The funeral for Kaveh Golestan, the Iranian photographer who was killed in Iraq when he stepped on a landmine earlier this month, was attended by hundreds of mourners and documented by five photographers.

Other news in the world of photography this week: baby photographer Penny Gentieu had her case dismissed against Getty Images by a judge who accused her of "trying to claim a monopoly on photographs of babies. He called her lawsuit an enormous waste of resources, and chalked it up to Gentieu’s 'overexaggerated sense of self-importance'". In essence, she claimed that Getty had directed photographers to copy her best-selling images, whereas the judge countered that "copyright protects the expression of a subject, not the subject itself. '[P]oses are not copyrightable elements where they follow necessarily from the choice of the subject matter or are otherwise unoriginal,' he said."

Quite by accident, my blog has begun trading twice on Blogshares (with a backslash and without). Mr Antipixel seems to think there's something dodgy about it all, but I swear, I can't explain it! All the same, snap 'em up while you can!

Witold Riedel, a prominent blogger with a beautifully designed site who regularly posts his exquisite collection of hand drawn illustrations, also has a diverse collection of images, all sized to 600 x 250, on his site.

Consumptive features an intriguing collection of found photographs.

Robert Schramm, a member of the Dauguerrian Society, shoots modern day daguerrotypes.

Tokyo Style photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki is currently exhibiting his work in two galleries in Paris. Until 18 May.

Prolific Beijing photoblogger, Ziboy, shows that not everyone in the city has succumbed to SARS hysteria, and have still kept their sense of humour.