I 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 few years, as photographer in residency for the city of London. He had an exhibition of the work at the Guildhall Art Gallery, earlier this year. The images where featured on the Guardian Newspaper website. When, I found out about the Martin Parr, City …

Twitter 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 to tweet pages from various websites, that I want to be able to refer to later. It is something that I learnt, while studying at University for the Creative Arts in Farnham. It can be a good format to create as a resource. So that when I go to …

When 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 past few decades as bubbles burst. Maybe we need to have a bonfire of capital occasionally so that it can be recreated again, only problem is every time we have a economic problem our economies have not been designed to withstand them, we do …

Marco 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 (2013-2014). You are free to determine the pace of the narrative yourself.”   The website that is atterwasch.net is a scrolling documentary presentation featuring recorded interviews and is very well done which is why I am featuring it here. I like how the design of the website …

Do 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 below average and you would only need a client or two not to pay for some reason and you would be on minimum wage.   I am told it is a good course in photojournalism.   I would however recommend it if you want …

Why 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 that Paul Mason former Newsnight editor now Culture & Digital Editor at Channel 4 News has written about, is rather interesting to read especially from someone so embedded within mainstream media. I picked up a few pointers, one that I think would be useful for me, …