I went in search of Brigadoon last week. If you've no idea what I'm talking about this link might enlighten you. Where exactly I wandered I'm not revealing lest it spoil your own search......
(I first posted this article here in 2011, and promised that I would update it at some point with more images and better scans. Well I managed it at last so I’m reposting it!......
My mother was one of 15 children, born into a Lanarkshire mining family near Glasgow. Her dad was a miner, and several of her brothers and nephews went into the pit to toil beside......
The NC500 was 'launched' back in 2015, a tourism marketing strategy to 'sell' the concept of a 'Highland Route 66' taking visitors through some of the UK's most remote landscapes and arguably its most......
*Contains images/video and descriptions of deer culling* *Click images to view larger* *Names have been changed for reasons of confidentiality at the subjects request* Running......
Mixed broadleaf woodland at Jock’s Gill, near Carluke, Clyde Valley, Scotland "...some of the best advice I ever had." said Ben (duckrabbit)......
What's the value of a story? To the reader it might simply be 'entertaining'. To the teller however it might be priceless - particularly if its a carefully nurtured cultural tale, woven around local......
"He's my mate, I mean what else can you do if not something for your mate? So I got him this so he can walk with me, and he loves the beach..." ...
There's lots of images. Too many. Too many deaths. Too many injuries. This image by David Becker stopped me for many reasons. (one of a series of striking & thoughtful images here). It's not the......
Photography: Investment. Money. Influence. Power. Insight. Yes, all those things are here in an article in The Guardian entitled How Photography Became the Hottest New Investment Choice: ...
When I was in my early teens, around 1976, I took a wander through a few countries in Southern Africa. "You should visit Lesotho" someone suggested. "Great countryside and the Basotho people are really colourful......
Where to begin? Magnum Photos and LensCulture are running a photo competition. One of those where you give them lots of money and in return if you're one of the lucky ones they give you......
There's tension in the air. The Democratic Republic of Congo. April 2011. Masisi. Yasuyoshi Chiba and I are working for MSF. Films and photography. The night we arrive at the staff camp one of the surgeons......
I am driving to the Format photo festival in Derby (24 March to 11 June). It's Saturday morning. The sun is shining. Window down. I'm listening to Tunnel Vision by Kate Tempest on repeat. She's......
Every now and again you cross paths with a stranger, and from that collision of orbits something unexpected occurs. It happened to me some......
Image Burhan Ozbilici—AP Grant Scott has a very thoughtful piece on his site The United Nations of Photography titled 'The Single......
On Father's Day amidst the celebrations that a few of you may be enjoying, take some time out to watch ...
"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......
Milked for all we're worth. That's the creative......
A few days before Christmas, an email pinged into my inbox: "Not sure if you'll manage this John, REALLY last minute stuff with a tight deadline, 26th January in fact, but could you photograph a......