Tag: Ed Kashi

  • Interview: Ed Kashi – “Abandoned Moments” — Analog Forever Magazine

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    Link: You must believe in yourself, believe in this work and be ready and willing to work harder than you’ve ever worked. You must be able to withstand a seemingly inhumane amount of disappointment and rejection, learn to navigate the unseemly politics and favoritism that is rife in most creative fields, and basically be incredibly…

  • VII Photo's Ed Kashi: "We must change the way we consume" – British Journal of Photography

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    Link: Ed Kashi, who has just joined the prestigious VII Photo agency, talks to BJP about his six-year foray into the complexity of the Niger Delta

  • Nine pros talk about the present and future economics of a photography career

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    Link: The photographers interviewed include photojournalists such as Ed Kashi of the VII Agency and Peter Van Agtmael of Magnum, fashion photographer Peter Stigter, Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian, and others

  • The Future of Photojournalism by Ed Kashi – The Eye of Photography

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    Link: Photojournalism is in transition as a profession and remains an unorthodox career for most. It is certainly not a stable way of life. It has always been a competitive, challenging and dangerous career path, and today it’s never been more dangerous and it’s too often deadly. And it will never return to what it…

  • 7 with VII: Fake News – Vantage – Medium

    7 with VII: Fake News – Vantage – Medium

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    7 with VII: Fake News Photographers Babajanyan, Bach, Gilbertson, Kashi, Njiokiktjien, Sobecki and Stanmeyer on fake news’ effects on photojournalism via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/7-with-vii-fake-news-29782e7dfef5 We asked Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter followers to submit questions about fake news as it relates to photojournalism for the next installment of 7 with VII where VII photographers answer your seven…

  • The Unspoken Consequences of a Photojournalist’s Life | TIME

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    The Unspoken Consequences of a Photojournalist’s Life “Be mindful of what can be lost when you let that consume you.” via Time: http://time.com/4311394/the-unspoken-consequences-of-a-photojournalists-life/ Ed Kashi, a documentary photographer and member of the VII Photo agency, writes about the challenges of balancing his professional and personal lives, highlighting the “residual impact” that a lonely profession spent…

  • Q&A with Ed Kashi: ‘Through social media, we can be our own publishers’ | The National

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    Q&A with photojournalist Ed Kashi: ‘Through social media, we can be our own publishers’ Ed Kashi talks Instagram and the changing fortunes of photography. via The National: http://www.thenational.ae/arts-life/photography/qa-with-photojournalist-ed-kashi-through-social-media-we-can-be-our-own-publishers But we’ve lost a certain amount of care and rumination, space to think about what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. I feel we’re all more…

  • 7 with VII: All About Gear — Vantage — Medium

    7 with VII: All About Gear — Vantage — Medium

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    7 with VII: All About Gear Expert photographers on the lenses, notebooks and tools they carry via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/7-with-vii-all-about-gear-2e55bbef6c96 We asked Facebook, Instagram and Twitter followers to submit questions about gear for the second installment of 7 with VII. Read on for the 7 answers from VII’s Ron Haviv, Sim Chi Yin, Ashley Gilbertson, Arthur…

  • 5 Winners of 2015 Aaron Siskind Fellowships Named

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    5 Winners of 2015 Aaron Siskind Fellowships Named | PDNPulse The Individual Photographer’s Fellowships support photographic projects with cash awards of varying amounts up to $10,000. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/08/5-winners-of-2015-aaron-siskind-fellowships-named.html Juan Arredondo of West Orange, NJ Amy Finkelstein of Takoma Park, MD Robyn Hasty of Brooklyn, NY Ed Kashi of Montclair, NJ Natalie Krick of Longmont,…

  • Ed Kashi, Tim Matsui Win Top Multimedia Prizes at 2015 POYi

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    Ed Kashi, Tim Matsui Win Top Multimedia Prizes at 2015 POYi | PDNPulse Ed Kashi has won Multimedia Photographer of the Year honors at the 2015 Pictures of the Year International competition for his project called Syria’s Lost Generation, while Tim Matsui won Documentary Project of the Year for The Long Night, a film he…

