Jez Coulson … Drone Selfie :-)) XX
  Its brave new world of new stuff out there ……. its really time I gave it a go …… stopped hanging on to the relative grounded comfort zone of my beloved hand held SLR’s …… So yeah …. I bought a drone …… er …. well yeah …. as you do ……. So luckily […]
Sleeping cat in the arms of Buddha – Vientiane, Laos
Hey it’s’ the new year, stuff is happening, some of it kind of worrying, but lets try not to stress to much, especially about things we cannot fix. We should all take a lesson from this pussy cat getting a little zen sleep in the arms of the Buddha here in Vientiane Laos. In 2017 […]
Trump and Heat Safety : Ohio
A Dunkin Donuts, a brand new building, a white concrete path. The sun is burning hot as I step from the cool protected capsule of the car. President Obama assures me America is safer than it has ever been, his press conference coming out of my speakers as I drove and resonating in my head […]
I Am A European
I am a European – a very short film by Jez Coulson Music by Zaki Mamdoo Made in collaboration with many amazing citizens of the EU   This very little movie is aimed at assisting individual Brits to actively identify as and celebrate being a European. It is an uplifting artistic statement, a political and […]
Violence and The Anniversary of the Rising : Short Strand District : Belfast
This week I have been aware of a curious combination of different approaches to the realities of violence. The week opened with visceral horror at vile acts of ‘pointless terrorist violence’ in Brussels by the Jihadist’s of Islamic State. Radovan Karadzic the war time leader of the Bosnian Serbs was imprisoned for genocide on Friday and yet […]
Makayla : PHX Terminal 3 : Arizona
  The Mayor of Phoenix Greg Stanton is coming out of the loud speakers boldly claiming Phoenix Skyharbour International Airport is the friendliest airport in America …… sadly PO with the TSA at PHX did not get the memo she decided out of sheer malice that Matt and I should miss our flight …..  and […]
Marco Rubio Under Pressure : Republican Presidential Primary Race : Charleston SC
Me and Matt are again rolling in the dark in the Beast car ……. I am in the passenger seat downloading and editing all of the images from todays shoot in Nashville ……  Matt is driving as we burn from back from Tennessee towards Atlanta Georgia …..  Again we have CNN out of the radio blitzing us […]
Stop : Toogoodoo Creek : South Carolina
This is the first actual ‘on the road’ test of the new blog platform …. Me and Matt are in South Carolina ….. In a bar in Charleston …… Johnny Cash is giving us Fulsom Prison outta the duke box and Alex is bringing us ‘Kickin Chicken’ ….. can’t be too bad …… and the […]
Jeb Bush is Down and Out : Summerville : South Carolina
So Jeb Bush drops out of the race to be the Republican Presidential candidate ……… tonight his 4th place in the South Carolina primary vote has put the final nail in the coffin of his to campaign ………. he seemed like a bloke people liked without ever being a person that seemed to me to […]
Empire State Rainbow : New York City
I know this probably does not count as landscape …… Well, not in in some peoples definitions …… but hey ……. I shot it from up on the stormy roof of my building today in NYC …… And as it happens my Old Mate Neil Turner is challenging me to enter the:’ Landscape Challenge ‘ […]
Eyes on the Road Ahead : New York City Taxi Driver
It’s the 4th of January. .. the party is over…a new year is well and truly dawning . .. time to roll … I’m flying as ever… the white noise of jet engines over the Atlantic in the dark with the small bright screen on the back of the seat filling my brain as Im […]
Dont Bomb Syria Demo : Whitehall : London
The ‘Stop The War’ coalition organized protest against British Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposal to act militarily in solidarity with France. Cameron was proposing airstrikes in Syria following François Hollande the French President’s request to Britain to help them in attacking the terror group responsible for the recent mass slaughter in Paris. The same terror […]
Hunting Deer : On the Wooded banks of The Chattahoochee River : Georgia
Well, I have been meaning to photograph hunting for a while. It’s an important phenomena in America. Really a lot of folks make hunting a central part of their leisure time. More than that being a hunter is a profound aspect of your identity if you head for the wilderness with your gun on a […]
Mirror and Sky : Rolling in Rhode Island
Well, I am wheels up Flying from JFK New York City to BOS Boston ……. I only flew into JFK from London last night and now I am rolling again having slept one night and had one meeting in Manhattan ……. I’m up in the air again now ….. But on the tarmac before take […]
Towering Figure of The Pope Arrives in New York City : 8th Av : Manhattan
David Beckham was up there in a state of undress selling his own brand of underwear at one point ……. and numerous women models in a similar condition of undress selling whatever they were selling ……. now a fully clothed Pope Francis selling whatever it is the Pope sells :-))))). The city seems pretty excited […]
Light Gathering at the End of a Tunnel of Years : Taxi Driver in the Midtown Tunnel : New York City
Gosh Im back !!! Back in NYC and back on the net :-))) ……. I had almost a month of hanging in Europe and for some reason hardly even looking at Facebook and the blog and almost ignoring Twitter Instagram etc …… You know its kind of relaxing …… u should try it occasionally…… Just […]
Over the Sea to Sky : Ocracoke Ferry : Outer Banks North Carolina
Sorry for the radio silence ……. I have been kinda off the grid for a while ……. way out on the Outer Banks in North Carolina ……… I took a trip down there in the new …… well new is not really right for describing a twenty year old Beast truck ….. so ….. Anyway […]
Salt Water; Sweat Tears and the Sea : The Port of Calais : France
All these terrible scenes from the french port of Calais in the last couple of weeks ……. This morning I heard on the BBC that a child fell from a truck and broke both his legs ……. he was with his father and other economic migrants and asylum seekers desperately attempting to make it across […]
To Kill a Red Velvet Cake : The Sweet Tooth Bakery : Monroville : Alabama
To mark the release of Harper Lee’s new book…… out today….. a reportage from her home town. To Kill a Red Velvet Cake – ‘The Sweet Tooth Bakery and Restaurant’ in Harper Lee’s Hometown Monroeville Alabama By Jez Coulson I am here because this is the home of Harper Lee, the legendary writer of “To […]
Canyon of Heroines : USA Womens Soccer Team Parade : NYC
I shot a nice picture of Carli Lloyd doing a selfie of herself clutching the trophy during the ticker tape parade. She looked happy…. and well she might … having scored an amazing batch of goals in the FIFA Worldcup Final, securing the woldcup for the USA womens team. New York City put on a […]
Dope Days in Denver : Legal Marijuana Story : Colorado
Sorry I have been a bit rubbish at posting on Jezblog recently ………. funny things have been going on with this blog …….. little bit of hassle with spammers and what have you …. Maybe its the same thing that did in ‘The New York Stock Exchange’ and ‘United Airlines’ and even the mighty ‘Wall […]
Confederate Battle Flag and the Klansman : Kennesaw : Georgia
So moving to hear the President speak about the horrible killings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church a church in South Carolina. He spoke in a way that is completely fitting in a traditional African American Church, only this President of all the previous American Presidents could have given this address. It was a state […]
Truck Stop at the End of the Rainbow : Shorter : Alabama
Who would of thought it……… a closed down Casino and a truck stop …….. is what you find at the end of the rainbow……… oh well …….. :-)))) ………. I\’m rolling in Alabama on a stormy day :-)) XXX Cheers Jez XXXX www.jezblog.com [ 3 ] comments Well, what with the price of gold nowadays… […]
A Hard Rain is Gonna Fall : Denver : Colarado
Well, they certainly get drastic weather here in Denver ……. Throughout today and yesterday my phone has been buzzing away with extreme weather warnings coming out of some app or other ……. “Golf ball sized hail”….. “tornado has touched down” ……. blah blah …….. And the car radio has been making that slightly distressing electronic […]
Red Blue Yellow : Meat Packing Apple Store : New York City
Me and Matt have been working away up in Niagara Falls this weekend ……. more about that later ………. I shot this above while buying a couple of hard drives at the Meat Packing District Apple store back in NYC on Friday …….. I love the primary colors vibe of this ….. Anyway it was […]
Jez and Matt on the Red Carpet : The Hippodrome : New York City
