{"id":562,"date":"2015-03-17T12:34:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T12:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2021-03-02T10:16:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:16:58","slug":"cordwainers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Cordwainers&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or shoemakers to most people. These guys make orthotic shoes and&nbsp;each pair is hand made to order. They start by making a cast of the feet and then the wearer gets to choose the style they want and can custom design them too. I was recently commissioned by <a title=\"Remember Creative Design Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.remembercreative.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Remember Creative<\/a>&nbsp;to photograph portraits of the&nbsp;craftsmen involved in the process of hand making these shoes, and these are the resulting portraits.<\/p>\n<p>See more portraits on my <a title=\"Douglas Kurn, photographer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.douglaskurn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll shortly be adding some detail shots of the manufacturing process to the projects section of the website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-8139.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"563\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=563\" 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data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=566\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7804.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9Douglas Kurn&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1424862050&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2015 Douglas Kurn All rights reserved&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kurn_150225-7804\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7858.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"564\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=564\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7858.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9Douglas Kurn&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1424865875&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2015 Douglas Kurn All rights reserved&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kurn_150225-7858\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7858.jpg?fit=625%2C417&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-564\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7858.jpg?resize=625%2C417\" alt=\"Kurn_150225-7858\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7858.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Kurn_150225-7858.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, 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These guys make orthotic shoes and&nbsp;each pair is hand made to order. They start by making a cast of the feet and then the wearer gets to choose the style they want and can custom design them too. I was recently commissioned by Remember Creative&nbsp;to photograph portraits of the&nbsp;craftsmen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115],"tags":[4,5,6],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portraits","tag-douglas-kurn","tag-photography","tag-portrait"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2y0F3-94","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}