Goodbye Richie Havens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BSJYkOKZd8...

When was the last time you were stopped and searched?.

I've only been banged up once. It wasn't a very pleasent experience. The bloke in the cell next door had diabetes. He asked to see a doctor and in return got a good kicking. In......

“Only shoot the crazy ones. Wave at the others.”.

Time is funny stuff. A moment in the present can find an echo in a moment from the past. A little slice of memory filed away and waiting to be pulled from the mindshelf,......

“We know when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sleeps.”.

One of the more intriguing (and precautionary) articles about Boston, courtesy of Quartz: 'We know when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sleeps.' It is a strange reality of our times that we have no idea what......

Withering Memory.

I’m still processing John Macpherson's post earlier in the week on memory, dementia, metadata. If you haven’t read it, do. It’s a mixture of great writing and great ideas, intimate personal experience and......

#FF Funky Friday.

This, you need. Zimbabwe Legit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_6X7Cb8Fog  ...

Coffee, cigarettes, action..

  Great to see this photofilm on The Guardian Online from journalist Roxanne Escobales and photographer......

The Camera & the fear of failure.

Take a novice filmmaker, wanting to make his first film, add a Canon T2i, a 30 day free trial of FCPX, and a budget of $50. Add dedication, determination, application and imagination. This is......

Vogue runs another Blackface Editorial.

Mehhh Get the full story straight from...er...the horse's mouth...on Jezebel. And find out the latest news in the......

A moment in time.

Boston is shocking. I looked at the images this morning in disbelief. This image captures a pivotal moment. © John Tlumacki......

Ding dong the wicked witch still lives.

What connects metadata and dementia? As any of you following this blog will know my mum has dementia, and I've posted several times with observations on her situation. The last couple of years contemplating my......

Henry Carter & The Divisive Moment.

A few posts caught my eye over the last few days (some courtesy of @johnedwinmason - thanks for the heads up John). Seemingly disparate, but to my mind teasing out a common thread about......

Are you in need of some Night Contact?.

Night Contact is shaping up to be a superb event.  Hats off to Anna and Emily, the clever people behind CONTACT. See you there. On Friday 27th September,......

Proto-Photo-Journalists.

For some time I have felt drawn to what some might consider to be an unreasonably broad definition of photography. More and more I feel that photography is not a narrowly definable technical......

#FF Funky Friday centenary.

Well well well. This is the 100th edition of #FF Funky Friday. That's right funksters, we've been rolling for 100 years. (Eh? Ed) God, I feel old. Nothing that James can't heal. Amen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp8iUe5cWHY...

Politics matter.

God bless you Glenda Jackson MP for a remarkable and important speech breaking commons convention to say what you actually think. We are living in dangerous times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDtClJYJBj8...

Window to the imagination.

What do you get when someone very clever and digitally 'able' is inspired by the work of another artist who was also very clever? You get this.........watch and be amazed.......... https://vimeo.com/37120554...

This is Not a Photo Opportunity.

I spent last weekend walking in the area around my family’s cottage near Devil’s Bridge, mid-Wales. I’ve been lucky to visit many beautiful places, but Wales has a strange aura which for me is......