NYTimes.com:
Months of labor acrimony at The Boston Globe will come to a head on Monday, when members of the newspaper’s largest union are to vote on deep cuts in wages, benefits and job security, amid growing signs that they could well reject the deal.
Beverly Spicer – The Digital Journalist:
It is interesting that the president, who taught constitutional law for a decade at the University of Chicago, would concurrently reveal criminal activity and sweep it aside by suggesting the country simply accept the past and move forward. His suggestion, however, was quickly vetoed in the court of public opinion, and the president also found himself in the position of possible legal culpability in the future if he refuses to address alleged infractions of his predecessors. Thus, he left it to the Justice Department to pursue or not pursue accountability for the past.
In the face of a cacophony of criticism, what would Obama do about the some 2,000 additional photographs he promised to declassify—a promise he made when transparency seemed like a good idea? This issue is especially compelling to journalists in war zones who work tirelessly and at great risk to document conflict.
Marco Improta:
This essay portrays one of the families living in “Sertão do Ceará”, an arid region in the Nordeste of Brasil.
dispatches / War and Photography – Part 5:
Comments from Gary Knight, Tim Hetherington, and Ashley Gilbertson.
Filmed on 22 May 2009 at VII Gallery, Brooklyn
Half a Tank: Along Recession Road – A Multimedia Blog About Americans Adapting to the Recession:
Half A Tank is a summer-long quest to find images and stories of people whose lives have been altered by a flattened economy. Starting from home in the D.C. suburbs, Theresa Vargas and Michael Williamson are traveling around the country to experience how people are coping, struggling, even flourishing as we all reconsider how we live.
via APhotoADay
PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK:
Chicago native Edward Sturr, whose 1960s images of the city are charged with an expressionist power comprised of angular compositions, bold contrasts and beguiling thematic irony. After moving to Kansas in 1974, Sturr taught photography for more than two decades at Kansas State University. While his personal work transitioned from gritty urban images to elegant, hand-colored landscapes, he retains a close emotional attachment to the black-and-white imagery that initially defined him.
Ellen Barry – NYTimes.com:
After the most recent attack on Sergei Kanev — attempted strangulation with a wire, in his apartment’s stairwell here — his editor visited him and delicately suggested that he take a six-month sabbatical from crime reporting, in America.
Mr. Kanev still chortles with delight recalling this story, as if he had been advised to take up tap dancing. He is the kind of reporter who sleeps with a police scanner beside his bed. Without work, “I would die of boredom,” he said.
A. J. Liebling – Surviving Without Newspapers – NYTimes.com:
The only complaints I heard came from commuters who lived at such short distances from the city that it was impractical for them to smoke opium during the trip. Some of these people said that now that they had no newspapers they were compelled to look at the scenery, which revolted them.
duckrabbit:
duckrabbit’s competition is simple. Stan Banos claims PDN’s action is in part an example of ‘passive racism.’ Surely an outrageous slur on the photographic industry? In the absence of PDN feeling the need to respond, duckrabbit are offering $1000 to anyone who can prove Banos wrong.
Simple.
John H. White PJ Love Celebration from Jon Sall on Vimeo.
Iris PhotoCollective: John H. White:
I’ve been so fortunate to have had incredible teachers in my life. These teachers, from kindergarden (Ms. Lyons), and all the way up to college, have all pushed me to do better. One of these teachers has and still is teaching me about life is, Pulitzer Prize Winner John H. White Staff Photographer for the Chicago Sun-Times, who will be celebrating his 40th anniversary as a staffer in Chicago this summer.
Via APAD
5B4: School by Raimond Wouda:
Wouda started to observe the relationships among groups of teenagers while they were on the school playground across the street from his studio. Something about those observations drew him to approaching the institutions in order to gain access to their hallways and common areas with his view camera and strobes. It wasn’t the classroom he was interested in but what was happening when the students were on their own and what that might reveal if photographed. His newest book School from Nazraeli published this year brings together a tight edit of 35 of these images.
the life of m: Meek & Mighty:
Despite the early wake up time, the 2009 St. Anthony’s Meek & Mighty Triathlon was a blast to shoot. The athletes were incredibly inspiring, and there was no shortage of cool things to shoot at every turn.
dispatches / War and Photography – Part 4:
Viewing Tim Hetherington’s “Sleeping Soldiers” film raises questions about finding new ways to communicate the experience of war, much of which is not covered by the familiar images used by the news media.
Xark!: The newspaper suicide pact:
I think I’ll remember last week as the moment when I finally knew, with a certainty approaching fatigue, that the newspaper industry – the business and passion that both shaped and warped me over the past 20 years – had chosen ritual suicide. The choice appears grimly reached and irrevocable.
Via Boing Boing
dispatches / War and Photography – Part 3:
What is the motivation and intent of those photographers who choose to cover war? -Comments from Gary Knight.
Filmed on 22 May 2009 at VII Gallery, Brooklyn
CLICK NOTE: So I’m guessing they’re filing Gilles Perres’ work under photography, not peace or love.
A Picture’s Worth says:
Every summer, a healthy chunk of the photography world descends on Charlottesville, Virginia for several days of good, wholesome, photo loving. What started as a backyard slideshow at the home of Nick Nichols has blossomed into LOOK3: Festival of the Photograph http://look3.org, with dozens of exhibits, talks and workshops, and participation from some of the most recognized names in photography. This year, the festival is June 11-13, and if you love photography and have a way to get there, you should make it your business to do so
Josh Spear says:
Photographers Steven Brahms, Emiliano Granado and Stephen K. Schuster went on a search for the American institution called “Spring Break,” in which tender youths put down their books temporarily in order to wrestle in vats of Jello, put pictures of their breasts on the internet, and wake in hospital beds, half-dead with alcohol poisoning.
dispatches / War and Photography – Part 2:
Is there a “ghetto-isation” of photojournalism, and if so, what is it?
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Comments from MaryAnne Golon and Tim Hetherington.
Filmed on 22 May 2009 at VII Gallery, Brooklyn
