Our selection today is a body of work from Coventry factory worker, Robert Longden.

© Robert Longden/RLPA

The exhibition is covered in the Guardian, which also features a photo gallery.

The exhibition, entitled ‘Inland Voyage: Life on the Coventry and Oxford Canals’ opens at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, on Saturday and runs until 30 August.

There’s also a book ‘A Canal People’.

© Martin Argles/Guardian

Looking at such events from the outside it can be easy to forget that, for those involved, the events are not abstract occurrences, but very personal moments. Stills photography is particularly effective in cutting through the noise, revealing the more poignant and personal elements beneath.

More Brown’s Last Moments.

And an article by the photographer Martin Argles.

Our pick today is a short article from the Guardian: New Topographics: photographs that find beauty in the banal.

Presidio, Texas, Feb 21st 1975 by Stephen Shore

The article introduces William Jenkins’s 1975 exhibition which “rewrote the rules of landscape photography” and serves as a brief, but useful primer for anyone discovering the ‘New Topographics’ genre for the first time.

There is a book about the ground breaking exhibition.