Simon Roberts: Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers from Jim Casper on Vimeo.

"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth" Roland Barthes preface to "Mythologies"

"If you weren’t a painter, what would you be doing?

Probably delivering pizzas or murdering people. I don’t know. I couldn’t imagine my life without being able to make things that I fall in love with."

Anthony Lister interview w Anthem, here

Photos i found on my desktop that my mom took in florida last year.

Martin Parr

© Martin Parr -- great interview w him here via lens culture

My Grandfather wore that sweater and that tie

James Welling

"...Appearance and illusion, the reality of the camera and the photographic print, what we see or think we see, perception and how things are revealed photographically have always been in dialogue in his work. " (more from his "Glass House" series here)