A Photographic Life - 295: 'Christmas/AI and Copyright Special' with Nick Dunmur/AOP
In this ‘AI/Copyright’ episode UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed connecting with Nick Dunmur from the Association of Photographers to discuss all aspects of AI and its impact on photography and photographers. You may be surprised and relieved to hear that the future may not be as dark as some believe. Nick Dunmur was born in Oxford, in the UK and grew up in Sheffield. He moved to Nottingham in 1985 and completed a BA (Hons) in Photography at Trent Polytechnic, before beginning to work commercially and establishing a studio in the city's Lace Market working with for clients such as Paul Smith, Triumph and Yamaha Motorcycles. This led to his current commercial and advertising practice, that includes video/moving image and environment-driven photographic print-works. Until June 2013, Dunmur was a non-executive director of the UK based Association Of Photographers and between 2008 and 2011 he held the role of Chair. He teaches on the BA (Hons) Photography at the University of Derby and acts as the Business and Legal adviser to the Association Of Photographers members. He is also one of the founding group of members of Pro Imaging, a trade body which protects the rights of professional photographers. Until 2013, he represented them on the board of the British Photographic Council (BPC) and he now represents the AOP on the same board. More recently, working with a fellow platinum printer, he has devised a method of making digital inkjet negatives allowing digital images to be printed using a range of analogue, alternative processes such as silver gelatin, salt, cyanotype and platinum. He still lives in Nottingham. www.nickdunmur.com www.the-aop.org