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Category: Editor’s Choice
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Creative Mojo, Change Your Life, Make a Difference — Chris Jordan #cjLIVE Rewatch
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Magazine Preview: The Surreal Ruins of Qaddafi’s Never-Never Land
The Surreal Ruins of Qaddafi’s Never-Never Land
Among the dead and the smoldering earth, Libyans struggle to escape their country’s twisted history.
On the evening of Aug. 23, during the final hours of the battle for Tripoli, a 26-year-old lawyer named Mustafa Abdullah Atiri was lying, exhausted, against the back wall of a filthy tin-roofed warehouse crammed with 150 prisoners. He had been beaten and tortured every day since Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s soldiers arrested him four days earlier. It was just after the muezzin’s first call to evening prayer — about 10 minutes before 8 — when a pair of guards walked to the door, raised their AK-47 rifles and began spraying the men with bullets. Another guard threw a grenade into the densely packed crowd. Bodies fell on top of Atiri with the first fusillade, protecting him from the blast. Then the guards opened fire again. Blood began seeping down from the bodies above, soaking his jeans. As the officers walked back across the yard to reload, a guard named Abdel Razaq, who had shown the men some small mercies over the previous days, went to the door and shouted at the survivors: “Run! Run!”
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In the Light of Darkness: A Photographer’s Journey After 9/11
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/09/19/in-the-light-of-darkness-a-photographers-journey-after-911/#1
Following the attacks on 9/11, Kate Brooks, at the age of 23, moved to Pakistan and began documenting the region—photographing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, daily life in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, and the historic revolutions in Egypt and Libya. Her ten-year odyssey is chronicled in the new book, “In the Light of Darkness: A Photographer’s Journey After 9/11”. The following is an excerpt.
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On Recession Road – The Washington Post
On Recession Road
Photocasting across America with Michael S. Williamson: A Washington Post photojournalist has spent the year traveling around the country, meeting people whose lives have been altered by the flattened economy.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/on-recession-road/2011/04/18/AFyDpj5D_gallery.html#photo=1
Washington Post photojournalist Michael S. Williamson is documenting his year-long cross-country journey armed only with a smartphone.
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Burning Man: Model Releases, Surrender Rights. Are You Kidding?
Travel photographer? Don’t bother with Burning Man
Picture for a moment being in Europe and pulling into a quaint mountain village called Schwarzefelsenstadt, which has particularly photogenic people and attractions. But there’s a gate, and a…
via Bad Latitude: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/travel/detail?entry_id=96365
From a photographer’s standpoint, Black Rock City is about as close to a fascist regime you can find. And while I fully understand there are those photographers and videographers who tried to exploit and profit from the, er, um, free-wheeling dress code at Burning Man (thank you, “Girls Gone Wild”), this is about control.
The rationale of “protecting the people” has often been used to restrict and control information so that the public sees and hears only what officials want them to see and hear — although, frankly, that particular tool has nearly always been associated in history with swell folks such as Stalin, Pinochet and the Khmer Rouge. Interesting role models.
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Interview: Stanley Greene and the Getty Images Grants
Stanley Norman Greene, one of this year’s winners of the Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography and a celebrated photojournalist, speaks with BJP about his “E-Waste Trail” project and how film remains an important medium for him.
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Stephen Wilkes
Stephen Wilkes
Photographer Stephen Wilkes really understands New York City. His amazing day-to-night images, taking a minimum of 10 hours to create from the same perspective, will be on exhibition at the Clamp Art Gallery in New York Ciy from September 8th through Octo
via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/09/stephen-wilkes.html
His amazing day-to-night images, taking a minimum of 10 hours to create from the same perspective, will be on exhibition at the Clamp Art Gallery in New York Ciy from September 8th through October 29th
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The Battle for Tripoli: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/30/the-battle-for-tripoli-photographs-by-yuri-kozyrev/#1
In Libya, the fall of a dictator came faster than anyone expected. After six months of fighting along what were often stagnated front lines, the rebels succeeded last week in overwhelming the forces of Col. Muammar Gaddafi to take control of the Libyan capital. The sudden assault sent the enigmatic 69-year-old Libyan leader and his family into hiding; his forces scattering.
