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As newspapers the world over struggle and close down, it’s refreshing to write of a new one starting up in Scotland- The Caledonian Mercury, named after The Mercurius Caledonius which was Scotland’s first print newspaper, founded in 1660 by Thomas Sydserf. We wish it well.

Sorry for the silence. But anyway, where were we…
There’s a very thought provoking, slightly sad, but very interesting Radio 4 programme worth listening to here on BBC iPlayer, produced by Miles Warde, and follows Miles as he, well in the BBC’s words “Miles Warde presents the story of a group of photojournalists who set out [...]

Photographers, power and the political portrait in The Guardian.

Firstly, Happy New Year.
Secondly, one of my Romanian roma photographs has appeared on the cover of a reprint of Isabel Fonseca’s acclaimed book ‘Bury Me Standing- The Gypsies and their Journey’.Now you have something to spend all your book tokens on that you got at Christmas.