Today we are delighted to feature Wave 3, our first photograph from Kent based Chris Friel.

Chris is a relatively recent convert to photography from painting. He purchased a camera in 2006 and hasn’t painted since. Being colourblind, he has worked largely in mono, but has recently produced some striking elemental and dreamlike colour landscape photographs.

All photos © Daniel Gueorguiev

Daniel Gueorguiev

Today’s pick is 100 Portraits - a special selection of 100 portrait photos from the FlakPhoto.com archive.

Andy Adams has been publishing FlakPhoto for four years and this selection was produced, in partnership with Larissa Leclair, for a photo projection for FotoWeek DC, which showed at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, November 6-13, 2010.

The result is a fantastically strong selection of portraits from some of the best up-and-coming names in contemporary photography.

A brief ‘heads up’ about ‘Smash His Camera’ - tonight’s edition of the excellent ‘Imagine’ series of programmes.

The programme follows American photojournalist Ron Galella who is “widely considered to be the world’s first paparazzi photographer”.

Rising Tide

Today we feature ‘Rising Tide’ - a classic mono landscape and the third photograph we have available from Adam Clutterbuck.

Adams says: “This photograph was taken on the rock ledges on the west side of the Welsh coastal town of Porthcawl. A clear evening with little sky interest, I concentrated on the interaction between the incoming tide and the highly textured limestone pavement. To simplify the image, a long exposure of 100 seconds was used to give the smoky quality to the sea.”

Nanven Boulders

Wetland Margin III

All three fantastic prints are available from just £19 each plus postage and packing.

All photos © Stephen King

Recently featured on the Brighton Photo Fringe, Stephen King’s photos of the Fifth Floor of the now closed Lewis’s Department store in Liverpool, hark back to a bygone retail environment. Although the store as a whole only closed in May this year, the Fifth floor was closed some 30 years ago and remained a space frozen in time.

There’s also an audio slideshow from the BBC - The Last Lewis’s.

Stephen King.

All photos © Michael Danner

We continue our peak at the Hereford Photography Festival by featuring a series from Michael Danner - who is one of the photographers featured in the headline exhibition ‘Twenty’.

More ‘Blue Suburban Skies’.

All photos © Al Vandenberg

This week we switch our focus to the Hereford Photography Festival. Al Vandenberg is one of the photographers selected for ‘Twenty’ - the headline exhibition celebrating 20 years of the festival.

Al Vandenberg

Today’s selection is ‘How Annie Got Shot’ an interesting article in the FT discussing the status of photography in the Art Market.

The article uses the status of Annie Leibovitz within the art world to highlight the dichotomy between photographers that have attained the status of ‘artist’ and whose work is therefore marketed and prized within the more lucrative art market, as opposed to a photographer such as Leibovitz who, although extremely successful in her own right as a commercial photographer, has not been able to ‘crossover’ as a collectable artist.

All photos © Alejandro Chaskielberg

We continue our survery of the Brighton Photo Biennial with a selection from Alejandro Chaskielberg who shoots the communities around the Parana River Delta. His pictures are staged, but incorporate real people and situations.

Alejandro Chaskielberg