Pic ©Lloyd Welles.
Sonia Katchian wrote to me a while back, as she used to be based here in sunny Tokyo, and now we’ve become email pals (and just this week I finally recieved a Christmas Card from her which had got delayed in the mail). Sonia has a great body of photographic work, from [...]
Award winning Guardian photographer Dan Chung has made a small time-lapse slideshow of the comings and goings outside 10 Downing Street yesterday. It can be viewed in all of about 30 seconds.
So there I was ( a few years back) sitting crouching down on the carpet, on the floor, hurting my knees, my back. Typical photographer ailments. Gordon Brown was talking away, orating away, talking business, talking percentages, talking policies. Me, I was shooting away, and I noticed that every so often he’d do this little [...]
Mount Fuji, by Horace Bristol.
Funny ol’ world sometimes. So there I was this morning, looking at the below mentioned ‘yakuza’ images slideshow ( 2 posts down) made by Guardian Online, and in there I found a nice image by Horace Bristol, and which I ‘borrowed’ to illustrate my blog piece. I’d never heard of [...]
This is how The Guardian ran my pic today, half page.
©Horace Bristol/Corbis. (Nice pic Horace)
A couple of weeks back I photographed a tattoed woman, Shoko Tendo, daughter of a (now deceased) Yakuza boss. She has recently written a book called ‘Yakuza Moon’, about her troubled life growing up in a yakuza family.
To read an article about Shoko Tendo, and her book, by Guardian writer [...]
If you want to download the latest copy of the pdfX12 pdf-magazine then visit there website and saign up for free links to be emailed to you. It features work by Jack Picone, who also has work on galleryf.
cheers.
I suffered some pain recently. I nearly had to sit down it was so bad. So shocking. I was hearing bad news, the worst type of news. I was lost for words, I needed air. In my moment of numbness I had to hesitate, I looked to The Lady who was with me for words [...]
