“Do you see it? Understand it? Ok..” (“The mysterious perversion of photography”).

There's an interesting article in the NYT Lens blog by Donald R. Winslow: 'Eddie Adams: 10 Years On, and War Will Never Be the Same"   "When Eddie Adams died 10 years......

Ladies, you’re pretty artsy and creative, right?.

Ooh the 'Lady Carefree Elite' - wait, isn't that a brand of tampon? “PIX is a photography lifestyle magazine for......

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 –......

24 Hour Photo People.

AKA Flickr, Facebook, and other sharing sites. Social media has been such a buzz term in photography in recent years, and part of that buzz has been around how artists are using the internet to......

The Revolution Will Not Be Twitterised?.

This is a great article on why digital talent doesn't want to work for some companies. I think the post hits upon some really interesting points, points that hold true beyond......

Getty Grants For A Good Laugh.

close today. Last year they awarded the major grant to Stefano De Luigi for a project title T.I.A, 'This Is Africa'. If you get to the end of this (extended) post you'll be......

Competition: Please fill in the missing word.

Has Steve McCurry proved himself to be a godlike *******, Nachtwey style? According to the ever brilliant APHOTOEDITOR Old schooler McCurry goes for the craigslist classified ad seeking an intern who is “highly motivated”......

Tonight I’m going to let you into one of photojournalism’s dirty little secrets.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is the most colourful place I've ever visited. The women even smile. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Madam Agata teaches a group of women in their last month of pregnancy to......

Faking it – how to win a World Press Award but get banned from a wildlife comp for life.

During the judging of the recent World Press Awards one thing you can trust is that, on the whole, the judges will pick great pictures. With a hundred thousand or so to......

OUCH: Maggie Steber accuses duckrabbit of conducting a hysterical witchunt. Am I?.

There's no question that Maggie Steber is a top, top photographer. She's hugely respected for all the right reasons and her voice carries weight.  Tonight she's written that duckrabbit's (Benjamin Chesterton's) questions......

‘Finally! … Our Truth’.

Got a cool email this morning. Samira Hack, who was a prominent voice in the Open Eye documentary and photofilm I made with Joseph Rodriguez got in contact with Joseph with these words: ......

Photojournalism and ‘What is the point of ‘exclusivity’ these days?’.

Like many, I have been glued to my computer watching the epic events in Egypt unfold. Images coming in from all over, different views every day, a plethora of images. Visually I have a great......

When is a photograph a lie?.

It's hard to argue with a photographer when they point to a photo of their own that they once loved but now think is a 'lie'. Simon Sticker has done just that in an interesting......

This is just lovely.

Wish more people made gentle films like this.  And wish more people understood this is a convinceing way to engage people about climate change. Thanks @finnryan for sharing Fly Fishing......

Pretty pictures but journalism my arse.

Ciara Leeming summed it up beautifully on the BBC recently when she said the problem with many 'photojournalists' is that they have little understanding of journalism. Dominic Nahr's set of pics in......

Morel Won The Case.

Remember this discussion: Leroy vs Morel? Word came out the day before yesterday that Morel won the case, check out the analysis here.. Good news for creatives! Happy new year everybody!! (EDITOR'S NOTE) Morel has not won......

‘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......

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......

More On The Future.

Some interesting thoughts by Claudia Hinterseer of NOOR Images in this BJP article: “The present is (roughly) making stories on spec and selling pics for publication in print, online and so on, the future......

JF Leroy, ‘I am listening’.

Some of you will have been following the debate about why JF Leroy (Director of the Visa Pour L’Image Festival) has gone to such lengths to give the Haitian photographer Daniel Morel a kicking......