“Breakfast Project” by Californian photographer John Huck.

On 6 September 2007 nine independent documentary photographers, launched Noor, a new photo agency. Noor promotes, sells and exhibits the work of its founding member photographers:

- Samantha Appleton (United States)
- Jodi Bieber (South Africa)
- Philip Blenkinsop (Anglo-Australian)
- Pep Bonet (Spain)
- Jan Grarup (Denmark)
- Stanley Greene (United States)
- Yuri Kozyrev (Russia)
- Kadir van Lohuizen(The Netherlands)
- Francesco Zizola (Italy)

Today it’s been precisely 25 years since the appearance of the first smiley, without which no Web talks are possible. This six-piece set of smileys designed as different color cushions is good for all children, age three to hundred year olds.

“Ana is the pet name for anorexia. The term was established by a pro-anorexia movement in the U.S.A. The naming ana symbolises the belittlement or even ignorance of this psychosomatic illness. The photographs of anorexic women were taken in two psychosomatic clinics in Germany. I tended to illustrate the “living reality” of these women, their emotional world and their shifted perception of realness.” - Sybille Fendt.

Lancement du site web / portfolio de Laure Kasiers, une designer textile de grand talent basée à Bruxelles. - Website designed by Central.

Studio Visit: Parra
One of the most prolific and talented illustrator out there.

I wish you Happy Birthday and a long life with wearebuild! Thank you for all the visual pleasure during these years! Your work is so strong, so beautiful and so simply generous! I hope that you will continue, for a long time, to give us sweetened food for our eyes! youarelife.

Richard Ross’s new book, The Architecture of Authority, illustrates how the physical spaces of prison, the police station, confessional, and even school force us to negotiate with these institutions for our autonomy and, in some cases, our freedom.

Large samples here and here with an interview with the photographer.

The Book
Hardcover: 144 pages
Product dimension: 9.3 x 9.2 x 0.8 inches
Publisher: Aperture Press
Publication date: Septembre 2007

Michel has a lot of good work here.

I feel really sad and alone since my favorite real whatever show seems stopped.