This was a pretty calm week, even if there’s no shortage of misery in this world. Kind of like in the newspapers. A considerable time difference is making me miss hours of press time. It’s raining in England—what a surprise!—but a little more than usual, and that’s an event o...

30.11.2012[ read full story ]

Photography is a capitalist tool. With a camera you can transform time into money. The creation of wealth by trading labor against capital is, after all, at the root of any capitalist society. And that is what every photographer does. But unlike most professions, the time spent on crea...

30.11.2012[ read full story ]

I’m sending you this little satire from China. It’s a strange feeling to select photographs that have nothing to do with the people that surround you. Distance, like time, has the power to give an event life or make it disappear. Forgive this truism... The Chinese care little...

26.11.2012[ read full story ]

Pictures have always been the preferred tool of propaganda. They serve as the perfect punctuation to any argument. They are like a definitive fist on the table, acting as an undeniable scientific proof That is why the current conflict between Israel and Hamas is taking place more viol...

23.11.2012[ read full story ]

I feel a little dizzy now, looking back what I have to offer you this week. These are “funny” pictures, lots of portraits. A woman died after a violent blow to the stomach from a stoup, and now “civil” society is reacting. What joy. A wheezing old crooner, an ex-lover, a exce...

19.11.2012[ read full story ]

It’s not so much the volume of photographs being taken that is an issue but rather the quality of those being displayed. With traditional media looking to cut cost while their readership is dwindling, they have found no better measure than to reduce their photographic expenditure. Inst...

19.11.2012[ read full story ]

The Brazilian photography magazine Foto Grafia has just published its ninth issue. Exclusively available online and free of charge (readers can download a PDF version of the issue), Foto Grafia has just won a bet: independence! For the first time, the Foto Grafia team pro...

13.11.2012[ read full story ]

The time between All Saints' Day November 1st and November 11th, the latter marking the end of the first worldwide human massacre( world war One), has always seemed a little sinister to me. Nature loses its colors as gray and black take over. (I know it's mundane, but if y...

12.11.2012[ read full story ]

Most of the time, if not all of the time, when you pick the best images of the week, you are dealing with events happening miles away from where you are. You look at them as a spectator who has limited patience for anything they don't immediately connect with. This week, things are a...

12.11.2012[ read full story ]

This is the photographer speaking: “The meaning of art is not authenticity but the expression of authenticity. Truth alone can neither justify nor excuse it. Since the object itself is absolutely inimitable, one must always search for the only valid translation into another l...

02.11.2012[ read full story ]