This was made 2 years ago. Doesn’t feel like it. So much has happened but it still feels like yesterday. Things haven’t got any better. Quite the opposite. They are much worse. Here is the original text that went with the video.. ~ It’s the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War and with talk of [...]
Makoto – A New Kind Of Photographic Agency
October 5, 2009 by · 6 Comments
My friend Phil wrote to me from Kirkuk, he’s researching this story on the Arab-Kurd situation. It’s slow going, but he summarises it all with one sentence. No one wants to compromise, there’s a low level war already underway and things could get more dangerous in a year or two. All sort of grim. For [...]
Some Bloggers Are Journalists. And some are not.
September 22, 2009 by · 12 Comments
I just got an email from a friend working in Iraq. He’s stuck in Mosul waiting for a helicopter to Kirkuk. Must have been months since I last heard from him. I sent an email to him last night half expecting him to be locked in some farmhouse on the outskirts of Baghdad handcuffed to [...]
I Am Not A Terrorist
July 21, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
I am posting this photo to help raise awareness on the on-going crackdown on photographers in the UK, US and Europe. More info on www.not-a-crime.com/ I also blogged about this same issue last year.. ourmaninside.com/2008/06/04/do-i-look-like-a-terrorist/ I didn’t post this to the flickr group as i didn’t feel it fit all of the criteria.
Multi-Multimedia
March 30, 2009 by · 6 Comments
The other week while on assignment at Reuters with @sizemore, I was talking to @ilicco about how the more kit i try to juggle the more diluted the content can become. I was sat at the front of an almost exciting talk from the FSA with laptop, iPhone, N95, Kodak Zi6 and a pocket camera. [...]
Iraqi Refugees: Life in the Shadows
February 18, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
It’s over six years since the beginning of the Iraq war, and the troubles continue. To date, over 4,000 American soldiers have been killed in combat. While the loss of combat troops is certainly tragic, even more stunning is the World Health Organization report based on Iraqi Health Ministry figures which estimates that 151,000 Iraqi [...]
Ali Bongo And The Three Purple Hearts
April 24, 2008 by · 5 Comments
I am writing this aboard an aircraft thirty odd thousand feet above the atlantic, halfway to New York on a ticket bought for me by Seesmic.com After podcasting for over two years and blogging for nearly 6, it looks like the subject of money is creeping into more and more of my online conversations. And [...]
Episode 42 – Life In The Shadows
April 7, 2008 by · 5 Comments
