A great interview with Tim Hetherington on his work 'Infidel' shot in Afghanistan between 2007 to 2008 Below are extracted from timhetherington.com Tim Hetherington was born in Liverpool, UK. He studied literature at Oxford University and later ...

  Sharing this remarkable story of Photographer Giles Duley who lost 3 limbs to a  landmine in Kandahar, Afghanistan... and who wants to get back to shooting as soon as possible. -------------------- Published Tuesday 28 June 2011 in the...

I picked up the story below of  Yomiuri Shimbun staff writer Keiichi Nakane,  27, who was stationed in Miyagi Prefecture's Kesennuma, who was caught with thousands of others  by the massive earthquake and  tsunami of 11 March 2011. ------------...

A  few Twitter stories (translated) out of Japan, that toched the heart deeply   ----------------- Cars were moving at the rate of maybe one every green light, but everyone was letting each other go first with a warm look and a smile. At a comp...

Article by Shaun Tandon, APP 15 March 2011 Despite the horrific scenes of destruction, Japan may emerge from its quake-tsunami disaster with a stronger international image as the nation's resilience wins wide praise. Television stations around th...

14 March 2011 This article is published with the kind permission of  Singapore based photographer, Yi Chao who has spent a good number of months documenting the traditional street performance art of Chinese Opera in Singapore Yi Chao, aka Banan...

I could well end up gagging and cringing when reflecting on my choice of music over the years but..... what the heck..... we all change through time...... you WILL forgive me for not including Guns n Roses  or Micheal Jackson :) http://www.youtube....

Published in The Guardian by Leo Benedictus 7 June 2008 Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures. The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in ...

No MTV video clips here.... its a humble collection of favorite clips on various issues that has reached out to me over the years. Dr Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech ...... with a few 'adjustments' this could f...

Published in Global Times  7 Oct 2010 Written by Wu Ziru Article found here ----------------------------------------------- As one of the few Chinese  photographers focusing on exploring social and economic issues, Lu Guang has used his cam...

Journal entry and Letter written by Cpl. Jason Bogar to his Family Bogar served first in Iraq, then volunteered for two tours in Afghanistan. In both countries he often trained his camera on fellow soldiers as well as children Jason died July 13 ...

Written by Kathy Warnes  on 6 jan 2011 and published in Suite 101.com Dickey Chapelle lived a lifetime of service and adventure as explored in Dickey Chapelle Photographs Wars and Warsaw Ghetto Survivors. Vietnam turned out to be the final chap...

40 years on: the exile comes home to Prague Forty years on from the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague, we meet Josef Koudelka, the man who captured the most startling images of that dramatic week, then went on to become one of the greatest photojournal...

Notes on Being (and surviving) as a War Correspondent Written by by Joseph L. Galloway (Apr 2003) JOE wrote this memo for the reporters scheduled to embedded with US Troops in Iraq ------------------------------- There are old war corresponde...

Acknowledgements and credits: This is a correspondence that a Dr Stephen R Ellison MD had written as a personal correspondence to a friend, Mr. Gene Tuttle, in April 2000 while Captain Ellison served in the U.S. Army under the administration of then Pr...

Published 7 April 2008 in the Globe and Mail (Canada) “The best thing about a pipe is that it slows things down. Light up a bowl, look out the window, think and feel” For my 31st birthday I was given a pipe. A pipe and a pouch of Black Caven...

The article below was originally published in photo.net ‘s Large Format Forum in Nov 2001 and later in www.largeformatphotography.info and authored by Kevin Bourque ————– Picture this…. you’re at a photography show or a gallery, a...

Friend Sebastian forwarded me this wonderful article written by Mason Resnick on his workshop experience with Gary Winogrand in the mid 70′s ———————— Coffee and Workprints: A Workshop With Garry Winogrand Two weeks with a maste...

Extracted article from Stickman Bangkok’s website that was contributed by an anonymous writer on being caught out at the Thai Cambodian border control. “Last July, an opposing driver’s car insurance company mailed me a check that, instead of f...

Palace lensman in diving mishap By Marichu Villanueva The Philippine Star 10/02/2004 MOALBOAL, Cebu ? The close-in photographer of President Arroyo suffered the bends and lost consciousness while covering her scuba diving in Pescadores, a popular ...

Never mind what RF I use, let alone mentioning its brand which oftentimes spin people off track to debate why and initiate wars between digital and film. I hate these controversies, all these time wasting and senseless arguments over a tool? I?d rather...

Thai dog fights off ‘serial’ rapist. Found and Contributed by a friend who chooses to remain anonymous Bangkok – A Thai man was suffering from multiple cuts and a bruised ego on Tuesday after he got drunk and attempted to rape a dog, which fie...

I’ll have to thank my friend L Wesly for sending me in the direction of this book. Not much said of photography as compared to life and living. I’ve sliced out a meaningful little portion of the book to share with you……where Bill Jay interviews...