(I first posted this article here in 2011, and promised that I would update it at some point with more images and better scans. Well I managed it at last so I’m reposting it!......
My mother was one of 15 children, born into a Lanarkshire mining family near Glasgow. Her dad was a miner, and several of her brothers and nephews went into the pit to toil beside......
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is a story about a young black girl in 1960s America who is sexually abused by her father. It’s beautifully written and painful to read – speaking fearlessly about the realities......
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......
Those are just a few of the words that come to mind watching Margaret Cheatham Williams' photofilm Goodnight Moon (first spotted on the excellent Innovative Interactivity). There's been a lot of debate around the......
This is an astonishing photofilm about how one small fishing community has been affected by the BP Oil disaster. What the photofilm lacks in context about the disaster it makes up for in emotional......
followed by a series of even more thought provoking responses to Jake Price's black and white pictures on show. Here's just a few: ...
Goddamn this is a project and a half barrel of whisky. Immense. Damian Drohan is one of the most committed students duckrabbit has had the pleasure to train. It gives me great honor......
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: ......
(PLEASE SHARE THIS IMPORTANT STORY) If you didn't get to listen to the fascinating and harrowing piece on the BBC World Service this morning about the photographer Dalia Khamissy's attempts to document what happened to......
Obviously the top people at The World Press know a thing or two about how to run a competition. For their latest award, they've decided that the FIFA World Cup football selection model......
Great little video about Street Photographer Matt Stuart who comes across as not just a wicked photographer but a top bloke. Thanks to Olivier at BJP for sharing this. ...
Really lovely and inspiring video about Alex Soth. So interesting to compare this with the video of Plankton I put up earlier in the week. ...
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......
"If I had only known that my sons were going and that I would not see them again I would have thrown myself under the wheels of the truck that took them." Imm Aziz [caption......
I am pouring myself and the photographer Dalia Khamissy a large whiskey (thanks Val for the Chrimbo Jamesons). This one we have earned. Tonight I finished mixing a radio documentary for the BBC about......
A little while back on old friend from the BBC got in touch to ask if I would spend some time talking with Sally Flatman, the producer of BBC Radio 4's Christmas appeal.......
(amended title because Joerg's was MUCH better) Take a look at this picture by Damon Winter, as featured on the (excellent) New York Times, Lens Blog, and part of a series featured......
In many ways sound is the ultimate visual medium. When we listen to something, or someone, we create images in our mind. One of the clichés of photography, particularly humanitarian photography, is that it......