By Chalkie Davies I was so psyched that I was going to photograph Robbie Robertson, he was staying at the Savoy and was one of my favourite musicians. Unfortunately, when I arrived […]
A Night Out With Jack
Nancy Spungen died 47 years ago today
By Chalkie Davies Nancy Spungen died 47 years ago today, I never knew that I had this individual photo of her, I only remember shooting her with Sid in Phil Lynott’s bathroom, […]
The last photo of John Lennon
The last photo of John Lennon, taken by Paul Goresh outside The Dakota at 4:40 PM on 8 December 1980, carries a weight far greater than its blurred details. The flash on […]
KISHIN SHINOYAMA RIP
By Yoko Ono When John and I decided to make the album Double Fantasy, breaking a five-year silence, we wondered whom we should ask to take the photographs. As the two of […]
Top 10 tips for emerging photographers
For World Photo Day (19 Aug) we take a look at some of the pearls of wisdom leading photographers have been dishing out in our Photographers in Focus series. Featuring Wolfgang Tilmans, […]
Chinese femininity laid bare with coming-of-age photographer Luo Yang
Started as a passion project in 2008, Girls has become a career-making image series from Shanghai-based photographer Luo Yang. Her ongoing work upends stereotypes of Chinese hyper-femininity by capturing an emerging generation […]
Photographers in Focus: Wolfgang Tillmans
Turner Prize-winning multidisciplinary artist Wolfgang Tillmans’ work covers everything from documenting the darkest corners of Europe’s club culture to abstract material images that exist in a place somewhere between photography and sculpture. […]
Photographers in Focus: Nobuyoshi Araki
Italian director Andrea Cossu’s portrait of legendary Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, known for his controversial sexualised imagery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PuNAqiFGt8
China’s ‘free and daring’ young women
Photographer Luo Yang has been taking photos of young Chinese women since 2007 for her ‘Girls’ series. “They might not be the typical young Chinese girl you see every day,” she says. […]
Photographers in Focus: Daido Moriyama
Andrea Cossu’s documentary about iconic Japanese street photography Daido Moriyama’s color works taken between the late 1960s and early 1980s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv3TbXG9RuI&nohtml5=False
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