Photography – Media Production

Now for something light, entertaining, educational and inspiring.

Thanks to Colleen Leonard (famous Canadian photographer and former Lens Culture assistant editor) for sharing this with us, via Hyperallergic.

From the photobook Interrogations © Donald Weber
This work stopped me cold the first time I saw it. It looked terrifyingly real, but how could it be? Are some of these people being forced to write confessions while loaded guns are pressed into their h…

When I worked at The Sun, a lot of emphasis was put on always having multiple projects in the hopper. Self-generated projects are the lifeblood of any good paper, and they promote exploration and serendipity.

Since I have gone out on my own, I can ho…

© Jacob Aue Sobol, from his series “Arrivals and Departures” made exclusively with the new Leica M Monochrom digital camera

In an age where black-and-white film and traditional photo paper and chemicals are disappearing from the marketplace, Leica C…

For his Now Here’s My Plan EP, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy has revisited his own back catalogue in a series of self-covers. The bleak I See A Darkness has been pepped up to the point of creepiness, an effect only increased by a rather strange video…

52Aces is a pack of playing cards, each one sporting a design by a different illustrator. The really great thing about it is that mostly it avoids the ‘usual suspects’ and has introduced us to some image makers we weren’t hereto familar with…

Several people asked about the C-stand (short for century stand) that I used on the Rosco OA posted on Monday.

Long story short, after spending 2 months on the road with McNally and crew last year, I have become a convert. If you have never used a C-…

© Max de Esteban, from Elegy I: Vertige, “Elegies of Manumission”

Photographer/philosopher Max de Esteban creates stunning, old-world-type portraits, and groups them by philosophical themes. Above: “Doubt is arguably the origin of rebellion against d…