31 May 2003

The NYC Polaroid Project is an ongoing project documenting the streets of New York City by Andrew Faris (via The Morning News).

Japanese photojournalist Alao Yokogi's work on his travels to Vietnam is currently being shown at the Tokyo Photographic Culture Centre. Until 21 July.

Two photo essays on The Morning News: portraits and Photoshop composites by Vincent Perini and the World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup, capturing the process of capturing, sorting, beheading and skinning 120 tonnes of rattlesnakes!

Lovely minimally designed site, Ngised, features richly coloured still life and lifestyle images by Antonio Carusone (via wellvetted.com).

Paul Kan has been focusing his photographic endeavours on Asia. His photo galleries include Tokyo and Shanghai.

Rumours about Canon's PowerShot G3 successor are starting to circulate. This report (in French) notes that the new PowerShot G5 black pro version will include a 5-megapixel CCD chip, a 1 GB microdrive, 4x optical zoom, and a swivelling LCD monitor. If this is true, then count me in as this is the profile of a digital camera I've been hoping for for more than six months! (via PhotographyBLOG).

28 May 2003

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?

27 May 2003

The new 5-megapixel Sony Cyber-shot DSC-V1 digital camera just arrived in Tokyo stores on Friday, and I had my first opportunity to take a look at it last night. Retailing for ¥79,800 (around US$680) at Yodobashi and Bic Camera, this small, lightweight camera offers advanced exposure control features including aperture and shutter priority, and a Carl Zeiss 4x optical zoom lens. I've been tossing up between this camera and the 4-megapixel Canon PowerShot G3 for a while, but I think the Canon edges it out as I currently shoot within the Canon system and have an external Speedlite flash that fits this digital camera. I am also disappointed that the Sony Cyber-shot has a fixed LCD screen, as I find the swivelling screen on the Canon G3 a particularly attractive feature.

Jennifer Sharpe is slowly releasing a series of absolutely priceless video oddities by Coyle and Sharpe (Jennifer's father), early masters of the 'put-on' and street prank dating back to the 1960s. Check out Mothman and The Efficiency Experts, in particular.

Photoblogging and Tokyo's own Hunkabutta were featured in the New York Times this week (registration required).

Arild Danielsen is this month's feature photographer on guu, a site dedicated to Norwegian design (via Styleboost).

26 May 2003

Avenger Photographers features the work of five Munich-based photographers. Radka Leitmeritz and Rene Hallen's beautifully toned images of urban interior and exterior views are particularly lovely (via Surfstation).

And still more good flash sites from the PDN Photo Annual 2003:

Mark Gilbert's editorial images have a cool, detached, clinical style, while his travel portfolio from Morocco, Mexico, France and Cuba shows a more candid side to his work.

Bob Scott's high impact sports- and lifestyle-oriented portfolio has currently received the highest number of readers votes in the competition.

k23 photography's portfolio is categorised under rather intriguing headings such as 'legs and poles', 'red', 'smoke machines', and 'a deal gone sour'.

While the site is a little less than ideal to navigate (the user must mouseover the navigation menu to find the names of the section items), Bill Diodato's fashion photography is delightfully complemented by the hand-drawn images which slowly morph into his work.

Ray Gordon's playful portfolio of super-hip portraits loads in super-quick time!

One thing that particularly struck me while I've been examining these flash sites closely is that few of the finalist sites step outside the dominant format of 'portfolio site accompanied by soundtrack'. I can only assume that their site content is fixed until a new site design or full update is ready (6 months, 12 months, or even 2 years from now), as they appear to make no attempt to publish regular content updates (weekly or monthly). Sites like these generally make a clear separation between portfolio and photoblog. Personally, no matter how fantastic I think a photographer is, I would very much like to see their works in progress, weekly experiments, and current projects, and the sites would be much more likely to encourage repeat visitors than the current 'wow 'em once' approach. Perhaps next year the judges of the PDN Photo Annual will take note of some of the topnotch photoblogs which regularly feature consistently strong photography such as quarlo from New York.

