Global news agency sues photographer for "antagonistic assertion of rights"
On Monday 26th April, Agence France Presse (AFP filed a complaint in the United States District Court Southern District of New York against Haiti-based photographer Daniel Morel.
Daniel Morel took iconic photographs of the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake in January, and uploaded them to TwitPic (a website whose TOS include the retention of the creator’s copyright) and then linked to the…
Invisible photos
I ought to be pleased that Remember To Turn Your Head Away has been featured in Show me a Sign.
And I am. But the pleasure is somewhat removed because this is one of the pics that Redbubble has suddenly decided that we don’t really need to see – something that’s been happening to me on an irregular and spontaneous basis for days, and which Redbubble is offering no explanation fo…
"You must have a really good camera!"
Twice in the past month dear friends have looked at really good photos I took and said, spontaneously “You must have a really good camera!”
And I do. I’m very fond of my cute little pocket camera. It takes good pics and goes everywhere with me.
But… even though I’m very fond of my camera, it doesn’t take these really good photos ALL BY ITSELF.
I have something …
Seizure: 28th November
“Seizure”, by Roger Hiorns, is one of those ideas elemental in their simplicity. It existed from 3rd September to 30th November 2008, at 157 Harper Road, London SE1.
Hiorns took a derelict flat, in a block about to be destroyed, and made it into a waterproof tank into which he poured 90000 litres of hot copper sulphate solution, and left it for two weeks. The remainder of the solution…
In the Bell Tower
The bell doesn’t swing: it’s rung with a hammer-stroke. When standing close enough to touch, the noise is awesome. So large and deep a sound it’s painful in my ears, a sound that thrums itself down the scale of loudness and is still humming when it’s interrupted with the next vast blow.
From Bell Tower, Casares, Andalucia, Spain By Rebecca Silverman
For Challenge Cafe (Ch…
Reading Bubblemails (not)
If I don’t log on for a few days, and a pile of Bubblemails have heaped up, I find that the easiest thing to do is to delete them all (except the most recent ones) unread.
Group mods are fond of sending out bubblemails for no particularly good reason – sometimes they say openly it’s just because they haven’t sent one for a while, no better reason than that! – and the…
What is art? Cavorting Sailors
My photos of Shaeron Averbuch’s Cavorting Sailors are going to be in an exhibition organised by the Edinburgh University Philosophy Society, ColloquiArt.
It’s at The GRV, 37 Guthrie Street, Edinburgh, 16th/17th March. There’s not a lot of information about it online – I’ll add links when there is – but it will be open to the public. The theme is “What is …