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1000 Portraits

Posted on March 1, 2009 | Leave a comment

Thousand Portraits from Carlo Nicora on Vimeo.


two photographers – one camera
one weekend – a thousand people

A neat project by Carlo Nicora and Eamon Lane, looks at 1000 faces of London.

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Chase Jarvis Interview

Posted on February 28, 2009 | Leave a comment

Chase Jarvis’ 5 Secrets for Exceptional Photographs from SilberStudios.Tv on Vimeo.

Commercial and editorial photographer, friend, diamond geezer and generally top man Chase Jarvis has an interesting interview on Photoshow (above).

There are also a few more interviews on his blog post. Do check them out folks.

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One In Eight Million

Posted on February 21, 2009 | Leave a comment

The New York Times has a superb collection of multimedia stories called One in Eight Million by photographer Todd Heisler. 

The subjects of the stories are the unique and interesting characters of New York; its a weekly feature and one story is added every week.
Its very nicely done and well worth a look.

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Palestinian Gaza Demo, London. January 10, 2009

Posted on January 12, 2009 | Leave a comment

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Yesterday’s Gaza Demo-Police Stupidity?

Posted on January 4, 2009 | Leave a comment


The crowd are herded towards the underpass tunnel

I covered the Palestinian Gaza demo yesterday and was astonished by the route chosen by the Police for the march. After the rally at Trafalgar Square, the march made its way to the Israeli embassy on High Street Kensington. I’ve been covering demos for over 19 years now and have never once seen a march involving many thousands of people taken into a tunnel (the underpass at Hyde Park Corner). As we were herded by the Police into the tunnel I knew it was a seriously bad idea. To make matters worst, nobody was allowed to use another route, so women and children, some in prams, were all pushed through the tunnel.

A distressed woman rushed away from the violence at the front

The problem was that there was a Police line at the front and surely enough when we were in the middle section, it all kicked off. Sadly I was several meters back so didn’t see what happened. The protesters naturally said that for no reason the Police started to strike the floor with their batons and then began to hit people in the front of the march. I would think that there must have been a provocation as I saw wooden sticks being thrown over my head towards Police lines. I heard one fleeing woman shout that stones were being thrown at the Police.Whatever the reason, this resulted in a mild stampede and the crowd in front of me suddenly turned around and began to run. Screaming and panic ensued. Alas, by the time I reached the front all the commotion had stopped.
To cram thousands of people through a tunnel without any escape exits is utter stupidity. I think everyone was fortunate that there weren’t any injuries suffered apart from those hit by batons.
If anyone knows anyone who is placed high in the Metropolitan Police, please be kind enough to pass this post onto them.

The crowd are jubilant as they approach the tunnel’s exit

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Palestinian Gaza Demo, London

Posted on January 4, 2009 | Leave a comment

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