Sri Lanka’s killing fields..

If Jon Snow asks, you probably should:   This is not my normal kind of Snowblog. I end by asking you to watch this film. It could well prove a kind of a watershed, a......

Eh? Glastonbudget confusion...

Glastonbudget is, allegedly, "The world's best tribute festival, ever". It may well be the only one for all I know, but anyway:   How does this: "One of the biggest things for us here......

Have you still got all your hair?.

If so, you're probably under 24. Whoop. That means you can enter the Ian Parry awards.   £3k up for grabs for the winner, with a couple of other prizes. You have to be under......

Enjoy getting Burned...

Pop over here to see Irina Werning's work which has just picked up the $15000 Burn EPF prize. We loved it when we first saw it. Props to Irina, she's used a few.......

hoop’s eye view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVrO1VYAOI...

#SS Stupid Sunday.

Hey....so I forgot #FF Funky Friday...so shoot me mofo....even a man who lives by the funk sometimes has to take a breather....aaiiigghhht?   Anyway, to make up, here's a bit of chilled groove for you, (......

I’m a bit worried David White has forgotten about #funkyfriday.

Dave What's Going On? (Mr White was One when this came out) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fETIjVvv1Ds&feature=related   EDIT (from ciara) sorry for barging in uninvited but I too would like to make a contribution to #funkyfriday. Enjoy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hgA6V0wxKY...

VII network to close.

"VII Photo has confirmed that its Network of non-member photographers will close down in October 2011, three years and a half after it was launched. The current Network photographers have been asked to......

Time to get over the sanctity of photobooks.

It seems that people cannot get over the old paradigm that “book” and “gallery” somehow make you more important, or will validate you as a professional. Can’t you see that isn’t true anymore? What......

Work of a rare quality..Rino Pucci takes you by the hand...

Rino Pucci is a dark horse. A quiet Italian, he has been working as an editor for one of Italy's biggest newspapers for a decade. He also happened to be a Hinterlands workshop......

I nearly got a hernia laughing so loud at this vid.

Seriously don't switch off it gets VERY funny. On a more serious note, it's actually a brilliant advocacy video. It's always worth remembering, practically no-one wants to watch a worthy video. http://youtu.be/bzE-IMaegzQ...

I’m biased but.

workshops don't end much better than this: Don't worry The Hinterlands 2 will be coming to a field near you soon. (PS I'd love to......

Around the world in 80,000 clips...

"The 81,000 videos came from 192 countries and amounted to about 4,500 hours – enough for one person to watch 10 hours a day, seven days a week, for almost a year and......

And Then Chris Steele Perkins Said,.

"When photographers get together they talk about equipment..when artists get together, they talk about ideas" ...

The hidden ‘F**k You’….

I was really enjoying this selection of fascinating pictures from the 1910s to 1930s.. police mugshots taken of convicted criminals arrested in Australia. Just looking at those pics gets you imagining all sorts......

Things to avoid, maybe:.

LPV magazine has some tips for all you aspiring photographers...just don't take them too seriously...or maybe you should.. "Goldin was in the right place at the right time and was an intuitive genius with......

Refugee, by Laila Halaby..

The lungs of the wrinkled gray-eyed man bellow with love for a dusty quarter of land that lies a stones throw from the rock where he sits everyday and watches his neighbour, his fields. The path leading up there is beaten with his dreams mixed in......

‘I have no rights, no security, no leverage’: the life of an intern.

Cracking insight into the life of an intern on the Frontline Club Blog (full post here) 'I have no rights, no security, no leverage with which to defend my corner. When I leave someone......