Street Photography- "This image captures something deeply human – the need for connection after moments of reflection and duty. Just hours earlier, these young submariners had marched with solemnity and precision, paying tribute to those who had gone before them" - Digital Camera World August 8, 2026
- Incredible Photo Collection Featuring Works by Nan Goldin and Diane Arbus Goes on Tour - PetaPixel August 8, 2026
- Street Prophets Friday: Litomyšl, More Art in the Streets (photo diary/open thread) - dailykos.com August 7, 2026
- Between Document and Violation: Where Does Street Photography End? - Collater.al Magazine August 7, 2026
- Stunning New York Reflections and Spiral Architecture Lead 2026 Street Photography Awards - freeyork August 7, 2026
- Beautiful, intimate and raw: Nan Goldin’s deeply personal exploration of female trauma and resistance is as powerful as it is sublime - Amateur Photographer August 7, 2026
- The Winners of the 2026 Pure Street Photography Awards Invoke Happenstance and Commotion - thisiscolossal.com August 6, 2026
- Atlanta photographer Leslie Andrews is dedicated to helping clients tell their stories - ABC30 Fresno August 6, 2026
- In pictures: The best street photography of 2026, from Mexico to France - Time Out Worldwide August 6, 2026
- This Is the Moment Everything Changed: Ascensia Launches Global Art and Photography Competition for World Diabetes Day - AOL.com August 6, 2026
- Japanese street photography master Daido Moriyama breaks all the rules of photography, but you can't argue with these astonishing photos - Amateur Photographer August 6, 2026
- "Street photography begins with honesty. It doesn't wait for perfection or performance. It asks us to notice what everyone else walked past" - Digital Camera World August 6, 2026
- "Street photography begins with honesty. It doesn't wait for perfection or performance. It asks us to notice what everyone else walked past" - Yahoo August 6, 2026
- Eight Winners Announced In Pure Street Photography Awards 2026 - Forbes August 6, 2026
- 8 winning photographers, selected from 1,582 submissions from 50 countries - The Telegraph August 6, 2026
- Bruce Gilden Describes the People He Photographs as His ‘Family’ - PetaPixel August 5, 2026
- Don Webb street photography at library - Gulf Islands Driftwood August 4, 2026
- This compact camera is perfect for street photography and vlogging – it's hard to find, but this US retailer still has it in stock in white - Digital Camera World August 4, 2026
- Spikin’ in Street photo page - nujournal.com August 4, 2026
- Why Street Photography Isn't About the Subject - Fstoppers July 29, 2026
- Documentary Photography
- Dark Tales: British Documentary Photography and the Gothic at Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol - we-heart.com August 5, 2026
- Shared humanity through photography on view in Astoria - discoverourcoast.com August 5, 2026
- Films Every Photographer Should See - Fstoppers July 29, 2026
- Inside Ayobami Olorunniyi’s inspiring ‘One Church, Many Nations’ photography exhibition - The Guardian Nigeria News July 28, 2026
- This new gothic-themed exhibition has a lot to teach photographers about making the ordinary feel unsettling - Digital Camera World July 26, 2026
- Framing the Unseen - artafricamagazine.org July 21, 2026
- Focus Photo: Supporting New Artistic and Documentary Photography Projects (Switzerland) - fundsforNGOs July 15, 2026
- 15 Years of Street Photography: What Camera Choice Really Means - Fstoppers July 11, 2026
- The world's best documentary photography exhibition returns to London this summer - and we have a special discount on tickets! - Amateur Photographer July 8, 2026
- Jeff Wall: Canadian Artist's Near-Documentary Photography - Monocle July 3, 2026
- East African Photography Award 2026 – Stories - fundsforNGOs June 19, 2026
- Andhra photographer’s global honour shines light on India’s documentary tradition - The Hindu June 18, 2026
- Sony World Competition: Photography capturing the spectrum of human experiences and cultures - Daily Maverick May 13, 2026
- Haunting and Hopeful Images Win the 2026 Environmental Photography Award - My Modern Met May 13, 2026
- Social Documentary Network Zeke award 2026 winners – in pictures - The Guardian May 11, 2026
- The Power of Almost Nothing: Why the Square Frame Changes Everything in Street Photography - Fstoppers May 9, 2026
- Why Your Camera Choice Is Killing Your Storytelling - Fstoppers May 7, 2026
- Activestills: Photography as the Last Act of Resistance - Collater.al Magazine April 29, 2026
- How 28mm, 35mm, and 50mm Defined Urban Photography - Fstoppers April 28, 2026
- Tokyo Streets X is back with a mashup of street photography, art and music you won’t want to miss - Time Out Worldwide April 23, 2026
Author Archives: Robert Basil
How to write a lede
From the Irish Times: Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to … Continue reading
Silly professor
It is puzzling, perhaps, when the paper of record publishes a piece arguing that it’s a waste of money and time providing and receiving education in schools.
Hootsuite blog
Hootsuite, Vancouver’s vaunted social media management company, has helpfully updated the design of its already excellent blog. There are fewer listicles and more how-to cheat sheets (a favourite genre of mine, as my students know). A couple of days ago … Continue reading
The scale of a work
Our friend Jonathan Mayhew, on finding the right size (for a book): I like saying that [my upcoming book on Lorca and music] is a medium sized book on a vast subject. So it is with scholarship. You are rarely … Continue reading
Talisman
The Paper Hound is “a new, used, and rare book store” on Pender Street in downtown Vancouver. “We don’t specialize in one particular kind of book, but we favour the classic, curious, odd, beautiful, visually arresting, scholarly, bizarre, and whimsical.” … Continue reading
Good timing
University of Washington professor Kate Starbird and several of her colleagues just published “Repeat Spreaders & Election Delegitimization,” featuring an analysis of their 2020 Election Misinformation dataset, “including 307 false, misleading, exaggerated and/or unsubstantiated claims that sowed doubt in [the … Continue reading
Stanford University’s “Writing Matters”
My former haunt, Stanford University’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric, has taken down its old Resources page. Happily, though, you can still find online its wonderful “Writing Matters” series, interviews with Stanford professors and students describing “writing’s connection with academic … Continue reading
What could go wrong?
No Contest friend Chester Wisniewski provides the clearest précis I’ve read regarding the extravagant promises made on behalf of “decentralized blockchains,” in The Gospel of Crypto: A Solution in Search of a Problem. It’s concise, illuminating, and persuasive.
Prime Yourself
There needs to be two of you: you and “you prime.” The latter is an heuristic entity brought into being by you for the purpose of protecting and orienting you. Your “you prime” makes the hard decisions – saying no to … Continue reading
I’m keeping in abeyance any decision I might make on maintaining my presence on Twitter. I’ve been tweeting away since 2008, though I have never been especially prolific. (That said, this platform completely redefined “prolific”!) The place had a few … Continue reading