An Urban Symphony for the eyes and ears

The panoramic photographs you see changing out at the top of these pages all belong to an ongoing series of images on which I have been working for some years. (A good number of them are on the main site, and I’m starting to think about putting them all together in book form but that is [...]

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Credit where credit’s due

My friend Paula Lerner, a fine photojournalist and multimedia producer, has regularly worked in Afghanistan over the last few years. One piece of reportage contributed rather substantially to an award winning multimedia production published by the fine Toronto Globe & Mail (long may it prosper.) Gongs all ’round and kudos to all concerned. One problem. The [...]

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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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Three steps to better holiday photos (guaranteed)

The holiday season is nearly upon us, not a day too soon I say, and for those of you who take more than a passing interest in immortalising those holiday memories it’s time to think about packing the photo gear and stocking up on memory cards, or Tri X if that indeed is your preference. Alas [...]

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Virtual Virtuosos hit the superhighway

Last night’s Virtual Virtuosos online gig at TEDxWarsaw proved the concept that remote collaboration by musicians in more than two locations (two having been done before) is possible, even if the currently available technology is still leaving more questions than offering answers.

Some months ago when we first began considering the content for our first TEDxWarsaw, I [...]

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Capuchin Friars feed the hungry

Generations of Varsovians have taken their children to see the “szopka” (Christmas display) at the Capuchin Minor Friars’ monastery in Miodowa Street but unless you happen to go past the place during any other time of year, and at the right time of day, you wouldn’t know that for most of the year the friars provide [...]

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A rustic-style photo exhibition

Exhibition of large format prints of Janusz Kobylinski’s portraits of the inhabitants of his village hangs in a field

My good friend Janusz Kobylinski, a photographer’s photographer, has just finished a very cool little documentary project, shooting environmental portraits of people who live in the village where he and his good lady have a country house. [...]

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The Human Postcard Q&A

Maria Khan has just posted a short interview with me on her terrific site The Human Postcard. OK, to call it an interview might be possibly going a little too far since we did it by email in record time, but, but, but, Maria did a great job of assembling the various bits of information and [...]

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