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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Light and colour
I’ve just dug out the flash for my camera as you may be able to tell by this sudden and unexpected lurch into high contrast, abstract colour photography. Don’t worry, it’s just a blip. I’ve also got a roll of … Continue reading
Ho bloody ho
Merry Christmas. Read all about this photo by the wonderful Chris Steele-Perkins here.
Deepest winter
Evgenia Arbugaeva is probably not that impressed that BAA can’t open the Heathrow runways some 72 hours after a dumping of snow but then she’s a native Siberian who has been following and photographing reindeer herders and apparently they have … Continue reading
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Tagged blurb, Evgenia Arbugaeva, herders, nomad, photography, reindeer, siberia
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Eternal fairytale
It’s now routinely voted everyone’s favourite Christmas song but back in the day it could only chart at number 2 and I’m sure that it wasn’t until the mid to late nineties – a decade after its release – that … Continue reading
Looking again at The Americans
I’ve had my copy of Robert Frank’s The Americans for about a year and during that time I’ve picked it up at least once a month. It isn’t particularly original to say that the book is important or that it’s … Continue reading
Some logo
Sadly I am old enough to remember walking down the street and seeing that all the Volkswagens had had their VW badges removed because the Beastie Boys wore car logo medallions. I don’t actually recall anybody wearing their swiped emblems … Continue reading
A year through Magnum’s eyes … kinda
Magnum: A Year in Photography My only word of caution is: don’t be fooled by the title. This isn’t a year in review and nor do the photos reflect a year passing by. But what you get are 365 photos … Continue reading
Tales of the white stuff
Snow makes people angry. When fog closes airports there isn’t the equivalent rage and bogus stories of how they have fog twice as thick in Prague and yet there isn’t even a Czech word for ‘cancelled flight’. You could get … Continue reading
Callum
This video is of Callum – a 5 year old profoundly disabled boy on day 11 of extreme, unmanaged pain. Great Ormond Street Hospital refuse to accept him because of no diagnosis but the local general hospital are not equipped … Continue reading
The ambiguous shock of the frozen moment
I always get a bit of a jolt when I read about things that were founded in the war years – for example when the premiere of something came in 1943 or the completion of some study happened in 1915. … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, brooklyn waterfront, decisive moment, magnum, the camera lies, thomas hoepker, walter sipser, world trade center
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