Category Archives: News

"Yes We Can" by Scout Tufankjian

Posted on November 18, 2008 | Leave a comment


Just a little heads up folks; a friend of mine, Scout has a superb new book out covering Barack Obama’s two year journey to the White House. You can get a sneak look at some of the pages and a video interview of Scout here.

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US Elections Slideshow

Posted on November 6, 2008 | Leave a comment
The closest I could get to Chicago was Knightsbridge.
I popped into the Chicago Rib Shack in Knightsbridge to cover the reaction of US citizens and Londoners to the results of the US elections.
It turned out to be quite a moving assignment. To see so many US citizens who were unhappy with the current government and wanting so desperately a change. I heard so many people say that they were ashamed of being American and that so much of the world disliked their country. After Barack Obama was announced the President Elect, that they were now so very proud was very touching.

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US Elections & The Power Of Photography

Posted on November 6, 2008 | Leave a comment

Firstly, my congratulations to America and their new President Elect; its superb news.

I covered the reaction of US Citizens watching the results come in at the Chicago Rib Shack in London’s Knightsbridge. It was a very moving assignment…more of which, later!
I was having a look at some links to powerful images and their role in the election on “A Photo Editor”. Of particular note are Platon’s images in The New Yorker and also a set at The Huffington Post.

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Prints Now Available

Posted on November 2, 2008 | Leave a comment

My migration over to Photoshelter is now complete. Having said that, the archive will continue to grow!
All of my images on my Photoshelter site are available for purchase as prints. If you’re a lover of photography or in need of a unique gift, feel free to have a browse. I hope that you’ll find something to your taste!
If you know of anyone who may be interested in prints, please pass on the address:


Many thanks.

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Sign Of The Times

Posted on October 30, 2008 | Leave a comment

Well, its a sad state of affairs. The credit crunch is all around and is going to get worst. Most freelancers are feeling the pinch as their news shifts get cut in numbers and commercial work slows down.

One early casualty has been Digital Railroad with whom I’ve had my archive for a while. They suspended operations on October 28 and it looks like members have until October 31 to access their archives.
Photoshelter has come to the rescue offering photographers a way of transferring their archives straight from DDR to their servers. I must admit to trying this four times and failing on all attempts. The best I could do was get little thumbnails saying image not present. You may have had a better result. In the end I ended up transferring everything from my Mac. Another good example of back everything up!
If you have a DRR account, you should have received an email from them and also from Photoshelter who are offering an extra three months membership for anyone migrating from DRR. If you haven’t, I strongly urge you too look into the situation and come up with an action plan.
My only worry is that if the DRR is liquidated, what happens to all the images on their servers? I can’t see the liquidation company taking time to securely erase all data before selling off the hardware. I urge everybody with a DRR account to contact Diablo Management Group and urge them to securely erase all customer data and image data: DRRinfo@diablomanagement.com

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Multimedia…you know; pictures, video, audio

Posted on October 9, 2008 | Leave a comment

There’s a  lot of terrible multimedia on the web, mainly on newspaper sites that don’t invest time and money in letting their people produce good work. However, there’s a lot of excellent work out there too. For me, Magnum In Motion, Media Storm, The Guardian and New York Times are traditionally the better places to visit to see some stunning work and realise what’s possible with this new story telling method.

Thankfully, there’s also now a great web site called the Kobre Guide that features “the Web’s best multimedia & video journalism”. Its a great site and definitely worth bookmarking.

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