25 May 2003

Freelance photographer Steve Simon explores the collision of cultures along America’s border with Canada. Simon's site is also a finalist in the PDN Photo Annual 2003 Competition (via PDNewswire).

Taking moblogging to new heights, Hewlett-Packard is developing a 'wear-all-the-time' always-on camera to capture the most significant moments of everyday life. The camera they are working on will "continuously record images into a rolling buffer of a few seconds or minutes in duration; when something memorable happens, the user makes an indication of some kind, by saying a word or pressing a button. The camera technology then zooms in on that part of the buffer and, using complex pattern-recognition technology, selects what appear to be the best images, and appropriately adjusts and crops these images" (via MeFi).

Dynamic Vantage have just launched their new Expressions! hosted photoblogging tool at a cost of US$2.50 per month (with the first month free). It will be interesting to see how well this gets picked up, given the recent announcement about Movable Type's hosted blogging solution, TypePad (recently discussed on Antipixel), and how much photoblogging-specific functionality it offers.

Also released this month is Noel Jackson's PhotoPal 1.0 Beta, an image organization system with template driven layout, automatic thumbnail creation, RSS feeds, picture level EXIF date extraction, and picture level descriptions, all without the need for an SQL like database. (Thanks, Jeremy!)

Today I just came across a lovely Japanese photoblog by Tadashi Takeyama. His April 2003 photo gallery from Gifu features some intimate portraits of (I presume) his elderly bedridden grandmother who, in spite of her age, still manages a cheery smile and fingers raised in the 'V' sign (second thumbnail under Gifu).

Continuing with a selection from the best photography websites category in the PDN Photo Annual 2003 Competition; this time focusing on HTML sites:

In Rhean Anna's Journeys gallery, she presents a beautiful selection of images from her travels to Peru, New Mexico, Kenya, Bali and Hawaii in a clean, easy-to-navigate site.

Well-known Czech-born photographer Yuri Dojc's site showcases his instantly recognisable body of work.

23 May 2003

James Nachtwey, acclaimed war and conflict photojournalist, just won the 2003 Dan David Prize for Print and Electronic Media, allowing him to use the US$500,000 prize money to "take some time to produce books from existing photographs, to advance several projects that have been very difficult either to find assignments for or to finance independently, and it will help [him] to update and expand [his] production and archiving facilities" (via PDNewswire).

For Lomoheads who love the intense colour saturation achievable with Lomo cameras, The Lomographic Society have just released a rather interesting colorsplash flash with a colour wheel which shines intense bursts of colour onto the subject. It is well suited to long exposures and a variety of other flash techniques.

A flash-biased selection from the best photography websites category in the PDN Photo Annual 2003 Competition:

Adrian Brown is a Sydney-based photographer whose site features a lovely selection of moody landscapes from Tasmania and New Zealand, as well as warm, candid portraits (in the "For Love" section).

Charles Gallung's site uses a novel approach to navigation (Previous & Next buttons vs Up & Down arrows vs Automatic & Manual buttons) to display his medium-format photographs.

Allan Stone's delicately coloured yet starkish landscape images are enhanced by the grey colour palette of his site.

David Nevala's site uses a very simple but effective design to display his portraiture.

22 May 2003

Another shorter than usual post today. From tomorrow, I will start highlighting some of the more interesting finalist sites from the PDN Online Annual 2003 best photography websites category.

Imagedive features some beautiful images of brightly coloured-goldfish, small animals and insects on stark white backgrounds by Osamu Yamazaki in a simple, fast-loading and easy-to-navigate flash site (via Neon Sight Japan).

Around the World in the 1890s: The World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection contains nearly nine hundred images by American photographer William Henry Jackson. In addition to railroads, elephants, camels, horses, sleds and sleighs, sedan chairs, rickshaws, and other types of transportation, Jackson photographed city views, street and harbour scenes, landscapes, local inhabitants in North Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

21 May 2003

Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki is exhibiting prints and polaroids from his Hana Jinsei flower series at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu. "While Mapplethorpe creates perfectly composed pictures of bright, metallically shining flowers in full bloom, what Araki captures on film with seeming nonchalance are withered or mouldered plants". Until 8 June (via Real Tokyo).

