Not one, not two but three great photo exhibitions in Bangkok over the weekend. The World Press Photo and Thai Press photo exhibitions are thought-provoking if harrowing. Difficult really to look at those photos and to leave the exhibition feeling terribly uplifted but there’s no question that these are images which should be brought to our attention. Depressing to see the numbers of journalists killed and wounded around the world last year listed at the entrance to the exhibition. One would be too many but, sadly, the numbers were in the hundreds.



By way of contrast, the aerial photos of Yann Arthus Bertrand show more aesthetically pleasing views of our world and were a welcome change of pace. Impressively big enlargements have been arranged in circles in the square outside the Zen shopping centre in central Bangkok and the backdrop of skyscrapers and skytrain line seemed to work really well.



The exhibitions also served as an opportunity for me to meet up with a few members of the Bangkok Camera Club, which I’m looking forward to joining next month.

Tags: bangkok camera club, exhibitions

The first four “Ambassadors” in Canon’s recently announced Ambassadors programme are “VII Photo agency co-founder Gary Knight, famous National Geographic wildlife shooter Michaal Nichols, prolific Israeli photojournalist Ziv Koren (Polaris Images) and the top portrait and fashion photographer Lorenzo Agius (Getty Images).”

We’re told that the Canon Ambassadors will be offering “workshops, seminars and events”. Each of the four are interviewed on the Canon Professional Network web site. I haven’t read all four yet but I have read Gary Knight’s interview and, as a co-founder of the VII agency, he’s clearly had a fascinating career so far. Like a lot of photojournalists of his age, he claims Tim Page and Don McCullin as inspirations. I also note with interest that he began his photographic career in Bangkok before spending a lot of time in the Balkans.

Tags: canon

Just time for a couple of pointers to things I’ve found interesting in recent days. My friend Tewfic El-Sawy’s blog always contains links to interesting work but he’s just posted a link to photojournalist Kate Orne’s web site and, in particular, to her gallery of projects, which I found really engaging.

Kate’s work is humbling. From Afghan refugee camps to the brothels of Mumbai and Pakistan, it’s heart-wrenching work. I photograph pleasant scenes and tend to pick out the more pleasing, less distressing aspects of a location but I’m always conscious that this can be a slightly superficial view of a place. Photojournalists like Kate manage to capture what might arguably be described as a more honest perspective. OK, so perhaps it’s not actually more honest but it’s differently honest.

I have great respect for photographers like Kate, who show us the things that we would otherwise remain ignorant of. It’s essential, valuable work and deserves to be applauded. I especially liked the Sheed Society Calendar and, as Tewfic points out, the project entitled “Brothels and Fundamentalism” is especially thought-provoking.

Photojournalists who work in war-torn regions also command my deepest respect, not least because they do a job that I fear I could never manage to do well but also because their role has always been vital and seems to be increasingly so today. Tewfic’s other post from yesterday points us to Michael Kamber’s review of the Leica M8. There are a lot of points to pick up on here but the first has nothing to do with the review itself. Michael reports that it is illegal to photograph scenes in the immediate aftermath of a car or suicide bomb attack and that the Iraqi police regularly confiscate cameras and memory cards of photographers who they suspect of photographing such scenes. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions from that.

I’ve tried an M8 briefly and really wanted to love it. Much like the D-Lux 3 I picked up earlier in the week, I wanted to fall in love with it and would also love to be part of that illustrious heritage of Leica users. I know that the subtlety and inconspicious nature of a Rangefinder camera could be very useful in my work but using it just didn’t leave me convinced. I’m glad, reading Michael’s review, that I resisted the temptation. I’d be pretty pissed off if I’d spent so much money on a camera to find it had as many flaws as Michael finds but this guy works in war zones for Pete’s sake. If you’re going to regularly put yourself in potentially dangerous situations to get photographs you really need a piece of equipment that’s never, ever going to let you down, not one that’s going to randomly overexpose by four stops or only shoot half a frame for no apparent reason.

The review must have people in the Leica PR department banging their heads against the wall but Michael’s been a Leica user for over 20 years and doesn’t have an axe to grind so when he concludes that the M8 is “unsuitable for a working photojournalist in a combat situation” then I’m pretty certain that I won’t be buying one any time soon.

Michael’s review is balanced and comprehensive and if you’d like to see what Michael can photograph with a camera that’s working properly then check out his web site.

