Big freeze this month in NYC
New Year, New Launch, New Look!
New Year, New Launch, New Look!
Announcing the launch of the new look and newly branded Francis Minien Photography website!
Over the last few months a great deal of time and effort has gone into developing the new site, bringing everything Francis Minien Photography under one roof for your viewing pleasure.
Read More7th Annual Color awards - Honorable Mention
Amateur photographer Francis Minien of the UK was presented with the 7th Annual Photography Masters Cup Honorable Mention in the category of Aerial at a prestigious Nomination & Winners Photoshow webcast Saturday, May 3, 2014.
Read MoreWinner in the New York Photo Awards!
Great news for Francis Minien Photography, not only was he nominated as a finalist for the Fine Art Category in the 2013 Awards, but it was recently announced that he won the Category.
Big celebration on all fronts and a big thank you to all those who supported the exhibition.
Established in 2008, The New York Photo Awards has attracted exceptional work submitted from over 25,000 photographers and visual artistsâ??over 150,000 images uploaded and reviewed by the top names in the genres of photo Fine Art, Documentary, Advertising, Book publishing, and Multimedia industries in the U.S. and abroad.
Read MoreApp-Tastic News!!
You can now view all of my photography work on a new app that is avaliable in the Apple store!!! Check out and download Minien Snaps Now!!
After 6 months of collaboration with good friend Adam Wootton, CEO of Zum Fun, Minien Snaps has hit the digital shelves.
Read MoreNews! Photograph in the 2013 DC Design House
Good news! Featuring this month in the DC Design House is a photograph from the series Where Did My Toys Go?
This is a result of a collaboration with designer Regan Billingsley who is one of the 21 designers who have been selected for the 2013 DC Design House.
The house is open for a month and is a fundraiser for the Children’s National Medical Center.
Read MoreNew Launch - I Wanted To Help
There is a philanthropic side to Francis Minien’s photography where for the last 5 years he has been working with Charities, NGO’s and other Non Profits around the world.
As an outlet to promote the work of these non profits he has set up a new organisation called I Wanted To Help, where all projects are on exhibition.
Read MoreNews! I’m an Activist!
Great news came recently found out from PhotoPhilanthropy that my submission into the 2012 Activist Awards had been nominated for an Activist Award, a great honour!
To view the full project and photo essay please visit Francis Minien’s new Philanthropic website I Wanted to Help!
Read MoreNEWS! 6th Annual Photography Masters Cup Nomination
For the 3rd year in a row Francis Minien has been nominated in the Annual Photography Masters Cup in the category of Still Life at a prestigious Nomination & Winners PhotoShow.
Check out the Nominee’s and Winners here…
Read MoreGround Arts & Art Start - The ‘HOME’ Project
Ground Arts & Art Start are dedicated to empowerment of children through art. Ground.Arts is collaborating with the Art Start family of children in homeless shelter programs.Francis Minien along with other Artists will be interpreting what “Home” Means to them in collaboration with Childrens work from the program.
An exhibition to raise awareness and funds for both Organisations will be held March 7th – 11th.
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 7th, 2012, 6-9pm
Read MoreSANDY: Devastation, Document, Drive
The New York Photo Festival is proud yet humbled to present SANDY: Devastation, Document, Drive, a vast visual document of Superstorm Sandy created by photographers of all backgrounds.
Francis Minien is one of the many Photographers who rose to the occasion to help raise funds through this documentary New York Foundation for the Arts Emergency Relief Fund.
Exhibition dates: February 4 – March 1
Read MoreComing to Cambodia
Cambodia was a country we planned to do for one reason and that was Angkor Wat, but we decided we should do this country some justice and see at least some of the countryside as we traveled from the Border with Vietnam to Phnom Penh (PP) and then again onto Siem Reap.
Read Morei-Diot
This must be my time to have a little rant, maybe I have been on the road too long or maybe its just because I just see idiots on the road and can’t help but share! Like Roy Walker used to say, ‘Say what you see?’
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
I have spied this phenomenon before but previously only in India or at a festival in Europe or North America. But the further we have traveled the more and more we have seen this fashion statement, this traveling uniform this sisterhood of the traveling pants.
Read MoreWhy can’t we all just get along?
I write here at a point where I am in the midst of much drama away from the road not only world events that seem to get to me, but noise from home and noise from employers. I have seen many things in my short life and experienced the kindness and appreciation from people who have virtually nothing, yet would give me their bed for a night rather than see me lie in a road, or see themselves go hungry in order to feed me!
Read MoreQuoc Surfing
That’s right I was able to catch some waves Quoc style on Long Beach in some epic 1-2ft surf! When you see the photographs you will see the epic battles I had in the surf! Yeah right!
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On Yer Bike, Vietnam Stylee!
Literally, as with most of the countries we had come across in Asia we had the advantage of witnessing some of the greatest balancing and transportation feats of all time, we saw stuff that Health and Safety in the western world would cry over!
Read MoreStreet Ninja's
The city streets of Vietnam have taught me one thing….Ninja’s are real!
Read MoreNew Magazine Article Published!
fLIP is published three times per year with each issue featuring a unique overarching theme.
The Winter issue themed ‘Routes’, sees the article Exploration by Francis Minien featuring photographs about the last Great Wilderness – Antarctica
This magazine is for the London based community photography organisation, London Independent Photography.
Read MorePhoto Philanthropy - Send in the Clowns!
Whilst researching and working with other organisations in and around Kathmandu, Nepal I was asked if I would come and work with a new professional circus company known as Circus Kathmandu.
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