“There are no stories in my work. There is only what the viewers find within it for themselves. I am more interested in exploring time and multiple possibilities that exist in reality.” Daisuke Yokata. Photo: Raga. William Blake's Death Day, Bunhill Fields, London. © Paul Clements. #williamblake

‘They told me that they’d hunt me down’: journalists on how they survive working in war zones With a record number of journalists killed over the past year, four reporters covering conflicts across the world reveal how they dodge death

THE GUARDIAN: ‘They told me that they’d hunt me down’: journalists on how they survive working in war zones buff.ly/IcH5Oau @theguardian.com @kaamilahmed.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #pressfreedom #journalismisnotacrime

Azerbaijan jails 21st journalist in 15 months amid intensifying media crackdown - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, February 5, 2025 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrest of Shamshad Agha, chief editor of the independent news site Arqument.az, and calls on Azerbaijani authorities to r...

COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: Azerbaijan jails 21st journalist in 15 months amid intensifying media crackdown cpj.org?p=450857 @pressfreedom.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism

"If machines are able to do our work, if they can do, in principal, without us, we have to re-think the artist‘s role within the art process. To just fulfil the function is not enough. Artistic creativity has to reach beyond the functionality of technology." Vilém Flusser. Photo: Robert Frank. 1956.

Trent Parke... great choice, and I always love that image of him developing film at the seaside!

Certainly is... Woodman and Goldin, especially.

Strange ommissions!

Lives Less Ordinary - Two Temple Place Two Temple Place, one of London’s hidden architectural gems, hosts exhibitions and events and is owned by the charity The Bulldog Trust.

Exhibition at TwoTemple Place.. twotempleplace.org/exhibitions/...

‘Galleries want comfortable social realism’: Why British art has a class problem The ‘objectification’ of working-class life by outsiders has led to a century of ‘misrepresentation’. It’s time for a radical re-framing

If you can get past the PayWall, then this is a great read.. from The Daily Telegraph of all newspapers.. www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/...

"What's not talked about enough within successful Art Making is daringness... if you don't throw the dice, there's no point in playing." Ocean Vuong on Robert Franks exhibition "Hope Makes Visions" at Pace Gallery NYC. Photo: Mabou. Robert Frank. 1995. www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/...

Ah,thanks Chris and hoping you are all good! x

"The photographer cannot help manipulating the situation. Their very presence is a manipulation and they cannot avoid being affected by the situation. They are changed by simply being there.” (Flusser 2014:83) Flusser, V. Gestures 2014. University of Minnesota Press. #flusser #photojournalist