Lastly, following on from yet more stories of what amounts to Police harrassment of photographers in the UK, the Bureau of Freelance Photographers is issuing all of its members with a card detailing, in simple language, what rights photographers have when working in public spaces in the UK. How disappointing that the various police forces around the country haven’t managed to do the same thing and issue their officers with simple, clear and easy to understand instructions on how civilians going about their law-abiding business should be treated. And how ridiculous that a section of society finds it necessary to carry a card outlining their legal rights for the benefit of police officers who may attempt to harrass them. It’s a worrying precedent but, seemingly, a necessary one.

I’ve just read a forum post about a recent event in Scotland where people were silently protesting outside a Church of Scientology. There were some amatuer photographers getting pictures of the protest. To say that the police treatment of these photographers was heavy-handed is, if the reports are accurate, a complete understatement and there’s a clear need for what we used to call in my last job, a “training opportunity” for the local bobbies. Yes, it’s a difficult job and no, I wouldn’t want to do it but there’s no excuse for some of the infringements of liberty currently being reported.

And on that cheerful note I’ll leave you for today except to say that my Bangkok apartment is almost fully kitted out now and following several hair-raising trips to the local Carrefour store on the back of motorbike taxis I have the things most essential for a happy life: A kettle, a teapot, a mug and a box of Twinings Earl Grey tea. There are other things too but they’re less important. I’ll pick up another bag of belongings from the airport tomorrow and with a trip to the massive Weekend Market planned for Saturday, I should be ready to start working in earnest next week.

Tags: tewfic el-sawy, bfp

Adobe have put together a very funky web presentation to promote Creative License and it includes articles and videos from Nevada Wier (click on presentation #2). You'll find a lot of introductory information about the various Lightroom modules and some great pictures in the gallery. Nevada also runs a blog.

On a separate note, I'm finally going to be moving this week and it looks like the next few days are going to be hectic so I hope you'll forgive me if I don't get around to posting as much as I'd like. The good news is that when I'm settled I've got a whole series of educational and entertaining material to post on the blog and there'll be news of some exciting new ventures. I hope you'll sign up for the RSS feed and/or my newsletter, if you haven't already. Also, look out for announcements of a change in focus for me in future months. Watch this space!

Tags: nevada weir, lightroom

I'm really chuffed about this. I've swapped blogs with David duChemin and we've each written an article entitled "Standing on the shoulders of giants" where we discuss other photographers who have inspired us.

You can read my article on David's excellent pixelatedimage blog and if you're not already a regular reader then I recommend that you subscribe to his RSS feed or bookmark the blog home page whilst you're there.

David's a Humanitarian Photographer and boasts a rare talent. Take a look at his portfolio and especially his work for World Vision to see what I mean. He also runs photo tours to Kashmir with Matt Brandon and I see from the Lumen Dei web site that there's only one place remaining on this year's expedition so if you fancy it, and why on earth wouldn't you, I'd book your place pretty smartish. You'll regret it if you don't.

As if all that weren't enough to make him a very welcome guest writer, David's also a thoroughly decent bloke. Yes, I know, makes you sick doesn't it.

I'm delighted to introduce you to David and know that you'll get along famously.

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Standing on the shoulders of giants

Sir Isaac Newton once wrote. "if I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of giants." For photographers this means the influence of other photographers - artists who've created images that so strongly resonate with us that they've determined not only our career paths but also what we shoot and how.

For me these giants have been Steve McCurry, Yousuf Karsh and Freeman Patterson - three men who couldn't be more  divergent in their styles if they tried. But as a teenager I poured over their books, their photographs. I soaked up their images, and where I could find them, their words.

Steve McCurry needs no introduction to most of us. I'd wager a great many of the photographers reading this were also influenced in some way by him. His stark portrait of the afghan refugee girl was pinned to my wall for years, staring holes in me. It was her unguardedness, the revelation of her soul through her eyes that drew me, made me want to photograph in a way that was compelling, revealing. His focus on texture and soft light were also influences on me, and I think it shows. The passion it stirred in me for the homeless and the excluded remains undiluted to this day.

Yousef Karsh was a master portraitist, in residence at the Chateaux Laurier in Ottawa where I was a teenager, for years. His work was formal, black and white, but it shared with McCurry a focus on photographs that revealed the character of the subject and exquisite texture. Monochrome images have a way of focussing us on fewer elements, they allow texture, light, gesture to play more powerfully for the absence of colour. I often wonder why I stopped shooting black and white, but I've never tired of photographing people.