Me and Matt have been working in NYC this week :-))) Last night we decided to call in on our mighty Insight-Visual colleague Greg Morris who was shooting the official photographs for this amazing, prestigious and worthy educational charity at their gala event. Matt and I had come straight from another ever so slightly less […]
Sky Rook : Graveyard : Warwickshire UK
I went to visit my brothers grave up in ‘The Midlands’ before I flew back to the US. In the graveyard I made this picture of a rook or maybe its a crow. These guys make a very distinctive sound in the otherwise silent graveyard. The collective noun for a group of crows is : […]
David Cameron Grim Joke Face : Train to London
I was keeping this photo to run on the big day. But it actually seemed kind of wrong when it came to it. But hey you gotta enjoy this one anyway :-))) It was in the Sunday Times Magazine then was used by ‘Have I got News for You’ TV show in their joke caption […]
The Hurriers : From Acorns Mighty Oaks : Easter House Glasgow
This is the cover of a new album out to day …… by ‘The Hurriers’ Barnsley’s finest …… as they put it a proper socialist band like every town needs …….. :-))) My agent Matt has fine socialist principles when it comes to bands …….. Especially a mighty band like ‘The Hurriers’ …….. so we […]
Boy in Smoke at time of Rwandan Genocide : Goma Rwandan Border : Rwanda
I wrote the angry response below when I heard the religious speaker Anne Atkins on ‘Thought for the Day’ condemn the life and work of the South African photojournalist Kevin Carter. Mine is an angry and impolite not well executed rant. I was not going to post it or send it to her. But then […]
David Spiller : Portrait of the Artist : Elephant and Castle : London
While we are on the theme of pictures of pictures ……. here is another picture of some of my published work …. It shows portraits of my friend the artist David Spiller ……. used in a book of his work called ” A portrait of the Artist ” ….. I love to hang out at […]
David Cameron by Jez Coulson on The Sunday Times Magazine Front Cover with Eggs
Its always great when your friend brings a gift of Champagne…… and chocolate eggs……. oh and the first copy I have seen ……. of my front cover picture featuring extreme close-up of the Prime Minister on The Sunday Times Magazine ………. hehehehehe :-))))))) XXXXX Cheers Jez XXXXX PS…. Thats todays magazine cover …. pop out […]
Act of Penitence : Barangay Lourdes Angeles City : The Philippines
Some people in the Philippines like to take Easter celebrations very literally. I was chatting with a phone banking person the other day when I found out she was helping me with my account from the Philippines …….. Yeah I was laughing with her that the Philippines was a little too hardcore for me when […]
Fade to Black : Uber Cars Outnumber Yellow Cabs : NYC
I read this today on the AP news wire : – “NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s storied yellow cabs are outnumbered by limos and black cars. Uber cars, often black sedans that are summoned with smartphone apps, now outnumber the yellow taxis that city riders have hailed in the street for generations. It […]
Druids Welcome a Solar Eclipse : Cornwall : UK
This was shot at the last solar eclipse that I saw……. I think it was back in 1999 ……. Anyway these sun worshiping Druids were certainly partying like it was 1999 ……. hehehe…… Anyway I will be donning my white druid robes and getting down to Regents Park for a little sun worship at tomorrow […]
Fly Delta Jets : Fog at HJ Airport : Atlanta
Yeah I can hear those giant jets coming in……. but I cannot see them……….. best not to think about it ……… Wheels up in the big ATL :-))) XXXXXXX Cheers Jez XXXXXX www.jezblog.com [ 13 ] comments Wheels up HJ airport the big ATL jezblog Delta 30 @ March 3, 2015, 10:07 pm I’m on […]
Yellow Cab Snow Drift : Niagara Falls City : USA
I crossed over the Rainbow Bridge from Canada into the USA at Niagara Falls …… it was 3AM dark so I could not see the falls…… but something surprising and yellow caught my eye obviously being buried in the mini blizzard as I arrived back on US soil …….. a New York City taxi ……… […]
Sara Sneaky Cigi : Covent Garden : London
So it has been a bit of a mad dash even by my standards …….. finished a shoot in Atlanta on Friday….. dealt with all the pictures and flew out of there Sat night ……. Arrived at London Heathrow lunchtime on Sunday ……. Did the big shoot in London all day on Monday ….. flew […]
Matt Fly By : Atlanta : Georgia
Matt takes part in the traditional celebratory fly-by …… us having just finished the CEO portrait :-)) hehehehehe………. Cheers Jez XXXXXXX www.jezblog.com [ 19 ] comments I see the behavior on your shoots has become a little more grown up and refined 🙂 KathyR @ February 21, 2015, 12:06 pm mostly photography as a way […]
JezC Cold Weather Selfie hehehe : NYC : USA
This is me heading out at 4 AM to make taxi pics in the snow and bitter cold of NYC ……. I am wearing my totally over the top G Star ballistic nylon coat …… see the hood its not on but it never goes down …… it cannot flap down my back its too […]
Early Empire State of Mind : New York City : USA
I was up very early in NYC this morning ……. it was snowing …… Im up late in Atlanta now …… gotta kip …….. [ 9 ] comments U and all the men of our former regiment….are a fine bunch of men! Judge Strauss Kahn xx @ February 18, 2015, 4:50 am As the judge […]
7th Avenue Looking North at Penn : Manhattan : New York City
It looks wonderful and bright with perfect sunlight here in Manhattan …….. which in a way is right ….. but the overwhelming sensation about today …… is that it was completely and utterly freezing ….. I was wearing two massive coats, two hats, two pairs of gloves mega boots bla bla …… but my hands […]
Wheels up San Diego : California
So this was basically our trip to San Diego encapsulated in the picture above. We flew in did 4 miles in the rental car. Did a quick shoot then flew out. Now we are grabbing breakfast in HJ airport Atlanta … We are only changing flights here then flying on to NYC …… They are […]
Gaungzhao Dawn : View from The New Century Tau Palace Hotel : China
The white noise of long haul jet engines …… muddles day and night ……. merges today and tomorrow …… muddles the future and past ……. blurs destination and departure …. I picked up an old note book by accident as I left for the airport this morning ……. I see only now on the plane […]
Last of the Light : Daytona : Florida
Its 4AM I just woke up in my hotel room and started marking up the days shoot …….. we were working on a corporate shoot here in Daytona ………. This was amongst the last frames of the day shot this as the sun finally faded …….… I just peeked out of the window distracted from […]
Banksy Mona Lisa with RPG : Docklands : London
Wow the murder of the French cartoonists ……….. how depressing is that ……….. obviously as a journalist I am a supporter of ‘free speech’ ………. I hate to see journalists dragged away and locked up but most of all I hate to see journalists murdered to shut them up …… especially when their murder is […]
Awesome Elephants : Pilanesburg : South Africa
Euston Station London ……… I am sitting on board a Virgin Train about to pull away from the platform ……. I can remember being here as a youth ….. turning up for demonstrations in Hyde Park …….. coming up to London as a student ……. This station has changed but it hasn’t changed that much […]
Happy Holidays : SantaCon Pub Crawl : Manhattan NYC
Well its that time of year again ……… I hope all you guyz are gathered with your families for the holiday celebrations …….. Its Christmas Day at just gone midnight here in Johannesburg South Africa ……… Im here with my sister and her family for the holidays ……… so I ought to pop into bed […]
Revolution is coming in from the Cold : Havana : Cuba
News Flash : Amazingly the US is normalizing relations with Cuba and visa versa ……. Amazing stuff !!! …. Their relations have been frozen in the cold war stance of enemies for fifty years ….. So a thawing is finally coming ….. about time too ….. an end of isolation for Cuba from mainland USA […]
Sleeping Girl Reflection on a Train : Amtrack : NYC to DC
More from the ‘on the road’ ….. travel section 🙂 I was listening to that track Hero from yesterdays post …… on YouTube other selections come up after the track has finished …… So I clickthis track …… just as I am plugging in an old drive just to warm it up…… It contains pictures […]
Truck Rolling on an Unmade Road : South Dakota : USA
I met up with an old mate of mine Marco here in Detroit ….. he is an emergency response expert …. medical and technical in terms of buildings things like action to repair hurricane damage …… in fact I met him while we were both working in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrrina…… we talked […]
Gully G Que : The Artist Village : Detroit
Well I am still here hanging out in Detroit ….. but its not all work …. there has been some time for taking in a little culture …… and I have found a great place to be on Saturday nights is “The Artist Village” out at Lahser and Grand River Ave Detroit…… last night I […]
