Success that Friday night was about cutting edge technology, a super experienced news photographer, and having one of the best pilots in town. Saturday’s page 1 picture was shot at a 3oth of a second (handheld) at f2.0 and at 12,000 ISO so without our new 1D Mark IVs it wouldn’t have happened.
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Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/05/howard-french-old-shanghai.html
To me, this is what documentary photography is all about. The photographer as a fly on the wall…seemingly unnoticed by his subjects…who perhaps either ignore his presence, got used to it or tolerate it….and from these frames, one can build a storyline
Over the past year I have been emailed frequently by photographers inquiring the “how to’s” of embedding to Afghanistan, especially those who are first-timers. I wrote very similar emails like this to very experienced colleagues (such as Alan Chin, John Moore, and Teru Kuwayama, to name a few) before I embedded for the first time in 2009. To save us all a lot of trouble (those asking the questions and those having to repeat the advice) I decided to compile a document entailing a list and series of frequently asked “Q and A’s”, as well as information given to me from these colleagues in the field; without their help my embed would have been much more difficult.
Link: Advice for first-time embeds to Afghanistan | Lightstalkers
Whenever I received such an assignment from my boss at the Sun-Tattler, Rick Shaw (who now directs Pictures of the Year International based out of the Missouri School of Journalism), he would always say the same thing. ‘The event is not sacred.’
What did he mean? He meant that he wanted his photographers to look beyond the obvious. He wanted us to bring back story-telling images from the fringes.
Link: Paying forward a little advice for the budding photojournalist | PICTURES | STLtoday
May 11th, 2010 Honorees at the 26th Annual International Center of Photography Infinity Awards, held last night in New York, paid tribute both to photography’s continuing power and to the photo community that has fostered its best practitioners. Addressin
via PDNPulse: http://www.pdnpulse.com/2010/05/icp-infinity-awards-honors-power-of-photography.html
Honorees at the 26th Annual International Center of Photography Infinity Awards, held last night in New York, paid tribute both to photography’s continuing power and to the photo community that has fostered its best practitioners. Addressing “those who say that photojournalism is dying,” Reza, winner of the Photojournalism award, said that 43,000 years after the first cave painters documented their world, “the visual artist has never been more important. Our picture community is connecting people.”
Collector John Rogers has bought the Chicago Sun-Times photo archives to save them for the public.
via Chicago Reader: http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/05/06/the-sun-times-preserves-its-photo-archive-by-selling-it
Sun-Times publisher John Barron told me that last December his paper sold its archive of more than a million photos and negatives to Rogers for a “sizable cash payment.” Neither he nor Rogers will be precise, but Rogers said it ran to seven figures. The Sun-Times retains “all the intellectual property, all the copyrights,” Barron said. What’s more, Rogers is obliged to re-create the “entire library in digital searchable form,” and make it accessible to the Sun-Times.
Paolo Pellegrin spent two weeks among the children of the Gaza Strip documenting their perilous lives in the shadow of the Israeli border.
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7682213/Gaza-Strip-the-children-with-nowhere-to-hide.html
The photographer Paolo Pellegrin spent two weeks among the children of the Gaza Strip documenting their perilous lives in the shadow of the Israeli border.
In Times of War and Peace-1972-2012: Photographs by a Renowned International Photographer, Peter Turnley
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Join internationally acclaimed photojournalist, Peter Turnley, for an insightful look into humanity amidst the last three decades of history, geo-politics, and everyday life in different countries from around the world. Peter’s presentation will weave in and out of images depicting life worldwide, in moments of conflict, hardship, and political change, as well as images of major world figures that influenced the direction history during the last three decades
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Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/04/foundry-photojournalism-workshop.html
The Foundry Photo~Journalism Workshop 2010 is in Istanbul, and if your dream is to be coached by some of the best photographers and photojournalists available, do it now!
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Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/04/pov-marco-vernaschi-child-sacrifice.html
Here’s another story that is guaranteed to make your stomachs churn. It involves Marco Vernaschi an Italian photographer/photojournalist who worked on a project documenting the phenomenon of child witches, human sacrifice and organ trafficking in Africa, and the Pultizer Center For Crisis Reporting.
