Wayne Ford

Really looking forward to this exhibition…

In 1945, when a B-25 military plane crashed into the Empire State Building, The New York Times photographer Ernie Sisto rushed to the scene. Here’s how he captured the disaster. nyti.ms/3TiMqwt

“This project has been an extraordinary therapy and education in embracing the queer community” — Tim Walker. www.ft.com/content/7f38...

“I challenged myself to be a little more all over the place, let go a little bit, and let the voice be fractured and faulty and fun and wrong… That was scary, but it was very important to me to try” — Taryn Simon. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

“He was really seeing so much more deeply, seeing beyond what we were presenting and seeing into our deepest beings, not just in the present, but how we were connected to the past and the future in those moments and how we transcended time” — Rebecca Walker. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

“I feel at home here in this chaos because the chaos suggests images to me” — Francis Bacon. www.ft.com/content/02d3...

Whenever I visit the National Portrait Gallery, I always have to spend a little time with this portrait of the poet and satirist Alexander Pope painted by Jonathan Richardson in 1737. The economy of mark making, and psychological intensity of the face make the portrait feel surprisingly modern.

‘I am bringing art to the people where the people are… Now they don’t have to go to galleries and see paintings on a wall’ — Peter Max (1937–2026). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/a...

‘This a moment when Gordon [Parks] would be front and center, trying to make people see the world differently.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/a...

Very sad news about the great Magnum photographer Ian Berry (1934–2026). He was always so generous with his time. When I asked him for a few words about his time collaborating with the Observer art director Romek Marber (1925–2020), a three-hour conversation offered a wonderful insight.

“I like to think of these files as having so many voices.. so many histories. And it’s all boxed up in these things! These things have so much in them, if you ever bother to look” — Taryn Simon. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/m...

‘If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone. When I see light that moves me, that I cannot explain, I won’t leave until I figure it out’ — Jay Maisel (1931–2026). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/a...

“I’ve published a dozen [books]… I love the idea that they last forever. I have too many favourites, but I often find myself revisiting Ukrainian-American magazine editor Alexander Liberman’s work; he was American Vogue’s art director” — François Hallard. www.ft.com/content/e5ab...

“There’s a correct amount of ink where it just sings… If there’s not enough, it can look a little sharp, a little weak. If there’s too much, it’s a little bolder. If you get it just right, you get that perfect letter form — perfect letters, the way they were designed” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/a...

“Jillian Edelstein’s work has a remarkable ability to move between intimate human encounters and wider social histories” — Tracy Marshall-Grant. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

“Books are my medium… I’d rather be in books than on the wall. You can pick them up, put them in your pocket, take them where you want to go” — Lee Friedlander. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...

Loved this series and the accompanying book.

“In the 1970s, punk zines such as Sniffin’ Glue, Alternative Ulster and Ripped & Torn allowed fans to share news and enthusiasm quickly and cheaply. Half a century on, music fanzines are enjoying a resurgence as a form of resistance to algorithm fatigue”. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

I would shoot mundane objects and add a bit of surreal oddness to them. It was a counteraction to the other still life around which used faded white to grey backgrounds. The work was slightly comedic, the subject was just plonked down and shot, no pampering. @wrenagency @wrenldn

From my book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’ Plate 43 South Caradon Mine, Cornwall Hugging Caradon Hill, this mine was not fully exploited until the 1830s when it became extremely profitable. The Liskeard & Caradon Railway, which opened in 1844, was built to enable the copper and tin ore extracted here to be...

©️ It’s now less than three weeks to go until my retrospective show at The Beach Art Gallery in Teddington, London. #advertising #media #advertisingagencies #print #publishing #portraiture #portraitphotography #colourphotography #blackandwhitephotography #canon #campaignmagazine #haymarketmediagroup

“When I write, it’s to talk about what you cannot see in the photograph… It’s to augment the photograph, to give voice to the silence of it” — Duane Michals (1932–2026). www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

‘I took the train to random stops. I got out in unfamiliar neighborhoods, spot someone to photograph, approach them, ask if I could take a photo’ — Janette Beckman. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

“These diaries expand our understanding of his process, showing the practicalities of his often precarious, rootless existence, and the inner challenges he faced and overcame” — @richove.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/46ad...

Today, with the fear of war and unchecked power in democratic institutions, the temptation to go numb is real — but numbness is surrender, which we cannot afford. Photographs cannot stop a war, but they can make it impossible to ignore what's happening. That is why we still show up — why we must.

Worth posting twice, just to say how quick and easy this was to use. Stop Palantir!

“Nicole Hollander (1939–2026) was a rarity in what had historically been a male-dominated profession… What made her especially rare was her refusal to adhere to societal norms and expectations for women. She was brazenly feminist but, above all, brazenly herself.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/a...

On press today at Park Communications with Marc Vallée, for the printing of the final volume of his 90s Archive. The book launches at The Photographers’ Gallery on 2 July, where Marc will be in conversation with art critic and author James Cahill. marcvallee.co.uk/Goodbye-to-t...

“I was never just a photographer on assignment… I was sent to shoot specific stories, but I would document the entire journey” — Raghu Rai (1942–2026). www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/w...

Plate 31 From my book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’ Hodge Close Quarry, Cumbria The Tilberthwaite Valley was a slate producing area from the 19th century until the 1960s. Now the disused, water-filled workings of this small valley are a haunt for divers & rock climbers. Records show that the quarry, which...

Any recommendations for other documentary photographers I can follow here who are doing really good work?

Spheres of influence: the Bauhaus’s radical female photographers – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

“From that moment on, Vinoodh started walking around and shooting different angles, different positions and moments… It became the perfect balance; we each capture different emotions” — Inez van Lamsweerde. www.ft.com/content/7c50...

“I realised this was the technique the Pontiac artists had used. And Vargas, who did the wartime pin-ups, which were copied on bomber fuselage. So I started doing the same thing, to get the beautiful finish I had been seeking” — Philip Castle (1942–2026). www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A poster is seen better through London Transport : 1937 commercial advertising press advert by Zeró - Hans Schleger (1898 - 1976) who undertook much work for LT at the time. #london #transport #graphicdesign flic.kr/p/2qEB5NJ

British photographer Mark Neville on documenting four years of war in Ukraine www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...

“Most images that were done previously by visual anthropologists, they really distorted Africa. You often find that the photographer’s name is there but the person being photographed, their name is not there” — Zanele Muholi. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I could stare at this for hours. 450 rolls of film made into a psychgeographical collage of Venice by Sohei Nishino: www.michaelhoppengallery.com/viewing-room...

“Peter Hujar is much better known than I am, much. But I helped make that happen” — Stephen Koch. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/a...

It feels so strange seeing an orchid in flower in March, but here it is, a Giant Orchid (Himantoglossum robertianum) in Oxfordshire. #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

‘I have always had a soft spot for “Kuno”. I spent time at its small hospital as a boy, getting patched up by the district’s longtime GP, Dr John Radunovich... Some say that once the pub burnt down, the town gave up’ — Brad Rimmer. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“We are living at a time where there’s tremendous retreat from the civil rights era… this exhibit is both timely and urgent. Because it speaks to the way Gordon Parks confronted these very same circumstances” — Bryan Stevenson. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘Designer David King achieved his ambition to create “a visual style for the left” in his work for the Anti-Nazi League’. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...