A while back on this blog I wrote about my meeting with Sir Wilfred Thesiger, the intrepid explorer, adventurer, photographer, author and military man.
At that time I could not put my hands on the negatives of the portraits of Sir Wilfred Thesiger that I’d shot in his Sloane Square apartment. But now, a few months [...]
A bit late with this post, but in some ways it is timeless.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Little explanation is needed of the cities, their whereabouts, or their history, and what happened to them in 1945.
In this the week of the 65th year anniversary of the nuclear bombings, I decided to take a look back over old [...]
The grand dame of British literature, Beryl Bainbridge, has passed away.
One more I read the news and I’m jolted, a moment of sadness, a talent has passed, but also in my photographer mind I immediately think to the time I photographed that person. “I’ve photographed him/her” – a common line when watching the news in [...]
So another side of whaling, another side of the debate. That of the whalers themselves. Or at least one of them, known now as Mr. Kujira (Mr. Whale). A whaler from the Nisshin Maru factory ship (some call it a research ship, some call it a factory ship…) has decided to speak out in Japan [...]
A good art director can make or break your pictures, give you a beautiful spread or a fish supper wrapper. Here’s the website of one of my favourite magazine designers, Tom Brown of Canada. Beautiful work. And I’m glad he’s updated his website….
I remember where I was twenty years ago today, on Sunday, February 11th 1990. I remember it clearly. I was sitting in a little blue Ford Fiesta car, for which I can still remember the registration number, my first car. I was stopped at traffic lights in Charing Cross, Glasgow, and the radio was on. [...]
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in 1945, died on January 4th this year, aged 93.
In 2005 I was fortunate enough to sit in his garden, under a tree, and listen as Yamaguchi-san told myself and colleagues from The Times about those terrible days. You can read an earlier [...]
from the BBC website, found via EPUK towers….
“Don McCullin, an internationally-regarded British photojournalist particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife, examined the underside of society – the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished – in this moving 1989 film for Newsnight.
Newsnight’s librarian Adam Gotch chose this film because it was one of [...]
