Sorry for the few days of silence, I’ve been busy, and at the same time busy being ill. So a few lines…

The ubiquitous Magnum photo agency have a new blog online where you can read the musings of their snappers. I’m sure it’ll be worth reading.

I recently saw this series of photos on foto8 magazine site, a series of pics concerning Albanian blood feuds and vendettas, photographed by Guillaume Herbaut, who works via the Oeil Public collective of photographers. I was interested in this for a few reasons, one being it is a story I shot back in about 1992 and 1994, whilst I was spending time in Albania (from where the above b/w pic of mine comes), and also a friend of mine, David, was telling me of the work of ‘Oeil Public’, telling me they are a successful bunch of snappers who work in a collective. The above Albania work, by Herbaut, is good, I like the use of quotes beside the images.

It’s the whaling season again. Both Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd organisations are both in the Southern Ocean, looking for , and trying (in their own very different ways) to stop the Japanese whaling fleet from going about their business. Three groups, three different beliefs. It seems it will be another eventful season down there, today there was some sort of ramming incident between Sea Shepherd vessels and a Japanese whaling vessel. Dangerous stuff in dangerous waters. Completely stupid. Protest is one thing, endangering lives is another.

My whaling images seem to be in demand again due to all this news, a magazine published them recently (see blog 30th Jan), then a spread of 6 images in a paper yesterday, and in the coming weeks 2 more magazines are giving them big spreads. If any of them end up as great layouts, or truely shocking layouts, then I’ll post them here.

My good friend Daniel Beltra, is on the Greenpeace ship ‘Esperanza’ this time (This was the assignment that I did in 2001-02 and 2005-06 seasons), documenting the trip and the exploits of the whalers, for Greenpeace and for release to the media. Daniel also just won a World Press Photo 2nd prize award for his great image of a section of land in the Amazon cleared to make way for the growing of soya.