Freeman Patterson drew me too. I'm not sure you'd ever know it to look at my portfolio. I rarely shoot the natural world anymore. Probably too many hours sitting in swamps with big lenses photographing mallards. What Patterson gave me was an eye for detail, a love for bringing the chaos into order through the discipline of the frame. He gave me my love for colour, natural light, and the play of lines.
 
Other influences, probably equally important, continue to make me the photographer I am. Tom Stoddart, Ami Vitale, Olivier Follmi, among them. I'm standing on the shoulders of a great many giants. But at a certain point, if one is to be a giant oneself we need to get off these shoulders and forge a direction of our own. This isn't at all to imply we become "better than" just "other than." We develop our own voice about the things that we are passionate about. Giants can take us a long way there, and I'm not sure there is ever a point in our growth as artists that there are no longer giants on whose shoulders we stand. But if we're really lucky, all this standing and learning to see from such heights makes us tall enough that others coming after us will gain their footing on our shoulders, and give us a chance to give back to the craft that's given us so much.

Find some giants and don't be afraid to enjoy the view, soak it up as long as you can balance there, but eventually you need to climb down and take your place among them.

David duChemin
May 2008

Tags: guest post, david duchemin

It's proving to be an exciting week with all sorts of projects and opportunities presenting themselves - more of which later. Watch this space!

In the mean time, one of the things I'm really looking forward to is taking up a guest slot on David duChemin's pixelatedimage blog later in the week. David and I will be swapping blog articles and he's already written a terrific piece on "inspiration" but you'll have to wait until Friday to read it. Consider yourself teased.

In the mean time, you can see David being interviewed by Scott Kelby on the Photoshop User TV web site this week. David has three excellent tips which don't only apply to travel photography and I heartily recommend that you take a few minutes to watch the current episode.

I hope that this blog will serve as a conduit for things that will occasionally inspire and educate you and I'm pleased to report that the number of regular readers has shot up in recent weeks (something to do with a rumour about a 5D MKII that I posted last month - oops!) so perhaps I'm starting to move towards meeting that ambition. It's with that aim in mind that I'm going to point out that this post mentions several resources which, together, offer a wealth of inspirational and educational tools. Here they are in what I like to call "Bullet Point Format".

• pixelatedimage (David duChemin's portfolio)
• pixelatedimage blog (David's blog)
• Photoshop User TV (Weekly tutorials and Photoshop news)
• Photoshop Insider (Scott Kelby's Blog)
• Photoshop Killer Tips (Matt Kloskowski)
• Lightroom Killer Tips (Also from Matt Kloskowski)

Don't forget, look back on Friday for David's article.

Tags: david duchemin, photoshop

Regular readers will know that for me to recommend something that's PC only, it would have to be pretty special.

And it is.

Jason Friend is offering a free screensaver to celebrate the upcoming launch of his book, 'Portrait of the Borders' and I think you only have to look at the cover image to know that you're in for a treat with some very special landscape photography.

From the rolling hills and rugged coastline of the east to the wild moorlands of the west, the Scottish Borders region is home to an incredible diversity of landscapes. Found alongside these natural landforms are the remnants of numerous abbeys, castles and hill forts, symbolic of a turbulent history. These natural and historical features have all helped to shape this melting pot of a county. Although perhaps somewhat unfairly overlooked by visitors heading to the highlands, the inhabitants of the region have continued to be fiercely proud of their Scottish heritage and their beloved land. 'Portrait of the Borders' (ISBN: 9781841147215, Publisher: Halsgrove Publishing) is the latest book from award winning UK photographer, Jason Friend.

Mac users don't miss out altogether though as Jason's posted a sneak preview of some of the images from the book. Enjoy!

Tags: jason friend, screensavers

Each month I publish a free desktop wallpaper, as do Matt Brandon and David duChemin. I wanted to draw your attention to the others' now as I think they're both particularly fine images this month.

I love Matt's picture taken in Old Delhi, it's got such character. The composition is lovely and the fact that the men on each end of the line are looking out of the frame makes a great symmetry and means that your eye is drawn back and forth along the line repeatedly. The wall behind them gives a backdrop full of interesting textures and sympathetic colours but the detail that I enjoy most is the fact that two of the men seem to have taken off their left sandal to serve as an impromptu seat. Talk about making best use of whatever's available...

