Marco Bohr, Beatles, Chopin and Unknown, 91 x 111 cm c-print, 2007 Regular readers of this blog will know that Japanese visual culture is a topic I often seek to explore in my posts. I have a personal attachment to Japan since I lived in Tokyo from 2003 to 2004 and until today I return…
Widely referred to as ‘The Situation Room Photograph’, the image of Barack Obama and his most trusted advisors as they watch the events unfold in Pakistan is rapidly becoming the most viewed photograph on Flickr. The photograph is based on a simple, yet a very powerful dynamic characterized by an exchange of gazes: the viewer…
A new website called Tubecrush.net gives women the opportunity to photograph handsome guys they come across on the London underground. Photographs are usually taken with a mobile phone camera allowing the photographer to remain anonymous and undiscovered in the act of photographing. Tubecrush then categorizes these photographs in groups which tend to focus or relate…