BLOG Please enable JavaScript to properly view this page. SPOTLIGHT: Edward BurtynskyWhile trying to accommodate the growing needs of an expanding, and very thirsty civilization, we are reshaping the Earth in colossal ways… FILM: Honig im KopfIt's been a long time since I've been to the cinema and watched a film that has altered my list of favourite films…I laughed, cried, laughed, cried, laughed, cried… Exhibition: Taylor Wessing 2014 Book: I am MalalaJust finished reading 'I am Malala' by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and I would like to highly recommend it to anyone looking for an insightful, inspiring read… The Lion & The Lighthouse CURRENT: ShepherdLast weekend I was hiking up the Feldberg – the highest mountain in the Black Forest, Germany. Norbert was tending his sheep, and I asked if I could make a few pictures… MUSING: Honest GestureI recently came across this inspiring story, an event which occurred over a year ago but still worthy of sharing… SPORTLIGHT: Andrea GjestvangNorwegian photographer Andrea Gjestvang won the Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year 2013, with this incredibly honest body of work; 'One Day in History'. MUSING: Syrian RefugeeInteresting article about this photograph of a Syrian Refugee, how simple photographic methods such as composition can completely change a story… SPOTLIGHT: Simon NorfolkSome great images from Yemen by Simon Norfolk. Everest Time Lapse Into the Atmosphere QUOTE: Nelson Mandela“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” SPOTLIGHT: Chuck CloseThe advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work… SPOTLIGHT: Jason Bell MUSING: Gun Law SPOTLIGHT: Spencer MurphyTaylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize SPOTLIGHT: Sian BonnellOne of my old tutors from university has been awarded the 2011 Photoworks British School at Rome Fellowship. Congratulations Sian Bonnell! CURRENT: Asma 2011 CURRENT: Kabul 2010I took this photo in Kabul city centre a couple of days ago… SPOTLIGHT: Seamus MurphyA Darkness Visible by Seamus Murphy: beautifully disturbing body of work with silent images from Afghanistan that speak volumes. MUSING: The Bookseller Of KabulI went to the bookshop owned by ‘The Bookseller of Kabul’ today… CURRENT: Fathers Son CURRENT: Community Health Nurse CURRENT: The Shoe MakerI arrived in Pakistan a few days ago, and went out with my camera for the first time today… What is real? QUOTE: Ansel Adams“Some photographers take reality…and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly…and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.” SPOTLIGHT: Justin Wisniewski MUSING: The rest is all up to me… SPOTLIGHT: Katie FalkenbergAccording to the Human Rights Watch, 70-90% of women in Pakistan have experienced some form of domestic violence… CURRENT: An Honest Afghan SPOTLIGHT: Steve McCurry Gary KnightPhotographer Gary Knight followed the development of events in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan… Big FightAgain Seamus Murphy has shown us a little more of Afghanistan away from the combat… ANA SoldierPhoto by Seamus Murphy of a young Afghan National Army, ANA, soldier is seen at the Kabul Military Training Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. Benjamin LowyAfghanistan is the world’s largest of producer opium at three quarters of the worlds total. And while the Afghan government has embraced poppy eradification programs, corruption is rife, and opium and heroin have permiated every level of Afghan society… MUSING: The Big Freeze Blanket Quiet SPOTLIGHT: Jordan TateThis fragmented image aims to foster awareness of the artist’s role in the creation of the image through photographically specific visual devices and the denial of full access to the context or narrative… SPOTLIGHT: Emily Shur SPOTLIGHT: Toby CoulsonShortlisted for the National Portrait Photographic Prize 2009… SPOTLIGHT: Katrina d’Autremont'This body of work, “Si Dios Quiere” (If God Wants) explores issues of intimacy and distance within my mother's family in Argentina. The house where she grew up and the people who are part of that life serve as characters.' SPOTLIGHT: Blake Fitch SPOTLIGHT: Mimi Youn“There was a limit to showing my thinking, emotional things as the photographs: I wanted to add something to my photographs.” SPOTLIGHT: Clemence de Limburg SPOTLIGHT: Adam JeppesenAdam Jeppesen’s Wake was assembled from images taken whilst traveling on assignment over a seven year period. He is an observer… SPOTLIGHT: Ethan Levitas SPOTLIGHT: Nathalie Mohadjer SPOTLIGHT: Alex Aristei SPOTLIGHT: Anja Behrens SPOTLIGHT: Tammy Mercure SPOTLIGHT: Bradley Peters SPOTLIGHT: Sasha Rudensky SPOTLIGHT: Jürgen Chill SPOTLIGHT: Kevin Bauman SPOTLIGHT: Christopher LaMarca SPOTLIGHT: Mikhael Subotsky SPOTLIGHT: Christopher LaMarca SPOTLIGHT: Susanne Katzenberg SPOTLIGHT: Jen Davis SPOTLIGHT: Mike Peters Musing: THOMAS KNEUBÜHLER Susanne Katzenberg SPOTLIGHT: Thomas Kneubühler SPOTLIGHT: Jonathan Cherry SPOTLIGHT: Rena Effendi What goes around comes around… SPOTLIGHT: Erica McDonald SPOTLIGHT: Stefan Ruiz EXHIBITION: Forecast CURRENT: Final Degree Hand In SPOTLIGHT: Roger Cremers SPOTLIGHT: Sam Hofman SPOTLIGHT: Anthony Luvera SPOTLIGHT: David Williams SPOTLIGHT: Josh Poehlein SPOTLIGHT: Rasmuss Kaessmann SPOTLIGHT: Felipe Dupouy SPOTLIGHT: Andreas Gefeller SPOTLIGHT: Alys Tomlinson SPOTLIGHT: Stefanie Pluta SPOTLIGHT: Christoph Morlinghaus SPOTLIGHT: Wim Bosch SPOTLIGHT: Nick Zinner SPOTLIGHT: Livia Corona SPOTLIGHT: Mike Thompson & Jamie House Musing: Photography AuctionI just bought this print by David Williams at the Falmouth Photography Print Auction… Musing: Camera Collection Here is is… SPOTLIGHT: Debora Mittelstaedt SPOTLIGHT: Anne Lass SPOTLIGHT: Rob Hunter SPOTLIGHT: Ursula Sokolowska BOOK: European Eyes On JapanThis was one of my proud purchases from Paris Photo this year… SPOTLIGHT: Andrew Urwin SPOTLIGHT: Neeta MadaharFor this body of work Neeta Madahar shot a couple of hundred roles of film…she ended up with five final images. She calls this ‘brutal editing’… SPOTLIGHT: Andrew Buurman SPOTLIGHT: Neil Gavin SPOTLIGHT: Fergus Heron SPOTLIGHT: Roark Johnson SPOTLIGHT: Matthew Genitempo SPOTLIGHT: Will Govus SPOTLIGHT: Michael Kenna SPOTLIGHT: Michelle Sank SPOTLIGHT: Chrystel Lebas David WilliamsThe highlight of the Falmouth Photographic Symposium 2009 was listening to David Williams… Melanie ManchotThe series came about through thoughts on where and how we define our borders, in other words, where do I finish and the rest of the world begin… QUOTE: Jim Jarmusch SPOTLIGHT: Simon Roberts EXHIBITION: AOP Student Awards SPOTLIGHT: Nina Mangalanayagam BOOK: 'The Emigrants' – WG Sebald Film: I've loved you so longIt has been a long while since a film has enveloped me the way this one did… SPOTLIGHT: Rinko KawauchiMy first encounter with the work of Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi was sat on the floor of the Photographers Gallery Bookshop… Loading...