The Visualisation of Information: Photography and new forms of story telling..

To survive online, information has to be visually innovative. This is a lovely piece using augmented reality and I am sure there are many things about this piece that photographic based multimedia producers can......

Story..from America’s greatest living playwright.

"We are told that story — applied to salesmanship, preaching, advertising, conversation, marketing, songwriting, and blogging — contains the power to deliver the entire world to the deft storyteller’s door. This is correct." "You,......

Reuters pictures of the year..with commentary from togs...

Amazing images, and unusually, a breakdown on each one form the photographer, giving us more context and information. Powerful stuff. Cheers Reuters....

Stroke my pixels..

Imagine being able to feel the texture of an image... it seems that may be coming closer after Microsoft this week patented a new type of touch screen..one that uses plastic cells that......

No inbreds, just people..

The marvellous Jonas Bendiksen and his 7 year travel across the former Soviet Union. This is not new yet this is still photojournalism of the highest quality from Magnum that has lasted the test......

Your UK street photography rights.

Great piece by Pete Jenkins on your rights in relation to street photography in the UK. "Let me quote from the Metropolitan Police guidelines to its officers: “Freedom to photograph/film: Members of the public......

Who’s afraid of photographers?.

David Hoffman knows his onions. Fascinating piece on the Police and how they operate with working photographers: ...

iPhones banned in Wales..

Not really, I just made that up. A bit like the blinkin' Kuwait Times and the recent 'dSLR's are banned in Kuwait' nonsense....

Shoot the inbreds...

"You have a lot of people who look like they are inbred. And they don't mind being photographed." So says Bruce Gilden in today's Guardian magazine. Now, I like Bruce's work.......

Job vacancy: Indie pic ed?.

This man is not Samuel Kunz, the dead Nazi war criminal: He is not wanted for the death of......

‘A call to arms to emerging photojournalists’, MOG on Foto8.

Mog wishes to issue a call to arms to emerging photojournalists. Be aware, we are on the brink of a social and cultural revolution that in all likelihood will make Thatcherism seem mild and......

Tim Berners Lee On Photography?.

Some people may think that closed worlds are just fine. The worlds are easy to use and may seem to give those people what they want ... these closed, “walled gardens,” no matter......

paps are people too.

Love em or hate em (I veer towards hatred personally), the paps have coloured many people's perceptions of professional photographers. Still, here's an interesting......

Wide Angle Pt 2: The second student protest in the UK..

I love the fact that this image is being used to balance the coverage of the first student protest in the UK. It shows the violence but it also shows another angle that......

Dig deep now...

Like photography? Got some cash? Want to do some good? There's a good chance you've ticked two of the above. If you've hit all three, then you can play "Commit......

Kuwait dslr ban...

Eh? According to this, and this, you can't use your dslr in Kuwait any more, unless you're an accredited journo. No one seems to know why. You can use any other sort of......

Roger Fenton banned from World Press Awards.

Roger's now infamous image, saved recently for the nation by the National Media Museum in Bradford, has led to the author being banned from the World Press Awards. It has come to light......

duckrabbit ‘Imber, the ghost village’ photofilm on the BBC.

Good to see David's photofilm about the abandoned village of Imber finding a home on the BBC Website. A big THANK YOU to the BBC's Photo Editor, Phil Coomes for publishing the......

duck or rabbit?.

See what I mean. ...