Hello, my name is Benjamin Frank and I'm a graphic designer living in Bordeaux, France. Whenever I can I drop my mouse and pick up my DSLR. If you like my work, contact me about your project and I'll see what I can do for you.
You can also have a look at my Flickr feed to see more of my recent images.
I’ve been using a new search engine Blekko (@blekko) for a few weeks now, it’s well worth a look. The search results are based on the content of 3 billion ‘trusted’ websites and users can add and create slashtags to filter the search, for example ‘global warming /green’ for liberal content on global warming or ‘global warming /conservative’ to find content for more mainstream conservative websites. The aim of their game is to filter out spam or content farming websites, sites that haunt most of the Google Search engine’s results.
The Independent Magazine publishes a large selection of unseen photographs that throw new light on the First World War.
There are several gems. Who is the “black Tommy”? There was already a small black community in Britain in 1914 – in Cardiff, in Liverpool and in the North East. Black men are known to have volunteered and fought in the trenches, but very few photographs of them exist.
Who, also, is the giant of a British soldier, possibly as much as seven feet tall, sitting in front of two standard-sized comrades? Who was the Tommy who asked the photographer to take a picture of his back, which has been elaborately tattooed with the faces of the British royal family? Why is one group of soldiers holding a large rag doll?
