“Who controls photography…..and how to liberate it”.

"I am uncomfortable watching an interrogation that is misguided if related to some elusive standard of photojournalism. The supposed ethos at Magnum was cooperative effort: from each according to his ability, to each......

Elliot Erwitt keeps on keeping on...

"I’ve had four lifetime awards in a short period of time…so I guess my life must be over pretty soon.” Good old Elliot Erwitt, as witty as his pics. They say you can guess......

Hard choices…Larry Towell...

Very real piece over on Magnum in Motion by Larry Towell,  Sandy Tolan, Phil Bicker and Adrian Kelterborn which really is worth a watch. I don't think you can dispute that adding the voices......

David Hurn on Photo Histories.

If you haven't checked out the serious body of work that Graham Harrison has on his site Photo Histories, then you should. As it says: "The Photographers' History of Photography"....but it's not like......

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.......

‘A larger corpse does not stop rotting’ Chris Steele-Perkins on The Photographers Gallery.

A couple of days ago we responded to criticism that the photographer Chris Steele-Perkins made of London's The Photographers Gallery, by running a poll to see whether you agreed......

David Hurn interview on Photo Histories- epic.

"He is the Magnum photographer whose flat in London was a creative haven for photographers during the 1960s, and whose documentary photography course at Newport in succeeding decades became the most successful course......

Climate change “as hip as it gets” says Mr. M. Parr, Bristol..

Well, I popped over to Mr.Parr's new blog earlier, it's seperate to the Magnum one...to have a read about his take on climate change. It makes for an interesting read. I hope he......

“We’ll be better off with less photojournalism”.

“…The death of journalism is bad for society, but we’ll be better off with less photojournalism. I won’t miss the self-important, self-congratulatory, hypocritical part of photojournalism at all. The industry has been a fraud......

I so wanted to back a UK photographer.

for Magnum's expression award but  Andrea Star Reese's work blew me away.  I mean the world really doesn't need another essay about homeless people in New York, right? Wrong. 'The Urban Cave, is an......

Great words of wisdom from David Alan Harvey.

'i do spend a lot of time with young photographers or photographers who are trying to make a mark….the single biggest difference i see between those who “do it” and those who do not......

“If you can smell the street by looking at the photo,.

then its a street photo." duckrabbit was blown away by the Bruce Gilden audio slideshow that I featured in a post earlier this week. I was getting a feeling from his photographs that suggested a real......