AuthorbyI am probably going to be doing quite a few posts about this topic in the next few months and maybe even years. I have been since the beginning of the year working on a project to photograph the City of London. I discovered that Martin Parr, has been doing the same thing over the past …
AuthorbyTwitter and I how I use it. Twitter is one social media platform that I use a lot. I like it brevity, the shortness of the message. I also like that I can use it as a way of making a list of web pages to refer to, with a note. I have for a while now used Twitter …
AuthorbyI recently had bit of a light bulb moment in relation to who to approach with regards to making money, when doing my photography. I have for a long time been interested in the way capitalism works and live in London, whereas I know that the City of London, is one of the centres for global capitalism, …
AuthorbyHere is a thought that for me won’t go away. If I follow my thoughts on politics, I end up on the left of contemporary debates by political parties, which is were I believe most people end up being. Yet, if we listen to the media talk and look at what has happened in both UK …
AuthorbyWhen does it all fall apart again? We don’t know as it takes a spark somewhere to stop the wheels of capitalism from spinning. Why are we surprised when the economy does it what it regularly does and go into a crisis our current form of capitalism has seen a few of these crisis over the …
AuthorbyMarco del Pra’s Atterwasch story at atterwasch.net “atterwasch. is a documentary about the German village of Atterwasch which is under pressure to make way for a brown coal open-cast mine, despite the fact that the village exemplifies Germany’s acclaimed energy transition. This multimedia documentary focuses on the uncertainty Atterwasch’s residents were confronted with over a one-year period …
AuthorbyThe Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren on YouTube. A very interesting if long video of the crisis that is confronting the middle class within American and by extension our society as it struggles to reconcile the problems of lowering incomes, increasing debt and rising housing costs. On top of that it also …
Authorby“.. criticisms of growing inequality will have little impact on policy decisions until they are embraced by the masses, the working class, those that capitalism cruelly exploits and who are so easily dismissed by politicians and academics. At that point the working class will finally stand up and collectively declare enough is enough.” Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer. Above is …
AuthorbyDo not become a photojournalist if you want to earn lots of money. this add for a course gives an idea of what the college thinks a photojournalist will earn coming out of this course. Scary really, as the average wage in the Uk is closer to £25-000 per year and this would definitely put you …
AuthorbyWhy its Kicking of Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions by Paul Mason. I have just finished reading this book from cover to cover and often these days I do not do that as I have got to the point that I seem to know what is being said from reading other sources (books). The subject area …