Demolition in Detroit : Cheveux Street : Detroit
Detroit …… you need to have been here ……… to have any kind of understanding of this place …….. This city really is the poster child of the terrible issues of urban blight and economic collapse …… a blight that devastates neighborhoods ……… traditional neighborhood homes here are literally collapsing with the destruction of the […]
Mad Frankie Fraser is Dead : East End : London
Mad Frankie Fraser’ has died ……. an enforcer for the legendary underworld gang’s of 1960’s East London …….. he was associated with both The Richardson’s and also the even more iconic crime gang bosses ‘The Kray Twins’ ……… ‘Mad Frankie’ was also sometimes called ‘The Dentist’ because he was in the habit of pulling out […]
Candle in Memory of Mike Brown : Ferguson : Missouri
So tragic that Mike Brown an unarmed young man was shot dead in the street by a policeman. It seems counter to justice not to bring all the evidence concerning that shooting into the public sphere by having an open public trial of the officer responsible. Cheers Jez XXXXXXX www.jezblog.com [ 4 ] comments Too […]
Immigrants Rally to the Flag : Washington DC
I am sitting in the airport at LaGuardia in New York about to fly ………. had a hassle free ride to the airport with a really nice woman taxi driver called Anna …… rare indeed to find a woman New York taxi driver ……. she was great ……… she was not a yellow cab driver […]
Speeding Taxi Blur : Meat Packing District : New York City
I see its Martin Scorsese’s 72 birthday and Brian Finmore of Movie Post has Taxi Driver as his 3rd best movie………. so……. thats reason enough…. right? …… To run a classic speeding taxi shot :-)))))))) hehehehe…… well it is on this blog hehehehehe……… Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXX www.jezblog.com [ 15 ] comments Aaaah the blurry taxi..fantastic..but […]
Stazi Coal Miners After the Fall of the Wall : Berlin 1989
I was woken at 6 AM by my alarm… Not enough sleep as usual .. The radio was playing … well not exactly the radio.. But sounds like radio…. the digital live streamed audio service of the BBC World Service … ‘bombing of a school in Nigeria’.. was the first thing I heard…. ‘suicide bombing […]
The Face of Tall Eric : Heidelberg University : Tiffin OH
Well, it is the festival of ‘Día de Muertos’ …… ‘The Day of the Dead’ …… “a Mexican holiday observed throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died .But manifests itself by apparently […]
Berg Pride : Heidelberg University : Tiffin Ohio
I have been hanging out at Heidlberg University today meeting way cool people and experiencing a bit of Berg Pride …… see above :-)))) Its a great place ….. fab mix of stuff happening here …… at one point I’m in a business class …. where everyone is “dressed for success’ ……. really looking the […]
Stop Alaska : Seward Highway : Alaska USA
Well I guess I have to stop here ………… Greetings from Anchorage Alaska ……… Thats it …… I have visited and photographed all of the 50 US States ……… Alaska being the final one !!!! So having done it ……. I think the celebrations call for a book and a film and a Musical Broadway […]
Desperate Enough to Swim : Calais : France
To get to ‘The Promised Land’ of Britain ….. some migrants are desperate enough to attempt to swim in the dangerous waters of the Calais Port ….. Many cling to the under side of trucks…… I just worked on a story with Alex Hannaford in France ……. Alex had been inspired to write by the […]
Portage Glacier Highway : Placer Creek : Alaska
I arrived in Anchorage Alaska last night …….. and my luggage had been stolen ……. depressing ……. it was scanned showing it on the conveyor and delivered to pick up 5 ……. someone had taken it from the belt but it was not me …… and it was not the Delta chap who was horrified […]
Laughing Buddha of Surburbia : Saigon Vietnam
For here Am I sitting in a tin can Far above the world Planet Earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do Though I’m past one hundred thousand miles I’m feeling very still And I think my spaceship knows which way to go Tell my wife I love her very much she knows” Ground […]
Rainbow Rising from Mississippi Forests : USA
Sorry if you have been checking in for an update ……… I guess even I just need to sleep sometimes …….. hehehe……. So what with one thing and another and zapping about as ever …… there has been nothing posted to my blog for well over a week …… Sorry…. What can I say …. […]
In the Presence of Dreams and Distress : Gaza City
I was having lunch with Rosalind Nashashib an artist sometimes associated with Insight ……… she started to speak about her experiences having recently returned from Gaza ……… She said things I expected of the difficulty of life there ……. of poverty …… and of social and cultural complications …… and she said things I did […]
Martin Luther King Statue : Morehouse College : Atlanta
I was at Morehouse College in Atlanta this week, a place synonymous with transformative educational experiences for African American men. It really is a mightily impressive place but also friendly and welcoming. I heard the President of the college speaking about his experience of Morehouse as a student, he was in class with the film […]
Car 51 with Jez Coulson : Harlem : NYC
A vision of sheer beauty ………. with Jez Coulson leaning on it :-)))))))))))))))) Here it is my selfie with Car 51 a classic ‘Beast Car’ …… ‘Yellow Cab’ ……. a ‘Queen Vic’ ………. DaDaDa……Daaaaa!!!!!! Fanfare …… Que crowd noise….. : “The first NYC taxi I ever drove !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” ….. Que crazed crowd noise :-)))))))))))) hehehehe……… […]
Kizzie and Geniah : Ferguson Burger Bar : MO
I am a ‘Blossom de Jour’ kinda guy … Er well …Thats probably too strong a statement …… i would like to be a ‘Blossom’ kind of a guy hehehehe … :-)) … Hey I love their Midtown melt … And I have just strayed to the weird sounding ‘un-chicken griller’…. ‘Blossom’ ….. Is my […]
No Justice No Peace : Ferguson : Missouri
Ferguson Missouri …….. Just flying out now…… well out of St Louis international …… I’m in the air now …….. Surprisingly all the terrible drama of the shooting ………all the resulting protest and anger is all taking place just a few minutes drive from the international airport …….. So I rolled round there one last […]
Burning Anger at the Police Shooting Of Michael Brown : Ferguson : Missouri
I spent most of the night out on the streets of Ferguson Missouri ……… The local community is protesting against the killing of Mike Brown a young African American man by the police of this city …………… the good news is although there were some incidents it was nothing like the level of conflict and […]
Empire State Taxi : Queens : NYC
I’m back in the big city …. land of the yellow cab ……. But I did something I have never done before …… I took a green cab from the airport ……. Yeah a ‘green cab’ ……… one of these relatively new outer boroughs green cabs ……….. I saw him at Jamaica station having given […]
Bars and Stripes : US Border Story Sunday Times Magazine
Here is the opening spread of a feature story I have in todays Sunday Times Magazine about migrants illegally crossing from Mexico into the USA. I was recently down on the border with the writer Alex Hannaford. It was very moving for us to be with the so called ‘migrants’, to talk with the people […]
David Spiller Perfect Day : Elephant and Castle
I was at the artist David Spiller’s studio today ……….. his work is so wonderful ……… just so emotive and visually stunning ………. And he is such a fine bloke too ……… he and his partner Moira are great friends to have ……. They are fab people to hang out with ………. Ringo likes to […]
Bermuda Triangle : Delta Flight 9
– – I am flying. As if I could Continue to fly As if I might land in Munich or Rio As if I might land in the London of my past Or the Birmingham of my childhood As if I might see him again As if he might say I forgive you As if […]
Marfa Fuel Tanks : Waiting for Rain in The High Desert : Texas
I am in Marfa …… up in the High Desert of Western Texas …….. it is a weird place that mixes the feeling of decay with a very strong art of minimalism ………. I know these things sound kind of opposite ends of any spectrum ……… and yet they kind of blend here ………. the […]
The Gas Station and the Sky : Highway 59 : Texas
I’m in Texas ……… I landed in El Passo earlier on………… This is a slightly crazed trip as ever…….. oh well here is another picture made on one of those crazed drives accross Texas previously …….. its always a long way when u r driving in Texas ………… with amazing big sky ……… :-))))))) Cheers […]
Lonesome Truck Stop : Minnesota
I was looking through pictures of last years 27 state road trip………. Editing and sorting it all out at Matt’s instruction down here in Atlanta ……. :-))))))))) ……… Anyway I was thinking about being on the road ……….. It’s been 3 months since I stayed in my own apartment ? …….. Can that be right […]
