Child’s Game
My sister and my 2 ½ year old niece visited me recently and as they were flying over from the UK, they …
Hey, old friend!
“Hello, stranger!” Well, if this blog could speak that’s probably what it would have said this morning when I logged on to …
Oh, Christmas tree
So, have you decorated your Christmas tree yet? I don’t know if it was because the first day of December fell on …
Bow ties are cool
I’m a fan both of bow ties and human rights, so I was very pleased when Jesse Tyler Ferguson announced the launch …
Happy Birthday, Tony Vaccaro
Tony Vaccaro is a very special person. I have always found his photographs extremely appealing and very human and have had the …
Spies like us
Some of the most intriguing topics in fiction can be the hardest to illustrate. Any experienced picture researcher will be able to …
True Romance – Caspar David Friedrich
It was a miserable weekend weather-wise – rain, rain, rain and it never really got light, especially on Saturday. By Sunday afternoon …
Do you know who you are? The fascination of family photographs
I have always been interested in family history and on a recent visit to my father he showed me some old family …
A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum…
Next month it will be ten years since I started working at akg-images. My first job was as a picture researcher and, …
Another London, another photographer
So… here in London we have just finished playing host to some sporting event or other. You may have heard about it. …