Sebastiao Salgado, acclaimed Brazilian photojournalist, has just announced that he is about to embark on a new ten-year project, Genesis, chronicling parts of the earth which remain untouched by modern humankind. This endeavour wil complete his three part trilogy, begun by Workers and Migrations.

Bill Gates has stashed millions of historical photographs (approximately 11 million negatives, prints, and slides) in Iron Mountain, a sub-zero underground photography archive, in order to ensure their future preservation (Thanks, Robert!)

Tokyo's LomoHeads have just released the Babylon4 4-lens camera. Since my Japanese isn't fantastic, I plugged the site into the trusty old Babel Fish translation site and came up with a rather unique interpretation of the Japanese site (currently, there are no details available anywhere online in English that I was able to find):

The BABYLON.4, the photograph, most "to play" with the っ is the camera which was made in order.

By the fact that four lenses are freely used, four photographing modes are covered. Should feature, the photographing mode which the toy camera PhotoBlaster of legend has is the る point. As for this, with 1 shutter at a time 1/4 scenes with the mode which keeps photographing, as for the photograph which rises with 4 scenes it becomes 1 photograph. At a time 1/4 scenes it can keep cutting the shutter unlike usual 4 connected copying. This is the photographing mode which makes the unique story create with the combination of the photograph. The PhotoBlaster has become the production discontinuance and the leprosy and the core it is the function which toy camera * Cray Gee has anticipated...The BABYLON.4 confronts technology, it is reply from the toy camera.

Interesting! Leprosy? How do they come up with that? I'm afraid I am still none-the-wiser about the unique features of this camera. Any Japanese readers care to offer a short translation?