Simon Bowcock

"Reader beware: this essay has failed."

Picasso's muse or great artist?

Subject, equipment, photographer: what really matters?

What does the dataset want? Quite a lot, it turns out.

Very different approaches to the photography can be equally successful.

Farewell to Ara Güler, the “eye of Istanbul”.

Fascinating and ultimately disturbing.

Many clever and interesting things on many subjects.

Can somnolent Tokyo salarymen shock us into thinking more critically about our own role in the world?

“The camera never lies.”

- Buck’s Fizz, My Camera Never Lies, 1982.

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​As we all know, Buck’s Fizz were telling a big fat lie.

An edgy study of attraction and obsession, studded with strong sexual metaphors

“It was the greatest group of photographers ever assembled in America”

The reductive, the creative, and what we've already been told.

In itself, even the most detailed photograph carries minimal meaning...

How do you put a price on a photograph as a piece of art?