Articles by Jim Millward

Amazing photographs

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Steve McCurry’s name may not ring a bell but his famous photograph of the the blue-eyed Afghan girl on the front cover of National Geographic may be more familiar. We’d love to use his shots in our brochures but they’re a bit out of our budget. We’ve just spent a lunch hour on his website. Personal favourite is the fruit stall on the boot of the car.  http://www.stevemccurry.com/

The CIA knows it all

If you want to know any aspect about a country then the CIA’s website is an unlikely (publicly available) source. Pop the name of the country into the search at the top website and go to ‘The World Factbook’ . I just looked up Peru and found they had 1,989 kilometres of railways and 3.06 million televisions! As for accuracy I’ll let you decide …. the address is http://www.cia.gov/

Ashmolean Exhibition of Chinese Prints

We are sponsoring an exhibition of ‘Chinese Prints 1950 – 2006’ at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. The exhibition has been running from the 16th October and finishes on the 24th February. Continue reading »