Why the left can be as moronic as the right, and just as dangerous.

If you believe in freedom, surely Amazon have the freedom to choose who they host? We of course have the choice not to......

Magnum archive selling through Jessops….

Well, if Corbis can get into bed with Costco, why not? Whatever next? Getty teaming up with Aldi? Get your iconic imagery whilst buying your toilet paper? Bogof? (buy one get one free)...

And why not?.

Just found this. I know someone who likes it, so here it is again. Poem (‘In the stump of the old tree…’) In the stump of the old tree, where the heart has rotted out, there......

“The world has seen us through the eyes of white photographers from the west”.

Fascinating, thanks for the nudge Ciara. That is some line up for the Joop Swart masterclass. Listen, listen, to Saiful Huq Omi, look and learn. ...

I was going to offer a bag of peanuts.

to the first person to become our 1500 follower on twitter. but got there first. ...

#FF Funky Friday.

If you're at work, I dunno how you'll get to hear this and keep it secret. That damn worm will get you. Even if you're ensconced in headphones behind your 27" monitor your odd......

Do you ‘interrogate the photographic medium’ ? Or just take pictures?.

Great little piece by Sean O'Hagan in the Grauniad talking about whether the Deutsche Borse comp is too conceptual. Typical comment: "I'm a totally useless photographer. Crap is my basic level but on the standard......

Thanks to Innovative interactivity..mwah, mwaah, mwaaah..

For this: ( I've run this through my very own hipstamatic app, known as slackamatic. Not quite as good, but I got it from the Lidl app store, so what do you expect?) ...

aesthetics v storytelling.

"I'm uncomfortable with the term 'artist'" - Ed Ou Ed Ou is an up and coming photojournalist who works a lot out of Somalia and Yemen......

David Hurn – passing time.

Magnum's David Hurn talks about letting Flickr loose on his archive for his latest exhibition....

Apple’s in 3D.

Steve and the gang are dipping their toes into extra dimensions. Apple have just filed a patent for 3d technology that doesn't need glasses, and allows multiple viewers. The technology apparently senses the......

Journey through Cholera: Spencer Platt.

I have come here to take pictures for the news agency I work for. I am on a deadline and must not linger in the hospital. A French nurse and a Canadian press officer......

Stressed? Pah..

"In 2009, the top most stressful jobs were a surgeon, commercial airline pilot, photojournalist, advertising account executive, and real estate agent. The least stressful jobs were actuary, dietitian, astronomer, systems analyst, and software......

FACT: There are more photographers in the world than cab drivers..

According to Lisa Pritchard on the BJP that is. I thought you may enjoy that snippet. I don't see however how that fact alone tells us anything. Maybe there needs to be more......

Russians on the moon. Honest..

So, some Russians have cracked the verification security in Canon cameras. Can't be trusting any Canon pics ever again then ;) I hear they are working on reverse engineering the iphone hipstamatic app so that......

War Never Looked So Hip.

(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......

“WikiLeaks: the revolution has begun – and it will be digitised.”.

A brilliant article in The Guardian today. To some this marks a crisis, to others an opportunity. Technology is breaking down traditional social barriers of status, class, power, wealth and geography – replacing......