A different groove.

Hey..this would be good on an advert.. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFPdBUl7XQ...

#FF Funky Friday.

There's only the one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC2ZY2loo74...

“I love photography”.

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“Life ain’t perfect, and neither is my cabin”.

http://vimeo.com/28676720 By Lost and Found Films. If you're having a tough week at work why not take a few minutes out to see the escape fantasy made real....

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 –......

me, Me, ME, ME! (the perils of publication)..

One of the delights of having your photographic work 'out there', is having it seen. Unfortunately most of the time other people see it too. I say 'unfortunately' because sometimes 'interesting' things can happen as......

Mr Happy Man loves you..

http://vimeo.com/36673515 by Matt Morris. And he's got relationship advice to offer too - just in time for Valentine's Day....

Images of Sexual Violence (1): Saying Things Kept Silent, Showing Things Kept Hidden.

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......

“My days are full of joy and sorrow.” – Sketches of Greenland..

  Sketches of Greenland by Jeroen Toirkens and Petra Sjouwerman.   I met Jeroen at the Zilveren Camera photojournalism awards in The Hague last month......

ANGRY poetry: The legacy of the chemist.

I posted an Angry Poem some time back. An occasional thing I do when I get........well......angry. No smiles in this post, and no profound thoughts. Just a bit of anger. I wrote this one......

Abject Poverty / Object Poverty.

Presenting poverty is difficult, as is presenting suffering in general. To expose someone to the lens, and then to the wider world, in a moment of struggle or pain or fear, must be justified......

#FF Funky Friday.

Deep, deep funk for your pleasure. Finery. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptsw0nZnHhQ...

Hockney in HD.

                      Just a quick plug for David Hockney's 'A Bigger Picture' Exhibition at the Royal Academy.  Fantastic stuff - particularly liked his video installation of......

Things to do in Birmingham.

Just before duck & rabbit ran......

Chance encounters and ‘the life of a story’.

I like to travel. I've traveled a lot alone. Alone, you meet people. And the aspect of travel that continually amazes me is how the experience of travel lingers on with you, long long......

Hipstamatic. Instagram. Kamra-e-faoree (what?).

Kamra-e-faoree. Heard of them? They are about as far as you can get from an iPhone. No shutter, no electrics. And no film either. These are simply large boxes with lenses, inside which is a......

Photographers…Nose/Grindstone.

LPV mag with some fine work and words: "The best advice I could possibly give you, and forgive me if this seems glib, is to work. Work. Work. Work. Every day. At the same......

Seeing the light, the freelance way..

I think it's time to post something a little more lighthearted! Looking back over my recent posts I'm struck by how serious the subject matter is in some of them: being mistaken for a......

Thievery, and Volvos..

God damn it. Some bastard has just been round the back of my house and half inched a beautiful and incredibly heavy B20 engine for my ancient Volvo Amazon, and thieved my beloved welder. I......

Jobs…they’re like buses..

Sort of. Well, not at all actually, but here's another one....Staff Photo editor for Bloomberg in London Town.  ...