Last night I took a work friend of mine from India to the Student final show at Byam Shore, which is a college of the University of the Arts London. This image was taken there and shows some of the highly creative work that was on display by this year’s graduating class. This particular body of work was by an artist that based his work around the homeless. The images are in black and white save the eyes of the subject which are vivid, bright and clear. Your attention is drawn to the eyes which was the artists intention. He…

Chris Jordon’s current work, Running the numbers – An American Self Portrait, allows us to think quite differently about our consumption by marrying photographic work with statistics. I wish he was showing this in London, I would love to view the actual works as I believe they would be striking. View the work by clicking this link http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7

Thanks Style Bubble for alerting us to the “I’m not a smug twat” bag, designed apparently in opposition to the “I’m not a plastic bag”, the (supposedly) environmentally friendlier alternative to the plastic bag. I for one am getting a little peeved at the sudden “pressure” being brought to bear on us lowly types to reduce our carbon footprint, recycle or be damned (charged), by the “we’re only going to remove your rubbish once every fortnight”, brigade.

A [tag]13 Gigapixel panoramic[/tag] image of Harlem from up high has been created through a collaboration between artist [tag]Gerard Maynard[/tag] (who works in New York) and Kolor Company, to showcase an impressive piece of software that was used to put the 2045 images together to form what is believed to be the worlds largest panorama.

[tag]Photofusion[/tag] are staging a one day [tag]Street Photography[/tag] Forum at their location 17a Electric Lane, London SW9 8LA. The forum runs from 11am – 4pm and booking is £10. This should prove an interesting event. Photofusion are a small [tag]photography gallery[/tag] and services operation with very friendly staff and technical experts there to help you with both film and digital image processing,

If you are a UK photographer that works in public places then you may be interested in signing a petition over at ye old E-petitions site. Simon Taylor at Phooto.co.uk has created one specifically to enlighten the PM of our displeasure at the moves being made to restrict the ability of photographers to make work without specific ID requirements. To add your name to the petition go to http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Photography/

I found a great article over at the Digital Photography School website about photographing childrens birthday parties. My reason for looking for advice was that I was due to be the ‘official’ photographer at a friends son’s birthday recently and as such wanted to get some tips on how best to approach the day.