So the scotland trip hits a snag... a dose of covid, flu or cold spoils the second week. The first week did have a trip to Culloden Moor Battlefield, though, and the slightly strange photo interactions by visitors.
In the podcast, the recently released photo zine 'Southerly Point' gets its own page on the website plus some hints for a photo book project in 2026.
In the links, there is excellent Vietnam war photography from the legendary Catherine Leroy, newspaper picture editors’ picks for Visa pour l’Image, northern lights over Scotland and a great collection of photography from Australia and New Zealand.Links mentioned in the Podcast
The Southerly Point photo zine website page
https://www.richardflintphoto.com/photobooks/photobook-southerly-point-the-mull-of-galloway/
One-way ticket to Vietnam: Catherine Leroy’s fearless war photography
A deeper story: photography from Australia and New Zealandhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/sep/02/a-deeper-story-photography-from-australia-and-new-zealand-in-pictures
Newspaper picture editors’ picks for Visa pour l’Image https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/sep/08/newspaper-picture-editors-picks-visa-pour-limage-in-pictures
In Pictures: The Northern Lights over Scotland
In the podcast: Southerly Point, a 44 page photozine featuring 40 images(photographer Richard Flint) of the Mull of Galloway is now available via Blurb. The new website store is opened and in the links we have Chris Killip's excellent website and the painting like photography by Joann Randles.
Podcast Links
Photographer showcases her work at French Celtic Festivalhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2p6qp1e4go
Chris Killip's excellent website
Southerly Point photo zine on Blurb
https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/12497265-southerly-point-the-mull-of-galloway
New fine art print web store
https://www.richardflintphoto.com/shop/
BONUS LINKS
The Cloudflare blog posts
Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content
In the podcast: Links to the photography of two great documentary photographers who died recently - Sebastião Salgado and Nick Hedges.
Also the webstore is due for changes, website speed woes solved and the text is complete for the Southerly Point Photozine.
Podcast Links
Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/23/brazil-sebastiao-salgado-death
‘I photographed the world’: the career of Sebastião Salgado – in pictures
Amazon in pictures: Sebastião Salgado's last frontier
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-57162597
Sebastião Salgado Gallery at ICP
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/sebasti%C3%A3o-salgado
Nick Hedges Website
http://www.nickhedgesphotography.co.uk/
Nick Hedges obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/20/nick-hedges-obituary
If you are a Formula One fan then the BBC and Getty Images have put together a great collection of Formula One photography going through 75 years of the sport.
F1 at 75
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/v7yykmbyey/f1-at-75-by-bbc-sport-and-getty-images
In the podcast: Changes to the website store, a post about a found WW2 family photo and more. In the links, the winners from the 2025 World Press Photo awards and a camera lost in Loch Ness for 55 years is found!
The Podcast Links
Portrait of injured Gazan boy named World Press Photo of the yearhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm347kpljko
Camera set up to catch Loch Ness Monster discoveredhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20g82y1k8o
It's an iconic image from the Vietnam War... but who took the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture? The strange story of a new documentary castings doubt over whether Nick Ut took that remarkable image after a napalm attack on the village of Trang Bang and the six month investigation by Associated Press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Ut
AP Report: Investigating claims around ‘The Terror of War’ photograph
https://www.ap.org/about/ap-report-terror-of-war/
He is credited with one of history’s most indelible photos. A new documentary questions who took it
Nick Ut Photography Gallery
https://leicagalleryla.com/gallery-view/nick-ut-from-hell-to-hollywood/
In the podcast: Richard talks about The Bang Bang Club Book he recently found in a second hand bookshop as well as the Northumberland images shot just before Christmas in the fantastic locations of Bamburgh, Seahouses and Lindisfarne. Podcast links include recent photography from the L.A fires
Links
Photos: The Palisades Fire Scorches Parts of Los Angeles
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/01/photos-palisades-fire-los-angeles-california/681241/
THE BANG BANG CLUB
The Bang Bang Club Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang-Bang_Club
Capturing Humanity Through the Lens: Kevin Carter
https://fstoppers.com/historical/capturing-humanity-through-lens-kevin-carter-662720
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich (Author), Joao Silva (Author)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bang-Bang-Club-Snapshots-Hidden-War/dp/009928149X
In the Podcast. remembering the photojournalist Paul Lowe who died in October and who was a big influence during my photography students days. In the links, a look at Paul Lowe's work, Ian Macdonald’s magnificent north-east and Is the era of the pro photographer over? An interesting article about the future of professional photography.
The Podcast Links
Bruce Gilden says "I'll be broke in a year". Is the era of the pro photographer over? https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/features/bruce-gilden-says-ill-be-broke-in-a-year-is-the-era-of-the-pro-photographer-over
Son charged with murdering war photographer father https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj4e9p1nw3o
A kid playing with a ball next to a tank trap: Paul Lowe’s best photograph
Photographer Paul Lowe’s life in pictures
From steel works and eerie houseboat communities to local kids in detention Ian Macdonald’s magnificent north-east
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/sep/10/ian-macdonald-north-east-in-pictures
In the podcast... A WordPress website optimization recommendation plus links to great photography from the Paris Olympics, images of the beach defences of WW2, remembering the Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker and Paul Fusco is captured in a photograph as he photographed America from Robert F Kennedy's funeral train in 1968.