Laura Domela has posted a striking selection of tightly cropped and beautifully composed images from her Neon Boneyard series.

Hosted on nonstock, Spanish photographer Celina Alvarado's work features an oddly intriguing group of martians and now "travels and watches the world through their big eyes" (via Witold Riedel::NYC).

fuenf d fotographie is a lovely little flash portfolio site of Thorsten Doerk's photography.

South African duo win extreme ironing photo contest by ironing a shirt while suspended from a rope across a mountain gorge. I can guarantee that's one photo competition I won't be entering!

Interesting collection of photographs of mothers and children from the Taisho period (1926-1989) in Japan (via The Good Maus).

19 May 2003

Another weekend lost to work, and little time or energy for web trawling. Production is almost complete on five concurrent publishing projects, so normal blogging should resume shortly.

Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen, best known for creating the Day in the Life photography book series in the 1980s (including Africa, the Soviet Union, and China), have angered their publisher, HarperCollins, by embarking on the America 24/7 project. The dispute is over whether Smolan and Cohen have the right to produce a photographic time capsule while promoting it as a sequel to the Day in the Life series.

Famous German Triumph of the Will film-maker and, latterly, photographer Leni Riefenstahl has a website featuring her black and white work and colour images shot in Africa (via Conscientious).

Norwegian photographer Kimm Såtvedt has a lovely fast-loading portfolio site featuring simple navigation, made entirely with HTML to boot! (via Styleboost).

16 May 2003

Yesterday, Photo District News published its mini website for finalists in the PDN Photo Annual 2003 Competition. Take some time to look right through the selection, especially the web portfolios--there's some great work in there!! Readers are encouraged to vote for their favourite portfolio in the categories of advertising, magazine/editorial, photo books, photojournalism, corporate/industrial, personal, websites and student work.

The latest e-newsletter from Lonely Planet Images (Lonely Planet's own commercial stock photo library) contains a striking selection of new boldly coloured travel photography.

Acclaimed photographer, Mitch Epstein, created a photo essay on the demise of his family's furniture business, following an arson attack on one of their properties in New York City (via PDN Newswire).

15 May 2003

Work deadlines have been distracting me from my usual daily blogging--even now, I'm stealing a moment away from what I *should* be doing, which is tweaking a series of InDesign documents in order to go to press next week. So, a brief interlude, thanks to goodies scored from my favourite sites. Back to deep web scouring and phototrawling soon.

The indescribably wonderful Sharpeworld brings us weekly Scopitones, made for a special machines dating back to the 1940s (essentially, a cross between a jukebox and a TV set). These little 3-minute vignettes are the original precursors to MTV music videos with two purposes: "illustrate the theme of the song" and "make it sexy".

Time Tales is a shelter for found photographs...found on the street, at fleamarkets, thrift shops, in archives, in abandoned lofts...a home to the lost and forgotten in this world (via The Solipsistic Gazette).

A series of beautiful still life photographs, highlighting patterns, textures and colours found in our immediate surroundings (via Coudal).

A very sexy site showcasing Corey Arnold's portfolio of animalia, portraiture and night photography (via Styleboost).

13 May 2003

The very cool visual arts webzine Artkrush has selected this blog as their latest krush. Thanks - I'm flattered! So welcome to first-time readers making their way here via the krush!

Another Japanese cult group is currently drawing a great deal of media attention. Claiming that the world will end this coming Thursday, the Panawave group appear clad entirely in white, and have covered road barriers and trees on a stretch of road in Gifu with white cloth to protect themselves from "harmful electromagnetic waves".

Igor Askarov from Udelnaya, near Moscow, has recently published an interesting selection of his work. St Petersburg Under the Snow features moody, desolate black and white photography, and The Ice Hotel documents the subtle details and colourings of a Swedish snow and ice hotel (via Pixelsurgeon).

