In yesterday's Asahi Shimbun, there was an interesting article on the push to make two large government-funded art museums, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, more profitable. The photography museum has been run since 2000 by Yoshiharu Fukuhara, former president of Shiseido, who has been insisting that his staff focus more on the financial bottom-line than they did previously.

nyclondon.com features great black and white photography of the two cities R Gardiner has lived in over the past four years. His photolog has a great selection of images shot with a Leica M6.

Madamjujujive has uncovered a fantastic travel photography and journalism site by Martin Wierzbicki, who travelled around the world for three years. His photo galleries contain a stunning collection of images. Martin suggests that anyone considering long-term round-the-world travel read this helpful travel guide (via MeFi).

Continuing with the theme of travel photography today, Steve McCurry, renowned photojournalist, has a lovely portfolio site containing images from Angkor Wat, India, and Tibet, as well as the famous photograph of a young woman in Afghanistan (who was found by National Geographic 17 years later).

Bill Hocker has shot an interesting collection of portraits of local and indigenous people from around the world.

Last but by no means least, here is a powerful travel portfolio by Glen Allison. His India collection of highly saturated and vibrant colour photographs is superb. Do check out this site in its entirety (via Conscientious).