The Micropolitan Museum contains images of microscopic art forms, photographed with an old Zeiss photo-microscope on slide film.

Simone and Martin's site, focusing on wedding photography, features beautiful flash transitions from thumbnail to enlargement.

Making the most out of the Polaroid SX-70.

photoLondon showcases London's libraries and museums with collections of historic photographs of the city.

Two interesting exhibits on Vintage Works: Early Images of the Orient and The Paper Negative.

Hiroko Igeta is showing her Doll Exhibition at GalleryEs in Omotesando (opposite Las Chicas) until 2 February. Featuring mutated, anatomically disproportionate dolls and photographs thereof, a la Chapman Brothers, Cindy Sherman or Hans Bellmar, these exquisitely hand-crafted works are must-sees.

The earth photographed from above by Yann Arthus-Bertrand (Thanks, Reika!)

Photojournalist Steve Harris lives in and travels through China to document the people, their daily lives and interactions (via MeFi).

Stylish flash site Eos Fotografie featuring fashion and advertising photography from Austria.

Sleek flash portfolio of high-gloss, beautifully lit images from Toronto-based Don Dixon.

Steve Carty makes good use of thumbnails in his flash portfolio.

Eccentris has an interesting feature on its flash site--a sliding vertical bar which distorts the images displayed in intriguing ways, and is also used as a sweeping transition between photos.

World Pinhole Photography Day will take place on 27 April 2003. Participants are invited worldwide.

Tokyo-based photographer Kristian Haggblom is exhibiting a large billboard work on Sydney's Australian Centre for Photography Project Wall.

February's Tokyo Photo Night will feature photojournalist Shigeichi Nagano.

The next Photo Expo will be held at Tokyo Big Sight from 14-16 March.

I've finally moved from Blogger to Movable Type, after taking a break for a few days. Expect many cosmetic changes in the near future.

Drunkard's Alley or Nombeiyokocho in Shibuya, 360-degree panorama-style. The photographer also recorded panorama visuals and surround sound at Mejiro Station on the Yamanote line (via Easterwood).

Images of Tokyo's now passe trend, ganguro girls (via MeFi).

Several days ago, I replaced the images on my site's holding page. They are part of a series taken during the Awa Odori dance festival in my local neighbourhood, Shimokitazawa.

Stunning collection of fashion, celebrity and sports photography on kwakualston.com (via k10k).

Tokyo Photographic Culture Centre is exhibiting key works by photojournalist Robert Capa until 26 January.

PDNonline asks readers to vote on the most influential photography book of all time.

Images by fourteen photographers of the Burning Man Festival held each year in Nevada (via Scene360).

Life features a few images of China by James Whitlow-Delano.

Tokyo photographed at night.

Slideshow collection of photographs from a trip through China.

Vote in the 2003 Photoblog Awards.

The Plight of Afghan Women, a portfolio by A Raffaele Ciriello, a "hot spots" photojournalist who was killed while filming in Ramallah last year during the Palestinian uprising.

Ciriello also photographed his subjects holding their own polaroid portrait.

An exhibition of spy cameras is being held at the Camera Museum in Tokyo.

Today was Seijin no hi or Coming of Age Day for 20 year olds in Japan.

An interesting collection of lifestyle photography from the US, Europe and Asia by Alex Wright (via k10k).

Beautifully lit photography by Peter Granser, taken in Sun City, Arizona (via k10k).

Two great South African early photography links from gmtPlus9 today: the 1950s in black and white and early twentieth century black and white portraiture.

Roger Richards documented the seige in Sarajevo and its aftermath between 1992 and 1999.

100 years of images from The Associated Press.

Pulitzer Prize Photographs on Newseum.

Kathryn Cook documents the life of a social worker who provides care and friendship to the homeless.

I Love Jesus Better Than Ice Cream: Jim Sands photographs Elmer Wright singing country gospel songs.

Black and white farm series of Little Alphonso in Lithuania.

Evaporation brands its splash page photographs with extraordinary subtlety.

PDN's Legends Online gallery features Arnold Newman, photographer of artists, writers, composers, actors and politicians since the 1930s.

Russian photojournalist from the 1930s, Dmitri Debabov, travelled extensively through the former Soviet Union, and left a legacy of magnificent Arctic photography (via Coudal).

Photographs of textism's very frisky Weimaraner in the snow.

Facial piercings in Shibuya from hunkabutta.

When I was visiting Johannesburg in August 2002, I was fortunate to pick up a copy of this stunning book by photographer, Craig Fraser. Shack Chic is a documentary of the homes of people living in Cape Town's shacklands, captured in natural light.

It is about the dignity to be found in the dusty streets of South Africa's shack-lands. While these people obviously don't take pleasure in the poverty they live in, they stand proud in the face of it.

Photojournalist Darron Silva documents life in Taiwan (via designiskinky).

Crisp photography shot with a Nikon Coolpix 880 of Amrum in Germany, part of the Area2001 site.

Another Coolpix 880-toting photographer, this time in South Africa in Spring 2002.

Bellocq documents New Orleans brothels (via gmtPlus9).

Beautiful reportage photography from across Asia, Africa and Europe by James Whitlow Delano, an American photographer residing in Japan.

New images on jazz and photography site, cool D'zine (via newstoday).

The latest installments of the Cross Atlantic Report are now online from New York, Paris and Brussels.

Photoforums features a new photographer this month: Red from Brooklyn, NY, who never leaves home without his Sony PC9.

Issue 15 of photojournalism site, Untitled Magazine, is now online.

Life in America focuses on documentary photography in the US.

nippongraphica has a beautiful collection of black and white portraits.

Photo essay on American serial killer, Ted Bundy.

Article on salon.com about French collaborative photographers, Pierre et Gilles.

We photograph people whom we know and love, and certain moments in our life that we'd like to express -- things that we find are beautiful but also potentially cruel.

Ballad of the Alone, black and white images by Mara Catalan.

The New York Times brings us the 2002 Year in Pictures.

Pinhole Photography created with handmade paper cameras (via MeFi).

Look At Me features two of my found photos acquired in Japan.

The latest issue of Time is devoted to the best photos of 2002.

Project: Shutterbug photographs tourists taking photographs (via MeFi).

Red Square Photography specialises in architecture and design (via newstoday).

Czech photographer Jan Saudek has been taking photos since 1953. Artworks created since 2001 as well as numerous photo series made over the past 40 years are also on his site.

Keitai sha-mail photoblog (images taken with camera-equipped mobile phones) from New Years Eve 2002 in Japan.

Photographs by macabre genius Joel-Peter Witkin (via gmtPlus9).

21 photographers from Denmark.

Photo Friday, a weekly photography challenge.

It's oshogatsu time in Japan again. In Tokyo, that means up to half a million people will visit Sensoji Temple in Asakusa for hatsumode, their first temple visit of the year, over the next few days.