine the younger of the two appears dark and brooding with the weight of the world on his shoulders, whi
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