Today we present a set of street portraits from Gustaf Eriksson:

All photos © Gustaf Eriksson

More here.

Hotels attempt to deliver a particular ‘homely’ ambience for their guests. Yet strangely, by attempting to be everyone’s home, they feel like no one’s. Instead, they create an ambience that is instantly recognisable as ‘hotel’ and which is, oddly, homely.

All photos © Barbara Van Schaik

Barabara Van Schaik has captured this particular quality in her series ‘Hotel Inc.’ More here.

Our selection for Friday is a little bit of fashion from Facehunter:

© Yvan Rodic

Firstly, apologies for the lack of a selection yesterday.

Our pick today is ‘What is England?’, a project from Stuart Pilkington. The project involves 50 photographers, one representing each English county and each submitting a single photograph in response to six different assignments. The first assignment, and the one published this week, is ‘Person’.

Two Nova photographers, Ben Roberts and Sarah Amy Smith are taking part in the project as is Nova partner Andrew Newson.

© Sarah Amy Smith

© Carl Mole

© Tim Morris

© Andrew Newson

© Ben Roberts

It’s always fascinating watching photographers at work. Our pick today is ‘David Solomons shoots Up West’ a video from Jonathan Goldberg of photographer David Solomons shooting for his ‘Up West’ project.

View the video here.

© David Solomons

David has an exhibition of ‘Up West’, opening on March 11th at the Third Floor gallery in Cardiff.  Click here for details.

As it’s the first of the month, it’s time for some classic mono:

Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama (LOC)

This is from the Library of Congress photostream on Flickr.

We finish the week with this portrait from Gordon Burniston:

© Gordon Burniston

More here.

Joe Stevens provides ample evidence with his project ‘Vans and the Places They Were’ of the power of visual repetition:

From the artist: “‘Vans and the places they were’ documents surviving custom and conversion vans across the West and examines the dialogue which exists between a van’s design aesthetic and that of its surrounding environment. The project began in 1996 and currently consists of hundreds of images shot on 120 film.”

More here.

For our pick today we are branching out into sports photography to feature this image of Skeleton Bob gold medalist Amy Williams:

© Clive Mason/Getty Images

Good sports photography can often transcend straightforward reportage. This particular image capturing the particular lonely intensity of the skeleton event.

More Olympic images here.

Our pick today is a set from Noah Kalina who came to prominence via his photo everyday project.

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All photos © Noah Kalina

Our selected set is from his ‘What Happens in Vegas…’ project. More here.