The Sister With The Photos.

Editors note: Buku Sarkar is a woman from India, and a writer & photographer. This is the story of an ongoing project she has 'stumbled' into. Unlike many other illustrated stories from India presented......

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......

Market Town : Legal highs & lows.

'M' 33, pictured at home. "My mates were big into tobacco when I was 12, 13 so I messed about with that. Used to......

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....

Everybody Hurts.

Ken cries too; Men cry too – and we’ve got the pictures to prove it. Images of Putin with tears springing from his peepers at his recent re-election as president got me thinking about......

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....

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 –......

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,......

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......

What groundbreaking images of ‘Africa’ can we expect this year from Visa Festival of Shanty Towns?.

If the video running off the front page of the Visa website is anything to go by they are: MADNESS and DESPAIR? ...

Male rape – Guardian photofilm.

When I watch a photofilm in which the audio features the photographer talking about their images, I often switch off......

The battle of Byker – Amber Collective/BBC Radio 4.

There's been a lot of coverage over recent months about the shock decision of the Arts Council not to continue revenue funding Newcastle's renowned Side......

Pitch perfect storytelling.

Lots of craft going on here, in more ways than one. Kauri multimedia are based in Spain. There is a sweetness and light to their work. Wonderful. http://vimeo.com/23289392 Etienne Bellanger always wanted to be a......

Sublime photography but ….

I love the people at Daylight Magazine. There are few group emails that I don't treat as spam but every month the Daylight email (letting me know what's going on in the magazine)......

Become a real photographer; shoot porn and tramps with the new Fuji x100.

It's funny to watch how photojournalism and advertising are merging. Pushed by the likes of World Press and Visa Festival of Shanty Towns, photojournalism is more and more judged as an aesthetic pursuit,......

Ever thought about killing the person who leaves dirty cups in the sink?.

For me there is always a story under the story in the best photofilms. James Hooker gets this. Earlier this year I was invited to spend a couple of days with the undergraduates......

‘Showing Congolese as only traumatized victims (or killers) may be highly offensive … but mostly it’s untrue.’.

Yesterday I put up a post that in part explored how highly staged and stylized photography has come to define how we perceive women survivors of rape in The Congo. I've been pretty amazed that no-one wants......

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......

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......

Hope amongst the chaos.

In our recent trip to the DR Congo the great photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba told me why his pictures often carry so much hope (something he has in common with David). Whilst his father was dieing......