O is for Osh, in Kyrgyzstan.
Way back when I got a two week assignment to go round Kyrgyzstan with my two intrepid colleagues, Mr. Orange – the writer and’bag man’- as he carried the wad of cash which was our expenses account, and also with Mr. Pink, our translator.
It was the type of assignment you [...]
N is for North Sea…. ( Written for M.C.)
North Sea. 5.30am or so. I’m sitting in an inflatable, bobbing about on the waves, up, down, up, down. It’s f*ckin’ cold. I’m half way between Scotland and Norway, or somewhere like that. Me and RP are zooming about and I’m trying to shoot, or waiting on [...]
A selection of my multi-year project on the roma gypsies of Sintesti, Romania, has gone up on the SocialDocumentary.Net website. Please take a look, and if you feel in a kindly mood leave a comment. A nice comment please.
Also a set of photographs from the Carteret’s Atoll, up on Gaia Photos website.
Over on NYT’s Lens blog there is a superb slideshow of recent work from Afghanistan by David Guttenfelder, Associated Press photographer, sometimes based in Tokyo….
It wouldn’t be the 20th July if we didn’t mention the moon landings, and Hassleblads, and exploration. NASA over on their site have a good set of images to peruse, and which very kindly you can download in high resolution. Nice, download, print it out, great pic for the wall, many thanks NASA.
Here is one [...]
Now usually I don’t get too excited about seeing my pics in newspapers, I’ve had thousands I guess over the years. But occasionally one is used nicely, a good size, alongside a good article, and it makes you smile to see the fruits of your labours. So it was on Saturday when my photograph of [...]
Here’s an interesting post over on Boogie Woogie Flu blog- Arthur ‘Weegee’ Fellig speaks from beyond the grave. Download an MP3 file of famous press snapper Weegee discussing his trade.
Last week in the American Memorial Park visitor centre, in Saipan, I came across this incredible shot of American airforce bombers, flying over Mount Fuji, on their way to bomb Tokyo during WW2.
An incredible shot, but alas, no photographer was credited.
