Musarium has several new stories online: Marvi Lacar searches for peace in the Philippines and Claudio Edinger, a Brazilian photographer, documents Rio de Janeiro in a dynamic and vibrant manner, using a selective focusing style.

Head scans from across the globe. Moscow, Copenhagen, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Milan and Melbourne all got in on the act. The folks on Brushstroke have done the same (via MeFi).

Composographs or faked news pictures were utilised by the New York Evening Graphic from the 1920s onwards as a way of increasing circulation:

...often startling front page images created in the art department by cutting and pasting the faces of celebrities onto the bodies of often scantily-clad models posed to illustrate some real-life scene where a camera simply couldn't go (especially with the flash powder cameramen used in those days)...into someone's bedroom, to bathtub-ringside at a wild Broadway party, to a hanging, into a closed courtroom at a steamy divorce trial, into a hospital operating room or beyond the grave.