'Asia's Largest Slum' Audio Slideshow

A short photo essay from the Observer about Dharavi in Mumbai. Strange, beautiful, suprising and certainly worth 4 minutes 15 seconds of your time.

Vancouver - First Look

Hand Tinting - 21st Century Style

I recently shot a roll of B&W film and inspired by old hand-tinted images I coloured them in using my computer. What do you think?

Hockney's 'Joiners'

David Hockney is famous for his paintings, but his photo-montages also deserve attention. I try to think of the camera as a tool for making marks on a page in the same way as a pencil or a paintbrush, and these 'Joiners' are good examples of this theory in practice. 'Kasmin, Los Angeles, 28th March 1982' and 'My Mother, Bolton Abbey, Nov.82 No.4' show a strikingly cubist approach to the photographic portrait

(I'm not sure if anybody reads this except me, but at least this is a good scrapbook for my ideas.)

These images were gratefully borrowed from Mark Harden's Artchive which is an excellent resource of all things Art.

http://www.artchive.com/

Hands

Photos taken of Chorsiters' hands at the London Latvian Choir annual concert.

Ron Gallela Papparazi Slideshow

When I tell people that I'm a photographer they sometimes say 'Oh, like a Paparazzi right?'.

On the guardian website I found this nice gallery about pioneering Paparazzo Ron Gallela whose photographs from the 50s are seen as a great document of historical Hollywood. I think that it's clear from the expressions of his subjects' faces how they felt about him.

The Guardian In Pictures: Ron Gallela

US Presdiential Campaign Portraits

Another excellent slideshow, this time a portfolio of portraits showing American politicians, operatives and activists involved in the election of 2008. Many thanks to my mate Claire Milligan for showing me this.

Who It Takes: A GQ Photographic Portfolio, Campaign 08