Newsflash: call for proposals from Side Gallery, Newcastle.

EXHIBITION PROPOSALS We are continually looking for bodies of work that fit within our programming agenda at Side Gallery. If you would like to submit work for consideration, please see the notes below: 1. As Side Gallery......

After the world stops looking – an Afghan photographer’s Pulitzer prize.

Interesting piece over on the Grauniad on Massoud Hossaini, the recent winner of a Pulitzer prize. Worth your time....

Photographing the world while longing for home.

I found this incredibly thought-provoking. Photographer Ed Kashi on the realities of spending eight months a year away from his wife and kids....

Guest post from Mr Pete ‘Prison Photography’ Brook.

Mike Davis’ Does Story Telling Lose in Multimedia is a poorly-argued position on multimedia. Usually very helpful with his industry insider’s voice, Davis has not met his usual standards. Shame. Davis’ logic is flawed. Let......

The face of the Gujarat riots meets his photographer ‘saviour’.

  A fascinating 'what happened next'.... read it here ...

Why the World Press Photo winner works.

  Read Blake Andrews' full assessment here  ...

“I love photography”.

    Step over here to find out why.  ...

Representing and misrepresenting the Roma.

I've spent a lot of time over the past year or so thinking about how Gypsy and Roma people are represented and misrepresented through photography. Two of my recent projects – Rethink and Elvira and Me –......

Just because.

Everyone needs a little boost on a Monday morning, right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwqUjkjxmLU&feature=youtu.be...

Abundance – a photofilm.

What a wonderful idea. http://vimeo.com/35007176 "Abundance is a fruit harvesting and distribution project that started in Sheffield and since has inspired similar projects across the country. "It's basically legal scrumping. Tree owners call Abundance, Abundance round up......

#ff – Funky Friday.

...may you all have a perfect day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcilregu8W4  ...

Half Lives.

The Chernobyl workers now, by Maisie Crow http://vimeo.com/33639814...

A real, paid, non-internship JOB.

This is a great job for someone going at Save the Children: ...

Nothing to do with photography.

...just a raw and very powerful blog post that I just read and wanted to share. ...

Ed Ou and his vantage point.

Ed Ou is a sickeningly young, talented and humble Canadian photojournalist who has spent much of the past five years covering stories in Somalia and,......

Headline of the day.

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This is pretty bloody awesome.

http://vimeo.com/31773934 kudos. From California is a place...

A photo’s worth 1,000 words? WPP discussion.

Remember Bibi Aisha, the Afghan woman whose Jodie Bieber portrait was put on the front of Time Magazine along with a controversial jingoistic strapline? Well, the whys and wherefores about how other people's words......

Explosions in Oban.

I think Ben would say that they should have used a windshield. But we can forgive the crummy sound just this once. £6,000 worth of fireworks going up in smoke in about 30 seconds......

Nikon D4 design unveiled.

Fully functional and sure to get you noticed by the ladies ...