Bruce Jackson was first drawn to work in prisons during the folk revival of the 1960s. Inspired by folk music collectors like the Lomaxes, he set out to capture work songs sung by African-American convicts, going first to Midwestern prisons when he was a graduate student in Indiana, and later to Texas state prisons while a fellow at Harvard. Over many years and in many prisons, he found and recorded the songs he was looking for, conversations with inmates, guards, and wardens, and thousands upon thousands of photographs.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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INTERVIEW: "Interview with Bruce Jackson" (2009)
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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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l e n s c r a t c h: Sylvia de Swaan
A series of diptychs entitled “Sub-version” that explore the intersection between public and private domain, and how world events enter our lives no matter how far from the “action” we are. The first pictures for this project were taken on the morning of September 11, 2001, to conjoin the cataclysm emanating from my television, against the placidly sunny view outside my window in upstate New York.
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Afghanistan, September, 2010 – The Big Picture
This month, Afghanistan held parliamentary elections with nearly 2,500 candidates for 249 seats. Turnout was very light under threat of violence from the Taliban, and accusations of fraud are widespread. Afghan President Karzai announced the formation of a 70-member peace council, a step towards formal discussions with the Taliban. And American and Afghan troops have now begun active combat in an offensive to drive the Taliban out of their strongholds surrounding the city of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban. With 51 more coalition troops killed this month, the total number of deaths for coalition troops in 2010 reached 541 compared with 521 for all of 2009. Collected here are images of the country and conflict over the past month, part of an ongoing monthly series on Afghanistan. (47 photos total)
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Photo Essay: Lord's Resistance Army, DR Congo by Marcus Bleasdale
VII Photo – VII Foundation
VII VII is synonymous with courageous and impactful journalism. In 2001, the dawn of the digital era enabled the creation of VII Photo Agency. It drove VII to prominence during the aftermath of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq, and the c
via VII Foundation: http://www.viiphoto.com/showstory.php?nID=1192
The rebel Lord’s Resistance Army and Joseph Kony, its messianic leader, have waged a campaign of massacres, torture, and abduction on civilians across Central Africa since the mid-1980s. Their 20-year bush war against the Ugandan government, which aimed to establish a theocracy based on the Ten Commandments, killed thousands and forced the displacement of around 2 million people.
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Broken Manual « Alec Soth
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.
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Petit Le Mans: UGA Photojournalism Workshop | Luceo Images
I was inspired by the students’ energy and their creativity. I laughed a lot with the girls (there was only one male student) I got to know over the day. I pointed out new ways of seeing–layering images, shooting reflections, ways to give images more depth. I was absolutely thrilled to see some students taking chances and making images that were beyond the safe photos.
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Timeless Stories in 1970s New York: The Work of Paul McDonough – NYTimes.com
Timeless Stories in 1970s New York
Paul McDonough’s photographs immediately evoke the New York of the 1970s. But a second glance, and a third, reveal so much more.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/timeless-stories-in-1970s-new-york/
Forget the ‘fros and the saffron robes and the 60-cent taxi meter drop; the Horn & Hardart, the Doubleday and the showroom on Broadway with Chevelles for sale.
Paul McDonough’s “New York City, 1973-1978” summons all these memories instantly for anyone old enough to recall when city buses were green. But the pictures are really not about memory.
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Aevum » October Collection
In WDC, on assignment. Down-time. Check email. Friend request. Wander to Facebook. Oh, it’s someone from Baptist Town. Confirm. A post on her wall makes me stop. It says “RIP Butta”. Confused, but not yet alarmed, I go to another person’s page. A post on Nikki’s wall says the same. My blood runs cold. Find my phone, start dialing numbers. Sylvester Hoover, the man who owns the one business in Baptist Town, a convenience store and laundromat, is the first to answer. “Yeah, Butta’s dead” he tells me. “He was shot and killed yesterday.”
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A Dozen Promising Photographers: The World Press Photo Master Class – NYTimes.com
A Dozen Promising Photographers
No one told 12 of the world’s most promising photographers that photojournalism was dead, so they gathered to chart their futures.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/a-dozen-promising-photographers/
By editing one another’s work, we become connected. We are all vulnerable. I have to trust people with my images. They have to trust me.
We debate all week. Do we photograph to inform the public or to create art? How much of our bias should be expressed in the photos we take?
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Conscientious Extended | A Conversation with CPC 2010 Winner Oksana Yushko
I currently live in Moscow. It’s a huge metropolis. Living here you get used to people, speed, vanity, the subway… Do you know that the subway is a whole individual city of people inside Moscow? And when you come to any village in the north of Russia, like Kenozero, you meet the silence. There, you meet amazing people, you are surrounded by the beauty of nature, and you just shoot the first picture and that’s it. You see to it that you will come back there again and again. You listen to these people, their stories, their dreams and you need nothing else. For me, it just happened that way.