Finally, a QT trailer of Matthew Barney's inimitable five-part Cremaster Cycle - a much more palatable way to experience his work than enduring the full 10-hour epic (via Pixelsurgeon).

A timely find on Solipsistic, given Tokyo's 5.1 earthquake and accompanying aftershock in the wee hours of the morning yesterday: images of the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 which caused mass destruction in Tokyo and the death of more than 140,000 people, taken by August Kengelbacher.

12 May 2003

This week, the deputy coroner involved in the Thomas Condon morgue case was cleared of any wrongdoing (registration required) for his involvement. However, Condon's conviction of 'gross abuse of a corpse' was upheld, but his sentence was reduced from 2 1/2 years to 18 months. As part of a project on 'the cycle of life', Condon got the coroner's approval in 2000 to take soft-focus black and white of close-ups of corpses. Local film developers handed over his negatives to police at the beginning of 2001. Condon lost his case in May 2002 and was imprisoned for photographing corpses, with the sentencing judge remarking that Condon's photos were "sick", "disgusting", and "idiotic".

Chinese garment workers, Mexican day labourers, Polish asbestos removal crews, Filipino nannies, homeless men, migrant workers, janitors and doormen document their own lives with a point-and-shoot camera and twelve weeks of instruction in Unseen America, part of the Bread and Roses Cultural Project. On exhibition until 25 May.

Ka Fitfitu Feetu (If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food) is a photo essay by Eric Gottesman on people living with HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia.

Robert Kayaert photographed street life in Brussels in the 1950s (via gmtPlus9).

In Photographing Saddam, Tuen Voeten documents the defacing and destruction of Saddam Hussein's portrait appearing on billboards, statues, memorial plaques and mosaics, immediately following the fall of Baghdad last month.

11 May 2003

Brian Walski explains in an interview with a PDN Senior Editor what happened with the doctored photo that lead to his firing from the LA Times (Thanks, Stan).

The VI International Month of Photography is now on show in Sao Paolo. Until 29 June (via artkrush).

Intriguing blog brimming with curiosities and photography finds, Speckled Paint, may be gone, but the new and improved incarnation, The Solipsistic Gazette, fills its place.

Photographer and multimedia producer Geoffrey Hiller is interviewed on Digital Web. In the interview, he discusses his return visit to Burma to document the cultural and political landscape, leading to the creation of the multimedia site, Grace Under Pressure. He also travelled through and photographed Eastern Europe, resulting in the multimedia presentation, Visions and Icons.

10 May 2003

The Identity Swap Database, incorporating photographs and actual personal data contributed by audience members, was created to provide an effective tool to 'change identities', both temporarily and permanently, using networking technologies.

David Hockney says photographs misrepresent war. One of his recent images, Massacre in Korea, was inspired by photos from the Nazi death camps. He notes that "the camera can only capture what it is allowed to see. The death camps excluded cameras, so the only record is of survivors, a potentially false optimism." (via Still Journal).

Tombstone Portraits by Bulgarian-born Svetlana Bahchevanova--a beautiful juxtaposition of flattering black and white portraiture with cold grey marble.

Photo District News Online has posted its 30 Emerging Photographers for 2003.

Danish Soundscapes is a beautiful minimalist dialogue between visual and sound, capturing the beauty of the Danish countryside and seashore (via artkrush).

9 May 2003

A fantastic collection of beautifully lit images taken during a road trip heading northeast from Las Vegas for eight days. In one powerful photo, sunlight streams into a canyon (via MeFi)

In May's issue of The Digital Journalist, Evan Nisselson argues how mobile camera phones will change the photography industry, allowing photographers to do their job better, faster and to save money. While many camera phones are still only at 640 x480 resolution (and as I have recently mentioned, megapixel phones are only just here now), I think it will be quite some time before these cameras are capable of creating publishable quality images. Is bad but immediate photography better than the current workflow of taking high quality images with a DSLR and publishing them around the world within a matter of hours (requiring access only to a laptop and either a wireless connection or a landline)?

