It is with great pleasure that I get to announce my foray into the self-publishing world with the release of the Accidental Rothko book with over 60 pages of saturated goodness
Category: Photojournalism
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Shooting Film in an Afghan Police Station – NYTimes.com
Shooting Film in an Afghan Police Station
Christoph Bangert wanted to try something new for portraits he was taking in Afghanistan. He used film.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/shooting-film-in-an-afghan-police-station/
Christoph Bangert took some highly unusual photographic accessories with him to Afghanistan earlier this year. He’d never used them professionally before. And their presence in his camera bag aroused the suspicion of more than one security guard.
They were rolls of Plus-X and Tri-X film.
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Photographer to Lead Reuters Pictures – NYTimes.com
Photographer to Lead Reuters Pictures
Reinhard Krause is to become the global pictures editor of Reuters.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/photographer-to-lead-reuters-pictures/
Reinhard Krause has spent much of his photojournalism career in some of the most tumultuous and critical places on the planet — including North Korea, Kosovo, Tibet and, most recently, the flooded regions of Pakistan. Beginning in November, all the hot spots in the world will constitute his beat, as the global pictures editor of Reuters, leading 400 staff and freelance photographers.
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ENRIQUE METINIDES: "Enrique Metinides" (2007)
Visitors to Enrique Metinides’s recent (2007) show at Anton Kern Gallery were greeted by a sign warning, “Due to gruesome content parental discretion is advised.” …
Metinides was Mexico’s most famous and finest crime photographer, a man who spent fifty years documenting violence and death for the millions who follow la nota roja, or “the bloody news.”
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Inside North Korea: No one said anything
Suddenly, to the accompaniment of loud brass music, soldiers started marching and filling the square. I took a look back at the balcony where Kim Jong-il was supposed to be seated. I spotted him and to his left was his son, Kim Jong-un. Using my long lens, I kept shooting for a while. It wasn’t a great angle, but I didn’t have time to move. At one point, Kim Jong-il took a quick, stern look towards his son. Snap! I knew this was the shot I needed.
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Bonding With Subjects in Harm's Way – NYTimes.com
Bonding With Subjects in Harm’s Way
The divide between journalist and subject can often blur in the combat theater, especially when the subject is under fire. Finbarr O’Reilly of Reuters explains.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/bonding-with-subjects-in-harms-way/
But that didn’t make it any easier to photograph him on Monday after a rocket-propelled grenade fired by an Afghan policeman patrolling with the Marines accidentally hit a power line and exploded near the sergeant, briefly knocking him unconscious during an intense firefight and giving him a concussion.
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NPPA Humanitarian Award Presented To John David Mercer
We are telling the story of Joshua Milton Blahyii, also known as General Butt Naked, a former warlord who terrorized Monrovia for many years with his child soldiers, murdering, raping, cannibalizing, maiming and brutalizing thousands during Liberia’s civil war. Suddenly in the middle of the fighting and at the height of his power, Joshua claims to have had a revelation from God and laid down his weapons and renounced violence. Many years later, now a preacher, he returns to Liberia to begin “a crusade” to redeem his past. We are with him when he does so.
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The Medevac Stories, with Daniel Etter | dvafoto
I was especially interested in this discussion because an old colleague of Scott and mine, Daniel Etter, recently completed an embed himself with a US Medevac unit and worked on his story Medevac, which we are also featuring in this post. I thought to ask him what his view was on the current hubbub, given his own personal knowledge of the process and decision making, and to learn more about his own project. He wrote back with some thoughtful ideas and insights and we have chosen to publish the entire piece.
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Even the Middle Ground Is Perilous in Cairo: Nine Photographers Describe Their Experience – NYTimes.com
Photographers of the increasingly violent upheaval in Egypt are being forced — in the interest of personal safety — to adopt practices that limit their range of coverage at exactly the moment the world is hungriest for as many images from as many perspectives as possible.
According to interviews on Thursday with nine photojournalists in Cairo, it is often hard to photograph demonstrators for President Hosni Mubarak, because they are so openly hostile to journalists. On the defensive, photojournalists also find themselves traveling in packs (which they do not typically like to do), staying away from whole sections of Cairo (which is anathema) and donning helmets (which raises the likelihood they will be mistaken for government spies).