A while back on this blog I wrote a little bit about the UK miners’ strike and imagery of coal mining. Ever since then I looked for a book of photographs from the period, depicting the strike, the battles and the hardship inflicted on communities. But I could never find one which I felt looked [...]
Robert Gumpert. A snapper whose work I have always admired. I remember vaguely, (I think, do I remember it or just think I do ?) seeing him in the Sunday Times newspaper picture desk offices in London, in about 91 or ‘92 when I was doing a stint there. I don’t think we spoke, I [...]
The ballet. Ah yes, the ballet dahling. Always so photogenic, always so inspiring.
A couple of nights ago photographing Miyako Yoshida-san’s last dance with the Royal Ballet, on assignment here in Tokyo, Japan, got me thinking about other ballet assignments I’ve had, or my moments with ballerinas (sadly, few…).
But a few years back I did photograph [...]
And here is another professional photographer interview, although not in the magazine, just an interview with professional photographer and my pal of long standing, Jason Eskenazi. I just stumbled across this interview with Jason Eskenazi, whilst I’m meant to be packing to go on assignment. Anyway, a good read from a great photographer. Right, back [...]
My good colleague from Greenpeace, photographer Daniel Beltra, has a narrated slideshow of his images from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill over on the Guardian website….
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 [...]
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 [...]