Nelson Mandelas Birthday : Ladysmith : South Africa
Today, is the day South Africans honor Madiba on the date of his birthday ………… I was humming this one of my fave Mandela songs ……. Mandela Day made by The Simple Minds …………. then I was looking at coverage of the Israeli war against Hamas ……. The beginning of the ground incursion into Gaza […]
Wolf Girl at GooCon : Clayton State Univ : Georgia
Today I dropped in on some friends of ours High Point Graphics helping to make ‘GooCon’ a fantastic success as ever ………… GooCon is the famed special effects conference for film & TV industry folks in ‘props make up and costume’ ……… its an annual gig put together by the crew at ‘The Engineer Guy’ […]
The Quality of Absence : Roadside Motel : Connecticut
The quality of absence. I rarely dream of my brother as he was. But i often feel his absence. No, I always feel his absence. Israel rains attacks on Gaza. Well Hamas rains rockets on Israel too………… It is the climax to the marching season in Northern Ireland. I am in Atlanta. I sat up […]
Dawn Flag : Waimanalo District : Oahu Hawaii
I was up before dawn when I shot this ……… I almost am again now but having not gone to bed ……….. I know nutz ……….. people will start doubting that I am only 17 if I keep this up :-))))))))))) ……… I should have put this one up on the 4th of July but […]
Storm Light : Waimanalo District Park : Oahu Hawaii
I have been dashing about until today ………. so I finally had a bit of time to go through some of the bits and pieces I shot recently …… notably in Hawaii ………..( the images not related to the commissioned shoot) ……… Matt hadn’t even seen any of it either……… so I was editing it […]
Flying Birthday Boy Bazza J : Malibu Beach : California
Im at LAX about to fly out myself on Delta ………. But I shot this of my self propelled high flying friend Bazza J yesterday down on Malibu Beach………. Bazza J :-)))))))) ……… its his birthday….. today he is having a big party sadly Im missing it ……… but yesterday he was teaching me all […]
The Sardines of Cannery Row : Monterey : California
Here are the last of the Cannery Row sardines …………. What seems like tens of thousands of them swim together in endless circles in a simply amazing display in the Monterey Aquarium ……… Its such an amazing display it stayed in my mind from the last time I was here over 10 years back it […]
The Ghost of Tom Joad : Bosnian War Refugees at Heathrow : London
I am flying …….. long haul ……… in that kind of dream world of memory and loss ……….. the constant low level white noise rumble of the aircraft ………… the vagueness of direction and of time ……. the artificially forced purpose and specific mission …… combined with complete vagueness of present merged into a remembered […]
Sunset Jumpers : Waimea Bay Oahu : Hawaii
I watched locals and the odd crazed tourist jumping into very shallow water from a great height in two different spots today …………. Madness ……… when anyone asked me what they should do in their jump for a better photo ………. I would say: ‘ don’t do it !’ ………. I would literally say ” […]
Even in Paradise : Kaiona Beach : Hawaii
Even in paradise …….. there are issues? hehehehe……. :-))))))))))))) XXXXXX Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXX www.jezblog.com [ 6 ] comments I think you should risk it 🙂 Honolulu Hank @ June 19, 2014, 8:21 pm Yeah the sign ever so slightly changes the context but it sure looks tempting …. Hehehehe…. Jezblog Honolulu :-))) XX @ June […]
Jez Coulson Flying in Style : Meridian : Mississippi
Well I have to be honest I virtually never get a jet plane for my own private use but hey it would be so much easier if I could travel like this a tiny bit more often ……….. hehehehe………… :-))))))))))))) I have taken a fair few private planes and helicopters in the last few days […]
We Love Death : Shahid Training : Gaza
A newspaper I work with in the UK rang up suddenly today ……… requiring pictures I had made of Hamas fighters in Gaza years back …… the writer I was with at the time….. had remembered a special quality in the pictures I had made back then. They did not want the pictures already scanned […]
Sardar : Security Team Leader : Kurdistan : Iraq
A couple of years ago I was up in the North of Iraq in the land of the Kurds ………. that is always the most relaxed and welcoming bit of Iraq especially for Brits or Americans ……… partly because many Kurdish people remember with gratitude the Western imposed no fly zone that protected them for […]
The Destruction of Vulcan : I82 Alabama : USA
This is like being in a Sci-Fi movie… Last night I flew through incredible storms .. Slept through incredible storms .. Woke up to incredible storms… Flew under them in a jet… Then landed.. Then flew round them same small jet. Then took another small plane under incredible storms… Now I have been driving for […]
Rebels Storm Home : 2nd Game : Lafayette : Louisiana
Ole Miss Rebels 5 The Ragin Cajuns 2 ……………. 2nd Game ……….. final game to decide it all tomorrow ……… but the Rebels are on a roll now …………… :Tied 2-2 going into the bottom of the eighth in front of an over-capacity 4,294 at M.L. “Tigue” Moore Field, Auston Bousfield changed the whole game […]
Ole Miss Rebels ready to face The Ragin Cajuns : Lafayette : Louisiana
You gotta love the archetypal amazing spectacle of all American sports, and baseball is no exception. You think you know these games from all the movies you have ever watched, and yet actually if you are a Brit like me, I am still finding half the rules of American football and baseball remain pretty murky, […]
Shot in the Dark : Jez Coulson Selfie : Tucson Arizona
Im holed up in a little motel in Mississippi right now :-)) ……… While driving earlier today through Alabama ….. I was listening to ‘NPR Now’ on satellite radio ……… they had a program about Tucson Arizona in their ‘State of the Reunion’ slot ………. Tucson ……. Yeah, it really is a surprising place ……… […]
Weeping Soldier : Bosnia Civil War
I see today the Military has announced it is spending millions of dollars through DARPA to develop a brain chip to help address and even cure? PTSD ( Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)……… Clearly it would be great if PTSD the mood swings, depression and anxiety that accompanies it could be a thing of the past. […]
Desert Rats : Sonoran Desert Arizona : USA
I seem to have given up shooting the photographs displayed here on Jezblog……. from now on only pictures by my friends :-))) hehehehe …….. here is a selfie shot by Alex Hannaford on his iPhone ……… featuring me and him as the intrepid desert reporting team down here in Arizona ………. this track we were […]
Jez and Amanda Jump : 5th Av : New York City
I have shot pictures everyday for 6 weeks …….. I am not complaining ……. You know me I still completely love it always ……… I can’t help it I am totally obsessed …………. But my hands are kinda hurting from holding cameras too much ………. So its probably time for a day off :-)))))))) ……… […]
68 Fury : Keene : New Hampshire
I just spoke to Matt, he is at this moment timidly cruising through Virginia in The Beast Car. He is actively looking out for Rollers obviously ……. after all it is the police State of Virginia …….. he is ready to make a ‘Live free or die’ burst of mega speed for the state line […]
Flag on the Barn Door : Stamford : Vermont
Sometimes simple things ……. the most straight forward pictures ……. just appeal ………. :-))))))))))))) Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX www.jezblog.com [ 9 ] comments Too true Buddy…Thats what attracted Bernie to me, I was filling in for the Village Idiot at the time….Stay Safe Bro xx PaulS @ May 12, 2014, 3:34 pm The simple things often […]
Ray at Mountain Pauls General Store : Putney : Vermont
Me and Matt are in Vermont today ………. that means I have been to and photographed in all the 48 States that make up the primary block of the USA ……… that is ………. I have been to all the US States other than Hawaii and Alaska :-)))). This photograph above is of Ray Borst […]
The Dream of the Sea of Bikes : District 1 Siagon : Vietnam
Saturday night throwing stuff in bags for a Sunday morning flight ……… I had Radio 4 on ……. Javis Cocker’s award winning Radio Show ‘Wireless Nights ……. was playing ………. it was a pretty surprising show ……. it was kind of the sound of a night flight to Cairo …….. :-))))))))) XXX A night flight […]
Divis Flats : The Lower Falls : Belfast
Tonight, Gerry Adams has been arrested, he is the leader of Sinn Fein the main Irish Republican political party in Northern Ireland (the bit of the island of Ireland that is in the UK). Sinn Fein was traditionally always the political wing of the IRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army) , Gerry Adams was often accused […]
Angels : City of Angeles ; Philippines
Today, The Pope has declared two other now dead Popes to be Saints ………. a million people turned up to watch in Rome …….. luckily they had to hand a vile of blood and some slithers of skin???????? from the dead Popes lying about …….. as you do ……. so little bits of them were […]
