Newsround: Yuri Kozyrev wins award, Photographers’ Gallery delays opening.

Some unrelated news. Yuri Kozyrev has won this big award at Visa Pour l'Image, the photojournalism festival. I first became aware of his work this year (can you believe it?) when searching for photographers......

Because you’re worth it..

Due to the massive success of the Cashcow™ awards T-shirts, and the shrinking market for middle class disaster photography, I have duckrabbit have expanded into the wider world of photographers' T-shirts. We do have many more in......

The nation (and Private Eye) needs cartoonists..

I might have to have a go myself Ok, I just have Can't draw, no jokes Hopeless Cont page 94...

Perk up (part 2).

G'day to you all. It's about time you played this, REALLY LOUD. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIFm5earUY...

Wannabe hack? Are you good or turgid?.

"I keep getting told there is an over-supply of qualified people wanting to do journalism. Well, maybe there is but there’s definitely not an over-supply of people who are any good." Ouch. Alan Geere (Editorial......

Perk up.

"I often hear people talking about the second half of the 20th Century as the Golden Age of journalism.  But to my mind it was only the Bronze Age: primitive and crude,......

New Wildlife Photographer Awards brouhaha.

Blimey. Looks like Christopher Meyer's  shots may have been photoshopped after all.....

Saving a nation’s memories.

As well as being the 10th anniversary of 9/11, tomorrow also marks the six-month anniversary of the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami. And there, an army of volunteers have spent recent months working to......

I want one of these:.

Er, I mean my son does. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksHL6A37e6c&feature=related...

All Dadaab needs now is a photographer like James Mollison.

Here's the blurb I've just found in my inbox (not linking to this crap) about James Mollison's visit to the Dadaab refugee camp: He set up simple backdrops that remove the subject from the chaos......

Contemporary Russian photography.

The International Portfolio Review for Russian Photographers sounded damn interesting. Lens Culture have a write up about some of the photographers they met and the work they were impressed by...and fine work......

iPhone 5 camera is square format..

Supposedly this pic is one of the first taken with the new iPhone 5. We can therefore assume it shoots only in square format. Can't we?...

NCTJ Photo exhibition, Sheffield..

"As part of the NCTJ’s 60th anniversary celebrations, a temporary public photography exhibition which showcases quality press photography and photojournalism from NCTJ-trained photographers will be on display at The Winter Gardens, Sheffield, from......

Freetard or visionary? (Via BJP).

We had Jonathan Worth come down to our recent Hinterlands workshop to talk to our students. He's a really great bloke and fascinating to listen to...not to mention handy with a Mamiya. To......

Handy?.

I was looking for a prosthetic limb maker when I found this: "veterans from a post-World War I workshop at Walter Reade Army Medical Center demonstrate new attachments for their prosthetic limbs" ...

Fantastic collection of pro gay marriage signs:.

Get yourself over here for a good laugh. Unless you're homophobic that is. If so, piss off. Thanks. ...

Awesome: Astronomy photographer of the year 2011.

This is quite frankly an astonishing photofilm on the Beeb...wonderful to have a talk through on the images, and the images themselves...well...words fail me. Epic. Click the image for the show. ...

#FF Funky Friday.

This tune is one of my favourite things. Mmmm.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXTMey8kY7E...

A3 photo printer for sale..HP photosmart Pro B9180.

Rather an incongruous duck post this....   I have the above printer for sale, in mint condition, I only bought it to print two portfolios on, so it's done less than 100 A3 prints. It is awesome......

Alamy give students 100% of fees….

Yep, you read that right. Now, I don't suggest you are going to get rich supplying Alamy. You're very unlikely to get rich being a photographer. However, every little helps, and fingers in lots......