http://vimeo.com/13294684 "Gypsy Interiors"is a series of portraits capturing the private world of a community of wealthy Roma Gypsies from Romania. Turn it up and watch it full screen because they're fab....
Following on from this, Susan Derge gives a fascinating explanation of how she went about making one of her stunning cameraless photographs here....
In these economically challenging times, I think we should spare a thought for the much-maligned 'spivs and gamblers' in the City of London, who will soon face the tough decision of how to......
A few days ago, Duck flagged up MediaStorm's new project, on India's unwanted daughters. One of the women interviewed in the piece was Dr Mitu Khurana, whose husband and in-laws tried to force her......
And very well deserved too. If you don't know this fantastic multimedia series, you must check it out. For more on the win, see the NY......
I subscribe to Private Eye, which probably explains why I frequently get very angry. But nothing makes me as angry as the revelation last week that Vodaphone was let off with a tax bill of......
I am getting bombarded with spam calls from Indian call centres at the moment. But I have to admit this is pretty funny. ...
Ok so it's not photography but it's a fab glimpse into the lives of the Hells Angels England in 1973. With haircuts like that it's hard......
Photographer Simon Roberts was selected by the House of Commons to be the official 2010 British Election Artist - the first photographer to be......
This is a couple of years old but being a little behind......
a little long, but an important campaign. to sign the petition please go......
finally. an essential how-to for all wannabe photojournalists who may one day fancy a fag in the field, only to realise they have forgotten their matches. as long as there's an Ikea nearby you......
Japanese photographer Takashi Arai works with daguerreotypes, an old photographic technique which he says record......
"Photography Is presents more than 3,000 phrases that define one of the most democratic and ubiquitous of all art forms. Mirroring the ambiguous and......
More than a million papers relating to the 1953 discovery of the building blocks of life - DNA - are being digitalised and made freely available in a pilot project by the Wellcome Library.......
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A sobering lesson on the fate of the world's glaciers from Mediastorm and the Asia Society, in the week when the UK 'Con-Dem' coalition government......
I'm not usually a fan of photographer-narrated slideshows but I really love this one by Brian......
"Harrowing photographs do not inevitably lose their power to shock. But they are not much help if the task is to understand. Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us............
"You can live vicariously through images of conflict. There is an underlying exoticism to it. Depicting war doesn’t bring it to an end. I felt sickened by it, but didn’t want to......