Digital Photography Review warns scammers are peddling fake ‘KODAKCoin’ – take note!

A bit of a heads up for those ever-present scammers after your hard earned cash. Be weary – if it looks too good to believe, it most likely is! Digital Photography Review warns Kodak is warning potential investors that “KODAKCoin” offerings found online aren’t the real thing. According to an email sent to potential investors, […] Read more >

Video of the Week 2: Lomography Cameras

I ran an article a week or so back on getting into Lomography. I’m going to keep posting on Lomography as it is something I find kinda cool. The first 10 minute clip below offers a very basic level (but necessary) guide on how to get yourself started with the basic concepts of Lomography activity… […] Read more >

Time Magazine Releases 12 Covers All Shot on iPhone | Fstoppers

Grab that iPhone, guys, and snap away! You’re now in the running to get your pics on a TIME Magazine cover, if you can believe it. FStoppers write “in a creative world where there is a mentality of “bigger is better,” most photographers will be shocked to hear that Time Magazine just released 12 magazine covers […] Read more >

Site sells Instagram users’ phone and e-mail details, $10 a search | Ars Technica

DPReview are currently running an article notifying their readership there is a security breach within Instagram’s algorithms that allows access to personal profile information stored in the Instagram servers. This may be something you need to look at – especially if you suddenly find your cellphone being bombarded by mysterious calls or start receiving phishing […] Read more >

Photography clip of the week; Photographer Annie Leibovitz

I’ve long been a Leibovitz fan. Not just for her celebrity portrait photography but also for the way she used that celebrity photography to form the cult of celebrity upon herself, in much the same manner in which Robert Mapplethorpe did. Interestingly, it has been suggested Mapplethorpe referred to Leibovitz as the most difficult subject […] Read more >

What the hell is Lomography?!?

Sure, you can do all this fun playful imaging stuff on you mobile phone nowadays (that’s an example off mine above) but there was a time when the primary way it was possible to get a bad quality photograph was to purchase a cheap crappy light-leaking plastic camera from a pharmacy, mall or supermarket and […] Read more >

Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures – Official trailer – YouTube

Some of you may know already I’ve long been a fan of iconic provocateur photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe, who rise to fame and infamy developed from the very early 1970s and through to his death from AIDS in 1989. His huge range of photographic work and well publicised lifestyle are at least very confronting and something […] Read more >

Best Photographs of 2016

Sublime! What more needs to be said really. This link takes you witness the best photographs of 2016 as determined by National Geographic magazine, no less. Enjoy! Here is a gallery of National Geographic’s 52 best images of the year—curated from 91 photographers, 107 stories, and 2,290,225 photographs. Source: Best Photographs of 2016 Read more >