Journey through Cholera: Spencer Platt.

I have come here to take pictures for the news agency I work for. I am on a deadline and must not linger in the hospital. A French nurse and a Canadian press officer......

War Never Looked So Hip.

(amended title because Joerg's was MUCH better) Take a look at this picture by Damon Winter, as featured on the (excellent) New York Times, Lens Blog, and part of a series featured......

“WikiLeaks: the revolution has begun – and it will be digitised.”.

A brilliant article in The Guardian today. To some this marks a crisis, to others an opportunity. Technology is breaking down traditional social barriers of status, class, power, wealth and geography – replacing......

The Visualisation of Information: Photography and new forms of story telling..

To survive online, information has to be visually innovative. This is a lovely piece using augmented reality and I am sure there are many things about this piece that photographic based multimedia producers can......

No inbreds, just people..

The marvellous Jonas Bendiksen and his 7 year travel across the former Soviet Union. This is not new yet this is still photojournalism of the highest quality from Magnum that has lasted the test......

‘A call to arms to emerging photojournalists’, MOG on Foto8.

Mog wishes to issue a call to arms to emerging photojournalists. Be aware, we are on the brink of a social and cultural revolution that in all likelihood will make Thatcherism seem mild and......

Tim Berners Lee On Photography?.

Some people may think that closed worlds are just fine. The worlds are easy to use and may seem to give those people what they want ... these closed, “walled gardens,” no matter......

Wide Angle Pt 2: The second student protest in the UK..

I love the fact that this image is being used to balance the coverage of the first student protest in the UK. It shows the violence but it also shows another angle that......

duckrabbit ‘Imber, the ghost village’ photofilm on the BBC.

Good to see David's photofilm about the abandoned village of Imber finding a home on the BBC Website. A big THANK YOU to the BBC's Photo Editor, Phil Coomes for publishing the......

duck or rabbit?.

See what I mean. ...

8 Million Views and Rising.

This is photography. Really. 8 Million Views. And not an ego in sight. ...

In Cold Blood.

Joseph Rodriguez brought this strong work to my attention by one of his ex students. 'Six Romani people including a five-year-old boy......

Open Society Documentary Photography Project Announces 2010 Audience Engagement Grant Winners.

The Open Society Documentary Photography Project announces the recipients of the 2010 Audience Engagement Grant competition. The goal of the grant program is to support innovative projects that use existing bodies of photographic work......

JR from Agence VU – “Women are Heroes” – Photojournalism for the socially networked generation..

This is very worthy of winning a TED award this year. A lesson in how to give women a voice, deal with tragic circumstances, get away from those socially exclusive private openings, do more than......

Brave New World?.

“Photography has become stagnant and we see the same images over and over again. We need new kinds of images, and a new kind of aesthetic to get the public to care again.” Maggie......

Joerg Colberg to curate Visa Pour L’image.

Everybody knows (and behind his back everybody says) that one of the problems with the Visa, Festival of Shanty Towns, is that it only has one curator, and as time ticks on more and......