Martin Parr’s kitch collection – Maggie Memorabilia

Thatchabilia FT weekend magazine.

Image is everything?

“…each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted.” – Susan Sontag

Photo by my good friend out in south Korea, James Smith – check out his great photos here  http://jamesesmith.tumblr.com/

Good Wire Photography

A good lesson in framing the bigger picture at an otherwise dull event. Bill Murray on a red carpet at Cannes with a small camera making a better photo.

us bRITS

…if ever there was a photo to define the times in the yooooUKay media this might well be it…I wonder what the daily mail version of this t-shirt would say?!@£$%^&*()

photo by Nancy Thornber

Ideograms

This made me laugh when I was walking home so I took a snap and then sent it in to a delightful blog that also makes me laugh more – shitlondon.co.uk

Retouching with Terry Richardson

I was clicking around Terry Richardson’s website looking for inspiration on how to shoot some portraits when I came across this pic in his diary images, I think its his best work – http://www.terrysdiary.com

Probably the best travel documentary series ever?

An idiot abroad, very English, very good. Watch it if you can its a brilliant insight into the default English mentality of foreign places which works so on many levels.

Useful Idiots

‘Useful Idiots’ is a Cold War phrase used to describe people of intelligences who allow themselves to be duped for the political gain of others – Four Lions is a great movie about useful idiots in more current times.

Writer Director Chris Morris said ‘in order to do something like this you don’t see it as[…its not] a taboo, nothing I have done, I would classify as controversial. Right, that’s just people making a mistakes.’ (he grins)

flies will be flies

Magnus Muhr