Joshua Lutz, Hesitating Beauty Fiction has been an accepted element of art photography for almost as long as photography has......

In a war with a death toll in the hundreds of thousands it might seem unlikely that one more casualty would lead to widespread coverage, but the killing of the teenager Reuters stringer Molhem......

As I noted last week, if you speak to a professional photographer they will often tell you how hard it is at the moment to make a living. Listen to those more inclined......

The end of the year always ushers in a period of introspection as people attempt to judge how well or badly used that time was, and how appreciably better or worse the world has......

Last week Facebook inadvertently made headlines by reversing a policy on the posting of violent videos, arguing it’s users should be allowed to depict the ‘world in which we live’. The company suggested the......

Every few months the feeds and sites I subscribe to will briefly fill with talk of some new photographic fad. My interest in these gimmicks and trends is pretty limited. Most are dull in......

Despite the increasing acceptance of on an approach to photography centered around dialogue with subjects and their participation in the process of making the photograph, the subject-photographer relationship often remains unequal and even adversarial.......

There are certain issues in all countries that spark fierce feeling, in the United Kingdom perhaps none more than the sexualisation of children. This concern manifests in various ways, but most often in two......

There was a time when the explosion of conflict in a part of the world like the Middle East or the Balkans triggered what now seems like a very old fashioned kind of concern.......

A little over a month ago I wrote a piece about the sponsorship of Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis, an exhibition of photographs of pristine natural wildernesses, by a  Brazillian mining giant. This company, Vale, is......

A hypothetical conversation I’ve often had with photographer friends goes a bit like this: ‘what would you do if a company you disagreed with on a fundamental ethical level offered to sponsor your work?’ With......

After writing a recent piece on the rather strange notion of ruin value, whereby architects design their buildings to look good as ruins, I began to drift on to thinking about the idea......

In the last piece I posted here I argued that the technical evolution of photography has always been leading towards some form of ‘instant’ photograph. By this I meant a photographic technology which......

It seems almost too self-evident to be worth saying, but the passage of time is central to photography. So many stages in the photographic process are bound up in it, from the length of......

‘Haywain’ (after Kennard (after Constable)) Once again thoughts that have been swimming around my head for a while have......

I’m still processing John Macpherson's post earlier in the week on memory, dementia, metadata. If you haven’t read it, do. It’s a mixture of great writing and great ideas, intimate personal experience and......

For some time I have felt drawn to what some might consider to be an unreasonably broad definition of photography. More and more I feel that photography is not a narrowly definable technical......

I spent last weekend walking in the area around my family’s cottage near Devil’s Bridge, mid-Wales. I’ve been lucky to visit many beautiful places, but Wales has a strange aura which for me is......

Ten years ago last Saturday, March 16th, activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli Defence Forces bulldozer while attempting to prevent the demolition of......