London? Funny? If you are as practiced — and as patient — as Matt Stuart, the answer is yes. Christopher F. Schuetze explains.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/london-very-dry-with-a-twist/
It wasn’t until he was 22 years old, after a successful career as a street skateboarder in London, that Matt Stuart took up photography. He was inspired by the work of Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
And Buster Keaton.
Carolyn Drake’s long-term project, “Paradise Rivers,” isn’t just about waterways. It’s about the environment. Politics. Culture. And change.
Link: Astonishing Confluences in Central Asia: The Work of Carolyn Drake – NYTimes.com
The following interview was conducted in Baghdad on Dec. 9, 2009, by Michael Kamber, a seasoned conflict photographer himself (“Hard Lessons From Somalia,” “A Long and Dangerous Road,” “Minders, Fixers, Troubles”). He is working on a book about photojournalism and war photography. This condensed version of their conversation begins with Mr. Silva describing his background.
Link: Joao Silva: ‘Acting Despite Fear.’ An Interview by Michael Kamber – NYTimes.com
Joao Silva is known for his bravery and his caution in covering battle zones. Friends and colleagues were shocked by news he had been severely injured in Afghanistan.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/widespread-impact-from-an-afghan-mine/
Friends, colleagues and competitors of the photojournalist Joao Silva — there are many people in the first two categories, very few in the third — struggled to make sense on Saturday of the news that he had been severely injured when he stepped on a mine in Afghanistan.
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“Those of you who know Joao will not be surprised to learn that throughout this ordeal he continued to shoot pictures,” said Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, in a memorandum to the staff.
John Moore has dedicated himself to covering America’s wartime prisons and detention centers. James Estrin and David Furst of The Times interviewed him.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/in-american-custod/
John Moore of Getty Images has visited American-run detention centers in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib and Camp Cropper; prisons for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan run by that country’s National Directorate of Security; the Pul-e-Charki prison outside Kabul; and, more recently, the Guantánamo Bay detention center. He is gathering these images in a longterm project, “Detained.” James Estrin and David Furst interviewed him by telephone
In February 1993, Darcy Padilla was photographing a team of doctors and social workers in San Francisco who cared for people with AIDS who were too sick to make it to a clinic. She envisioned the story as an updated urban version of W. Eugene Smith’s epic 1948 photo essay “Country Doctor.”
The TED prize for 2011 will go to J R, who plasters colossal photos in downtrodden neighborhoods around the world.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/arts/design/20ted.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
the TED conference, the California lecture series named for its roots in technology, entertainment and design, said on Tuesday that it planned to give its annual $100,000 prize for 2011 — awarded in the past to figures like Bill Clinton, Bono and the biologist E. O. Wilson — to the Parisian street artist known as J R, a shadowy figure who has made a name for himself by plastering colossal photographs in downtrodden neighborhoods around the world. The images usually extol local residents, to whom he has become a Robin Hood-like hero.
We’re thrilled to present the winners of the 2010 Lens Culture International Exposure Awards.
Link: lens culture: International Exposure Awards 2010 Winners
The right of photographers to stand in a public place and take pictures of federal buildings has been upheld by a legal settlement reached in New York.
Thinking about 9/11:
Would Americans have reacted less violently to our most disturbing day if we’d been allowed to see photographs of its most disturbing aspects?
Un-possible retour is a project in which I am reconstructing and re-photographing selected family photographs in the attempt to reconnect with the past. Drawing from a collection of family snapshots, I focus the attention sharply on the concept of aging while ensuring a consistency of location and use time as a collaborative partner, accepting its discrepancies and playing with the results.
Link: Un-possible retour: the dialogues of time, by Clarisse d’Arcimoles
Photographer Brian Ulrich has worked for a number of years on a project titled Copia, which explores not only the everyday activities of shopping, but the wider economic, cultural, social, and political implications of commercialism. Ulrich’s first monograph, Copia, was published in 2006 by Aperture.
The story begins when Gordon opened a show in New York City in 2002, and was introduced to a 92-year-old Gita Lenz by their mutual friend, Timothy. Gordon was intrigued by Gita and when Timothy asked Gordon for advice about what to do with Gita’s images and equipment, he stepped in an offered to store everything at his home in Virginia.
North Korea is in the midst of a series of large-scale events designed to both commemorate the 65th anniversary of the founding of its ruling Workers’ Party, and to introduce heir apparent Kim Jong Un to the North Korean people and the world. Current lead
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/10/a_north_korean_anniversary_and.html
North Korea is in the midst of a series of large-scale events designed to both commemorate the 65th anniversary of the founding of its ruling Workers’ Party, and to introduce heir apparent Kim Jong Un to the North Korean people and the world. Current leader Kim Jong Il is now 69 years old and ailing, and has now positioned his twenty-something son, Kim Jong Un, as his successor through recent military and party promotions, and through media coverage of him by his father’s side. Many western reporters were invited to these performances, though their freedom to cover events was still limited by minders. Collected here are images from the recent highly-orchestrated events in Pyongyang, and the “young general” Kim Jong Un. (33 photos total)
Sometimes, looking at an image or visual idea multiple times brings a new energy to photographs. Since 2008, Keith Johnson has been creating a series of grids that explores landscapes, cityscapes, waterscapes, interiors, isolated forms, aerial panoramas.
Tim Hetherington’s “Infidel” is more of a family album for a platoon in Afghanistan than a traditional photojournalism book.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/infidel/
Tim Hetherington’s “Infidel” (Chris Boot Ltd., 2010) is more of a family album than a traditional photojournalism book. There are of course powerful images of life for a platoon in the Korengal valley in Afghanistan that Hetherington and Sebastian Junger documented in the film “Restrepo.” But there are also thorough catalogs of the soldiers’ tattoos, their official Army ID photos and the magazine centerfolds in their barracks, and remarkably revealing interviews with seven of the soldiers. The book stands on its own, separate from the movie.
I told the Geekfest gathering last week that I think photojournalism is stronger than it ever has been. What is dead is the business model that has supported good, but mostly bad, photojournalism for several decades.
Link: Nearly departed? – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
