The Photography Of Chien-Chi Chang
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Posted by Calum Sager on 18 June 2013
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Chien-Chi Chang is a Taiwanese photographer who over the years has accumulated a very impressive body of work. Here is a small selection of some of our favourites, some taken in Taiwan and others of the Taiwanese community in New York.

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Darondo RIP
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Posted by Calum Sager on 14 June 2013
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Darondo, a Bay Area soul singer sadly passed away last night. Born William Daron Pulliam, but perfromed under the name Darondo, he never really became a household name during his lifetime, yet was highly regarded as an influential figure in the soul / funk scene.

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Richard Mosse: The Impossible Image
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Posted by Calum Sager on 10 June 2013
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Artist and photographer Richard Mosse reveals the stories behind the making of his latest film, 'The Enclave’ (2013), in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was recently shown in the Irish Pavilion at this year’s 55th Venice Biennale. In this short film produced by frieze, Richard explains the ideas behind the film and the history behind the method itself.

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David Bowie: Five Years
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Posted by Calum Sager on 4 June 2013
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Here is a new, 90-minute BBC documentary by Francis Whatley called 'David Bowie: Five Years' that, as its title suggests, examines five key years in the mans career (the years in question all fall between 1971 to 1983.)

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600 Sunrises By Yu Yamauchi
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Posted by Calum Sager on 3 June 2013
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For 600 days Yu Yamacuchi took a picture at dawn from the exact same location, from a hut he lived in near the summit of Mt. Fuji. Here is a small selection of some of our favourites from this incredible body of work.

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Hot Pepper: The Life and Music of Clifton Chenier - by Les Blank
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Posted by Calum Sager on 29 May 2013
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Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Les Blank sadly passed last month at the age of 77. Famous for exploring the margins of American music, he totted up over 40 films during his career. Perhaps most famously documenting the life and times of Dizzy Gillespie and Lightnin' Hopkins, opting for intimate, rounded portraits of his subjects rather than linear histories.

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Everybody Street
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Posted by Calum Sager on 22 May 2013
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'Everybody Street' illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. The documentary pays tribute to the spirit of street photography through a cinematic exploration of New York City, and captures the visceral rush, singular perseverance and at times immediate danger customary to these artists.

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Sample This + Q&A with Dan Forrer
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Posted by Calum Sager on 20 May 2013
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'Sample This' is a forthcoming documentary that we posted about a little while ago and with it now beginning to make its way across the Atlantic to British shores we figured you should give you guys another heads up. Set against the backdrop of social and political turbulence in the USA of the late 1960s, Sample This tells the amazing story of the creation of one of the most influential albums in popular music.

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The Photography Of Joseph Szabo
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Posted by Calum Sager on 14 May 2013
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Here is a collection of black and white photographs taken by Joseph Szabo, perhaps best known for his iconic image of a young girl smoking on the beach which was later used as the front cover for Dinosaur Jr's 'Green Mind' album. Most of his subjects are american teens and he possesses the charming ability of highlighting and celebrating the undeniable awkwardness of adolescence in many of his shots.

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London In 1927
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Posted by Calum Sager on 13 May 2013
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Here is some incredible colour footage of London, shot in 1927. Filmed by an early British pioneer of film, Claude Frisse-Greene made a number of travelogues using the colour process his father William - a noted cinematographer - was experimenting with.

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