Andreas Seibert, a Swiss-born photographer based in Tokyo, has a new photo essay up on LookAt Photos on Swiss Butoh dancer, Imre Thormann. The black and white images are part of a long-term photographic documentation project on Thormann's life and art. Another interesting series of Seibert's images contrasts the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' of the Japanese recession.

Pedro Meyer, a highly regarded photographer living in Mexico and producer of ZoneZero, has written an interesting editorial on how he learned photography almost fifty years ago. Meyer, a long-time convert from film to digital, has also discussed whether you can protect your images on the Internet.

demo kreacja is a new photography portfolio site with a collection of grainy black and white still images by Polish photographer Maciek Blazniak. While the photographs themselves are quite lovely, unfortunately this site loads very slowly on Safari (I'm a recent convert), even with broadband (via Media Inspiration).

In 2001, photographer Justin Hession spent six months living and working in Dehli, India. While the experience seemed highly rewarding, it wasn't an easy one: "getting good images requires bags full of patience, loads of effort and a good many clean shirts...Shooting seemed only possible between 5am and 8am and even then the temperature would be 35-40 degrees". I particularly like these images of traffic congestion and a rickshaw driver.

Marco Grob's beautifully-designed flash site features a striking series of portrait, fashion and lifestyle photography, seamlessly linked together with horizontal sliding thumbnails (via madspedersen.com).