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Date February 19, 2021
Name Scott Duns
Email scott.duns@sbcglobal.net
Country United States
Comments Saw your information on cut film holders and so now I'm exploring your site. Tried the eu link, but it timed out.




Date January 14, 2021
Name Doyle Smith
Email bluesb3@cox.net
Country usa
Comments 73 y/o retired Hollywood cinematographer and BMW airhead motorcycle fancier here . (R90S) I have enjoyed visiting your website. I am a great admirer of the Hollywood glamour still photographers. When the cinema medium changed from photochemical to digital, I lost my fervor for it. I have great mechanical aptitude but very little aptitude for electronics and computers. Keep Calm and Carry On!




Date January 14, 2021
Name Marcus R Kaneshiro
Email marcus@mupps.net
Country United States
Comments 14 January 2021 and I just learned that Roger passed away in 2019. I am very sad and hope that Frances is well. I love this site and appreciate all the work and wisdom it represents and passes on. Thank you.




Date November 26, 2020
Name PF McFarland
Email pf_10974@msn.com
Country United States of America
Comments I knew Roger had passed some time ago, but found out today that Francis has also departed us. Will miss their contributions to photography forums and magazines, but know they are in a better place now. PF




Date May 24, 2020
Name John Tuckey
Email john.tuckey@me.com
Country United Kingdom
Comments I have only just found out that Roger passed away. RIP to a man whose writings have been more inspiring, educational and just plain useful than any other to my photography. My best wishes to Frances and his family.




Date February 24, 2020
Name Olaf Sp.
Email speola@gmail.com
Country D
Comments Hello, I'm searching for the ebook "Black and White Step by Step". I've bought it here but the shop semms not to work anymore. Does somebody know how to get it ? with kind regards




Date January 15, 2020
Name JB Runner
Email Photobot2000@yahoo.com
Country USA
Comments Dear Frances, I had the honor of corresponding with Roger several times. He was a kind gentleman and I shall always remember his graciousness towards me. Thank you for being in his life. I know he loved you dearly. All my best, JB




Date August 27, 2019
Name John Clifford
Email microimages1@gmail.com
Country UK
Comments ...Someone who truly understood about photography, not just the technical means to success but, without any affectation, the soul too.




Date August 27, 2019
Name John Clifford
Email microimages1@gmail.com
Country UK
Comments I have only just become aware of Roger's death. I am profoundly saddened by this news on many levels. My heartfelt thoughts and sympathies go out to you Frances. (Please get in touch if you would like to.) Roger was a great friend over many years, from as far back as 1974 (though more recently we had lost contact - my fault entirely). I was aware of this site - but not previously of the more recent .eu one. Reading through the many thoughtful entries there as well as here, on life and humanity as well as photography - all written in Roger's clear and elegant prose, with an effortless gentle erudition - brings home to me forcefully and so very poignantly what a person we have lost. Yes, there was indeed a touch of Marmite about Roger (read the site) - but I loved the Marmite. Photography has certainly lost an icon. More than that, its lost a peerlessly articulate authority who uniquely straddled the past and present craft, and could see beyond the technology to what image making is really about. Someone who truly understood




Date May 3, 2019
Name Gary Parker
Email garyforsure@hotmail.com
Country United Kingdom
Comments Frances, all my sincerest commiserations to you on your sad loss. I have many of the books you wrote together, it must be all the harder for you to lose half of your wonderful creative partnership. It's certainly the end of an era. The photography world will never have another iconic character spanning so many years as Roger Hicks. Roger will be fondly remembered by so many people his words touched. I'm sure many of those people will be sending fond thoughts your way.




