Category: Photojournalism
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photographylot: Susan Meiselas
Last week I went to the opening of the new shows at the ICP museum but as always with openings it was difficult to take in the work properly, so today I went back to check them out, specifically the Susan Meiselas retrospective. I call it that because there is work from the most famous projects of her almost 40 year career on the walls and the accompanying catalogue is a weighty tome featuring beautifully reproduced photographs, essays and interviews, pages from her published books and all manner of notes and clippings which cover a lot of the work she has done so far.
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Gray Matters: Jean Francois Leroy's vision
Jean Francois does not believe photojournalism is dying or in turmoil. Instead, he believes that magazines and other media outlets have lost their way.
“They like to print Britney Spears. Angelina Jolie has twins isn’t that amazing news, oh my god. Michael Phelps wow what a star, I don’t give a s***,” is how he put it.
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Tooele as you never see it.
Now to all aspiring photographers, high school students with cameras, former and current chronicle staffers with cameras and other people just amused by me who read this blog. I will tell you the secret to my rise from lowly chrony photog to mediocre editor and photographer at a bi-weekly paper.
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the life of m: Gray Team: Grant Morris
Last year, I was lucky enough to have some amazing students on my team at the Eddie Adams Workshop. When watching the final slideshow at the end of the weekend, it was hard not to take pride in the fact that our show was the best because their pictures were the strongest. That final night, you realize the entire weekend – headaches, no sleep, stress, juggling 10 things at once – was totally worth it and that it was rewarding in so many ways.
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Art – Josef Koudelka Blossomed When Prague Withered – NYTimes.com
IN early 1968 Josef Koudelka decided to give up his job as an aeronautical engineer and devote himself full time to photography. It was a luminous moment in Czechoslovakia: the political reformist Alexander Dubcek had just come to power and lifted some of the Soviet-bloc-style restrictions on political freedom. The country teemed with excitement as the government ended press censorship and broached democratic reforms.
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Perpignan Saturday: David Douglas Duncan, Brenda Ann Kenneally, and a heated photoj debate
The final conference Saturday was probably the most interesting (and inflammatory) of the week. It focused on a photo that was made in South Africa by photographer Kim Ludbrook, who sent it to his agency, European Pressphoto Agency, which in turned pushed it to the wires. Jean-Francois Leroy explained that the photo had made it into one of the “year in pictures” slide shows for Visa before he found it and removed it. He reacted strongly against the image because of its content
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Perpignan Wrapup: Meet the Winners
© PHILIP BLENKINSOP / NOOR FOR PARIS MATCH / COURTESY VISA POUR L’IMAGEcomplete list of award winners, along with links to PDN videos and all of our coverage from Perpignan
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road trip: war photographers…..
we have read quite a bit in the “comments” about the “a good time was had by all” at this year’s Visa Pour L’Image (Perpignan)…and surely this was true….at least by most…however, this year’s photo fest, which celebrates conflict photography above all, was in fact, in itself, a scene of violence and death…
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Scenes from the Front Lines – APhotoADay News
In the past year, contributing editor Sebastian Junger and contributing photographer Tim Hetherington, winner of the 2007 World Press Photo of the Year award, returned to Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley to embed with Battle Company
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PDNPulse: A Strange Year at Perpignan
I’ve had a weekend to digest my visit to Visa pour l’Image. Here are some of my impressions.
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PDN Video: Stephanie Sinclair CARE International Award
I’ve also posted a video interview with CARE International Award winner Stephanie Sinclair.
Check it out here.
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Perpignan Friday Conference on Conflict Photography
comments from the press conference this morning with Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev, Lucas Menget, and Patrick Robert — the conflict journalist’s speak. These photographers have all made incredible images in the most difficult places imaginable
Check it out here.
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State of the Art: Perpignan Update: Wednesday Morning Events
At the press conference this morning we heard from Christian Poveda about his three-year work with the maras (gangs) that developed in the El Salvador communities of the L.A. suburbs and then were exported back to the country, where gangs had previously been unknown (image above; the maras are known for their facial tattoos)
Check it out here.
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Shooting War: graphic novel about blogger embedded in Baghdad – Boing Boing
Anthony Lappe and Dan Goldman’s Shooting War is one of the strongest graphic novels I’ve read in years, a tough anti-war comic that provides trenchant, spot-on commentary about the relationship of the news-media to all sides of modern war.
Check it out here.
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State of the Art: Perpignan Update: Tuesday at the Festival
Jean-Jacques and I were also fascinated by two projects on the Congo: Vu photographer Cedric Gerbehaye’s Congo In Limbo and Getty photographer Brent Stirton’s images for Newsweek and National Geographic about Congo’s Virunga National Park.
Check it out here.
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Visa pour l'Image Preview – – PopPhotoAugust 2008
The largest photojournalism festival, Visa pour l’Image, kicks off on Saturday in Perpignan, France — and this year the festivities are sure to be bigger than ever. The festival, which met with extreme skepticism when it was first started by the inimitable Jean-Francois Leroy, is triumphantly celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year.
Check it out here.
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Sean O'Hagan meets photographer Josef Koudelka who captured the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague
Forty years on from the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague, we meet Josef Koudelka, the man who captured the most startling images of that dramatic week, then went on to become one of the greatest photojournalists of our time
Check it out here.
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Wandering Light: Traditional Hutong II
I remember when I used to work at a newspaper in Illinois a few years back, I would always have to go out and find a photo to fill dead space in the paper. This would be so difficult for me. I would drive around for hours and hours and hours. And the minute I saw some kid playing a sprinkler or people in the park I’d pull over. What a bunch of crap. I would only cruise the areas that I was comfortable in. Then of course that 5 pm deadline would always loom down on me.
But I didn’t get it then.
Check it out here.
