Guardian photographer Denis Thorpe and northern editor Martin Wainwright discuss an exhibition of pictures taken by the paper’s Manchester photographers. The exhibition, curated by Thorpe, includes striking work taken since the paper appointed its first staff photographer, Walter Doughty, in 1908. A Long Exposure: 100 Years of Guardian Photography runs until March 1 2009 at The Lowry in Salford, Greater Manchester
On the eve of the election, a number of Magnum photographers have been venturing into American to capture what they can of this historic moment in time. The project is called InSight America. But rather than publish this work as a book a year after the fact, Magnum is posting the work online and on the fly.
I caught up with Alex Webb after his recent journey to Ohio
My old friend Michael P. King sent me a link to this preposterous tv show on ‘war photographers’ yesterday.
Ashley Franscell worked the past couple of months following a woman who is dying of breast cancer. Here is her story
Bruce Gilden photographed and interviewed scores of people in South Florida who have lost their homes and are already suffering through hard times. Later this week, Magnum in Motion will present a multimedia package of Gilden’s work.
A good friend of mine just gave me the DVD: Brilliant Fever: W. Eugene Smith and Pittsburgh and while I knew Smith’s work, I fell in love with it all over again watching it.
Elliott Erwitt and Alec Soth, two great photographers widely separated by their vision, style, and generations–but sharing a sense of irony, self-effacing wit, and a photo agency (Magnum)—took the stage at New York’s Javits Center last night to talk to a packed audience about their work and careers.
Shooting live performance either in the rehearsal studio or on stage is where many photographers cut their teeth with dance and then attempt to pursue a career in dance photography. It’s usually a dead-end.
Welcome to the flagship “episode” of Saturday’s For Suckers. Vids, vids, vids will be forced down your throats on all of my last posts each month. Most of ’em will be themed but this month’s video buffet is an ADHD-worst-nightmare free-for-all. Peep:
Are they terrible, great, or both? You figure it out.
First link to Amazon, then a link to Netflix at the end of each one.
Yeti: Love Story
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Billy the Kid (Documentary)
Devil Hunter
Elite Squad
Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition [Limited Edition]
ZOOM – Back to the 70s
Laptop destroyed today. The Click might be slow on posts for a day or so.
During the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women were subjected to massive sexual violence, perpetrated by members of the infamous Hutu militia groups known as the Interahamwe. Among the survivors, those who are most isolated are the women who have borne children as a result of being raped. Their families have rejected both them and their children, compounding their already unimaginable emotional distress.
Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos
In 2005, I started work on The Places We Live, a project about urban poverty and slums. For three years, I visited dozens of families in four slums around the world.
The Places We Live was not a search for finding the absolute extremes of urban poverty—I wasn’t looking for the dirties spot, the poorest hovels or the most crime-ridden street corner. My task was to find how people normalize these dire situations. How they build dignity and daily lives in the midst of very challenging living conditions.
I had become very impressed with the Canon G10 after just a few days of earlier light-duty testing. Each evening that week I would sit with my 15″ Macbook Pro reviewing the day’s files. At one point I found myself looking at raw files on-screen and not being sure if I was looking at Hasselblad P45+ files or Canon G10 files. That includes at 100% onscreen enlargements.
The Hankyoreh, a newspaper and media company in Korea, commissioned Magnum to produce a series of photographs to commemorate South Korea’s 60th anniversary and the company’s own 20th anniversary. The Resulting project is apparantly the largest single undertaking by the Magnum agency, who sent 20 of it’s photographers to South Korea between the end of 2006 and the start of 2008 with each spending between 10 and 60 days in the country.
For Toronto street artist Posterchild’s latest project, he installed blue wooden boxes around town with a camera inside.
Mort Rosenblum and Gary Knight shaped a rough concept after covering badly understood conflicts together in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. At a photo workshop, Simba Gill told Knight of his own idea for a magazine. After an hour-long conversation in Paris, the three partners established dispatches with no more than a handshake.
