Writing Here:

duckrabbit
David White
Ciara Leeming
John Macpherson
Peter
Sara Trula
Carl Pendle
Joni Karanka
Mike Lusmore
Madeleine Corcoran

What does it feel like to fly over Planet Earth?

kind of like this:

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Photography: overish

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Saving a nation’s memories

As well as being the 10th anniversary of 9/11, tomorrow also marks the six-month anniversary of the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami. And there, an army of volunteers have spent recent months working to restore and return photographs damaged in the March 11 disaster in order to save the nation’s memories. Click below for the [...]

#ff funky friday – while the cats are away….

I’m hijacking #funkyfriday to spread a bit of funk after a somewhat depressing week in the UK. Ciara

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Male rape – Guardian photofilm

When I watch a photofilm in which the audio features the photographer talking about their images, I often switch off quite quickly. But when I heard Will Storr talk about his project on male survivors of rape in Congo and Uganda, I didn’t – in fact I was stopped in my tracks. I think [...]

Laygate stories – tales from South Shields

Here’s a project to watch. Photographer Peter Fryer has teamed up with David Campbell, academic and multimedia producer, to create Laygate Stories – a multimedia project focusing on the characters who live in one area of South Shields, north east England. The neighbourhood is a microcosm of 21st century British multiculturalism – populated by [...]

The battle of Byker – Amber Collective/BBC Radio 4

There’s been a lot of coverage over recent months about the shock decision of the Arts Council not to continue revenue funding Newcastle’s renowned Side Gallery, run by Amber Collective, from March next year. An appeal process is underway but the folks who run the collective are looking for other sources of funding. One [...]

Disco politics

I happened to catch this on Radio 4 this afternoon – if you are a fan of #funkyfriday and have access to the BBC iPlayer then it’s not to be missed.

hoop’s eye view

best eBay ad ever

Congo through rose-tinted glass

 

“Bereft of a clear narrative, journalists and photographers often confine themselves to stories of suffering, anchored in bleak statistics: 400,000 rapes in one year; 5.4 million deaths between 1998 and 2007. Richard Mosse’s pictures of Congo draw from a different palette of colours, literally….It feels as if we have fallen down [...]

RIP Gill Scott-Heron

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Capa and desensitisation

“The concentration camps were swarming with photographers and every new photo of horror served only to diminish the total effect”- Robert Capa, 1947.

I just finished Capa’s memoir, Slightly out of Focus, and the phrase above struck me last night as particularly interesting. It’s essentially the same argument that many people use about imagery of [...]

Shot in the dark

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If you’re based in the UK and have access to iPlayer

…watch this documentary on Icelandic photographer Ragnar ‘Rax’ Axelsson on his mission to capture the vanishing lifestyles of the people of the north.

 

 

Anyone going to Look2011 photo festival in Liverpool?

If so please come and visit my (ciara’s) group show, Transition, and say hello.

photo © Gary Tack

http://www.vimeo.com/23508783

more info here.

Look2011 incidentally is well worth the visit, with work by Ian Berry, Simon Norfolk, Paul Trevor, Ed Clark, Paul Seawright and plenty more. It all kicks off this Friday, [...]

GMB Akash/TED talk

Bangladesh’s GMB Akash is a really excellent photographer and I like him all the more for hearing him talk so warmly about his subjects. Massive respect.

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Another Lost Child

a cracking photofilm from Adam Patterson, and produced by Marco Pavan.

Why offering £29 photo shoots is a REALLY bad idea

 

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Simon Roberts – The English at Play

I loved this BBC photofilm. Thanks to @davidc7 for bringing it to my attention