Reportage Festival Sydney - Ten Years

Check out this year's Reportage festival program

St Isaacs St Petersburg early morning

One of the rare times I wasn't surrounded by the symphony of life in this city of six million ... early on a Saturday morning in September I walked around St Petersburg . . .

Autumn in St Petersburg 2 degrees 10am the city is still waking

Nikolai

Two private tours of St Petersburg with Nikolai

Peter's Walking Tours St Petersburg Russia

 Day two 

& before vodka and Georgian for lunch Khachapury

And the winners in the fashion stakes at the Victorian PICAs were....

Melbourne Metrosexuals Make Their Mark

Enjoy!

Angkor Photo Festival Siem Reap Cambodia

The 6th Angkor Photo Festival is being held in November, 20-27, in Siem Reap, Cambodia. This week-long festival showcases exhibitions and slideshows celebrating international and emerging Asian photographers.  This year there's a special Asian Women Photographers' Showcase including an exhibition by Jean Chung who I interviewed at Foto Freo earlier this year. Jean's exhibition is Korea's Forgotten Women - Comfort Women for US Army. To find out more visit Angkor Photo Festival  or follow the Asian Women Photographers' Showcase on Facebook 

Moscow by Night

One of Stalin's Seven Sisters - Moscow University

One of the great joys of returning from foreign lands is to select my favourite photos. A great panacea for jet-lag and warding off the post-holiday blues.

More on the debate on the lifeline of photojournalism

Another interesting take on the notion that photojournalism is dead can be found on the New York Times Lens blog -  New York Times - thanks Tasj!

Beijing 2009 Alison Stieven-Taylor (C)

David Dare Parker

One of my forthcoming feature articles in Pro Photo is on Australian Photojournalist David Dare Parker, pictured here on the Mekong Delta, Vietnam


Photo by Ron Blackford September 2010

Is photojournalism really dead?

In an article by Neil Burgess on the website Editorial Photographers UK, he writes an eloquent obituary to the death of photojournalism. I agree with him to a certain extent - photojournalism as we know it as in magazines commissioning photographers to create photo stories and essays, may be diminishing, but photojournalists are nothing if not adaptable. 

As an interviewer of photographers I have a particular interest in the genre of photojournalism. If ever there was a time in history for the professional photojournalist it is now. The communication conduits may change, but photos that 'keep the bastards honest' and that prick the conscience of the viewer, will always have a place in the dissemination of news.

Christian Blanchard and Me at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week

Look out for my profile on Christian coming soon . . .