  • PDN Video Pick: Ed Kashi and Matt Black for The New Yorker

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    PDN Video Pick: Ed Kashi and Matt Black for The New Yorker | PDNPulse For PDN’s January 2015 print edition, we spoke with photographer Matt Black about the photo essay he made for The New Yorker about the drought in California’s Central Valley. Black, who lives in Exeter, California, has been documenting the valley—which pr via…

  • California: Paradise Burning – The New Yorker

    California: Paradise Burning – The New Yorker

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    California: Paradise Burning A video captures the historically severe drought in the state’s normally fertile Central Valley. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/california-paradise-burning Photographers Matt Black and Ed Kashi recently spent time with the farmers and shepherds of the Central Valley, documenting their ongoing struggles

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    Official Press Release Announcing APAD’s Continued Awesomeness What makes the APhotoADay listserv unique is community. Since 2001, I’ve watched people grow up on there. Find their voice. Come into their own. Some have grown from young college photographers into… via APAD blog: http://blog.aphotoaday.org/post/96485398135/official-press-release-announcing-apads-continued This year’s auction will be held online through Paddle 8 and includes photographs contributed by…

  • Inspirational Interview Packed Full of Useful Lighting and Photojournalism Tips

    Inspirational Interview Packed Full of Useful Lighting and Photojournalism Tips

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    Inspirational Interview Packed Full of Useful Lighting and Photojournalism Tips Photojournalist Ed Kashi has received many accolades over the course of his photojournalistic career, and in this short interview with Marc Silber, he via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/07/07/inspirational-interview-packed-full-useful-lighting-photojournalism-tips/ Photojournalist Ed Kashi has received many accolades over the course of his photojournalistic career, and in this short interview…

  • What’s In Your Camera Bag?: Photojournalist Ed Kashi

    What’s In Your Camera Bag?: Photojournalist Ed Kashi

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    What’s In Your Camera Bag?: Photojournalist Ed Kashi – Feature Shoot What’s the most unusual item in your camera bag? The headlamp. There are two things I’ve learned working in the field for more than 30 years—always have backups of your important gear and always be prepared for contingencies. So one contingency is being o…

  • Lost Generation: Directors Give Voice to Syrian Refugees

    Lost Generation: Directors Give Voice to Syrian Refugees

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/01/23/ed-kashi-julie-winokur-meet-syrias-young-refugees/ More than two decades after photojournalist Ed Kashi documented Kurdish refugees streaming back from Iran and Turkey to their fractured homeland, he returned to the same patch of land to witness the impact of Syria’s unending civil war on what is…

  • Helping a Fallen Freelancer

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    Helping a Fallen Freelancer – Ed Kashi There are some iconic images that stick in our minds when we reflect on the past 11 years about Iraq. Perhaps footage of US contractors who were killed and dragged through the streets of Fallujah. Or George W. Bush ducking a flying shoe during a press con via…

  • A Chat with The Kashis: A Photojournalism Family Juggles Chaos and Calm

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    Link: A Chat with The Kashis: A Photojournalism Family Juggles Chaos and Calm | PROOF Ed Kashi’s story on northern Nigeria’s Islamic insurgency appears in the November issue of National Geographic magazine. His wife, Julie Winokur, is a writer/filmmaker, and co-founder of Talking Eyes Media. They have two children, Eli, 18, a college freshman, and…

  • It’ll Be Better Next Year

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    It’ll Be Better Next Year via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/10/itll-be-better-next-year.html “Did it rain last night?” Cash Murdock, age eleven, asks his father. “Nope, no rain,” the forty-three-year-old rancher, Casey, replies. “Maybe tonight.” With this exchange, Ashley Gilbertson and Ed Kashi introduce the small farming and ranching community in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, which was the epicenter…

  • In the Eye of the Storm: Capturing Sandy’s Wrath

    In the Eye of the Storm: Capturing Sandy’s Wrath

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/30/in-the-eye-of-the-storm-capturing-sandys-wrath/#1 As Sandy drew near, TIME asked five photographers — Michael Christopher Brown, Benjamin Lowy, Ed Kashi, Andrew Quilty and Stephen Wilkes — to document the hurricane and its aftermath via Instagram.