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I’m up in Hokkaido, so whilst I’m busy, here’s some new music to listen to, a new album ‘I’m New Here’ from Gil Scott-Heron (whose dad, Giles ‘Gil’ Heron, was the first black player to play for Celtic FC)….

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 [...]

As the title says, the Telegraph has a photo site now…or maybe they always had it and I just found it, (thanks to Yumi’s note.)

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 [...]

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….

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….