Verve, The New Breed of Documentary Photographers says:
Audrey Bardou (b.1975, France) lives and works in the south of France. Audrey’s approach in photographing other people’s lives, is to explore both the intimate and the personal.
Category: Photojournalism
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State of the Art: A Few Wise Words About Photojournalism
Eliane Laffont says:
“Photojournalism” is a word that evokes heroic stories and the call of adventure. It is a mirror of the world and a witness to its time. When Jean Pierre and I—along with our French partners — created the photo agencies Gamma in 1968 and Sygma in 1973, we wanted to redefine the nature of photojournalism and reveal and explain the world’s great events. We consciously built a new platform. And it was not by chance that these two photo agencies grew so quickly. We were successful because we invented a new way of reporting the news and a new way of working with photographers that, despite many challenges, is still alive today.
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Worth a Look: “Our World At War” by the photographers of VII and the International Committee of the Red Cross
dvafoto says:
VII and the International Committee of the Red Cross have just unveiled their globe-spanning project documenting current humanitarian crises, “Our World At War.” The work includes: Lebanon by Franco Pagetti, Afghanistan by James Nachtwey, Haiti by Ron Haviv, Caucasus by Antonin Kratochvil, Liberia by Christopher Morris, Colombia by Franco Pagetti, Philippines by James Nachtwey, and Congo by Ron Haviv.
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Anthony Suau – Visual Nomad. on Vimeo
Anthony Suau – Visual Nomad. from leica camera on Vimeo.
Filmed only a week before leaving for Amsterdam to receive the 2008 World Photo Press Award, Leica joined photojournalist Anthony Suau as he used his camera on assignment in Spanish Harlem to document the Feed the Children Drive in his ongoing coverage and interest of the economic crisis. As he traveled to Wall Street to discuss this major achievement in photojournalism, Leica had the opportunity to hear about his recent travels, how he captured the award winning photo and the other images in the series on the economic and foreclosure crisis in the U.S.
Via words on photography.
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Teaching journalists in Kabul – big plans and how you can help
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog says:
In 2001, world-renowned photojournalist Reza Deghati (known simply as Reza by most) founded Aina, an international non-profit organization based in Afghanistan that cultivates a well-trained independent media in order to promote democracy and to help heal post-conflict societies. In this post he outlines the organization’s successes and ways photographers can help it grow.
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Canon G10 & VII Agency
From ::: The Travel Photographer :::
Here’s an entertaining advert for Canon’s G10 featuring some of the VII Photo agency founding members: John Stanmeyer, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Ron Haviv, Joachin Ladefoged and Marcus Bleasdale (seemingly the only member with no beard).
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New Photographs by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour Are Found in a Suitcase
From NYTimes.com:When the three weathered cardboard boxes — known collectively, and cinematically, as the Mexican suitcase — arrived at the International Center of Photography more than a year ago, one of the first things a conservator did was bend down and sniff the film coiled inside, fearful of a telltale acrid odor, a sign of nitrate decay.
But the rolls turned out to be in remarkably good shape despite being almost untouched for 70 years. And so began a painstaking process of unfurling, scanning and trying to make sense of some 4,300 negatives taken by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour during the Spanish Civil War, groundbreaking work that was long thought to be lost but resurfaced several years ago in Mexico City.
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2008 PHOTOJOURNALIST OF THE YEAR / PHOTO OF THE YEAR AWARDS
From NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada:
News Photographers Association of Canadaʼs Award Recipients Canadian photojournalist Louie Palu received the highest honour, fittingly atop of the highest building in the country, during the 2008 News Photographerʼs Association of Canada Photo of the Year awards ceremony. Palu, was named Photographer of the Year by the association for his work in Afghanistan and Cuba for Zuma Press.
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DMNcuts: A farewell worth signing off with
From Randy Eli Grothe’s goodbye note as he leaves The Dallas Morning News:
Now, being a writer seemed to be an admirable profession, but being a photographer seemed to be just plain cool. And being a newspaper photojournalist with a Nikon dangling from your neck as well as a press pass opening doors, whoa, that was tres cool.
So that’s the road I took. That road led me here, and from here came all the memorable characters and exciting destinations.
via NPPA.
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The Burden of Memory
From dvafoto:
The Blue Earth Alliance alerted me a couple of days ago, through their blog post, to this video presentation of John Trotter’s project “The Burden of Memory” put together by the The Dart Center at the University of Washington. This is a remarkable project and presentation that brought me close to tears.
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Training Afghan women to tell their own stories
From RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
As a photojournalist I have observed an important thing, that most coverage of world events — especially in places like Afghanistan –- is done by white men between 30 and 40 year old.
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Overseas Press Club Winners
From A Photo A Day:
Shaul Schwarz continued Getty Images recent tradition of winning the Capa Medal…
And the newest VII member, Stephanie Sinclair won the Oliver Rebbot Award for photographic reporting in magazines or books for a look at female circumcision in Indonesia.
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Sports Shooter Academy VI: A Continuation
From Sports Shooter:
I would be the first person to tell you I did not shoot well during Sports Shooter Academy VI. I tried new things and it was…disastrous. But that is what’s great about the Sports Shooter Academies, being able to learn through trial and error. I would tell the faculty and assistants I didn’t feel like I shot well and they would respond, “Yes, but did you learn something?”
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The “Feral Child” and the Pulitzer
From dvafoto:
“Bottom line I don’t think I could have done ‘The Girl in the Window’ without Melissa.”
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Damon Winter: Angola Prison Rodeo « Prison Photography
From Prison Photography:
The rodeo featuring the prisoners of Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola, is an old – even traditional – event in the Louisiana calendar. Damon Winter is one of many photographers that have covered the community event. It is a raucous spectacle that brings together populations in and outside of the prison.
