The Photography Post is a new website that aims to deliver the most current discussions on the state of photography by featuring live feeds from various fine art, commercial and fashion photography websites/blogs.

Along with the nicely designed “Live Feeds” display (which updates regularly with the latest posts), visitors to the site can sign up for an account to keep track of their favorite feeds. It’s a great idea that has been implemented in other forms already but never with such a clean design or with such fine people on board.

In addition to the live feeds, Editors Rachel Hulin and Kate Steciw as well as Publisher Danielle Franca Swift will be contributing original content to the site’s own blog as well as their Museum of Online Photography Collections.

Lots to see, so get to it.

Traum #5, 2009
© Alexander Binder

There are only two days left to bid on the works in Daniel Cooney’s latest Emerging Artists Auction. Again, some of the highlights from the photography section include Alexander Binder, Alison Malone, Grant Willing, Aaron McElroy, Bob O’Connor, Jake Stangel, Lyndsy Welgos, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen as well as one of my own.

Browse all of the works here.

The auction ends on February 4th.

Photo-eye Magazine just published The Best Books of 2009, which brings together the selections of 25 prominent photographers, bookmakers, editors, publishers and critics. I’m happy to say that Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light was one of the featured titles, selected by Daniel Espeset (Contributing Editor at Photo-eye).

Have a look at all of the selections here.

Altered State, 2009
© Noel Rodo-Vankeulen

Daniel Cooney’s latest Emerging Artists Auction is now online and works are open for bidding. Some of the highlights from the photography section include Alexander Binder, Alison Malone, Grant Willing, Aaron McElroy, Bob O’Connor, Jake Stangel, Lyndsy Welgos, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen and one of my own prints can be found here.

The auction ends on February 4th.

Artist Book Database, “an online database of artist books, zines, catalogues and independent publications,” was just launched by David Schoerner (of Hassla Books). The website, which is updated daily, now has over 500 titles and 250 artists and looks to be a excellent, growing resource.

If you have a book to add to the database, write to info [at] artistbookdatabase.org

I think my nerdiness just reached new heights… say hello to Stereogram Tetris.

Marian Sunbathing, 2008 [from "Caught in a Secret History"]
© Michele Abeles

Tim Barber’s online curatorial project Tiny Vices just got a fresh new design, and with it some cleaning up. At the moment there are just three portfolios from photographers Aaron Huey, Asger Carlsen and Michele Abeles. Don’t worry, though, all of the old content will return! As Tim writes,

For the re-launch I’m going to re-introduce all the content on the site bit by bit, day by day, along with new content, updated portfolios and other posts. So everything from the old site will get re-posted over the next few weeks/months…

Don’t miss the links page as well, which has become quite the photographic resource.

Well done, Tim.

Photographer Taryn Simon gave a TED Talk last month which worth checking out if you’re interested in either her An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar or The Innocents projects.

Then go ahead and watch all of the other awesome talks on TED.

Some time ago the collaborative photography space Mus-Mus (perhaps you’ve seen their project @600?) got in touch with me about contributing to their @Paris project, which was later juried by photographers Stephen Shore and Gil Blank along with Denise Wolff (Editor, Book Program at Aperture). Since I was at the time traveling in France, I was excited about the opportunity and was sure to send them my contribution after leaving Paris.

The project launched earlier this month and is now available to view in its entirety online. Included are images by a selection of fantastic photographers (such good company!):

Alec Soth, Bertien van Manen, Beth Dow, Corinne Vionnet, David LaSpina, Georg Parthen, Gil Blank, Gus Powell, Hin Chua, Jason Fulford, Louis Porter, Lucas Blalock, Mark Steinmetz, Matthew Spiegelman, Michael David Murphy, Mike Slack, Paul Schiek, Richard Renaldi, Shane Lavalette, Simon Roberts, Stephen Shore, Thobias Fäldt and many, many more.

Here’s a screenshot of my contribution:

Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, France, 2009
Photograph © Shane Lavalette

Along with the photographs, Mus-Mus published two interesting texts: Abdu’l-Baha in Paris by Darius Himes and Paris and Photography as the Promise of Possibility by Ulrich Baer – both worth a read.

View the @Paris project here.

If you haven’t already seen it, you can watch William Eggleston in the Real World in its entirety right here. This documentary received mixed reviews when it was released in 2005. See what you think.