Hundreds of Iraqi journalists have been forced into exile since the war started five years ago, Reporters without Borders announced in a report released Wednesday.
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Author: Trent
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Hundreds of Iraqi Journalists Forced Into Exile
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Photography Books Now! – Shoot The Blog
I read about the Photography Book Now salon and symposium last night, and thought it was too good to be true. I mean, a contest celebrating self-published photo books? With the promise of MONEY? What What!? But look, they say it is true:
“Join the modern photography book movement. Photographers can now produce books with complete creative control. We’re celebrating the most innovative and finest self-published photography books and the people behind them. Submit yours for a chance at $25,000 to finish – or start – that once in a lifetime project.”Check it out here.
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Philip Jones Griffiths 1936-2008 – Magnum Photos
It was Philip’s consummate skill as a picture maker, carefully able to draw the viewer closer and closer to his subjects through his emotionally-charged compositions that lent such power to his work. Philip was always concerned with individuals – their personal and intimate suffering more than any particular class or ideological struggle. And the strength of his vision, that inspired so many of us, led Henri Cartier-Bresson to write of Philip: “not since Goya has anyone portrayed war like Philip Jones Griffiths.”
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War photographer Philip Jones Griffith dies at 72
British photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths, known for his unflinching coverage of the Vietnam war, died on Tuesday aged 72, the Magnum photo agency said.
Born in Wales in 1936, Griffith Jones launched his career as a freelancer for Britain’s Observer newspaper in 1961, covering the Algerian war in 1962 before travelling across central Africa.
In a career that took him to more than 120 countries, Griffith Jones covered everything from Buddhism in Cambodia, drought in India, poverty in Texas or the legacy of the Gulf war in Kuwait.Check it out here.
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In a Photographers Memory, Images of the Dead – New York Times
By MAX BECHERERI am a photographer and have captured thousands of images of Iraq and the war there since that day. But when I stop reading about the war, I guess I get that faraway look I always saw, as I grew up, in the eyes of countless veterans and civilians who lived through war, including my mother. I don’t wonder what they see anymore. I see images. Not the images I took, as the shutter is closed the moment I capture a photograph. I see the images and feel the sensations I keep mentally when I am without the help of a lens. Sometimes they are still images and sometimes they are short movie clips of the people on all sides of the war who are no longer living.
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5B4: The New West by Robert Adams Aperture reissue
Looking through the new Aperture edition of Robert Adams perfect book The New West, I now realize that Adams, at the same time, was forming his critique of suburban sprawl within the communities and ideals of families like my own.
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W A R S – A series of four essays revolving around a common topic – Magnum Photos
WARS, the inaugural series will launch on the Magnum In Motion home page, March 19, five years after the war in Iraq began. It will be published on Slate as four episodes.
The point of departure was a quote extracted from Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths from a 2006 interview conducted in London by Magnum In Motion.Check it out here.
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Mamiya, Phase One unveil co-developed medium format system – Rob Galbraith
Last fall, Mamiya Digital Imaging and Phase One announced they were working together on a new medium format camera system.
Now, they’re releasing more information about the new model, which will be co-branded the Mamiya 645AFDIII and the Phase One 645 Camera and sold by each company under their respective brand name.
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It’s nothing, right? Just an old dusty fragment from the bottom of a closet. Hard to read much from it one way or another, and certainly not worth much time researching. Right?
Yet this photo is potentially very important. It is likely the earliest surviving image attributable to Carleton Watkins, dating from around 1856.Check it out here.
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Photography Book Now
Join the modern photography book movement. Photographers can now produce books with complete creative control. We’re celebrating the most innovative and finest self-published photography books and the people behind them. Submit yours for a chance at $25,000 to finish – or start – that once in a lifetime project.
Check it out here.
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Audio slideshow: One woman's war – BBC
Canadian photojournalist Rita Leistner travelled to Baghdad in 2003 as a freelance reporter determined to get behind the front lines of the war in Iraq. Over the next 18 months she returned to the country several times capturing images of life with the troops – as well as behind the scenes in a psychiatric hospital.
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Beck and Chris Jordan – Time Bomb – Horses Think
Beck and Chris Jordan have collaborated on a music video using still images from Jordan’s Running the Numbers series.
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A la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers – Boing Boing
My friend, Hillary Carlip, likes to collect other people’s discarded shopping lists. She likes them so much she created an art project based on the lists
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Wandering Light: Lost
I feel like a child holding a camera for the first time. But I have only one roll of film. My interests are sparked with every sound, smell and sight. But I have to be diligent and make every frame count. My camera lays in slumber till I am truly ready to photograph this city, this country.
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Matthias Petrus Schaller (Conscientious)
For all those who have been missing some typologies on this blog, there’s Matthias Petrus Schaller’s work.
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T.A.: Manufactured Landscapes / Edward Burtynsky
Friday night I rented this documentary and watched it at home. My wife loved it, felt it had an important message about man’s impact on the environment, and was really taken by Edward Burtynsky’s photographs. I felt differently: if I ever wanted to make photography seem boring to a bunch of students, to discourage them from getting into the field, this is the film I would show them
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Vincent J. Musi | Raw Take
I love the craft of creating. That something can affect so many people is a great feeling of accomplishment. It happens so quickly that we tend to take it for granted and it’s really very special. 40 million people will see these pictures in the Geographic, that’s terrifying.
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