Today’s pick is a video of a TED talk by Edward Burtynsky, describing his wish that his images help persuade millions to join a global conversation on sustainability.

Three Gorges Dam Project, Wan Zhou #4,
Yangtze River, China 2002 © Edward Burtynsky

Click here, or on the image above to go to Burtynsky’s site.

A series, by Yann Gross, from the Kampala area of Uganda showing the first East African skatepark constructed by local youngsters.

All photos © Yann Gross.

The series can be found here.

Andy and I visited Photofair this weekend. Part of Photomonth, the East London Photography Festival, Photofair spreads over Spitalfields market and features an eclectic mix of photographers and galleries selling prints, publishers and photography service providers. Printwise there was something for everyone - from £10 prints from amateur enthusiasts to £10,000+ Burtynsky’s.

We met and talked to a large number of photographers, discovering some great work that hopefully we will be able to make available through the gallery in the not too distant future.

The day was rounded off with a visit to ‘A Place Like Home’ at Foundry and Obama’s People at Flowers Kingsland Road.

Some outtakes and links from the day below.

Miranda Gavin from Hotshoe magazine and Wendy Pye. Hotshoe is available in print bi-monthly for just £23pa, or £25pa for both print and full online access. There’s also Hotblog which Miranda edits.

Carolyn Lefley pictured with some of her work from ‘Belonging’ at the ‘A Place Like Home’ exhibition at Foundry - the show also included work by Ewa Bialek and Mark Denton.

Sam Bedford and Nova photographer Ben Roberts.

John Matthews - Tales of a Flaneur.

Photojournalist Alison Baskerville, alongside her striking portrait of Qamille Stema an Albanian ‘Virgjinesha’ (Sworn Virgin).

Our selection today is Holly and Beech, a slice of the British landscape from Harry Cory Wright.

Holly and Beech © Harry Cory Wright

More on Harry’s website.

This wonderfully lush image from Adam Bartos is today’s selection:

More of his Los Angeles series.

During the summer Magnum, rather disappointingly, decided to end their blog.  The archive remains accessible however and allows us to highlight ‘Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers’ - a particularly interesting entry as our POTD:

Austria. 1948. © David Seymour/Magnum Photos

I apologise if you are about to have your lunch and this puts you off. We have a surreal selection today. ‘Colony’ is Martin Scott-Jupp’s striking exploration of the mould you can find on bread:

All photos © Martin Scott-Jupp.

Yum!

More here.

Some compelling mono work from Mark Steinmetz is today’s selection:

All photos © Mark Steinmetz

More on his website. And here.

Today’s selection is an image from Saul Leiter’s ‘Early Color’.

Reflection, 1958 © Saul Leiter

Leiter’s colour work didn’t surface until the 1990s, although he was photographing in colour many decades earlier. He rarely presents the world directly, photographing reflections or using environmental features to frame his images. The resulting compositions feel like abstract, mutli-layered memories, the scenes you only perceive when you are not really looking.

More at Lens Culture.

Cara Phillips’ collection of photographs depicting the offices of doctors involved in the beauty business “resulted from both a personal struggle with body issues, and a long history in the beauty business.”

Pink Cellulite Machine, Century City. 2007

The resulting images show environments and machinery that appear to be both instruments of salvation and torture.