'Social-networking theory aside: Shouldn’t we be taking pictures? Isn’t photography about photographs and not about promoting the crap out of photographs?' Full post here....
Today I found in a dusty packed away box an old letter from my dad to my eldest son Samuel. Maybe......
If you only read one thing about photography this week, next week, or for the rest of the year, read this post. 'Even if your photographic diet only consisted of, let’s say, James......
I've has just told me this will be the venue for our photofilm workshop at Contact photo festival in May in Toronto: ...
'People have changed the landscape in a very brutal way here. But the sea fights back for its natural shape and territory. Local people seem to respect the power of the sea. Nevertheless at......
"Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in order to make them fit for further interrogation. This is unacceptable," said MSF General Director Christopher Stokes. I'm not the only......
Huffington Post Says 'Here's a foolproof way to sell a book of photographs: reconceptualize the best ones in the world. That's what photographer Tim Mantoani has done with his new book "Behind Photographs," a compilation......
'As I prepared pictures to submit to a contest I could not stop thinking that all these past years the main photo contests chose their winners from among the pictures depicting wars and conflicts.......
Somebody wrote: 'OK, Kodak's dead.....and why is it, with the exception of a handful of shooters, none of the photographers who excelled in my generation are working, and why is it that no one really......
Hello Sam, It’s your birthday and I am on the other side of the world, thinking about you. This is your first birthday I have missed since you came out fighting for your first breath eleven......
'I was dumbfounded when a student responded with genuine tears of relief, there in the seminar, to the suggestion that there was a theoretical (ie. political) discourse that affirmed and articulated the extreme tension......
According to a tweet I just read by Edmund Clark, Today is the 10th anniversary of the first detainees arriving at Guantanamo Bay. 171 remain there. ‘When you are suspended......
This is a short (humbling) story about something that happened to me today. Mike Lusmore and myself are in Khulna Bangladesh giving a photofilm training to a cracking group of people from Canada, Bangladesh, Burkina......
Interesting to see the VII photographer Ashley Gilbertson having a gentle crack on twitter at 'academics' who 'complain' about some of the repetitive imagery of 'Africa' that gets published. Gilbertson seems unaware that critical questions......
Yesterday I received the following email from a photographer and thinker whose work I really admire (not someone who has anything to prove). The subject was 'Hetherington's last photos' as recently published in the...
If you hurry you can become our 5000 follower on Twitter. Or if you want a real banging bargain you could buy a Jim Mortram print. Or if you could just listen......
If you have time I recommend you go and check out the end of year show for the Masters in doc photography and photojournalism at London College of Communication. Go with an open mind about......
There's been a rush to like us in the last couple of days. No idea why .... THANKS (always appreciated) However if you want to do something much, much better then liking us on Facebook you......
I don't know how I missed this brilliant post over at DVAPHOTO. If you have any interest in protecting your right to take a picture in public then head over for an......
Part of the absurd fallout from last week’s ridiculous moment when VII's Anastasia Taylor Lind jumped to her feet and repeatedly punched duckrabbit in the face at the LCC Masters end of year......