Hey lovely readers: I’m doing what I said I would do, and apart from an interruption to look after a very frail and poorly old lady, I am printing and photographing and printing and developing continuously throughout and until the end of March. I’ll be doing a stock-taking and taking-stock exercise around the first few days of April, so no firm decision on the giving-up-photography thing before then. If I do stop, it will be with a proper set or three or four of decent prints and some self-published books, so at least there’ll be something to show for all this time and money and sweat and tears. Not to mention the blood.

You, yes you, will be the first to know.

I took this picture as one of a series of sketches for a project long in planning: it’s from Olwen Williams‘ studio at the Biscuit Tin in Newcastle. It says something about her, and something about me. That’s all we ask, I think.

Anyhow, here’s some stuff you will definitely like:

Links for January 18th to mid March

• B-Mode: TRY STICKING A DIGITAL BACK ON THAT.. – First ever daguerrotype camera goes on sale in Zurich
• Durham Mysteries: Homepage – Mystery plays designed and written under the directorship of The Gala in Durham. Website starring Aaron Guy in modelling role.
• Son on Father – Matt on Peter from Matt Kennard’s own blog
• Interview: Peter Kennard, unofficial war artist, on the aesthetics of activism » The Comment Factory – Matt Kennard interviews his dad & renowned political collage photographer/artist
• Photography events listings: Telephoto diary – Telegraph – The Telegraph’s big list of what’s on in UK Photography this year.
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/tyne/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8465000/8465450.stm – Sections of the new Tyne Tunnel being floated into position on the river
• Keep Twitter from Overtaking Your Personal Site in Search Results with a Line of HTML – Google – Lifehacker – html rel tag to add to webpages
• Staring at Death: Photographing Haiti « Prison Photography – Big roundup of photographers in and projects supporting relief efforts in Haiti
• Unphotographable: a text account of pictures missed – If you’ve ever fretted at missing that photograph (I must confess, I haven’t), this will really, truly, help.
• KODAK: Powerful Days in Black and White – About Charles Moore – “Charles Moore didn’t plan to photograph the civil rights movement. In September, 1958, he was a 27-year-old photographer for the Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser. When an argument broke out between the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and two policemen, Moore was the only photographer on the scene. His striking pictures of Dr. King’s arrest were distributed nationwide by the Associated Press, and one was published in Life magazine. A new career had begun.”
• Kodachrome Curtains – Updated! Now with lampy goodness! – HOME SWEET HOME – columns of Kodachrome slides in front of a glas panelled door. Magnificent.
• The Girls | Artists Andrea Blood & Zoe Sinclair: SELFRIDGES ULTRALOUNGE 1-29 APRIL 2010 Go to this if you’re in London. It looks such fun!
• B-Mode: Its not just a house with a light on. – “One of the problems of producing a life’s work is that sometimes a lot of the work doesn’t make sense early on until it (and the photographer) matures and produces other work to tie everything together.” Oh damn.
• Masters of Photography: Clarence John Laughlin – Descriptions of his photographic groups. That’s an awful lot of negs. Fascinating.

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