David's shot of houseboats in Kashmir is another image full of wonderful textures and there are so many intriguing little details in the composition that despite the fact it's a close-up, or maybe because of it, I could look at it for ages. I love the holes and splintered wood in the yellow boat and the heart-shaped oar in the blue boat.

So, pick your favourite or load them all up and change them every day. Either way, enjoy.

Tags: wallpaper

Matt Brandon and I have both written posts about Mitchell Kanashkevich recently and I've been enjoying getting to know Mitchell's work of late. I was especially pleased therefore when he mentioned that some of his photos are featured in the May edition on Digital Photo Magazine and the double-page spread showing four of his pictures of the Rabari, an ancient nomadic tribe from Western India. The picture entitled "Kutch Diamond" (top left) is exquisite. There's an old photographic expression that goes something like "Take a colour portrait of a person and you show the person, take a black and white portrait of a person and show their soul". Well, look into the little girl's eyes for a moment and I think you'll agree that Mitchell has succeeded in capturing the very essence of his subject in a colour photograph.

I recommend that you take a look at this photo on Mitchell's web site as it has even more impact than in the magazine scan here.

Tags: india

I'm occasionally contacted by students and keen amateur photographers seeking tips and advice about travel photography. People often send links to their online web galleries and I'm invariably impressed with the quality of the work. So much so that I frequently wonder why they're contacting me and feel like I have just as many questions to ask them. I've had lots of help from photographers far busier and far more experienced than I am so I hope I can continue the cycle by passing on what little knowledge I have. I've posted an FAQ to answer some of the more common questions and hopefully by referring to this it will keep my answers consistent!

Of all the web galleries I've received in recent weeks, none have impressed me more than Mitchell Kanashkevich's. Mitchell wrote to me a couple of weeks ago seeking some advice and was thoughtful enough to include a link to his work. And I'm glad that he did. His images of the Tamangs of Thuman are exquisite. I think they show some real sensitivity and it seems that he's very at home in this environment. I think the measure of a great picture is one that you look at and silently wish you'd taken. That's how I feel about his study of a mother and son preparing dinner. The lighting is obviously very atmospheric but the way it falls on the ladles hanging from the wall is what I love most.

Take a look through the rest of Mitchell's galleries and I know you'll feel that it was time well spent.

Whilst we're talking about other photographers, you should also keep up to date with Tewfic El-Sawy's blog, which has become the source of an almost daily fix of commercial and editorial travel photography. I'm going to Bhutan with Tewfic later in the year and, amongst others, I'll be taking a copy of Mitchell's photo to provide additional inspiration whilst I'm there.

Tags: nepal

Despite the regularity suggested by the title of this post, my "Photographer of the Month" is less likely to be a monthly proclamation than it is to occur when I feel sufficiently moved by a photographer's work to write a post about them.

In other words, there might be another tomorrow or there may not be one 'til next April. What can I say? I'm unpredictable.

I've been a fan of David Noton's work for a long time and a fan of his unassuming manner since I read the first two sentences on his web site bio, "Born 1957 in England, my parents immediately snapped into action and emigrated to California. I followed cunningly disguised as a burbling infant."

David is probably better known for his landscape photography than anything else but his portfolio boasts some lovely travel images too. He makes his home in Dorset, which is always a good measure of a man.

He's recently released a DVD in association with Lee Filters and I have to say that's it's a really nice production. Apart from some vignetting on the movie camera work (always check the frame edge to edge!) and the occasional appearance of a fluffy microphone boom it's a professional production and David is a very relaxed and informative presenter. The DVD shows him at work in various locations in southern England and he discusses the basics of lighting, composition and exposure. If you're familiar with Glastonbury Tor, St. Michael's Mount or the New Forest then you'll enjoy seeing how David scouts his locations and then photographs them at their very best by waiting for the ideal light.

There are a few brief clips available online which will give you a flavour but if you're a keen photographer and want to see a professional at work then for twenty quid, it's money well spent.

I'm also going to write something about Lee Filters in the next couple of weeks so keep an eye out for that.

Tags: photography

PDN shows their selection of thirty emerging photographers. These are the ones to watch!

Not many of them live outside the USA, indeed not many live outside New York, and there are none based in the UK. But you're already watching me, right?

