Youngna lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She loves baking desserts, she knits a scarf a year, she gardens herbs indoors, she loves everything about snow, she always eats breakfast, and she uses superlatives within reason. She is a self-taught photographer and her photography work has been published by various magazines and is represented by Jen Bekman’s gallery, in New York City.

Laura Pannack is a young British photographer who has recently won first place in the Portrait Singles category at the World Press Awards for “Graham,” the striking portrait of a teenager suffering anorexia nervosa (above). She has also been published in The Guardian and the Sunday Telegraph magazine, among other titles, and gained representation from the Lisa Pritchard Agency in London.

’10′ is published to commemorate ten years of the in-public international street photographers group and features ten images from each of the group’s 20 photographers.

Some photographers use their blogs simply to show off their latest work, some learned SEO and discovered ways to make their blogs work for them. Mark Tucker’s photography blog is different. His blog is not search engine optimized. His blog, instead of keywords, has a soul!

Oyako is the Japanese word for parent and child and also the title that photographer Bruce Osborn gave his series of Japanese parents and children portraits. Bruce started photographing Oyako in 1982 and has gone on to take over 2,000 parent/child combinations, in the process he published several photo books and has had numerous exhibitions on this series.

Tonight I am deeply moved by the sad news that Domenico Foschi, an Italian photographer friend of mine, is abandoning his dream of being a full time artist here in the US and will be soon moving back to Italy. In his announcement on his personal blog, Domenico pointed out that “artists whose work has a romantic slant (misinterpreted term), like mine, do not exactly fall into the trends of today’s art world, which is a reflection of the American society we live in today, where emotion is something to be avoided.”

Bruce Osborn moved to Japan in 1980. Since then, his work has spanned the media spectrum, from print ads and album covers, to online videos. He also originated Oyako Day, and serves as a director of Ozone Inc.

Andreas Gursky is a German visual artist drawn to large, anonymous, man-made spaces—high-rise facades at night, office lobbies, stock exchanges, the interiors of big box retailers. He makes large-scale, colour photographs distinctive for their incisive and critical look at the effect of capitalism and globalization on contemporary life.

This weekend, inspired by the snow falling over New York, I decided to visit Michael’s website to browse again some of his older images and I was surprised to find out that the website has been recently completely redone. Even more surprising was to find on the interviews page a beautiful video in which Michael goes to Kussharo Lake, in Hokkaido, to pay a visit and photograph one of his favorite trees.

The editors of Resolve, the blog of LiveBooks, posted this week an interesting open question for everyone to attempt to answer: “What do you think photobooks will look like in 10 years? Will they be digital or physical? Open-source or proprietary? Will they be read on a Kindle or an iPhone? And what aesthetic innovations will have transformed them?”