Tired.

Today I am just tired. Will see you all tomoz...............................................

Bilal Hussein

Bilal Hussein the Iraqi photojournalist held by US forces. Read more here:http://www.freebilal.org/links.htm and sign the petition. The only positive side to this story, is that good photojournalism, still has the power to scare the shit out of them, and the Internet allows us to band together and stop them burying the story...................

A photo editor

This is a great blog. And since the demise of Alec Soth's blog, the one I read the most. Although I am pleased to say that the work of Colin Pantall was featured here first! www.aphotoeditor.com & www.colinpantall.com

Place space, identity.

Image copyright lock & Henner

Yesterday, found out about an interesting "work in progress" blog from lock & Henner, working on a project down in Stoke. http://www.placespaceidentity.blogspot.com/

Mark Kennedy

"So you want to be a ceramic star in Manchester" For me this is the problem with this town at the moment. Mark Kennedy, has become an important part of Manchester. We know his work on Afflecks, and the Gay trail etc, it's part of us. What's sad, is that some yuppie thinks that he can do the same, and that a load of dicks desperate to buy into the whole "MADCHESTER" shite are willing to fall for it, Knobs..........http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1025606_lemmy_in_motorhead_mosaic

or www.markkennedy.co.uk/ For the real deal.

Tom Wood

Image copyright Tom Wood

I have noticed that photographers website status is a good indicator as to their fame and success as artists. A newbie photographer fresh out of college may start with a flickr site, moving on as time goes by to maybe a template site, until they can have a made to measure flash site built. The big boys have no site at all, relying on galleries to do such mundane things such as promotion. So it is with great pleasure that I can announce that the Great Tom Wood has no website! Well done photie man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wood_(photographer)

Mitra tabrizian

Image copyright Mitre Tabrizian

Mitre Tabrizian makes very interesting use of portraiture: http://www.mitratabrizian.com/

Engels Talk at Urbis

No you're right Engels is dead, but this looks worth a visit, and it's free and what else is there to do on a Wednesday, and Heroes isn't as good as everyone is saying, in fact it's a little bit shit and..........http://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk/index.asp?Sessionx=IpqiNw86IwXiJ0qiNwF6IHqi&realname=Hunt_comes_to_Manchester

Chris Leah

Image copyright Chris Leah

Most of the work on "Shot up North" http://www.shotupnorth.co.uk/ is very commercial. I did, amongst it all though, find the personal work of Chris Leah, which I like a lot. http://www.chrisleah.com/

Micky D, The salford street poet..........

Take a look at this, pure genius: http://www.viiiid.com/youtube_video.php?Id=5Ll4YQB8Q6A

Spent the afternoon at Salford museum & Art gallery checking out the David Dunnico exhibition "Memento Mori":http://homepage.mac.com/manpf/duppies/thefirstpicture.html some fantastic prints, fascinating facts, some great Victorian Gothic, Oh and a Bakelite coffin I kid you not! There's some very atmospheric and scary music, which David has also created for the show. I'm not normally a big fan of manipulated photography but these images are well executed (sorry, bad choice of word!) Anyway just go look!

Edmund Kevill-Davies

Image copyright Edmund Kevill-Davies

Edmund Kevill-Davies pictures of ventriloquist's dummies and their adopted families, are I think, full of camp horror, and I think there is something very "English" about them. http://edmundkevilldavies.com/about.html

Talk by John Angerson

John Angerson: In Sheffield's City Hall, the faithful feel the power of Jesus through the laying on of hands.

Artist Talk: John AngersonWednesday 21 Nov, 6pmOpen Eye Gallery28-32 Wood StreetLiverpool L1 4AQTelephone: +44 (0)151 709 9460

Photographer John Angerson introduces Love, Power and Sacrifice, an extraordinary b&w documentary portrait, 20 years in the making, of the Jesus Army. Angerson is currently promoting his book of the project, which is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing. Free event see http://www.openeye.org.uk/events.asp

Editing

Images copyright Mark Page

I always find this one of the hardest bits of doing a project, the editing. Starting a project is like starting a game of darts, you start by throwing them anywhere and as the turns go on you have to try harder to hit the numbers you need........ That's hard enough but the editing, that's the fucking tricky bit! This is a great post from David Alan Harvey who puts it so much more eloquently than yours truly. http://davidalanharvey.typepad.com/road_trip/2007/09/one-two-three.html Above are two pictures which I am trying to decide between.

Mike Peters

Image copyright Mike Peters
Really like Mike Peters work, although his website is a bit of a Bastard! http://www.mikepeters.com/

Portfolio magazine

The latest edition of Portfolio is now out (available at The Cornerhouse) and features new work by Manchester's very own Dinu Li http://www.dinuli.com/ http://www.portfoliocatalogue.com/

100 posts!

A century! 100 posts. This is a bit of a land mark for the blog. However I'm not going to waste my one hundredth post talking about my one hundredth post! I am going to use it to show you this: http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essays/liberame.aspx from Alex Majoli and Magnum in Motion. I have for a long time been intrigued by films that are made from "Stills" It shouldn't really work, but some how it does. Why I'm not sure, perhaps it's because it gives the viewer time to use their own imagination, perhaps it's because as the journalist John Snow says "we remember things as still images" What ever the reason, for me at least there's something powerful about this type of work.

Glynis Shaw

Image copyright Glynis Shaw

I quite like Glynis Shaw's photography, especially "RHYL"

http://www.castell-photography.co.uk/

Gemma Parker

Image copyright Gemma Parker

Today I bring some good old fashioned glamour into your lives, in the form of fantastically talented, Manchester based painter Gemma Parker. Go to http://www.gemmaparker.co.uk/ "oh la la"

The Spider awards

If black & white is your thing you may be interested in entering this: www.thespiderawards.com