Q is for Qantas.
So I was on an atoll for a few days. Nice place, poverty all around, pigs running wild, children running free. There’s palm trees and sea everywhere. The sky is huge and blue, beautiful clouds. The people are friendly and unassuming in their gangsta rapper t-shirts. The roads are dirt and bumpy. [...]
You just never can tell in this game, this job, profession. You never know what’s next, what’s round the corner. One month it’s quiet, next month everyone wants you to be everywhere shooting everything. Then you get an email, a famous and respected photo agency is closing- gosh, jee, bad news for the industry, for [...]
Maps. Maps are great. I could sit and look at maps for hours, for days, weeks. Seeing how places connect, how terrain changes, how it all links together, where the wars are, where the great cities of the world are, which places I’ve been and which areas remain as yet unvisited. You always need a [...]
My photo of half-naked Yakuza lady covered in tattoo’s, Shoko Tendo, is again on a magazine cover, this time ‘J-Select Magazine‘ here in Japan….funny that….funny how they never put the disappearing rainforests, or illegal tuna fishing etc on the covers.
Over on Gaia Photos fellow Tokyo photographer Paolo Patrizi has some good work ( looks like medium format) showing the work places of (mostly African) prostitutes who ply the roads near Rome in Italy. Go take a look….
And then of course, just after Di and Dodi’s car hit the tunnel wall, the sh*t hit the fan for photographers. In the days and weeks following the crash the public blamed not only the photographers who had been following Princess Di at high speed, but all photographers….and there was the inevitable backlash against snappers. [...]
