Slow Photography: Broomberg and Chanarin
Again and again similar images are repeated, with only the actors and settings changing. Grieving mothers, charred human remains, sun sets, women giving birth, children playing with toy guns, cock …
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/slow-photography-broomberg-and-chanarin/
If two ends of the spectrum were identified this week during the debate about race and how it is (mis)treated by photographic practice we could see them as the moronic fashion world practitioners and then everybody else – “everybody else” being social documentarians, new-media visualphotoimagemakerjournalists, old-school bang-bang-club photographers and fine art practitioners. This second larger group is where most thoughtful folk place their energies.