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Matt Brandon has just returned from Sumatra with some gorgeous photographs.

You might also want to check out Matt's blog.

I had started to write a lyrical and eloquent post about David duCenin's wonderful web site because I wanted to tell you how inspiring and motivational I have found it. But all you really need to know is that having followed his recent comment on my blog to his web site, looking through the wonderful content kept me up way past my bed time and prompted me to get up extra early this morning to continue reading.

The very first category in my web browser bookmarks is entitled "be inspired" and is reserved for those very special sites that are uplifting, educational, informative, entertaining and, most importantly, which are capable of motivating me and of getting my brain whirring with new ideas. David's pixelatedimage.com site is the latest addition to that very exclusive list of bookmarks.

These are just a few of the highlights I found last night and this morning:

1. David's Portfolio, especially his recent World Vision photos from Mongolia, gorgeous images from Nepal and the "Colours of India" and "Classic India" galleries.
2. David's Blog has some great info, including...
3. A glowing review of Joe McNally's new book, The Moment it Clicks, which led me to Joe McNally's web site and then to his blog. More great reading!
4. Flying with Fish. A blog written by a well-travelled photographer, Steven Frischling, with lots of hints and tips for the travelling snapper.

I realised too that David was also a finalist in the recent Travel Photographer of the Year competition so I'm doubly delighted to be in such illustrious company.

I've ordered Joe McNally's book, which, to veer off at a very angular tangent, reminded me about what I was saying the other day about blogging becoming a great producer of the "buzz" that can surround new products. I haven't seen the book mentioned elsewhere and although it may be reviewed in one or two of the photographic magazines that I subscribe to, there's no guarantee that it would ever have come to my attention. It's no surprise that companies are turning their attention to bloggers when they're looking to promote a product.

My copy of "The Moment it Clicks" should be here in a day or two and I'll certainly post a review here when I've finished reading it. Indeed, with a growing number of products to review and comment upon I shall be stealing an idea from David duChenin and Scott Kelby (and others) and introducing my very own rating and endorsement system for products that I've used, books I've read and web sites that I've visited. It will probably be no more complicated than a simple five-star rating system but if you have a clever idea for something I can use instead of stars then please share it. I did think about have an f-stop rating system with great products getting f/2.8, average products receiving f/8 and a rating of f/22 being reserved for the real dogs but felt that it was unnecessarily complex. Simple, as they say with a stammer in my home town, is often best.

Tags: blogs

This is an American copyright infringement case but the principle of using photographs without the permission of the copyright holder (usually the photographer) remains the same worldwide. It's illegal and you shouldn't do it. I've recently noticed a couple of my photos being used without my permission and although this was quickly and amicably resolved (they're paying my invoice) it does illustrate the fact that many people think that photos in the public domain are available to be used for free.

I think what made it worse in this case was that the defendant's testimony was ruled to be "inconsistent and full of contradictions" and that he had a"reputation for being highly deceptive and saying one thing and then doing another".

Tags: copyright

There aren't many things that really get my goat these days, apart from discourteous driving, which always gets me reciting a list of expletives. Oh, and poor customer service. And any sort of automated phone system. And the lack of anything remotely watchable on the TV. OK, that's the start of what might become a long list if I let it continue.

One thing that rarely annoys me is looking at other photographers' work. There's always a lot to learn from other photographers, especially those who manage to earn a living from their trade. Which is why I was surprised to feel the hairs on the back of my neck pricking up yesterday when I read a National Geographic interview with Lynsey Addario.

I'll share just two excerpts from the interview with you, the full text can be found in the link in the previous paragraph:

"In one house there were these two little girls—one was maybe ten and the other seven—and their mother was working out in the fields. I walked into the house and said hello, and one of the girls just stared and started crying, because she had never seen a foreigner."

and

"But he just said, “Not possible.” For him, he couldn’t fathom bringing a photographer to a funeral. They aren’t used to people documenting their lives."

Lynsey Addario has photographed Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon and the Miss India Beauty Pageant - all potentially dangerous locations for a photographer and she's taken photos that I would be hugely proud to have taken (check out her impressive web site) but, and it's a big "but", why on earth does she think that walking into somebody's house uninvited is not going to freak children out and in what world is she living if she thinks that arriving at a funeral with a big camera is going to see you welcomed with open arms?