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographs are on show in New York until June 28th
via The Economist: http://www.economist.com/culture/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15905863&fsrc=rss
ALL IT takes to be a photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson once said, is “one finger, one eye and two legs”. He visualised photography as a way of engaging with the world. He quietly stalked his subjects—Balinese dancers, Mongolian wrestlers, New York bankers—until that “decisive moment” when the right composition filled the frame. It all came so naturally. He rarely used a light meter or checked his aperture setting, and he seldom took more than a few shots of a single subject. With the instinct of a hunter, he knew when to click the shutter: “I prowled the streets all day, feeling very strung-up and ready to pounce, determined to ‘trap’ life—to preserve life in the act of living.”
The Associated Press has just announced that it is making staff photographers available for hire to other news organizations for assignments around the world.
The photographic reporting of famine, especially in ‘Africa’, continues to replicate stereotypes. Malnourished children, either pictured alone in passive poses or with their mothers at hand, continue to be the obvious subjects of our gaze. What should dri
via David Campbell: http://www.david-campbell.org/2010/04/13/famine-photographs-critique/
The photographic reporting of famine, especially in ‘Africa’, continues to replicate stereotypes. Malnourished children, either pictured alone in passive poses or with their mothers at hand, continue to be the obvious subjects of our gaze. What should drive our concern about this persistent portrayal? This morning I came across an example that demonstrates how criticism needs to be careful before it can make its point effectively.
This afternoon VII Photo Agency announced the launch of their latest venture, VII The Magazine, a syndicated online magazine that features photo stories and interviews with VII photographers. The beta version of VII The Magazine, which is subtitled “How photographers see the world,” is being presented in partnership with the Herald Scotland newspaper and the photography blog Lens Culture, with further partners to be added and announced in the coming months. VII Photo is offering the magazine as a widget that can be inserted into the Web pages of its syndication partners.
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was a taker of great photographs. Some three hundred of them make for an almost unendurably majestic retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, from his famous portly puddle-jumper of 1932 (“Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris”) to views of Native Americans in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1971, one of his last visual essays as the globe-trotting heavyweight champion of photojournalism. Nearly every picture displays the classical panache—the fullness, the economy—of a painting by Poussin. Any half-dozen of them would have engraved their author’s name in history. Resistance to the work is futile, if quality is our criterion, but inevitable, I think, on other grounds.
Link: Henri Cartier-Bresson at MOMA, review : The New Yorker
PART FIFTEEN IN A SERIES OF POSTS DISCUSSING PHOTOGRAPHERS’ ACTIONS AND RESPONSES TO THE KILLING OF FABIENNE CHERISMA IN PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI ON THE 19TH JANUARY 2010. The aftermath of the H…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/photographing-fabienne-conclusions/
I am convinced, CONVINCED, that enough evidence exists in the digital files these fifteen photographers to identify and prosecute the policeman who fired the fatal shot.
What drives people to pursue a particular subject is often personal. They can be heavy or fun or pursued solely to capture the passage of time. They’re nearly always done not for remuneration but for personal growth. The more anyone sets out to do with their body of work, the more growth there is.
Christoph Bangert shares photographs from his recent reporting trip to Kandahar, perhaps some of the last photos to be taken by a Western photographer in the city, which is bracing for a major offensive in the coming months.
via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/visual-diary-shooting-by-car-in-kandahar/
Despite the seeming normalcy, it was still considered to be too dangerous for a Western photographer like me to work openly in the streets as my colleague Tyler Hicks had been able to do only five months earlier.
The resulting pictures that I took from a local car traveling in the center and on the outskirts of Kandahar are only a glimpse or mere impression of Kandahar before the upcoming battle, but they may well be some of the last images by a Western photographer taken in this city unilaterally for a long time.
I slapped together a trio of new diptychs. ©2010 Scott Strazzante
via shooting from the hip: http://strazz.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/from-the-archive/
I slapped together a trio of new diptychs.
©2010 Scott Strazzante
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