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 [...]
Whilst out runnng this morning, training for my April marathon, and listening to my iPod , I heard sandwiched between The White Stripes and Bob Dylan a podcast of my good friend Jason Eskenazi talking on the Studio360 radio show about his time working in the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a security guard, and [...]
It’s a funny ol’ job sometimes, funny ol’ life.
So it was, funny that is, earlier this year. I’d been on assignment up to Yoichi in Hokkaido, northern Japan, to visit and photograph the Yoichi distillery of the award winning Nikka single malt whisky distillers. Whilst there I’d toured their very interesting museum and read the [...]
Marie Claire USA have run a 5 page spread of my images, which accompany a story by Abigail Haworth, on an Australian woman, Fiona Graham, who has become the first qualified Westerner to work as a geisha here in Tokyo, Japan. The spread as it appears in the magazine is below, and the Marie Claire [...]
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