An interview with Jose Azel

Jose Azel, as much a thoughtful intellectual as accomplished photojournalist and founder of the international photo agency Aurora Photos shares with us some hard-won insights as well as his business philosophy which combines an altruistic approach with a keen attention to the bottom line.

Listen as Jose recounts his early experiences and then seamlessly moves on to [...]

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Talbot’s Fox

Starting in a few days I will begin to post audio interviews with some of the World’s thought leaders in the field of photography – the people behind the images – under the common name of Talbot’s Fox.

First up we talk to award winning photojournalist and founder of the elite photo agency Aurora Photos, Jose [...]

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Twitter for Large Companies 101

This is a “What Not To Do” and goes some way towards answering the question of whether Adobe, and other large companies in general, are just playing with Twitter to make themselves look good, and end up making themselves look bad in the process. Are most of the large companies, even tech-savvy ones, still at a [...]

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Participatory Free Market at The Next Web

Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting this idea at The Next Web conference, to a roomful of internet professionals, ie. the people who are building this “networked economy.” This is an “idea-in-progress” so more presentations and more ongoing discussions are in the works.

My professional life has been spent, some would say mis-spent, in photography, publishing, [...]

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Are unlimited US corporate campaign contributions good for the planet?

Politics and business : it’s a marriage as old as humans’ attempts at social organisation. In the US that marriage has just gone into an even tighter embrace, with the US Supreme Court opening the door to unlimited campaign contributions by corporate interests. Putting aside discussion about the perceived “rightness” of the decision or even any [...]

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