In Search of Brigadoon.

I went in search of Brigadoon last week. If you've no idea what I'm talking about this link might enlighten you. Where exactly I wandered I'm not revealing lest it spoil your own search......

The Fish That Never Swam.

My mother was one of 15 children, born into a Lanarkshire mining family near Glasgow. Her dad was a miner, and several of her brothers and nephews went into the pit to toil beside......

The Sister With The Photos.

Editors note: Buku Sarkar is a woman from India, and a writer & photographer. This is the story of an ongoing project she has 'stumbled' into. Unlike many other illustrated stories from India presented......

Living with a tiger.

Living with a tiger © John MacPherson "Oh Donnie, Donnie, please.....please....straighten yourself up, please!  ......

“Do you see it? Understand it? Ok..” (“The mysterious perversion of photography”).

There's an interesting article in the NYT Lens blog by Donald R. Winslow: 'Eddie Adams: 10 Years On, and War Will Never Be the Same"   "When Eddie Adams died 10 years......

The face of the Gujarat riots meets his photographer ‘saviour’.

  A fascinating 'what happened next'.... read it here ...

What groundbreaking images of ‘Africa’ can we expect this year from Visa Festival of Shanty Towns?.

If the video running off the front page of the Visa website is anything to go by they are: MADNESS and DESPAIR? ...

Male rape – Guardian photofilm.

When I watch a photofilm in which the audio features the photographer talking about their images, I often switch off......

Become a real photographer; shoot porn and tramps with the new Fuji x100.

It's funny to watch how photojournalism and advertising are merging. Pushed by the likes of World Press and Visa Festival of Shanty Towns, photojournalism is more and more judged as an aesthetic pursuit,......

Getty Grants For A Good Laugh.

close today. Last year they awarded the major grant to Stefano De Luigi for a project title T.I.A, 'This Is Africa'. If you get to the end of this (extended) post you'll be......

Open Eye – THE OTHER (side of Sweden) – photofilm.

'When people see me they see a criminal Arab guy, that's the first thing they get in their head.  I wake up every day after two o'clock. Go out at three. Three......

How we treat others less fortunate then ourselves.

is a mark of how we should be judged as individuals and as society. Also as a company. Thank god for the great people at Bombay Flying Club, for caring so much they put......

Open Eye: Lebanon’s missing (Radio documentary and photofilm on the BBC).

(PLEASE SHARE THIS IMPORTANT STORY) If you didn't get to listen to the fascinating and harrowing piece on the BBC World Service this morning about the photographer Dalia Khamissy's attempts to document what happened to......

Open Eye, The Missing – Imm Aziz.

"If I had only known that my sons were going and that I would not see them again I would have thrown myself under the wheels of the truck that took them." Imm Aziz [caption......

Photofilm, “If he is dead, I need proof, let me bury him”.

It's an argument sometimes given by supporters of the most visually gratuitous forms of photojournalism that we need to see the full horror to understand the 'truth'. A woman's husband is taken out and shot. Are......

AFP, CNN, Getty, ABC, V Morel, why this case matters to all professional photographers or why Getty could be selling your photos without you even knowing ….

Tonight I have received a copy of the transcript of the court proceeding in the case of AFP, Getty, CNN and ABC against Daniel Morel (for the background to this case read here). You......

Why AFP, Getty, Jean-Francois Leroy, CNN, ABC, CBS love photographs but have no time for photographers, or ‘it wasn’t rape your honor because she was in the room and I was horny’.

The case that opens today according to NPPA: In a case that could set precedent in online copyright legislation and impact photographers around the world, oral arguments are scheduled to begin Friday......

The Green Book Materials.

This is a masterclass in documentary production. Nothing is out of place.  Watch for the ending.  It just crushed me. ...

No other journalist in the UK is using multimedia on a project in such a sustained and important way as Ciara Leeming.

This is essential work that deserves widespread recognition.  It's not sexy because the people in the stories are mainly working class white people but it's a template for in depth reportage on......

Classic cars in Gaza.

The BBC have featured some pretty surprising audio slideshows about life in Gaza and the West Bank, not least one duckrabbit features before about Palestinian Bagpipers. Here's an audio slideshow that will......