Tag: John Stanmeyer

  • Notes From the Road: John Stanmeyer in Jerusalem

    Link: Photography possesses intervals, moments of timelessness, where the benevolence of the world around us offers fleeting touches of visual poetry upon the commonplace. Yet for unruly reasons, we can become too blind to see or feel their significance.

  • 7 with VII: Fake News – Vantage – Medium

    7 with VII: Fake News – Vantage – Medium

    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…

  • Honoring the creation of VII Photo Agency – The Eye of Photography

    Honoring the creation of VII Photo Agency Perpignan, Visa pour l’image festival, September 8, 2001. For a few years, a certain gloom reigns over the world of photojournalism, in seemingly continuous decline. Then, however, a group of seven photojournalists– Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, and John Stanmeyer– announced…

  • Building Bridges Between Turkey and Armenia – The New York Times

    Building Bridges Between Turkey and Armenia – The New York Times

    Building Bridges Between Turkey and Armenia More than a century after the Armenian genocide, Armenian and Turkish photographers are building bridges by making pictures of daily life to underscore what they have in common. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/building-bridges-people-to-people-between-turks-and-armenians/?&_r=0&module=Slide&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-6&action=Click&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Building%20Bridges%20Between%20Turkey John Stanmeyer crouched under a rock on the border between Armenia and Turkey to avoid a rainstorm…

  • John Stanmeyer: Witnessing a Desperate Exodus from Syria | PROOF

    John Stanmeyer: Witnessing a Desperate Exodus from Syria National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer recently witnessed the exodus of more than 100,000 Kurds from Syria as they fled from ISIS into neighboring Turkey. This is his first-person account of the momentous scene that took place at the border in mi via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/17/john-stanmeyer-witnessing-a-desperate-exodus-from-syria/ National Geographic photographer…

  • Thoughts on John Stanmeyer’s 2014 World Press Winning Photo

    Thoughts on John Stanmeyer’s 2014 World Press Winning Photo

    Thoughts on John Stanmeyer’s 2014 World Press Winning Photo – Reading The Pictures In a day and age where specific conflicts, atrocities and human rights abuses beg for poignancy and advocacy, feting Stanmeyer’s photo can either be seen as the loss of an opportunity, or else an incredibly daring choice inviting multiple conversations ab via…

  • The World’s Best (Unaltered) Photos

    The World’s Best (Unaltered) Photos

    The World’s Best (Unaltered) Photos World Press Photo announced the winners of its 2013 contest while its judges lamented the proliferation of digital alterations, which disqualified several top contenders. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/the-worlds-best-unaltered-photos/?_php=true&_type=blogs&partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 The announcement of Mr. Stanmeyer’s win was overshadowed by the disclosure that more than nine percent of the finalists’ images were disqualified…

  • John Stanmeyer Wins 2013 World Press Photo of the Year

    John Stanmeyer Wins 2013 World Press Photo of the Year | PDNPulse American photographer John Stanmeyer won the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year for an image depicting African migrants standing on the beach in Djibouti, holding mobile phones aloft in an effort to get an inexpensive wireless signal from neighboring Soma via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/02/john-stanmeyer-wins-2013-world-press-photo-of-the-year.html…

  • The Amazing Yellow-Bordered Magazine — John Stanmeyer

    ::: The Travel Photographer ::: travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/ “What’s it like photographing a National Geographic story?” It’s a question frequently asked and to be honest, a rather intriguing one because a National Geographic story — the process from beginning to conclusion — is not always what we might think. For one thing, I tend…

  • John Stanmeyer: Volcano Gods

    John Stanmeyer: Volcano Gods travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2011/06/john-stanmeyer-volcano-gods.html It was tough to choose what to feature of John’s work because all his work is truly spectacular, but I decided on his Volcano Gods, which he shot for the National Geographic.

  • Meditation On The Death Of A Hero

    As we walked the streets, I noticed a certain type of photographer that stood in contrast to the sophisticated, mature practioners like Tim or our other luncheon mates, John Stanmeyer, Ami Vitale, David Strick, Jack Picone and others. It seemed to me this group was like a pack of roving jackals. There was a certain…

  • Bali: "Island of the Spirits" -John Stanmeyer – lens culture

    Bali: "Island of the Spirits" -John Stanmeyer – lens culture

    LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/archives/2010/12/john-stanmeyer.html John Stanmeyer lived with his family among the spirits and people in Bali for five years. In looking at his Bali photographs you know that he was touched by the spirits and that he touched them as well.

  • Amazon Ablaze – John Stanmeyer, VII

    The Amazon Rainforest located in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil is ablaze like never before. The surge in burning can be attributed to the extreme rise in commodity prices. As demand for more food grain is needed, farmers are pushed to dramatically increase soybean and corn production, removing massive tracks of pristine forest in…

  • High Balinese Ritual, Low Holga Technology – NYTimes.com

    High Balinese Ritual, Low Holga Technology – NYTimes.com

    High Balinese Ritual, Low Holga Technology John Stanmeyer found the simplicity of the Holga an ideal way to capture the complexity of Balinese spiritual life. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/high-balinese-ritual-low-holga-technology/ John Stanmeyer is one of the founding members of the photo cooperative VII and his work appears regularly in the National Geographic and Time. He has…

  • Amazon Ablaze – John Stanmeyer – VII Magazine

    The Amazon Rainforest located in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil is ablaze like never before. The surge in burning can be attributed to the extreme rise in commodity prices. As demand for more food grain is needed, farmers are pushed to dramatically increase soybean and corn production, removing massive tracks of pristine forest in…

  • The Travel Photographer: John Stanmeyer: Malaria: NG Award

    The photojournalism award, which honors John Stanmeyer’s photographs in the “Bedlam in the Blood: Malaria also names Senior Editor David Griffin, Deputy Director Susan A. Smith, Design Director David C. Whitmore and Senior Photo Editor Sarah Leen. The article ran in the July 2007 NGM. Check it out here.

  • The Web This Morning

    Photos – John Stanmeyer in Tamil Territory, Sri Lanka Photos – Scott Strazzante’s photo blog from the Torino Olympics

  • The Web This Morning

    Photo: Burma nights, Rangoon Lights, photos by John Stanmeyer Still photographer on the set of Munich Inside the walls with Mara Salvatrucha, Luis Sinco Nancy Kaszerman on shooting The Red Carpet Alec Soth’s Niagara (different than previous mention) Other: Former Green Beret blogging from Iraq… …His blog (by the way, the Pulitzer is only award…