River of Motorbikes : Saigon : Vietnam
Jacko was reminding me to put up some pictures from the madness of Saigon traffic ……. he wants to see some of the images I made that show the mega reliance on scooters and motorbikes and the culture that creates :-)))). It is after all the first thing that strikes you when you arrive in […]
For Global Selfie Day Jez Coulson : City of Angeles : Philippines
Right now as I write …….. Im flying between Manila in the Philippines and Guangzhou in China ……… Sometimes the sheer zapping about has a fantastic uplifting effect on me ……… sometimes it just completely does me in ……… weirdly today its a bit of both ……….. I feel happy to be zapping about in […]
Che Jesus Iconic Face : Mabalacat City : Philippines
I feel if you are going to drag a full size cross about as an act of penitence over Holy Week ……….. then it is kind of great for me and very fitting for you ………… if you have the classic Jesus/Che Guevara look ……… and man……… this guy has got it right down :-)))))))))))) […]
Holy Week Act of Penitence : Barangay Lourdes Angeles City : The Philippines
Well, Easter in The Philippines may not be to everyones taste ……….. There has been a fair bit of self mutilation in acts on penitence ……… some resulting in splatters of blood being liberally distributed over on lookers and nearby photographers ……….. Nearby photographers are getting through bucket loads of sanitizing gel because the whole […]
Taxi Driver : District One : Saigon
Here is tonight’s taxi driver ……. in this shot he looks as if he is straight out of central casting ………. but he was a a very helpful knowledgeable driver …….. perhaps a little suspicious of my photography but hey I can live with that :-)))))))) Another friend of Marc’s here in Saigon jumped in […]
Portraits of Photojournalists Killed in the Vietnam War : Saigon
I went with Marc to the “War Remnants Museum‘ today here in Saigon. The whole thing is very sad and moving. As soon as you arrive the mighty instruments of destruction stand rotting in the courtyard entrance, helicopters, jets, tanks, artillery, giant bombs ………. all the more grim as they are standing and deteriorating in […]
Our Lady of Saigon : Notre Dame Basilica : Vietnam
I love these neon lit deities…… we saw the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy …… Quan Am ……. sometimes called Guanyin …….. all light up with yellow neon………. then we saw The Virgin Mary lit up in blue neon ……… I guess they are kind of equivalent immortal figures feminine and purveyors of mercy and forgiveness […]
Rwandan Genocide 20 Year Anniversary : Goma Rwandan Border
Today is the 20th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide ……… I made this picture on the border of Rwanda during that time of the slaughter ……….. The genocide and it’s resulting mass migrations is probably still one of the most terrible things I ever covered as a photojournalist ……….. Certainly not something […]
Beijing Opera : Beijing : China
Ok so thats probably enough of US and UK winter …….. :-/ :-)) time to head for the Far East in the hot season 🙂 ………. I shall be temporarily in China then in pretty rapid succession Vietnam and The Philippines …….. Just chucking stuff in bags … as ever… for wheels up later today […]
Pickup Truck and The Beartooth Mountains : Red Lodge : Montana
Lee is right …….. It feels like a long time ago when I posted the last image sorry about that …………. Lee thinks it might have been way way back ………… so long ago it was just as Arthur Scargill and the boys were mass picketing Silver Birch and his strike breaking coal crew up […]
Tony Benn 1925-2014 : Victory to the Miners : Trafalgar Sq : London
Tony Benn, the famed British politician of ‘the Left’ has died today at the age of 88. In many ways I admired him, especially as I was getting interested in politics as a youth. He appeared conviction driven and idealistic. He really was a fantastic old school orator and as the current Labour Leader Ed […]
Container Port at Felixstowe : Suffolk : UK
I am still in London ……. Bit of work ……. Bit of messing about with friends ……… I even watched some TV ……. I watched Evan Davis’ program on the economics of London vs The economics of the UK …. Called ‘Mind the Gap’ …….. it was interesting and London comes out looking kind of […]
Ink Evaluation Good or Bad : The Met : NYC
I am at HJ airport in Atlanta ………. When I was up in NYC I went to the Met to take in this show ……… Ink Art – The past and the present in contemporary China ……….. It was amazing ……… something completely awesome about the amazing calligraphy taking up whole rooms floor and ceiling […]
Snow Pedestrians and Taxis : 40th and 8th : New York City
I see its snowing yet again in New York City …….. I was wobbling on zapping back up there or not …….. luckily I remained in sunny Georgia hehehehehehe…….. :-)))))))))))))) XXXXXXXXXX Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXX www.jezblog.com [ 10 ] comments Cab # 7J72 hopefully didn’t run over the bloke, but I know many a driver who […]
Taxi in the Pouring Rain : LGA Airport : New York
I gather it has finally stopped raining in the UK …….. the BBC announced its possible to begin burying the dead again …….. the ground previously being too dangerous to dig graves in………… :-//// When I left New York on Wednesday it was totally pouring with rain ………. As you see above ………. I shot […]
Taxi Under Snow : 8th Av and 50th : New York City
Paul is right Jezblog appears to be about as active as this taxi :-))) ………. Mind you this a rare one (driver must have been like me in need of a mega breakfast :-)) )…….. This guy is not too representative …… most of those NYC taxis were battling through the winter storms ……. like […]
Snowmaggedon Taxi : 25th and 8th : New York City
Its ‘Snowmaggedon out there !!!!!!!!!!!!!’ Snow in 50 States ……. Only Florida has no snow ……….. All the others including Hawaii have snow ……….. How crazy is that ?????????????? ‘Global warming’ as we used to call it …….. Seems way colder than I was expecting …….. ???? I shot this at 6AM in New York […]
Tommy Robinson Attacked : Luton : UK
I see Tommy Robinson the founder of the EDL has been attacked and beaten up today in prison. He fears the authorities are doing nothing to protect him. Even deliberately leaving him vulnerable to attack by Muslim prisoners. I expect thats true. I did a story about the EDL for the Sunday Times Magazine and […]
Roy in Flight on White : Atlanta : USA
Corporate photography can sometimes do your brains in ……… it can be a bit of a stress ……….. hehehehe……… Roy here is obviously relieved its all over :-)))))))))) hehehehe ………. We did the group shot with all the leading executives of this mega worldwide corporation at their HQ …….. Roy works with the national and […]
Women in Red : Tate Modern : London
I was just browsing a very small history of the Russian Revolution …… well a very small a promo prior to publication of the real book by Orlando Figes published by Pelican …….. Even in the opening lines it was surprising to me…….. When did the Russian Revolution begin and end ? Did it begin […]
Dawn Security Hut in the Desert : North of Las Cruces : New Mexico
I’ve been getting a bit of stick from Paul and Lee about my casual level of posting in Jan 2014 ……. Its true ……. I got to get it together …….. :-))) I have been in the physical world making large prints ……. not fiddling in the digital world so much in the last week […]
Im being followed by a Moon Shadow : Early morning View the City from Primrose Hill : London
Photography makes you live in the now…….. Not fret about what degree you should have taken in the past ……. Or what’s about to happen to the interest rates at your bank next time they change in the future ………… no you need to think what does that light look like right now ? What […]
North Dakota Brooding Sky : Dickinson : USA
We have had fairly drastic weather in the UK while I have been over here, raging seas and floods ………. So I put ‘storm’ into the image search on my computer and it came up with this picture I made last year in North Dakota while rolling on ‘Walkabout’ ……. I was gonna put it […]
The Red Bag : Tate Modern : London
Last night …… I went to see Feurzabruta at the Roundhouse in London ……… it was amazing…….. an amazing spectacle……… theatre for people that don’t really like theatre……….. Really it felt like a mixture of clubbing, circus and street theatre …….. the sheer excitement of tribal drumming and club music, incredible lighting and special effects […]
The Futures so Bright You Gotta Wear Shades : Happy New Year : Ludlow
Happy New Year :-)) Here it is the dawn of a new year over the river Tene in Ludlow (well almost) :-)))))))))) XXXXX ………. its gonna be the best ever :-))))))))))))))) hehehehehe ………… I hope it really is for everyone reading this :-)))))))))))) Yeah………… Have a fantastic 2014 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-))))))))))))))) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXXXX This […]
