Spotlight on Mark Ray
GH talks to a great photographer
Mark Ray, friend of Cricket Et Al, has a photographic eye unique in the game - acute, intimate and sympathetic. Active mainly during his career as a cricket writer with the Launceston Examiner, The Herald and the Sunday Age, he brought the sensibility of a capable former first-class cricketer and a connoisseur of Robert Frank, Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Mark’s photographic archive has recently found its way into a terrific book, Cricket - A Portrait of the Game, via Bob Thomas’s Popperfoto, who asked Cricket Et Al to sit down with the photographer to discuss his work.
Also worth catching up with are previous conversations by Eamonn McCabe with the venerable Patrick Eagar….
…and our occasional contributor Philip Brown.
No greater example of "it's a way of life" ... thanks Mark & Gideon for this intelligent chat into our multi layered game.
Great interview Gideon, the photos includes included are fantastic, thank you.