New Gil Scott-Heron CD…listen here.

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)….

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Caledonian Mercury

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.

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OverExposed

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 [...]

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Telegraph’s photo page

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.)

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“93% of newspaper sales…”

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 [...]

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Paolo Patrizi on Gaia Photos

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….

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Couple of links

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.

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David Guttenfelder’s Afghan work

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….

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