5 h. ago Coatbridge photographer launches Kickstarter campaign to fund new photo book

John McKenna is looking to get 'Japan: Transient Moments', a project inspired by the Buddhist concepts of impermanence and transience, into publication.

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28 h. ago Photos: The Book Thief Musical Gets a London Concert, Starring & Juliet's Melanie La Barrie

Photos: The Book Thief Musical Gets a London Concert, Starring & Juliet's Melanie La Barrie  Playbill

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34 h. ago ‘There’s an emotional intensity’: Polly Samson on her photos of David Gilmour

As she releases a new photobook documenting the creation and subsequent tour of the Pink Floyd star’s fifth solo album, ‘Luck and Strange’, Samson tells Roisin O’Connor how she is ‘endlessly fascinated’ by Gilmour’s playing and the quest to capture ‘something about that expressiveness’

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3 d. ago Photographer Coreen Simpson’s illustrious career capturing Toni Morrison and Muhammad Ali: ‘I’ve never gotten bored’

Star-studded work from Simpson, whose instincts also led to success in jewelry design, is assembled in a new photo bookCoreen Simpson carved her own path to success – she never waited for anyone to hand her an opportunity. In her 1978 portrait of Toni Morrison, the author gazes directly into the camera with a striking expression that holds the viewer’s eyes fixed on hers.A shadow fills the space between Morrison and the world, compelling the audience to reckon with her presence. The cigarette held effortlessly in Morrison’s left hand is a gesture to her power and influence as a literary giant. The image captures the essence of Simpson’s photography, seamlessly revealing the nature of her subjects while commanding their presence in the world. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago London’s Philharmonia Orchestra took its time in Berkeley concert. Here’s when it paid off

London’s Philharmonia Orchestra took its time in Berkeley concert. Here’s when it paid off  San Francisco Chronicle

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5 d. ago World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer

Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuildingMargot Raggett has spent the past decade raising money for conservation efforts around the world but, right now, she feels nervous about the future. “It does feel like we’ve taken a backward step,” she said.The wildlife photographer has raised £1.2m for the cause in the past 10 years through her Remembering Wildlife series, an annual, not-for-profit picture book featuring images of animals from the world’s top nature photographers. The first edition was published in 2015, when the Paris climate agreement was being drafted but, in the years since, efforts to tackle the climate crisis have been rolled back. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Christine Allado, Christine Ebersole, More Will Star in London Jo—The Little Women Musical in Concert

Christine Allado, Christine Ebersole, More Will Star in London Jo—The Little Women Musical in Concert  Playbill

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7 d. ago Fatboy Slim: ‘We converted the indie kids into rave monkeys – and it felt good’

The chart-topping DJ is releasing a photobook to commemorate 40 years in music. In this extract, he discusses the rise of big beat, a genre that fused acid house with the ‘anarchic rebellion’ of punk, and propelled him into the big timeMost artists struggle with the “difficult” second album. Not wanting to sound big-headed, but this was not the case for me. The early success, especially of tunes such as Going Out of My Head and Everybody Needs a 303, had crystalised in my mind where all of this was going. I knew what was turning people on and had kinda cracked the formula of how the next album should sound. The formula was: breakbeats from my love of hip-hop, the anarchic rebellion of punk, the energy of acid house and hooks from the pop music I grew up on. I had all the thrift store samples built into a library for audio collage, and a club to test out new tunes.This new movement in music so far had no name to pigeonhole it. We, and journalists, tried various options such...

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8 d. ago Katy Perry confirms romance with Justin Trudeau after fan proposes to her at London concert: ‘I wish you’d asked me 48 hours ago’

Katy Perry confirms romance with Justin Trudeau after fan proposes to her at London concert: ‘I wish you’d asked me 48 hours ago’  The Indian Express

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9 d. ago Katy Perry Seemingly Confirms Justin Trudeau Romance at London Concert After Kissing Photos Surface

Katy Perry Seemingly Confirms Justin Trudeau Romance at London Concert After Kissing Photos Surface  Just Jared

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9 d. ago Katy Perry fan who proposed to her live on stage reveals how he always told his daughters he'd make the singer his wife one day

50-year-old Darren Trenchard, who is an Engineer from Hampshire, got down on one knee and popped the question live on stage during her London concert at The O2 Arena on Monday.

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9 d. ago Candid New York: George Bradford Brainerd’s pioneering early work – in pictures

In the 1870s, a civil engineer devised early handheld cameras able to capture scenes with more detail than ever. He used the technology to document people on New York streets, from musicians to beggars to paperboys. The work of the innovator, often referred to as the ‘father of instantaneous photography’, has been compiled into a book by Erik Hesselberg called Candid New York: The Pioneering Photography of George Bradford Brainerd, out on 21 October Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Katy Perry breaks her silence on romance with Justin Trudeau as she makes cheeky on

Katy Perry broke her silence on her romance with Justin Trudeau as she made a cheeky onstage comment during her London concert at The O2 Arena on Monday.

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9 d. ago Katy Perry breaks silence on Justin Trudeau romance during London gig with cheeky comment

KARY Perry broke her silence on her romance with Justin Trudeau with a cheeky onstage comment during her London concert. The superstar is currently on her Lifetimes world tour and took to the stage at London’s O2 Arena on Monday night. Addressing the crowd, the pop star said: “London, England, you’re like this on a...

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1 week ago New Channel 4 singing show Your Song to finish with London concert

The show is presented by Alison Hammond, with singers Paloma Faith and Sam Ryder featuring as mentors.

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1 week ago ‘Visual medicine’: Jamel Shabazz’s evocative photos of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park

The photographer’s new book collects his pictures of the mammoth New York City park from the 1980s up until nowThere is, allegedly, a commonly held belief among landscape architects familiar with New York City: for Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, the designers of both Central Park and Prospect Park, the former was merely practice for the latter.Located in Brooklyn, Prospect Park, 300 acres smaller than the Manhattan landmark, has a specifically insular quality. A surrounding urban horizon is obscured from view by old-growth forest and 175 species of trees; the park is beholden to its own rhythms, with natural waterfalls, grand lawns stretched across the borough’s glacial rock formations, and fewer adjacent towering buildings. Visiting feels like a quiet reprieve. For the Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz, Prospect Park has long been, as he writes in his newly released book, Prospect Park: Photographs of a Brooklyn Oasis, 1980 to 2025, “one of my best teachers a giver ...

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2 w. ago In the moment: 40 years of Reuters photojournalism – in pictures

The way we see the world can change in a few hundredths of a second. That’s the time it takes to capture a photograph. Reuters has published more than 14 million photographs over the past four decades, a new book, In the Moment, looks back over 40 years of photojournalism Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Photographer releases London photo book shot mostly in Walthamstow during pandemic

Photographer releases London photo book shot mostly in Walthamstow during pandemic  Guardian Series

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3 w. ago Lady Gaga & 'Wednesday' Costars Do 'The Dead Dance' At London Concert

Lady Gaga & 'Wednesday' Costars Do 'The Dead Dance' At London Concert  Deadline

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3 w. ago BBC Breakfast's live broadcast interrupted for 'final farewell' announcement

Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, and Shane Lynch announced that Boyzone are reuniting for a final concert in London next year

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