Reindeer Dog : Ludlow : UK
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and winter holidays !!!!!!!! Sorry I have dropped off the screens for a week ……… I am now in Ludlow in Shropshire in the UK ……… I have been staying in a big old cottage with my family over Christmas down a little track in the woods not far […]
Flag in the Desert : Mojave : California
I was rolling in the Mojave desert in California when I shot this above ……… weirdly it was incredibly cold my hands were killing me even though I was wearing gloves when I shot this picture …….. I was regretting not bringing my mega winter clothing …… I had left it all in New York […]
Green on Green : I-80 Farm Colfax : Iowa
I’m in the Mojave desert in California …… Sounds hot right? …… but surprisingly it’s freezing cold ……. And whats more I’ve had no internet for a while …….. Even now it seems to be coming and going ………. I gather the Sunday Times Mag (UK) ran a story I contributed to about Cargill on […]
Nelson Mandela Father of the Rainbow Nation : Lady Smith : South Africa
Madiba ………. is gone …….. His long walk to freedom is over …….. The hero of the struggle against apartheid has passed …….. He died the most loved and admired politician in the world …….. He sacrificed so much personally and achieved so much for his people …… He is deeply loved by them …….. […]
Happy Birthday MJ – Times Square NYC
Jez is somewhere in the air over the Western United States, but I’m sure he’ll drop in with some commentary later. In the meantime I had an urgent message to post the most important event of the year… the birthday of Wacko Jacko himself, the first man to ever sport an Insight Joey (in public) […]
Men and Machines : Subway System : NYC
I was sad to see there was a fatal rail crash just next to the Harlem River coming in to New York. At different times both Matt and I have lived out in Westchester so we have both taken that line into the City down the river often. Its really sad that four people died […]
Happy Holidays : Storm Cab : New York City
Happy Holiday s !! Happy T hank s giv ing !! Happy Hanuk k ah !!! ……….. Hopefully if y ou ar e dr iv ing home to be with y our family it’s not look ing quite as dr as tic a this thr ough y our winds c r een. I was r […]
The Map does not Describe the Territory : HANAC NYC Taxi Academy : Queens
A Map of The City I stand upon a hill and see A luminous country under me, Through which at two the drunk sailor must weave; The transient’s pause, the sailor’s leave. I notice, looking down the hill, Arms braced upon a window sill; And on the web of fire escapes Move the potential, the […]
150th Anniversary of The Gettysburg Address : Rolling Thunder : DC : USA
!50 years today since President Abraham Lincoln’s famous ‘Gettysburg Address’. It was made at the consecration of a new cemetery opened at the battlefield in honor of the Union Armies dead. In all 50,000 men were killed during the engagement, it was The American Civil War’s bloodiest battle……… “Four score and seven years ago our […]
Jez Coulson making a Photograph : After School Soccer : USA
Here is a picture of me shooting a kids soccer game in an after hours school program ……… picture shot by Matt :-)) Over the years I have made a pile of pictures of schools. At one stage we Insight London blokes used to shoot between us all the front covers for The Times Education Supplements in the UK […]
Taxi Mechanic Ray Fixing a Crown Victoria : Queens : NYC
Most people might prefer a different Saturday night out ……… but I have to say I really enjoyed my Saturday night out in Queens at a big Taxi Garage yesterday ……… I love the privilege of being able to see what people are working on behind the scenes ……… as you know doubt are aware […]
English Defence League Cross of Saint George Flags : London : UK
  I went to see the opening of my old mate Simon Robert’s exhibition tonight in Brooklyn his exhibit is called ‘Pierdom’ about the piers that protrude into the sea from the coast line of Britain……… it’s a great show and a great book :-)) I saw Aidan and one or two other Brits there too …….. the whole show and […]
EDL Story on the Sunday Times Magazine Cover Photo by Jez Coulson : Shot in Bradford : UK
  This guys head literally says it all. This Sunday Times cover has no headline just a ‘stand first’ …….. his head literally is its own headline ……… ‘EDL England’ …….. tattooed on to his scalp ……… apparently the barcode does not scan ……. well not in Tesco at least :-)) ………. he told me in all […]
English Defence League Pig : London : UK
  Well, I have been hanging out with the EDL in the UK for the Sunday Times Magazine. The English Defence League is regarded by most as the inheritor of the mantle of the NF, National Front and The BNP, British National Party. Basically they are high street fascists. They are an intimidating lot, no doubt very […]
Happy Halloween : The Village Halloween Parade : New York
  I will be back in New York City on Monday night (for a couple of weeks then off to Mexico City) ………. but sadly this means I am not gonna make this years Village Halloween Parade in NYC ……… So have fun if you are there tonight …………. or indeed if you are having […]
Death of an Innocent Man with a Camera : Jesus of St Chads : Birmingham
  I was so sad to hear about the killing of Bijan Ebrahimi by his neighbors……… his only crime making some photographs out of his window …….. this in the minds of his neighbors constituted pedophilia …………. in Britain many people assume photography is abuse……… these neighbors incredibly felt justified in calling this innocent man a […]
Goodbye and Thinking of You Normblog : NYC Taxi Zap : USA
  From the Guardian Obit by Eve Garrard : “Norman Geras – professor emeritus of government at Manchester University, philosopher, cricket fan, country music lover, Marxist, liberal socialist, democrat, political blogger behind the influential Normblog – has died of cancer aged 70. His interests were rich and varied, but his thought and writings form an integrated whole. […]
Jez Self Portrait at Frieze Art Fair 2013 : London : UK
  Jacko is right that cop was getting depressing it was time for him to go …….. sorry I am not in possesion of something zappy and colorful as u were requesting matey :-/ ……. but here is an art crowd selfie instead ……. hehehehe hardly a fair replacement I’ll grant you …… but hey […]
Police Enforce Press Ban at EDL March : Bradford : UK
  Its true some members of the EDL (English Defence League) don’t like having their photographs taken they are after all associated with a group often called racist and fascist, some of its supporters undeniably are people who have supported other far right groups responsible for racist attacks. The EDL is blamed by some for […]
Mount Rushmore : Disapproving Glance : South Dakota
  Image description:  I read today that folks in South Dakota are mad because not only is the carved Mount Rushmore Presidents monument and its visitor center closed because of the Federal Government shut down but for some reason even the pull off stops at the side of the road are also closed which seems […]
Family in Havana : Poetry of the still image in History : Cuba
 Image description: Castro Moves Into the Havana Hilton BY SANDRA M. CASTILLO Camera Obscura The afternoon lightening his shadow, Fidel descends from the mountains, the clean-shaven lawyer turned guerilla, his eyes focused on infinity, El Jefe Máximo con sus Barbudos, rebels with rosary beads on their 600-mile procession across the island with campesinos on horseback, […]
Enemies of Britain : London : UK
 Image description: The Labour Party Leader Ed Milliband is fuming at The Daily Mail and its editor Paul Dacre. The Mail has claimed Ed’s public intellectual and ‘Marxist father hated Britain‘. It has been a pretty controversial claim. Even numerous Conservative politicians seem to think the Mail should lay off the Labour leader’s long dead father. On […]
Taxi Door Spray Shop : NYC : USA
 Image description: My old mate Marcus Aurelius was requesting a bit of color yesterday …….. he wants a return to the zappy yellow taxis of NYC……… thats slightly against the rules of the blog…….. I tend not to run NYC pics unless I am actually there……… but I am here in slightly grey London with […]
Flight to Europe : London City Airport : UK
 Image description: Angela Merkel vowed that she would deliver more “successful years for Germany” as exit polls indicated a commanding lead for her party over the main opposition……….. I shot this image above at City Airport the other day …….. I was coming back from Luxembourg but the time before that when I flew to […]
Stephen King Back to The Shining : Maine : USA
  Image description: Yes……. it’s safe for Mr King to go back to the Shining as he announced today ……. and its safe to go back to Jezblog ……….. Hehehehehe…….. no kidding Stephen King announced today he has written a sequel to the Shining …………. and of equal cultural import Matt tells me Jezblog is entirely safe for swimming […]
