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Nick Turpin has published rarely seen colour photographs of Garry Winogrand on his blog sevensevennine.com. Surprising and fascinating!

Kay von Aspern, a German photographer living in Vienna, has a new website that features a vast selection of photographs combined in 24 (!) series. I prevent myself from getting lost in his huge archive by only looking at a few of them and then returning on another day to check the next ones. Kay von Apern is mainly known for his „traditional“ street photography but there are also some more conceptional works like the adorable series perfect.

Jonas Ludwig Walter’s series now|here is a reportage about a group of men living in a little house on a huge territorial that once was the construction site for Germany’s biggest nuclear power station. The power station plans were dropped 20 years ago and those guys are still busy dismantling the buildings. An uncommon story, beautiful pictures and a real bizzare setting. Now featured on emerge online magazine.

There’s a beautiful new documentary about Bruce Davidson on the arte Website.

By accident I found „Bill Wood’s Business“ in a book store the other day. Bill Wood was a commercial studio photographer in Fort Worth, Texas, who died in 1973. During the 50s and 60s he photographed anything that his customers wanted him to photograph: portraits, events, products, advertisments, pets, architecture, diseases, even dead bodies. What was never ment to be any artistic or journalistic work now turns out to be a great documentation about living in the upper middle class in America at the time. A great book with over 250 black/white photographs. Check articles and pictures at foto8.com, icp.org and veryshortlist.com.

The new exhibition “Berlin Talking” at FENSTER61 shows photographs by Italian photographer Piero Chiussi he took in Berlin during the last year(s). Scenes from supermarkets, demonstrations, a wedding, public places. Piero Chiussi is a member of neunplus.

Some of the screenings that were shown at the Seconds2Real event at exp12 Gallery in February are now online on vimeo. This video was shown as an intro to the evening and contains photographs from all Seconds2Real members as well as some thoughts about what the term “street photography” means to us.

Belgrade Raw is a group of five photographers showcasing street and alternative photography from Belgrade. There are some gems to discover on that website. They also experiment with unusual ways of exhibiting their work – like the Belgrade Raw Bar Book – nice idea!

There’s another interesting inteview on the Seconds2Real pages. After visiting the book presentation of A DRUG FREE LAND in Berlin I got in contact with the author Thomas Kern who was kind enough to answer questions about his book and his photographic approach. I like that book not only because of it’s powerful black/white photographs. The impact of it has a lot to do with sophisticated sequencing and a strong layout. All photographs are pinted in full size over double pages and after every little „series“ there is a white double page only showing the descriptions to the images on former pages. Read the interview here. By commenting the interview on the Seconds2Real page you get the chance to win a signed copy of A DRUG FREE LAND.