{"id":451699,"date":"2026-03-01T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451699\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:55:08","slug":"suffolk-village-the-focus-of-johnnie-shand-kydds-new-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451699\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffolk village the focus of Johnnie Shand Kydd&#8217;s new photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since snapping his first photo in the mid-90s, Kydd has gone on to see his images included in the likes of Vogue and Harper&#8217;s Bazaar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has also exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London but, despite his success, he says he was far from a great photographer when he started out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t a photographer, but I just managed to have this extraordinary access and the pictures got better and better and better,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was very lucky and just happened to have backed a very good horse and I think because I was slightly inept, it gave the photos a raw energy which worked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They just got so used to me being there and going click, click, click, that they hardly noticed I was there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since snapping his first photo in the mid-90s, Kydd has gone on to see his images included in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}