Review: The Jazz Loft Project by Sam Stephenson
If something unites jazz and photography it is not just their fans' and practitioners' devotion to their respective art forms, but often the level of obsessiveness with which they are pursued. Long before I got interested in photography I noticed that about jazz: One of my best friends in high school used to frequently recite the names of the musicians on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue with a devotion that I had thought to be reserved for church services. An

Dave Wyatt
"Thames town is an English style new satellite town built close to Shanghai as part of the local governments 'One City -Nine Towns' plan." - Dave Wyatt

Bryan Schutmaat
It's the day before Thanksgiving, which is a good opportunity to reflect a bit on American and how (and as what) its people see it. Enters Bryan Schutmaat's Western Frieze: "these photos are not meant to be pure documentation of America and its identity, but rather a portrait of what American identity means to me, and by photographing the West - where enigma, nostalgia, and history can be found in eve

A personal Ostkreuz selection (part 1)
Today, I took the time to look at German photo agency Ostkreuz's re-designed page, and I noticed that it is very easy to look through the different stories, on a photographer by photographer basis. So I thought I'd go through the lists and select my person favourites, stories with great images or stories that, well, tell an interesting story. Here's the first part (the second part will follow probably early next week).

Zed Nelson's "Love Me"
I'm very impressed by Zed Nelson's Love Me, a body of work centered on our idea of beauty and the various consequences, in particular since the work was done not just in one country, but across the world.