Date April 20, 2019
Name Andy
Email Proteuscb17@yahoo.co.uk
Country England
Comments An inspiring man has passed away; however his enthusiasm and love of the art of photography will live on. RIP Roger




Date April 17, 2019
Name Kieran Dandy
Email KieranDandy@hotmail.co.uk
Country England
Comments R.I.P Roger. My deepest sympathies to you Francess. Roger was and still a great inspiration to me. Nearly everything of value regarding photography and art in general I have learned from him. I Have most of the books you both wrote together. Invaluable in their wisdom. You will never be forgotten. Kieran Dandy




Date April 14, 2019
Name Julian Chilvers
Email jaschilvers@gmail.com
Country UK
Comments I read your last Final Analysis with great sadness. Your articles have made me look at photographs and art in general from viewpoints I had never considered and I would like to thank you for that. Best wishes Julian Chilvers




Date April 13, 2019
Name Nick Beer
Email nsbeer@gmail.com
Country United Kingdom
Comments Best wishes to both Roger and Frances. I read your AP column and it is with much sadness of your illness Roger. Stay strong.




Date February 4, 2019
Name etienne dezutter
Email etiennedezutter@yahoo.com
Country belgium
Comments It's still wonderfull in this digital quickly changing era to visit your filmsite and get ideas and a few of little dreams ....




Date January 22, 2019
Name Dick Myhill
Email remyhill@gmail.com
Country United Kingdom
Comments Roger, It's your fault I'm selling all my camera gear and trading up to the Nikon Df! That article of yours in AP (5 Nov 2016)got me hankering after one. It's just taken me 2 years to pluck up the courage. Can't make up my mind on black or silver though. BTW that Micro Nikkor 55mm is still available on eBay for less than £200.




Date January 19, 2019
Name Robert Ryan
Email kd8cbv@gmail.com
Country United States
Comments I have loved your works for many (too many?) years. I used to search through Shutterbug Magazine every month to find your articles. Perusing your website is like seeing an old, comfortable friend again after a long absence.




Date December 21, 2018
Name David Thorpe
Email lead_slinger57@yahoo.com
Country USA
Comments Very informative, Thanks




Date July 31, 2018
Name Robert Teal
Email robertericteal@gmsil.com
Country UK
Comments Lovely site, may it always be here...




Date June 14, 2018
Name A Roger Underwood
Email rogerund@yahoo.co.uk
Country France
Comments Roger and Frances, I've been a fan of yours for getting on for 30 years and have a goodly number of your books on my shelf. Many thanks for your instructive and interesting sites. I also have retired to SW France in Charente Maritime so not too far from you. Sorry to read that you have been unwell, I hope both of you are better now. Bon Courage!




Date June 13, 2018
Name Arne Iversen
Email iversen@online.no
Country Norway
Comments Super




Date March 19, 2018
Name Joe Baldwin
Email job67081@gmail.com
Country USA
Comments Very nice site. Interesting articles and great photographs




Date January 29, 2018
Name Giancarlo Raiconi
Email gianni@unisa.it
Country Italia
Comments Very nice site, I read a lot of it with enthusiasm. Well done.




Date December 28, 2017
Name Oleg Komarickiy
Email komr-sxa@yandex.ru
Country Russia
Comments Hello Roger, Photo School very interesting, a lot of useful ! black and white photography-Super ! Thanks for the advice May this New Year be an year full of joys, good luck and beautiful experiences! Regards Oleg




Date November 21, 2017
Name Nicola Beauman
Email nicola.beauman@icloud.com
Country UK or rather DK (Disunited)
Comments Dear Roger Hicks, we are reprinting Tory Heaven next April. It will be the fifth Laski novel Persephone Books has done and I had long dithered about it (it's only a long short story really) but the tragedy of Brexit has made it sadly relevant. So I wanted to thank you for writing it up so interestingly, yours is about the only mention of it on the web - Reading 1900-1950 or whatever it's called doesn't really get it. And I am writing to ask - with your obviously brilliant internet skills are you able to find any original reviews? Ie. how was it greeted at the time? When it was reprinted the next year in the US (or DS) as Toasted English Kirkus didn't really get it. I have decided not to have a preface because what is there to say except gnashing of teeth? But if you wanted to write something for the Persephone Biannually I would be delighted. Very best wishes Nicola Beauman Persephone Books London WC1N 3NB