Five Year Anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers : NYC : USA
  Image description: Its five years today from the start of the financial crisis proper. The sudden collapse of Lehman Brothers Bank in NYC sent financial contagion around the world. Today I heard a European Parliament discussion on the radio about the number of jobs created in Spain last month……….. Just 31 ……. Not 310 […]
Swine fever on Jezblog : Pig Farm : Wales UK
  Image description: Sorry ……. Jezblog has been a bit unwell ……… the site has been getting a bit of a fever from swines …….. some kind of malware has sometimes been redirecting viewers to ‘the adult friendship site’ ………… Sorry if this has happened to you in the last day or so ……. I […]
The Book of Jezblog : My apartment : New York City
  Image description: My old mate Harv put up a picture of one of his notebooks …….. saying he got into the habit of notebooks at college ……. I went to the same college so I guess I must have started on notebooks there but I kinda remember BG in the Insight office with his crazed writing […]
Harbour Entrance In The Last Slither of Light : Maryport : Cumbria UK
  Image description: Its been a while since I was this far North in the UK ……… Im pretty well as far North as you can go and still be in England ……… Maryport in Cumbria ……… I rolled up here from London it took most of my day …….. its a fair old way…….. […]
Chemical Attacks and British Politics : Westminster : London UK
  Image description: Well, British Prime Minister David Cameron appears to have misjudged the UK internal politics of launching a military attack on the regime of President Bashar Hafez al-Assad of Syria. Since the flagrant crossing of the Obama ‘red line’ with Assad’s forces apparently launching a horrific chemical weapon attack in Damascus, Cameron has […]
Until Justice : Civil Rights memorial : Montgomery Alabama
  Image description: 50 years to the day since Martin Luther King made his famous I have a dream Speech to 250,000 marchers for ‘Freedom and Jobs’ ………. some of his dream has been realized……… President Obama the first African American man to be President of The United States of America will address crowds at […]
Hot Subway Sleep : L train at 14th : NYC
  Image description: I took the L train to Brooklyn today. I went to see Philip Riley of Skink Ink………. What a fine bloke …….. What a mighty set up that is ……… personal, fast and efficient ……… really high quality work and reasonably priced ………. Amazing all round……… highly highly recommend if you are seeking […]
Dawn in Blackout Manhattan : 23rd St : NYC
  Image description: This month is apparently the 10 year anniversary of the giant blackout in New York City …….. Weirdly, I remember that erie sensation as the city absolutely closed down into complete darkness ….. like it was only yesterday :-)) ……… well not quite …….. but a whole decade? Wow … amazing how […]
Happy World Photography Day : Wisconsin : USA
  Image description: Hey did you know it was World Photography Day ???? …… er ? ….. neither did I until 10 mins ago ???? …… but Hey …. Happy World Photography Day !!!!!! Another thing I knew nothing about until earlier this morning ….. when I was strolling back here with my Starbucks …….. is that the Whitney Museum […]
High You Fly : Dartmouth : England
  Image description: My sister woke me from my sleep at 4AM in New York on Sunday morning with a phone call from Johannesburg. I was so shocked by what she said I wept after she had hung up. Then I rang my parents in the UK as I had been requested to do, to […]
Hillary And Bill Clinton : State Fair : New York
  Image description: The Clintons have to have been today a little stung in a seemingly unlikely attack …….. from The New York Times ……… A paper often regarded as possibly Clinton supporting and certainly pretty Liberal …….. The paper makes allegations about conflicts of interest and cronyism at The Clinton Foundation …….. it sounds rather like the stuff […]
Stern Magazine Double Page Spread Israeli Palestinian Conflict : Jabalia Refugee Camp : Gaza
  Image description: Just got back in from a nice evening on the roof of Soho House NYC with Bazza J ……… my old mate……. while he was in town having flown in from LA for a shoot ……… we discussed some new stuff……… but we also discussed some old stuff from way back when we first worked together […]
Red Flag : The Hamptons NY : USA
  Image description: I’m in the Hamptons again now , just kickin back. Its night time now so I cannot now see the ocean ……… but I can still hear the sound of the waves coming through the open window ……….. I am so lucky to be able to spend time here, :)))))))))))))))))))) Cheers Jez […]
Jez Coulson and Chuck Close : Guild Hall : East Hampton NY : USA
  Image description: This is me at the fantastic event to honor the mega artist Chuck Close and raise Money for the Guild Hall …….. I am pictured with the man himself he really is a great bloke :-))))))))))))) ………… Well, now its 4-30AM …….. I think I started partying at 5PM……. Hey it’s The […]
Washington Post to Be Sold : Paper Mill : Catawba : South Carolina
Image description: Well tonight it’s being announced that ‘The Washington Post’ is being sold after 80 years in single family ownership. ‘Newsweek’ and ‘The Boston Globe’ have also been sold in the last week. ‘The Boston Globe’s’ loss against its buying price was a massive 93% for ‘The New York Times Company’…….. something like a […]
Off his Trolley : Heathrow Airport : London UK
Image description: Its JE’s birthday today ……… So we got the band back together here in NYC ……. he flew into JFK earlier bringing his new girlfriend :))) …….. so we ….. against all the odds ……. had a surprisingly civilized evening …………. hehehehe ……… One or two people told crazed stories of JE’s legendary […]
Face of DEF CON Hacker : Las Vegas : Nevada
Image description: I was in DC today ……… at one point I pulled my rental car over …. probably kind of illegally I assumed ……. on the Washington Baltimore Parkway ………. I sort of pulled into a driveway thingy ………. I was searching my phone for the email containing the route to … and address […]
Today Hope for Israel Palestine Peace talks : Arrest of Arab Child back in the Day : Jerusalem
Image description: It would be great if some good news came out of the Middle East………. The death of over 70 people protesting against the new military government over the weekend in Egypt ……. bombings in Libya, Iraq and Syria in the last few days ……. assassinations of opposition leaders in Tunisia ……. all make […]
Elmore Leonard : At Home in Detroit : Michigan USA
Image description: Well, Detroit is bankrupt……. Or is it? Its out of cash certainly …….. But some dispute arose over whether it should be allowed to file for bankruptcy and become the biggest American City to go officially into bankruptcy protection ………… it’s a tragic situation for the City and for all those that depend […]
Hanging Out at Terminal 2 : JFK : NYC
Image description: Well, it was a day of woe and drama in the skies over the NE quadrant of the USA ……… mega storms paralyzed airports and grounded tons of flights and a hard landing on the runway at LGA blocked that important NYC airport for hours ………. I spent the day at JFK the […]
Burning Car : M1 North Bound nr Scrathwood Services : UK
Imag e d escrip t io n : T oday I ended up helping a dr iv er r ather than s hooting ……. I was watc hing a New Yor k City y ellow c ab dr iv er c hanging a wheel bec aus e of flat …… he was an elder ly […]
Taxi Crash : 52nd St and 7th Ave : NYC
Image description: “Eye Witness News…. NEW YORK (WABC) Two cabs collided in Midtown, sending one of them onto the sidewalk and into a pedestrian on Monday afternoon. The accident happened just before 4:00 p.m. on Monday at 52nd Street and 7th Avenue. According to investigators, a cab struck another cab traveling south on 7th Avenue. […]
Dont Shoot : Killer of Trayvon Walks : USA
Image description: The whole business of the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer ……….. it just seems wrong………. really very wrong…….. Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXXX www.jezblog [ 4 ] comments It IS wrong…but the politics and media that led to this are as wrong as ever too…which is why I report through my own #KONYH media now […]
Way Too Early for the Airport : Queensborough Bridge : NYC
  Image description: So I went to bed at 1AM then got back up at 3AM …. I was rolling towards LaGuargia airport by 400AM …. The driver took me for a tourist type with my camera and British accent…. He started telling me things like he was practicing leading a tour bus …. For […]
Yellow and Blue : Skull Valley : Utah
Image description: Well, its seriously hot and sticky here in New York City……….. 97 degrees 49% humidity ………… well over 100 on the heat index…….. blah blah…………. although I see from Facebook my old mate Steve F is suffering from humidity in Penang Malaysia …….. and another old friend Marc J who lives in Vietnam […]
