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Posts by Ben Roberts

When fiction blurs with reality…

I climbed the stairs from the station to the street into a world of neon and torrential rain, the streets still busy with pedestrians and food stalls…

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Has the era of the “iconic image” passed?

Following a tweet from Magnum led me to a protest image from the 60′s by Paul Fusco. It set me to thinking about the current state of news photography….

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How can I believe what I see, when the truth is a show?

Why would a photographer mislead his audience?

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Raoul Gatepin – Hollywood Beckons

A reminder from Raoul of just how complicated video can be.

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Typology in the Public Domain

Ben discovers the Lying Down Game (“the latest craze to take the north east”).

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Mark Powell – Mexico XXI

We talk to Mark Powell about his latest body of work: Mexico XXI.

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