About A Cambridge Diary
A portrait picture every day from Cambridge.
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A Cambridge Diary Description
Martin Bond is a professional photographer who has lived in Cambridge all his life. A Cambridge Diary, which sees him post a photograph from Cambridge online each day, is his labour of love. It is now in its seventh year of continuous daily pictures, with more than two and half thousand photographs in the archive.
A Cambridge Diary pictures have featured on the front cover of Cambridge Magazine every month since its launch four years ago, appearing without any overlaid text or other graphics: a brave move in the world of publishing, this is testament to the strength and beauty of Martin’s images. His pictures are also behind the Cambridge Literary Festival, are used for Cambridge University publications and are seen by thousands of people every day on social media.
“I started this project because there seemed to be little recording of the everyday lives of ordinary people in Cambridge, perhaps because there has always been so much else to be admired and photographed in this beautiful city, ” says Martin. “I thought I could capture moments that might be uniquely Cambridge without needing the backdrop of university buildings or any visual reference to the historic colleges, and so I began posting a portrait picture a day on Facebook. ”
“In recent months, I have been expanding my own remit for the word ‘portrait’. As time has passed, I have discovered there’s no escaping the allure and enticement of this stunning city that I have come to love all the more deeply because of this project. Cambridge seems to me to be revealing itself in a new way, purely because of how hard I am looking; lately the city itself has become the subject of most of my photographs. I’m trying to take images that go beyond the established rhetoric for the city, which has held good for centuries. It holds a more secret majesty, and I am trying to capture that. ”
“The attempt to capture images that are different in kind to all the others taken here every day in their thousands - has proved challenging but exhilarating. If it means crawling under bridges or climbing trees to get the pictures, then I will likely continue crawling and climbing until I drown or fall. ”
The nature of street photography is to capture people and places in a moment in time and to explore the relationships between individuals and their surroundings. Another key aspect of street photography is that the captured scene is unplanned, with an absence of prior arrangement.
There is currently no legal restriction on photography in public places, and no presumption of privacy for individuals in a public place. It is therefore unlikely that I have sought to gain permission of people I have photographed. If you appear as the main subject in a photograph on this website please contact me and I will be delighted to provide you with a high resolution copy of the picture free of charge. Conversely, if you appear as the main subject in a photograph and don’t like what you see, please contact me and I will remove the photograph immediately.
The images on this Facebook page are the copyright of Martin Bond. Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited. You may not, except with the express written permission of the photographer, copy, reproduce, download, distribute or resell the content in any way. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.
You may however use an image from this website for non-commercial purposes but they must appear with a link to this page and the photo must be credited to © Martin Bond. If you contact me I may be able to offer a higher quality image from the original file. Under all circumstances, copyright remains with Martin Bond.