The Morning News presents a photo essay by the four photographers who contribute to The Cross Atlantic Report, based on the time when they were all living in New York (via moderna).

Also in The Digital Journalist this month, there is an extensive photo gallery documenting the fall of Iraq, contributed by photo editors at AFP, Corbis, and Getty.

For the first time yesterday, I came across the gorgeous photoblog, Infrangible, featuring beautifully composed images of a consistently high quality (via rion.nu).

NYCASD is a collaborative photography dialogue between two friends living in New York City and Amsterdam, where they both document the same subject, and compare the two images side-by-side (via MeFi).

8 May 2003

In this fascinating article, The Next Photography Revolution, Discover magazine introduces the X3 sensor used in digital imaging devices, which is capable of measuring all three primary colours of light at every point on the picture, essentially 'seeing' colour the way the human eye does. The X3 sensor can produce images as good as or better than what can be achieved with film, and is currently only being utilised in the Sigma SD 9 digital SLR camera. It is expected to be introduced into point-and-shoot digital cameras later this year. (Thanks, Nadine!)

A beautiful collection of vintage Japanese photography from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including ambrotypes and collotypes. Particularly interesting images are Bathing Beauties (compare with this beach photo from my private collection), Two Children Playing from the 1930s, or Fun in Cow Pasture (via Speckled Paint).

Another photoblogger undergoes a redesign: A Life Uncommon is now an attractive blend of photography and text. Chicago Uncommon has also been recently updated.

Photojunkie alerts us to another collaborative photo project, 800 x 600. They ask for a submission of a photographic collage made up of 64 individual images, with each image 100 x 75 pixels, arranged in an 8 x 8 picture grid, all depicting the same subject.

Surveillance, photos taken with a security monitor at a high-end audio and video store by Boochakanan (via A Life Uncommon).

Omar Sverrisson from Reykjavik is May's Photoforums Photographer of the Month.

7 May 2003

What more could you want in a mobile phone? Hot on the heels of DoCoMo's announcement of their first megapixel mobile camera phone, J-Phone have just launched the new Sharp J-SH53 bilingual mobile phone with a megapixel CCD digital camera which can capture images with a resolution up to 1144 x 858, and will be in Japanese stores from late May. The camera features 7x digital zoom, motor drive and macro modes, thumbnail display, and resizing, and uses an SD memory card which can store music and image files. The phone also records and sends 10 second MPEG-4*2 video messages [J, does this inspire you to get one now?]

Bassam Ali Borhan al Asadi was a soldier in the Iraqi army until a few days after the attacks on Iraq began on March 20. Although he decided to shed his green army uniform for civilian clothes, family members said that he was killed by fire from a coalition aircraft north of Baghdad. His body lay in a hospital morgue for three weeks in Balad, frozen solid until his brother started the ritual bathing of the dead before burial. Photojournalist Rich Glickstein was privileged to witness this moving ceremony.

Spanning seventy years, a new book of photographs, Here and There, by octogenarian Helen Levitt presents her personal evolving relationship with New York.

A lovely collection of brightly coloured abstract photography (via Newstoday).

6 May 2003

Continuing with yesterday's post about photographer Brian Walski, I found that Metafilter had also debated the ethics of his actions, shortly after news of his firing had been announced last month.

Intention and Artifice by William Mitchell from The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era examines the complex notion of photography as objective truth (via MeFi).

Now a regular monthly photography webzine, 28mm.org has just posted the latest issue. The Little India photo essay by Norzamaria Zainal documents the heartland of the Indian community living in Singapore, and Ramona Persaud visits Cuba to capture the grittier side of life.

Pogoyoyo features a lovely collection of highly saturated Lomo photography.

Tony Garcia's flash site is beautifully designed with a bold colour palette, unique sliding transitions between images, and a real life soundtrack, showing off his special brand of lifestyle photography (via k10k).

5 May 2003

Following Pedro Meyer's ZoneZero editorial defending LA Times photographer Brian Walski, who was fired for digitally altering two photographs to create a new composite image, participants in the ZoneZero Forum are extremely polarised in their responses about whether the LA Times acted appropriately.

