The Road 2013
The Road. A conference as an invitation to do something that seems illogical, to walk away from the crowd and into a storm,to pull your collar up and press headlong into the swirling thunder, to...
View ArticleFuji X100s and Fuji X20 real life review
I’ve been looking for some real life reviews of the X100s and the X20s. With the camera just now slowly coming off the production lines, there are not that many accounts about how these two camera...
View ArticleDash EP Launch
Dash the Band Launched their new and first EP and asked me to cover the event. Here is a selection from this gig: Check out their EP “and then there were none”, too.
View ArticleThe Many Lives of William ‘Bill’ Klein – Weekend Inspiration #20
William Klein has lived many lives. One of the world’s most influential photographers, he pioneered the art of street photography and created some of the most iconic fashion images of the 20th century....
View ArticleOne Just World – Eradicating Poverty
One Just World is a national series of free, after-work speakers’ forums aimed at involving the community in conversation and debate on key international development issues facing Australia, the...
View ArticleFuji X20 – a Photographers Review (updated)
The new Fujifilm X100s and X20 have started to ship, and I received a X20 late March. For all my professional work I’ve been shooting full frame Nikon DSRLs and so using a small...
View ArticleWim Wenders on Photography
Wim Wenders, German film maker and photographer in his own right, talks about digital photography, the transience of the moment and the tendency of today’s photographers to “not be there” with there...
View ArticleAaron Eckhart and Peter van Agtmael – Weekend Inspiration #21
Weekend Inspiration: Aaron Eckhart and Peter van Agtmael talk about being invisible, their interest in photography and journalism, and their paths that let them to photography. Aaron Eckhart, Peter van...
View ArticleBest Flash for the the Fujifilm X20 ( and probably X100s, too)
Well, there are a few whispers going round about the Fuji X100s and the Fuji X20 ability to trigger external flashes. Some have found out that you can leash the new $230 EF-X20 Flash to a standard...
View ArticlePhillip Jones Griffith – His work and life
Legendary anti-war photographer and author of Viet Nam Inc, Philip Jones Griffiths, gives the interview of a lifetime only 48 hours before he died in at his home in London on March 19, 2008. With a...
View ArticleStreet photography with John Free
John Free is a documentary photographer from LA, who’s been around for a while and still shoots the good old Nikon F3. In the first videos he gives some simple advice on practicing and overcoming fear....
View ArticleSeeing the moment before it happens
Most pictures you’re going to take are going to be bad. When you accept that you trust yourself to take chances. If you think every picture has to be good, your going to constantly impose restrictions...
View ArticleImages from Typhoon Haiyan, Philippines
The Concepcion Municipality on Panay Island, roughly 90km north of its capital city Iloilo, is one of the areas hit hardest by Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda). Around 40,000 people live in...
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