I saw
Massimo Siragusa's work when he won a
World Press Photo Award earlier this year.... I find these pictures of Sicilian Slums very curious, so I asked Massimo more about the work...:
" So… the images have been shot in Messina, Sicily. In the month of October 2008. I wanted to underline a current Italian reality, particularly difficult, for the desperate economical and social conditions in which some people live.
Moreover this is a reality almost completely unknown, that very few people talk about. Since some time now I have been dealing with difficult situations, Naples for example, told by their dwellings. The houses and their rooms become the main protagonists, and tell a lot about the people that inhabits them, their habits, their struggle and their dignity that helps them face a very difficult existence..."
In the recent issue of Ojo de Pez (a great magazine if you do not know it!).. Is the work of Vincent Fournier... I cant tell you how much I like this work, luckily its now a book too, I will hopefully have some copies in the gallery soon.... I really would so much like to see the prints of this work...
If you looks at Vincent's website he has a new project called Underworld that looks equally exciting....
Quite some time ago, a friend introduced me to the work of Fieret, which I find fascinating. He often marked the prints with a huge signature or stamp as you can see in some of these, almost making the prints like fetishes... His works are available through the Deborah Bell Gallery in New York City....
Regrettably I didn't make it to the Format photography Festival conference last week, but have heard there was and is a lot of interesting work on show .... Kate Peters is someone whose I have seen before but was reminded of by Lauren (8 Magazine) who was there this year.... Here are some examples, and I am a fan.... 
I like this picture so much, its almost biblical, but also such a great contradiction... Man happily living with beast.... Or not as the case may be....
Andy Sewell recently showed my a large body of work on our famous Hampstead Heath, more of which can be seen here... Well worth looking at..
Whilst looking at Sam Website I saw a project entitled Rainbows End, Rainbows End was a small theme park or rather Fair ground in Bogner Regis, where strangly as a child I used to go.. Now as you can see Rainbows End is no more.....
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