OnFocus (home of BookWatch, which searches weblogs for most frequently mentioned books on Amazon) features a collection of black and white close ups of antique radio dials.

Canon have just announced a new ultra-compact three megapixel digital camera, the Powershot SD100, a rival to the credit-card sized Casio Exilim EX-Z3, aiming to appeal to the 'carry everywhere' buyer.

4 May 2003

My, how I've changed--from a little red-headed girl on a tricycle at 2 to now! My submission to the When I Was Little baby/adult photo project went online yesterday. Thanks to Nadine for the latest photo, an off-guard outtake from our annual report portrait shoot.

Simon Ladefoged has added more images of Japan, this time of detail views of Japanese dams, to his stunning portfolio of urban landscapes and empty interiors. The site is beautifully designed with a neutral colour palette which perfectly complements his style of colour photography (via Styleboost).

Another portfolio update via Styleboost. French photographer Pep has added some beautiful abstract images of architectural details with clean, sharp lines and a limited use of colour to Nineaem.

Hungarian-born photographer Nickolas Muray, working from the 1930s to the 1960s, created a stunning collection of highly saturated colour photographs which were used for advertising and commercial portraiture. Frida Kahlo, one of his favourite models, later became his lover in the 1930s (via consumptive).

Photoxels' May 2003 editorial discusses digital photography, the amateur vs professional photographer, and speculates on the next iteration of the Canon G3 Powershot camera (via PhotographyBLOG).

Another beautifully designed flash portfolio belonging to New York creative director Geoff Badner with a strong collection of reportage and portrait photography (via The Morning News).

2 May 2003

This month, Paris celebrates the photographic genius of 94 year old former photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson with a retrospective exhibition at the Bibliothèque National de France and the opening of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation. Cartier-Bresson abandoned photography in the mid-1970s and now prefers to discuss painting and drawing, his later passions: "[Photography] doesn't interest me, it never has. The only thing that has ever been important is drawing." He told his longtime mentor, the Greek-born critic and art publisher Teriade that he had gone as far as he could go in photography: "I knew I had nothing more to say. I felt it."

66 Polaroids That Never Existed, an interesting photo concept series on Institut Drahomira (via quimbo).

Popular Toronto photoblog Photojunkie, and one of my daily reads, has just relaunched with a fabulous new design concept. Rannie Turingan has also created a photography forum to encourage more interaction between his readers.

When I Was Little is new reader-submitted photo project displaying a baby photo and a recent photo side by side. Compare and contrast (via moderna).

Rion.nu has posted a stunning collection of images of Frank Gehry's Disney Concert Hall which is currently under construction in Los Angeles. Rion Nakaya was featured as Photographer of the Month in October 2002 on Photoforums.

1 May 2003

Photographer Jonas Bendiksen travelled to India to photograph Dr Sharad Kumar Dicksheet who conducts plastic surgery for free for poor Indians. He also visited Moscow to photograph the 'cult' of the plastic pyramid, the largest of which is over 45 metres high, and is said to cure all ails from AIDS, pollution, and crime, to the common cold and tuberculosis.

Fellow Tokyo blogger, Jean Snow, has just added Geisha 6 (in the right hand column) to his site--a lovely spring edition which captures the vibrant colours and energy of Tokyo at this time of year. Well done, Jean!

Just opened at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo is May I Help You?, an exhibition focusing the eyes of eight different photographers on the work of fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto. Until 6 July.

Kurt Arrigo's flash-based portfolio features a great selection of film stills from the historical mini-series Helen of Troy (via Design is Kinky).

Du Jour is a photoblog by Ron Cillizza, featuring a daily selection of strongly composed and richly coloured images from his surrounds in New Hampshire (via wander-lust).

Beijing is now largely deserted due to fears about the SARS outbreak as well as the government closure of many public venues. This photo gallery shows the extent of this public desertion in China's capital city, where more than 10,000 people are under quarantine. Ziboy continues to photoblog from Beijing, with noticably more facemask wearers appearing in his images.

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