We may never know the Impact social media had in shaping our new rather bewildering government. Maybe it reached a lethargic non-voting population and changed their minds. Perhaps it taught the party campaigners to engage with more mobile tools in order to rally their troops. Maybe all it did was introduce other channels of communication to the mix. All I know is it certainly played a part. … [Read more...] about Politics In The Social Media Playground
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Makoto – A New Kind Of Photographic Agency
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 months now he has wanted to get a photo agency together. It's a collaborative effort between … [Read more...] about Makoto – A New Kind Of Photographic Agency
A Fist With The Thumb Tucked In
This little stone fist is over three thousand years old. Maybe more. It was loose in the bottom of a large box of Egyptian artefacts that I was asked to photograph for a museum. I was fascinated by it because at the time the logo for my Documentally Podcast was a fist. The fist I had chosen was nothing like this though. This Egyptian fist has the thumb tucked in and my fist was based loosely … [Read more...] about A Fist With The Thumb Tucked In
Beaver Wax
I've been in a few bands over the years. Some never left the bedroom recording studios they were born in. One hit the decks of the late great John Peel and others toured the UK bars and Uni's brushing dangerously with the possibility of becoming something. I was just trawling through an old photo folder and found a mock up image for an album cover than never got made. 'Beaver Wax' were formerly … [Read more...] about Beaver Wax