And throughout Tripoli, TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev and I have watched over the past week as a population celebrates its victory over a tyrant. As security improves with each night, more and more families flock into the city’s iconic Green Square—now renamed Martyrs’ Square—where Gaddafi once delivered his bombastic speeches. And in a sprawling assortment of military bases, mansions, villas and farms, curious Libyans have sifted through the surprises and the horrors left behind by a 42-year-old regime.
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Joao Silva: 'This Is What I Do. This Is All That I Know.'
Joao Silva: ‘This Is What I Do. This Is All That I Know.’
Joao Silva’s work will be featured this week at the Visa Pour l’Image photojournalism festival. Earlier in August, Mr. Silva spoke in front of a large audience at the Bronx Documentary Center. Here is a condensed version.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/this-is-what-i-do-this-is-all-that-i-know/
People often ask me, “How can you stand there and watch people hack each other and take pictures?” You have to have clarity as to what your role is. If you want to help people, then you should not become a photographer. Having said that, we do help people. We help people all the time. Sometimes you help people with just the smallest of things. I’ve put people in the back of my vehicle and rushed them to the hospital.
But unfortunately, the images are so stark sometimes that people tend to think that there’s a machine behind the camera, and that’s not the case. We are all human beings. The things that we see go through the eye straight into the brain. Some of those scenes never go away.
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Retail Therapy: Brian Ulrich’s Copia
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/25/brian-ulrich-copia-retail-thrift-and-dark-stores/#1
Taken from the Latin word for plenty, Copia, is the 10-year-old brain child of photographer Brian Ulrich: his in-depth exploration of American consumer culture. The project consists of three-parts: Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores. TIME spoke with Brian about his inspiration for this project.
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Sequel to Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘girl in the window’ story shows challenges of crafting a followup
Poynter:
Melissa Lyttle: It’s the one that was our lead photo the first time around, where [Bernie Lierow is] hugging her and she’s just kind of dangling, lifeless and limp, and not hugging back. And that scene happened again … I made this picture in the living room this time where he was hugging her. It’s very clear: She’s holding his head. She’s kind of playfully biting his nose and kissing him back. … It’s the same down to the fact of lensing and composition and moment.
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FOCUSED
Focused:
FOCUSED came out of an idea to rejuvenate some film I had. I had no idea how that would happen, but all I knew is I wanted it to be a shared effort amongst my favorite photographers. On a three hour trip to Miami to catch a flight to the Bahamas for a shoot, I revealed my idea to my friend and fellow photographer, Brian Blanco, who helped me brainstorm this project down to one simple thought: one camera. one click. one moment.
FOCUSED is rekindling the Decisive Moment one frame at a time. There will be 200 photojournalists to start – from students to Pulitzer Prize winners – and the list of confirmed names is insane – here. A photojournalist on the list will be mailed a film camera and a roll of film – with the challenge of getting only one click of the shutter to capture whatever they want and then mail the camera onto the next photojournalist. Pretty simple concept. Terrifying to some. A welcome break to others.
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A Conversation with Benjamin Lowy
The public today is more visually sophisticated than ever before. The overwhelming dearth of information available on the internet tends to weaken the impact of content. Important stories get lost in the fray. So as photographers – as creatives and not just journalists – we have the added task of developing a connection to our audience. We need an image that will engage the viewer, that makes our audience question what they are seeing, that allows them to take a step closer to the image and thus the content.
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Yann Gross: Uganda’s Homegrown Skate Park
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/17/yann-gross-ugandas-homegrown-skate-park/#1
During a vacation in Uganda in 2008, Swiss photographer Yann Gross heard rumors that a skateboarding half-pipe had been built in a suburb of Kampala
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Thomas Hoepker: Views of a Vanished Country
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/11/thomas-hoepker-views-of-a-vanished-country/#1
Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker’s upcoming book Views of a Vanished Country contains photographs of East Germany shot over a period of some 30 years. It gives a unique look into the daily life of East Germans from the time the Berlin Wall was erected to the time it was demolished. TIME talked with Hoepker about his book.
