Published at: 07:10 am - Saturday October 31 2009
T is for Tavurvur.
I can’t remember if it was the alarm on my Baby-G watch which awoke me, the mosquito in the room, or the thudding around of my colleague, but whichever it was I was awake, morning had arrived, 18th September, dawn in another hotel room. The light came through the mosquito mesh on [...]
Published at: 10:10 pm - Thursday October 29 2009
S is for St. Helena Island, South Atlantic.
I dial, the phone rings and is finally answered, my coins, British one pounds, the Queen on one side, drop noisily into the phone box safe. “Hiya, it’s me”. Pause, whilst they search to place the voice, I’ve only been away about two weeks I think, then they [...]
Published at: 11:10 am - Wednesday October 28 2009
Photographer Alexx Henry talks about his “Living” Magazine Cover and Spread, released with the October issue of Outside Magazine. Photographed with the Red One camera, Alexx Henry created his vision of how a motion-magazine of the not-too-distant future would look based on emerging technologies like flexible OLED and E Ink.
Worth a look…
Published at: 09:10 pm - Thursday October 22 2009
Here’s a good little blog I stubled upon tonight, Buffet, found via Muse-ings blog.
“The Buffet is open…Buffet is a collection of special editions, book + print sets, artist’s books, print/book trades and various interesting ways in which photographers are packaging and selling their work. Some are sold through galleries and publishers, some by the artists. [...]
Published at: 08:10 pm - Thursday October 15 2009
So where is this industry going ? Will there still be newspaper photography shifts 1 month from now? 6 months from now? 1 year from now? Will it all implode overnight ? Will Rupert Murdoch charge us to watch the implosion live on streaming media ?
Nah, of course not, we’re all saved, the future is [...]
Published at: 09:10 am - Thursday October 01 2009
R is for riots and razors, in Romania.
R is also for required reading about riots in Romania.
Cast your mind back if you will, to the summer of 1990. Eastern Europe was opening up, dictators were growing cold in their hurridly dug graves. In Romania dissent and protest were still rife, anti-this shouting out the pro-thats, [...]