Darfur Image by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala in the Sunday times Magazine 14thMarch 2010

Darfur Image by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala in the Sunday times Magazine 14th March 2010
Originally uploaded by Johnny Mobasher Street Photography

The Gold medal of the week goes to the production department of the Sunday times who managed to stitch in a 5 Star Holiday resport promotion and advertisement ,right in the centre piece over the great image of the starving Sudanese family of Darfur, searching in the desert for water and firewood, carrying thier few belonging on a donkey. The resort, assured you that you can enjoy Archery, a Blue Lagoon Eco-Waterpark, enjoying a wide range of "Aqua adventures" all in subtropical tempratures, and pamper yourself in the Well Spa!! what great planning boys!!!

Church Yard at 3am

Church Yard at 3am, originally uploaded by Johnny Mobasher Street Photography.

She arrived right on time and got into his car. What was he doing there!? Why did she come!? All the talk about how she didn’t know him went through my mind. If was not important at all until she got into the car. What are they doing there! He just got back from Malaysia, buying some sort of liquid. A Blue-ish color liquid. What WAS this liquid! May be she is having a CAR affair, you know. The reclining seat experience.
But as time went on their voices got louder and louder. What WAS going on in that car. I could not understand the words but I knew they had started to argue. It sounded like an argument. I rolled my car window down to hear better. It WAS an argument. I heard her shouting my name. What was he saying? I could see at times the car would swing side to side very very slightly as if there was some physical involvement. I looked around and there was no one in sight. It was about 3am by now. 20 minutes in the car. It all went very calm again.
No sound.
So quiet.
I heard a cat’s Mi-ao some distance away.
A bird.
I looked up and the sky was so clear.
A moon lit night.
Stars so large I felt I could just reach out and take one.
I could hear Stravinsky in my head.
You could probably hear a pin drop.
Then…..

A Gun shot!!
Deafening.
My heard stared to race!

I saw a flash of lightning come though from the car!

Someone shot someone!

A second later, she got out of the car and walked away and diapered around the corner.

I didn’t know what to do.

Follow her to check the car!

Someone must have called the police by now. it was so loud.

I knew where she lived so I decided to check the car.

I got out and whilst looking around, approached the car.

I could hear sirens.

I put my gloves on and reached for the drivers door handle and pulled.

It was locked.

I couldn’t see into the car.

I went around the car as I knew the other door would be unlocked. She had just got out.

I opened the door and carefully looked inside……….

Digital Invasion

The Epitaph!

I recently wrote to the BJP. below is the edited version of my letter published in the BJP last issue 25.7.07....Aug 1st 2007:
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I read with somewhat raised eyebrows and half open mouth, but not totally shocked, the comment by Simon Bainbridge, Living on the margin (BJP, 11 July), explaining the new guidelines from The Times Magazine setting a maximum rate of £100 for digital processing.
This gives me a great excuse to now write to Tesco which is offering to sell houses, or at least, offering advertising billboards for sellers for as little as £50, causing great concern to estate agents. For the £100 digital processing fee offered by The Times, Tesco could also enter the photographic market, by arming night shift shelf stackers with compact cameras and a little Photoshop training. They could maybe even make a deal with The Times Magazine to do processing for £49.99 rather than £100!
We won't make a living at £100, so why be greedy?