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......
Ooh the 'Lady Carefree Elite' - wait, isn't that a brand of tampon? “PIX is a photography lifestyle magazine for......
'M' 33, pictured at home. "My mates were big into tobacco when I was 12, 13 so I messed about with that. Used to......
Interesting piece over on the Grauniad on Massoud Hossaini, the recent winner of a Pulitzer prize. Worth your time....
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......
I found this incredibly thought-provoking. Photographer Ed Kashi on the realities of spending eight months a year away from his wife and kids....
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 is a sickeningly young, talented and humble Canadian photojournalist who has spent much of the past five years covering stories in Somalia and,......
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......
If the video running off the front page of the Visa website is anything to go by they are: MADNESS and DESPAIR? ...
When I watch a photofilm in which the audio features the photographer talking about their images, I often switch off......
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......
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......
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)......
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,......
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......
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......
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......
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......
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......