Independence Day : Revolutionary War Reenactment : Mt Vernon : Virginia
Image description: Happy 4th of July to Americans everywhere :))))))))))) Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXX PS……….. Sorry not much blogging in the last few days my computers have been rocking away doing massive backups of everything ………… each terabyte of pictures transfered on to new drives takes about 7 hours ……….. so its hard to process or […]
Love and Pride : Gay Pride NYC 2013 : USA
Image description: Gay Pride was riding high in New York City this weekend. Following the Supreme Court rulings in favor of Gay Marriage in the week ……. amongst other things the Supreme Court struck down the hated DOMA (Defence of Marriage Act) that defined marriage as between a man and a woman …….. Its removal […]
Matt Flies with the Old Weeper Crew : Atlanta : GA
Image description: One of the things I have do when I get back to my apartment in NYC is back everything up on to the NY big hard drives ……… everything is on London big drives …….. and Atlanta big drives and some in the cloud too ………. I also have to turn on all […]
Classic Yellow Cab 14th and 8th : New York City
Image description: The joy of being back in my place high up in New York City ………. It’s 11 p.m. …….. Im looking out at the Empire State building as I write ……… all lit up with classy white light this evening …….. half the time its green and red ……. or yellow and blue……… […]
Druids : Summer Solstice : Cornwall
Image description: Today was the longest day……… here in Britain at least………… Druids were out celebrating the Summer Solstice up at Stonehenge this morning……… although apparently the Summer sun totally failed to materialize…… This kind of thing is always the problem for any kind of a sun worshiper in Britain ……… still I gather a […]
In The Pink : Sao Paulo : Brazil
Image description: All the drama from Brazil………. I was thinking about all the lovely folks I met last time I was out there…….. if you are covering all the protests…….. keep your heads down guyz be safe ………. :))) XXXXXXXXXXX Weirdly this picture above has been sitting on my desktop since I was in Sao […]
Storm Light : F5 Moore Tornado TV Coverage : Oklahoma
Image description: This is part of a set that is being published today in the Sunday Times Magazine about the TV coverage of the F5 Moore Tornado in Oklhoma ……. Its the lead Story in Spectrum the world photography section……… if you are in the UK you really should rush out and buy a copy […]
Mirror Mirror : Stage Dressing Room : Chicago Arts Academy
Image description: Michael Gove the Education Minister here in the UK today controversially announced that high School examinations would all be changed …….. much to the annoyance of students currently sitting the high school GCSE’s…. what they fear will now become discredited qualifications when the new ones come on stream ……… This is the kind […]
The Home of the Tame Mountain Lion : Monte Vista : Colorado
Image description: This slightly peculiar image above needed something offthewall ……… Something you just don’t normally get on Jezblog ? ……….hmmmmm ……. What about this below from a slightly offthewall friend of mine in the bible belt ? ……… He sent this sent to me tonight on facebook as part of a discussion regarding ‘The […]
Gas Station on Mars or was it Nevada : Nevada
Image description: Yeah ……. I think it was Nevada? …… We had just literally crossed out of Oregon ? …… I think? …….. This was Nevada right Matt ? I’m too tired to consult my extensive charts, maps and notes right now :)) ……… Kinda looks like I shot this on my last visit to […]
Reed Timmer Meteorologist and Extreme Storm Chaser with The Dominator : Kansas
Image description: I was so sad to see of the deaths of veteran storm chasers in new tornados in Oklahoma. Tim Samaras, 55, founder of the tornado research project, called Twistex, based in Lakewood, Colo.; his son Paul, 24; and their chase partner, Carl Young, 45, all died after they were overtaken by a multiple-vortex tornado that […]
Son of Man : Canterbury Cathedral : Kent UK
Image description: I went to the funeral of the father of a dear friend. A very sad occasion obviously. My friend’s father was very closely associated with The Salvation Army and the service was led by a friend of his in the Salvation Army and also attended by many others of his friends and family […]
Montana Motel : Billings : Montana USA
Image description: Well, I have completed an approx 8000 mile circular trip round 26 States of the USA in the mighty Beast car …………. and hopefully made some worthwhile pictures :-)) I have met some really fantastic people on the way ……… seen some amazing natural landscapes and some surprising man made things…… and activities […]
Red on Green : Chekotah : Oklahoma
Image description: I shot this before all the tornados in Oklahoma last week ………. It was kind of stormy but I wasn’t expecting a tornado………. In fact I was enjoying what felt kind of like UK weather…….. It all had the vibe of the UK in that green countryside………… yeah it kind of felt like […]
Rescue of Little Dog : Moore Tornado : Oklahoma
Image description: I had a request for something from a friend on Facebook ……. Something recovery or uplifting from the horror of the destruction of the Moorse Tornado in Oklahoma ……… Sadly the truth is I did not see any uplifting rescues ……. Well at least I saw no people rescued alive from the wreckage […]
Safe Embrace : Moore Tornado : Oklahoma
Image description: Its 2AM ……….. I am just about to start sleeping in the car……. In an open car park at a service area on the I40 just outside Oklahoma City ….. I didn’t try very hard to get a motel ……… I feel like anyone who has lost their home in this terrible twister […]
Road Side Shrine : Near Dodge City : Kansas
Image description: One of the things I immediately loved about America was the feeling that all sorts of stuff was more drastic than the UK ………. most of this was good …….. The most immediately noticeable was the constantly drastic weather ……….. when I first lived in New York I was shocked by how hot… […]
The Hog Rock Fry Cook and Pot Washer : Ontario : Oregon
Image description: So Matt who is in charge of all things numbers and organization tells me I have done 6000 miles in the Beast Car since we left Atlanta. Yeah…. the Beast has rolled through Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and now Colorado………. […]
School Chairs : Abandoned Navajo Trading Post : Monument Valley
Image description: I made this picture in a currently abandoned trading post for the people of the Navajo Nation on the road way into Monument Valley just beyond the little settlement of Mexican Hat ……… Inside this very rudimentary hut were these two chairs and this book ‘Steps To Christ’ ……… Call me crazy but […]
Jez Coulson World Land Speed Record : Bonneville Salt Flats Speed Track : Utah
Image description: Matt has flown in to help me out on the US mega tour ……… to stop me goin completely nutz alone on the road ………… in fact he turned up just in time to shoot this picture of me ………. just before we attempted the world land speed record for a red Mustang […]
High School Rodeo : Owyhee County : Idaho
Image description: Who would have thought a wearing a cowboy outfit is actually compulsory anywhere ……… hehehe……… well it is at a rodeo …….. if you are gonna be allowed anywhere near the action that is …….. hehehe……… I did stick out like a bit of a sore thumb……… the only idiot not in a […]
Pickup Truck and The Beartooth Mountains : Red Lodge : Montana
Image description: This pickup driver appears to be burning home ……. You do need to be careful on the roads in the evening light in Montana ……… I was rolling in the Beast Car just after shooting this image …… I rounded a bend…….. Suddenly I saw 5 or 6 deer on the road in my lane […]
The Gospel and the Gun : Glenrock : Wyoming
Image description: It’s an odd contradiction especially from a European perspective and yet it remains true……… some of the friendliest people in America have the most guns ………. These are only a few of the weapons that belong to a Pastor I met at a gun show in Casper Wyoming ……… yeah from a European […]
Jims Auto Salvage : Sturgis : South Dakota
Image description: So I have been rolling……….. So much amazing landscape………. and small snippets of adventure,…….. and fantastically interesting people along the way………….. Most days as a professional photographer I have very specific missions to execute ……….. but right now this is traveling with a view to shooting something ………. but that something……….. is only […]
Jez On Walkabout USA : South Dakota : USA
Image description: Well, ……. I am kind of on walkabout ……. Matt and I drove to Chicago ……. Then on to Minnesota to work on two different assignments ……… driving to Chicago and further from Atlanta would not be our normal modus operandi ……… and Matt then did the sensible thing and flew back to […]
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