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Exploring the world of photojournalism, photos in the news and BBC News' use of photographs, including those by our readers
10:41 UK time, Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Vanessa Winship is the latest in a long line of illustrious photographers to document the lives and landscape found within the United States.
Having been honoured with the Henri Cartier Bresson Award, she spent more than a year travelling the country, crafting a series of pictures that reflect her response to the people and places visited. The result is a series entitled She Dances on Jackson.
08:36 UK time, Wednesday, 1 May 2013
In an age when most people snap pictures with their phone, it takes a dedicated photographer to drag uphill over several miles of moorland not only a plate camera but also darkroom equipment and chemicals.
And to complicate matters further, Alex Boyd is using the wet-collodion process, discovered in 1848 by Frederick Scott Archer - but the results are spectacular.
02:22 UK time, Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Photographers working for the newswire agencies supplied the BBC with more than 4,000 pictures of last week's funeral of Baroness Thatcher, each one arriving minutes after it was shot. There were many that will stand the test of time, one of those being the picture above by Dominic Lipinski, of the Press Association.
The picture was taken from the Ornamental Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral, an area that is not accessible to the public, up above the Whispering Gallery. "It is almost at the very top of the cathedral dome, so it's an unusual view of the inside of St Paul's people seldom get to see," says Lipinski.
02:04 UK time, Monday, 22 April 2013
World Pinhole Day is an annual event on the last Sunday in April, and last year around 4,000 people from 74 countries celebrated the joy of making photographs through a small hole, then uploading their favourite image of the day on to the Pinhole Day gallery. Photographer and pinhole specialist Justin Quinnell explains the beauty of getting back to basics.
Pinhole photography forms an image through a small pin-sized hole rather than a lens and its origins can be traced back 2,500 years to when Mo Ti in China observed that light travels in a straight line through a small hole like an arrow.
04:12 UK time, Thursday, 11 April 2013
For the residents of Skipsea, on the Holderness coast in the North East of England, coastal erosion is a fact of life. As the years pass the village has seen the sea claim more and more land and its future is far from certain.
Photographer Neil A White's Lost Villages project documents this constant battle between the North Sea and the land in this part of the British Isles, one that endures the highest rate of coastal erosion in Europe.
08:33 UK time, Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Sebastiao Salgado never does things by half and his latest project, Genesis, which has its world premiere at the Natural History Museum in London this week, is photography on an epic scale. It comprises more than 200 prints selected from eight years' work, shot in 32 countries.
The pictures are unmistakably Salgado's, shimmering prints that seem to leap out of the gallery walls. Each one engages and entices you to look closer, to take your time and enjoy the subject as well as the tonality.
00:09 UK time, Sunday, 7 April 2013
I have to confess to something of an obsession with the Vietnam War, which most likely stems from the fact that pictures of the conflict began my lifelong love of photography. McCullin, Faas, Page, Huet, Burrows and so on: all those great photographers' work then spurred further interest in the war itself.
So whenever I stumble upon a website showing some pictures from the conflict, I usually can't resist and click to see what's on offer. This week I did just that and found the work of Charlie Haughey, who it turns out was a rifleman with the 25th Infantry Division who served in Vietnam from March 1968 to May the following year.
10:35 UK time, Wednesday, 27 March 2013
One of my favourite pictures shows a group men atop a roof in Sao Paulo whilst below the traffic on the street hurries past. It will be known to many of you. It's is both a document and piece of art that has a second life on postcards and other items.
The photographer is Reni Burri, a member of Magnum Photos since 1959. His pictures have graced the pages of some of the world's leading pictorial magazines, such as Life, Paris Match, Geo and Stern. His photograph of Che Guevara is repeatedly used by such diverse groups as revolutionaries and canny marketing teams the world over.
01:11 UK time, Thursday, 21 March 2013
As we grow up we are supposed to put away childish things, but why do that when some of them are so much fun. One game that has stuck with me through the years is Subbuteo, the table top football game with a catch line, Flick to kick.
So when I stumbled upon a photographic project called In the box by Tom Groves on this very subject I had to take a look. Back in the 1970s and 80s Subbuteo could probably be found in many boys' bedrooms, yet as computerised football games grew the magic of flicking those little plastic figures around a green pitch seemed to fade, and indeed its availability has been off and on for many years, until a re-launch at the 2012 London Toy Fair.