PODCAST LINKS
Remarkable images from the Paris Olympics fhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-c9425ca9-5c30-4ae0-b059-3eae6abcc18f
Remembering Thomas Hoepker (1936–2024) https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/remembering-thomas-hoepker-1936-2024/
The Nazis’ Atlantic wall that failed to prevent D-day https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/03/the-nazis-atlantic-wall-that-failed-to-prevent-d-day
RFK Funeral Train: The Reversed Perspective
https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/rfk-funeral-train-the-reversed-perspective/
Robert Capa Podcast Episode
John Steinbeck's excellent book with images (and a chapter) from Robert Capa
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russian-Journal-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/014118633X
A new post on the Magnum website looks at the life and legacy of Robert Capa, along with a superb letter from John Steinbeck written shortly after Capa died in 1954.
The Ageless, Changeless Robert Capa
https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/the-ageless-changeless-robert-capa/
John Steinbeck - A Russian Journal book
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russian-Journal-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/014118633X
Robert Capa - the rare 1947 radio interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYe4ynXnqug
In the podcast... the main website gets a BIG, and rather unexpected, spring clean to give it a bit of a refresh. A quick discussion about the recent royal photo manipulation story. In the podcast's recommended photography links we have four great photographers covering the last five decades including Chris Killip, Akihiko Okamura and Tim Hetherington.
Podcast Links
The extraordinary life and photography of Tim Hetherington
The work and legacy of photographer Anja Niedringhaus endure 10 years after her death
Bonus Podcast Links
BBC Media Show - Is seeing still believing? Photo journalists on how the Princess of Wales story unfolded.
2024 World Press Photo Contest: Winners revealed
In this podcast: Richard heads back to the RSS feeds as a way of getting new sources of photography news and content after stepping away from social media. Dusting off those old blog feeds and seeing what works. The main website gets a new portfolio gallery with Northumberland: Castles and Coast added to the site. The podcast links look at the legendary photojournalist Bert Hardy who has a retrospective exhibition on at The Photographers' Gallery in London until June 2nd.
Podcast Links
The Gorbals of the 1940s - through Bert Hardy's eyes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg9kp599kwo
Bert Hardy: Photojournalism in War and Peace
Fri 23 Feb 2024 - Sun 02 Jun 2024 - The Photographers' Gallery
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/bert-hardy-photojournalism-war-and-peace
Bert Hardy | Getty Images Gallery
Podcast links look at the diverse work work of legendary Magnum photographer Elliot Erwitt who died back in November 2023. A big influence to many photographers, his ability to capture iconic images of events, portraits, and even dogs showed the broad range of his skills.
Magnum Profile - https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/elliott-erwitt/
Guardian Obituary - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/21/elliott-erwitt-obituaryhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/21/elliott-erwitt-obituary View the podcast links page at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast
In the podcast: I'm looking back at 2023 and my favourite images from my travels during the past year. Also, I take a look at what may be coming in 2024. No podcast links in this episode but an Elliott Erwitt link podcast will be recorded soon for the end of January.
In the podcast: With Twitter, now called X, making further changes to its platform and its lifespan up for debate, is it time to move back to blogging? Four great photography links including a history of photography TV series via YouTube.
Photography links
International Portrait Photographer of the Year 2023
BBC | Extraordinary photos of July's extreme weather
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-bcea7bff-641f-4cbf-b091-26491409fbdc
BBC History Of Photography Complete (Episodes 1,2, and 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMZsjYCUfpo
Zak Waters - Birdmen. Great Documentary photography about Pigeon Racing
A bonus podcast talking about the first of two favourite photographs shot in Northumberland in late April 2023.
The image of the harbour at Seahouses is my second favourite photograph.
View the photo at darkerskies.wordpress.com/podcast
In the podcast: More drama from Twitter with the tweet feed vanishing from the website, the new social media platform Threads arrives and looks promising, and there's more website improvement work. In the links, Eve Arnold's excellent portrait and documentary work, a love letter to the industrial part of the Melbourne suburb and the makers who work there and an 84-year-old photo mystery is solved!
Photography links
Mystery of Holocaust escape girls solved after 84 years https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66040197
Roller Door: Moorabbin makers at work https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/09/roller-door-moorabbin-makers-at-work
Brothels, bartenders and film stars: Eve Arnold’s women https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/10/brothels-bartenders-and-film-stars-eve-arnolds-women-in-pictures
BONUS LINK
Prix Pictet shortlist 2023: Human https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/07/prix-pictet-shortlist-2023-human-in-pictures
In the podcast. Details on April's visit to Northumberland and photographing a couple of fantastic castles, the landscape, and more. Streamlining work on the website, to make the site a little more slick and light, and the problem with old WordPress plugins. Instagram and Twitter thoughts and RFP's social media future. The podcast link is for the excellent Railroad through the American landscape video work of Acme Cinematography on Youtube
Podcast link https://www.youtube.com/@AcmeCinematography
