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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Tom May

More and more films are being made about photographers – and I think I know why

3 older people by a beach railing, with Martin Parr in a straw hat and sunglasses holding a "Litter Free Beach" sign to the right, and a couple seated to the left.

Walk into a cinema this year and you’ll spot a curious trend. Suddenly, everyone seems to be making movies about photographers.

Lee, the biopic about war photographer Lee Miller starring Kate Winslet, earned both critical and audience acclaim last autumn. January saw Peter Hujar’s Day, starring Ben Whishaw as the legendary New York portraitist whose images of gay culture in the ’70s and ’80s captured beauty and mortality in equal measure.

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