Coal mining. Don’t hear a lot about that these days unless it is from a pit disaster in deep rural China.
But recently I just finished reading ‘GB84′ by David Peace (who also wrote ‘Tokyo Year Zero’). GB84 is a fictional account of the real life 1984-85 miners strike in the UK. It’s a good [...]
…of yet another car park. Ah yes, glamorous this job, the travel, the hotels, the car parks opposite your room….
Thousands of Robert Capa negs of the Spanish Civil war have resurfaced after years being hidden away….Interactive images page here, and article here.
In December 2006 I travelled, as one of a small team of four, to the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea. One of those I was travelling with, and without whom the trip would not have happened, was Pip Starr, a committed, independent documentary film maker from Melbourne.
Working with Pip that week was interesting. [...]
Ever wondered what an Albanian taxi receipt looks like ?
4.9 Billion Euros. Lost. Gone. Defrauded.
Jeez, I’m glad Societe Generale paid my recent invoice. Guess I might not be hearing from them again for a while.
Ben Curtis has posted a lot of good links and articles to read over on his SnapperTalk blog. You should take the time to check it all out…
I had the pleasure recently of shredding years worths of receipts. It was interesting, good to get rid of them, tidy the office, tidy my life. I broke the shredder about 5 times in my keenness to feed it paperwork showing where I’d been and what I’d done, what I’d bought, how much I’ve spent. [...]
