Doorshee Boorshee shortlist 2010.

Image from "Cockroach Diaries" by Anna Fox

This seems to come round so fast. The 2010 shortlist and two Brits make it through. Anna Fox & Donovan Wylie

Reiner Riedler.

Image copyright Reiner Riedler.

Jeez I could do with a holiday. Even a "Fake" one. A seamless link through to "FAKE HOLIDAYS" by Reiner Riedler. Can you believe his website address is www.photography.at !

Jim Naughton.

Image copyright Jim Naughton.

Love these portraits of Re-enactores by Jim Naughton. I think the pretty heavy post production suites the fantasy nature of the subject.

More on The National Football Museum Move from the brilliant MULE.

Preston? Manchester? Preston?

Dedicated to the Trustee's of The National Football Museum Preston. HERE for what I'm on about.......

If photographs are one of the candles by which we read history, a blaze of light will be shone on the past from Friday at the British Library. Here a vast exhibition of 19th-century photography will give the public a taster for the first time of the extent of the library’s photographic treasures, which amount to nearly half a million images. Culled from these, 200 items will reveal a breadth of material from the dawn of photography to the present day, hinting at a collection so large that it seems extraordinary that it has remained in obscurity all this time. READ ON.

Simon Norfolk will be holding a talk at Derby's QUAD Gallery who of course are the people behind THE FORMAT Festival. The talk is being held on Thursday 19th November starting at 6:30 PM and only costing 3 squid which is a bargain I think to hear one of our most crucial photographers talk.

This is closely followed on the 9th December by another £3 "Doo" with guest speaker and another legend Brian Griffin.

Anthony Blasko.

Image copyright Anthony Blasko

When it comes to people, photography tends to be drawn to the extreme, to the marginalised, the extraordinary and the grotesque. It loves poverty, suffering, super wealth, excess and eccentricity. It avoids the ordinary (and I mean ordinary in a positive way) like America avoids free healthcare.
Anthony Blasko remedies this by making fantastic understated narrative out of the everyday.

Impressions of Bradford.

Today I went to visit my books at THE IMPRESSIONS GALLERY book fair Bradford.

First stop Manchester Victoria station, gateway to the world.

I'm full of contradictions me. "News of The World" but brown sugar.

A horse.

Country folks houses.

Thank you it's nice to be here.

First impressions.

The optimist in me thought sending 4 books would be enough.

And as you can see by the crowds I may have been right. I forget sometimes what a minority game we are in.

My manager, assistant, financial backer, harshest critic, biggest supporter and most importantly, my lovely misses Sarah.

The slight time delay on my little Ricoh caught Sarah out thus decapitating me. At least that's what she said.

Wearing robot dressing up gear from an unusual exhibition to find in a photography gallery, toy robots? I can't begin to express just how bad that mask smelt.

You get to a certain age a couple of pints and you need a nap........

Men Of The City by Mark Isaacs.

Another piece of absolute genius documentary film making by Mark Isaacs HERE. This bloke just seems to take the pulse of modern Britain. Is there a better documentary film maker within these shores?

New Cliches of Photography #14

Topiary.

Jonathan Blaustein.

Image copyright Jonathan Blaustein.

Nice little project THIS. What food you can buy minus wrapping for $1 in New Mexico?
(He wants to get his arse to Lidl.)

Martin Parr promises a 2010 Brighton Photo Biennial full of surprises

Image Martin Parr.


Martin Parr curator of The 2010 Brighton Photo Biennial promises the first "frame-free" photo festival. So my cheap frames from Wilkinson's idea has been gazumped by Mr Parr already. You see that's the mark of a true genius, pushing always pushing. We mere mortals go for cheap frames he shouts fuck your cheap frames, I SAY NO FRAMES AT ALL.

Read HERE.

London Photograph Fair.

What a twat that RANKIN is, thought Billy Connolly.

THIS has got to be worth a punt if you happen to be in London town on the 8th November. You could buy yourselves an entire art project, if APPROPRIATION is your game .

TOP PRACTICAL TIPS FROM MANCHESTER PHOTOGRAPHY

Buy your frames from Wilkinson's on Salford precinct! £4.50 for an A4 which is a good size for a photograph. Not keen on big photo's. I always think if you've got a 2 metre photograph you better have a 4 metre idea.

A new six week course coming to URBIS. Yours truly is one of the speakers so why not come along and heckle?

RACE, DIVERSITY, PHOTOGRAPHY: Online Symposium.

I liked the way that Pete Brooks described his hopes for THIS

"I am perversely driven by the desire to test the power and limits of the photoblogshere. It would be a collective blogging bomb!"

I couldn't believe that this hasn't been done before, not blog bombing I mean discussions on race & photography. No time like the present though, not when there's still so much unbelievable shit like THIS going on. That's the obviously bad stuff, there's harder more complicated issues like THIS to also give more time to.

Shit, I am now aware of how many times I said the words "bomb" and "race" in this posting and I've no doubt woken from their slumber, someone from HERE .

It's funny how posting's can take on a life of their own HERE.

HA!-HA!Like that old saying about buses all coming at once, I've got two things on starting this weekend. My book "25 Weapons" is going on a bit of a world tour, well the North of England at least. Starting this coming Sunday 25th It will be part of a group show called HA!-HA! that's on at THE DUKES GALLERY (part of THE DUKES THEATRE) Lancaster until November 19th details HERE.

Second up "25 Weapons" has also been selected for the bookfair weekend @ IMPRESSIONS GALLERY Bradford which is on this coming weekend 24th & 25th. I'm going to have to pick opening night at Lancaster or Sunday at the book fair, and my belly and Bradfords reputation for some truly great curry's swung it for me!

Manchester resident and one of my favourite photographers Seba Kurtis is one of only two UKers to be selected for "Piece Of Cake" .A worthy representative.