This is an attitude that I've encountered quite a lot, sadly. Westerners who trot around Third World countries like it's their personal adventure playground, sticking their cameras into people's homes and lives as if the fact that because people are relatively poor (financially) it makes them little more than colourfully convenient photographic fodder. Seriously, to suggest that, "they aren't used to people documenting their lives" is the reason why people wouldn't want you to photograph the funeral of a loved one seems hugely ignorant and insensitive to me.

Grrr! It really made me bristle. Perhaps Lynsey was quoted out of context and I may be doing her a huge disservice, in which case I apologise. But her comments do reflect an attitude that I've encountered previously and, if nothing else, serve to illustrate the pompously arrogant and superior attitude that a lot of Westerners seem to have when visiting certain places in the world.

I'm going to give this some thought and see if there's not a more rational explanation for such behaviour and perhaps a more reasonable response to be made by me. In the mean time... Grrr!

PS - Whilst we're on the subject of annoying things: web sites that resize themselves to take over your computer screen!

Tags: bhutan, rant

I tried to think of something to link these two web sites but they really are apples and pears. Chalk and, indeed, cheese. I'm going to the Lake District for a few days at the end of the week and am a member of the Wainwright Society so was interested to see the two winning entries from the society's annual photographic competition.

You might also be interested in seeing Reuters' Pictures of the Month. There are 66 in total and it might have been better to have seen them as a slideshow but nevertheless they serve as a great illustration of the variety of work covered by Reuters' photographers. From the image of a young Kenyan man with an arrow in his head to the image shown here of a performer at the Ashura carnival near Tehran via a winking George Bush, there's something for everyone.

Also, whilst I'm wrapping up some online galleries that I've been looking at recently, you might like to see the winners of the World Press Photo competition. Not always the most uplifting images to look at due to the subject matter, the World Press Photo winners do at least demonstrate that photography is still very much a force in bringing us news about what's happening in the world in a way that can make us sit up and take notice. I think for most people, the still image retains the ability to grab our attention even more dramatically than moving images can. Somebody pointed this out to me recently by asking me to think of images from the Vietnam war. Only still images came to mind. Those of Don McCullin and Tim Page especially. And yet I know I will have seen lots of footage from that conflict but it's the still images that get burned into our memory.

Tags: cumbria, reuters

Wonderful food for thought in this brief look at National Geographic magazine:



"A photograph is the blink, is the moment, and it communicates everything in one drop. And you need nothing else. You see the whole tragedy in that moment. It cuts out all the clutter and chooses one thing, and that's everything."

Tags: photography, national geographic

There can't be a travel photographer on the planet who isn't very familiar with Steve McCurry's photographs. I know that I'll be yanking one or two people's chains when I mention him but, for me, his biography and his photographs can be a valuable resource for anyone hoping to make a living shooting travel photographs.

There's an interview with McCurry at PDN Online, which makes for interesting reading. A couple of quotes stood out for me, "Just because someone’s wearing a turban, doesn’t mean it’s an interesting photo.", which a lot of photographers forget when they start photographing in unfamiliar locations.

Also, "Sometimes when I travel with photographers, there’s a distance between them and the people they see", which I think can also be true. Perhaps it's because the sort of locations that McCurry regularly photographs in, Thailand, Tibet, Burma etc., can seem so strange to western eyes that there's a temptation for photographers to look at local people as "subjects" rather than people. That's human nature I suppose but there's no doubt that my best photographs have been made after I've first made friends with the people I hope to photograph.

Lastly, "If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph. If you look at the photographers whose work we admire, they’ve found a particular place or a subject, dug deep into it, and carved out something that’s become special. And that takes a lot of time and a lot of work – that’s not for everyone." is a comment that resonated for me. I know that being a "Travel Photographer" and being based in the UK is something of an oxymoron - but more about that later.

And whatever your opinion of Steve McCurry, I think you'd be hard pushed to say that his photograph of the four Burmese nuns proceeding down a rain-soaked street and dressed in pink robes isn't as yummy as the marshmallows that those robes put me in mind of (see the bottom of the PDN article).

Tags: interviews, photography

Magnum in Motion, producers of some amazing web-based AV slideshows, would also like to wish you a Happy New Year. This slideshow is a great example of how photos are being used on the web in ever-more dynamic and entertaining presentations.

Tags: photography, magnum

I must stop stealing Tewfic's blog posts. Just as soon as he stops finding and posting gems like this.

Tags: photography, video