14:47 UK time, Monday, 11 March 2013
Two years ago in March 2011 photographer Jake Price made his way to Japan following the earthquake and tsunami that left more than 18,000 people dead or missing and also caused the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
I reported on his work at the time and indeed the many visits he has made since whilst working on a long term documentary project which eventually became UnknownSpring. This tells the story of Yuriage, a small town that was destroyed by the tsunami. This work has recently received an honourable mention in the World Press Photo Multimedia Awards.
04:15 UK time, Monday, 11 March 2013
For those of us interested in street photography there are a few names that stand out and one of those is Garry Winogrand, whose pictures of New York in the 1960s are a photographic lesson in every frame.
A new exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is showing some of the pictures he left behind for the first time and photographer Stephen McLaren went along to report on the show.
08:49 UK time, Friday, 8 March 2013
The Format International Photography Festival gets underway this week in Derby and offers a wide range of photography for visitors to soak up and explore.
Format was founded by Louise Clements and Mike Brown in 2004 and its last run in 2011 saw more than 100,000 people make their way to the Derbyshire city.
00:32 UK time, Thursday, 7 March 2013
An exhibition at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History in Austin, Texas, draws on its extensive vaults to bring together pictures recording some key moments in US history. The opening night was attended by a long list of photographic luminaries - journalist James Jeffrey went along to speak to some of them.
While President Barack Obama has now embraced Google Hangout to reach out to his constituents, the latest photography exhibit at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library highlights how photojournalists used an increasingly old-fashioned medium to present US presidents to the world.
04:37 UK time, Saturday, 2 March 2013
As I hope my occasional articles show there are many different approaches and styles within the field of photography. Indeed as the decade moves on it becomes harder to even define what photography is.
Sometimes though photography can be used as a way to communicate a point, or illustrate some research, and a new exhibition in West Bromwich attempts to do just that.
09:40 UK time, Friday, 1 March 2013
Photographing elections can be tough, especially by-elections. In the run-up to polling the candidates pace the streets, shaking hands and even kiss babies, generally hoping to sway the residents in their direction.
The by-election in Eastleigh was no exception and photographer Paul Russell spent a few days with camera in hand tracking down the candidates prior to polling.
15:03 UK time, Thursday, 28 February 2013
For the past 10 years a group of 24 photographers have been recording the first 24 hours of every new year, creating what they call a social commentary that will last for generations.
Last year I ran a selection of the work and thought it would be good idea to do so again as the project still has many years to run, their aim being to continue for 24 years.
02:52 UK time, Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Photographer Jenny Wicks has spent the past year as artist in residence at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research in Glasgow observing the spaces in which criminologists do their work.
The result is two sets of work that Wicks' says sets about "exploring and unsettling key boundaries - between innocent and guilty, researcher and researched, us and them."
09:29 UK time, Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Times are hard, the economy is sluggish and photographers are far from immune to the situation. Add to that the vast number of people chasing commissions means it's a tough time for those looking for financial backing.
Yet there are options out there. Newspapers, magazines and websites are still commissioning work of course, but that's not the only way to be able to shoot the story you want to cover.
15:23 UK time, Tuesday, 12 February 2013
As the world reeled with the news that Pope Benedict XVI was to resign, another bolt from the blue was to hit the Vatican within hours. This time quite literally.
A bolt of lightning - surely not a message from above - was photographed striking the lightning rod on the top St Peter's Basilica, not by one, but two photographers. Or, indeed, maybe more?
11:17 UK time, Tuesday, 12 February 2013
American photographer Ivan Sigal spent seven years between 1998 and 2005 designing media projects with local communities in Central Asia and whilst there took the opportunity to document those he met and worked with.
Sigal's role was to help establish TV and radio stations, as well as to train journalists on his journey which took him to Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan.
Phil has worked in the photographic arena for many years, as both a photographer and picture editor, primarily at the BBC where he has covered news stories, features and audio slideshows, both in the UK and abroad.
He obtained a BA (Hons) in photography from the University of Westminster where he studied under Andy Golding, Tom Ang and Gus Wylie, the latter of whom instilled in him his love of the colour photographic document and street photography.
Despite the obvious advantages of digital photography in news, Phil can often be found running film through his old cameras and spent 64 weeks shooting a project to mark the end of Kodachrome in 2010.
Phil is a member of the British Press Photographers Association.
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