No, it's not the pot stores, hockey riots or rain that makes me wish I was there. It's the announcement of the first 'Leica Boutique' in Canada, which opens at Broadway Camera this week. A place for lots of quiet reverence and awed gawkery of precision G… more »

I continue to like indie rock - or alt rock, or whatever you want to call it - because it's just about the only type of pop music where actual musicians play actual instruments. There are still lots of good indie bands, and there are even crossover indie… more »

Check out these images of the great June Carter, when she was not yet Mrs. Cash. These are over fifty years old and they just pop: immediate, vibrant, and lifelike. If you looked at the chromes in person they'd be even more impressive. Taken by Life vete… more »

Yesterday in New York, various Occupy types attacked photographers and other media. More here. Here's a suggestion: perhaps the Occupy movement could hold a joint rally with the police and they could both beat up some photographers. Everyone seems to a… more »

Here's a wonderful little series of previously unseen photographs taken from New York City's Department  of Public Records. Most date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the city is making a gallery of almost a million such images available… more »

Street photography is a favourite subject here, and police harrassment of photographers is another. But I never thought I'd do a post about street photography by the police. From a new book published by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regim… more »

There are no black helicopters on this website. It's a simple fact that fingerprints aren't as useful or accurate as people believe. In 2004, a half dozen of the most prestigious analysts in the world all testified they were '100 percent certain' that th… more »

It's amazing really that every single Google doodle spawns an article from a hundred different news organizations, which shows a) how ubiquitous Google is and b) how unimaginative and starved of ideas reporters are. So I feel a bit lame doing a post insp… more »

Informative article at the LA Times to help launch a retrospective of Herb Ritts' work at the Getty Museum. Compared to the smoothed over fashion photography today, his work looks positively gritty. If you're in LA and want to see this, remember that the… more »