Images from the series Playland by Chikara Umihara, from Tokyo, Japan; currently living in Tokyo and New York.

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These images are from a series of collages by Beth Hoeckel, and artist currently working in the United States. The images shown here are paper and paste collages, sans digital manipulation. More work can be seen over at her website.

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Kathy Ryan and Lesley A. Martin have curated a show titled “The New York Times Magazine Photographs” at Foam gallery in Amsterdam. The exhibition presents some of the best photographs printed in The New York Times Magazine during the last thirty years.

Foam also produce one of the best photography magazines available, and will shortly be using a new cover format that “confirms and enhances the philosophy of Foam magazine: images come first” which you can get a sneak preview of here.

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Video above by Moritz Oberholzer, shot from the windows of London Buses using a handheld HD camera with a DIY 35mm adapter.

I’ve just got back from Copenhagen where amongst other things, I got to visit the Dansk Design Museum featuring such highlights as these Pantone toothbrushes. Pantone and good design go hand-in-hand, and over the last few years the company has moved on from industry standard swatches to mugs, socks and these toothbrushes.

As far as gimmicks go, this is up there with the most pointless of them, but I can’t say I wasn’t tempted. I mean, who wouldn’t want to add a bit more interest to the most boring of morning and evening chores?

Unfortunately though, I didn’t buy them, but I am still trying to justify the cost of this awesome Pantone iPhone cover.

I will hopefully get the time to go and process some films from the weekend soon, so expect pictures if I do!

These images are from the series One Hundred Views of Bathing by Mariko Sakaguchi, a photographer based in Tokyo. A brilliant take on the self-portrait.

From the artist statement: “I am making art works by using photography. I am trying to cross the sense of private and public, and also now and past by taking bath in old style Japanese bathtub and stepping into photography by myself, You can see I take bath anywhere, It means the place you are seeing my works and also the place you are at now are not off-site. The place where you are has possibilities to be the scene of my works. You are not spectator, but party of my work, art. I want to be a part of art with you all.”

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From an article in today’s Guardian, Paul graham has won the 2012 Hasselblad award, becoming the first British photographer to win the prize.

Graham is one of my favourite photographers, and I reviewed his exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery last April. The image above is from the series A Shimmer of Possibility, which is also one of my favourite photobooks.

This is my review of the Migrations exhibition, as published in the Socialist Review:

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For the #WIN. Available at Photojojo.

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Corey Arnold’s show Wolf Tide opened recently at the Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, building on the artists ten year photographic documentation of the commercial fishing industry.

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