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For more than 15 years now, in between other photography projects, French photographer Klavdij Sluban has worked in juvenile prisons around the world. He conducts photography workshops with the teenagers who are imprisoned in these places, and he photographs “behind the walls” of each prison himself.
DB speaking at Barnes & Noble in Bethesda, about 44 Day from David Burnett on Vimeo.
David Burnett speaking (the first 35 minutes) at Barnes & Noble in Bethesda, on occasion of the publication of “44 Days: IRAN and the Remaking of the World.”
When Ed came to Stanford a few months ago for an Aurora Forum on the What Matters book, I was reminded how unsatisfactory the term “documentary photographer” is when applied to someone like him. Years before multimedia became a buzzword, Ed and his wife Julie Winokur were leading the way into “multi-platform” storytelling, including exhibitions, books, websites, videos, multimedia, and educational programs. Ed explains how they are now exploring “feedback loops” between documentarians, their audience, and the subjects, so that the people in the photos and the people looking at them contribute as much to a story as the person behind the camera.
Link: An Interview with Leica’s Stephan Daniel – Luminous Landscape:
We had the great pleasure of interviewing Stephan Daniel, Leica’s M9 Product Manager. This video interview runs 70 minutes and in it Stephan provides a wide-ranging discussion regarding the new Leica M9.
Link: World Press Photo:
World Press Photo and Anthony Suau have jointly produced a multimedia presentation for the World Press Photo website. In Hard Rain, the title Suau gave to the project, he places his 20 years of working as a war correspondent in broad perspective. “I feel it is imperative when covering any war”, he says, “that you are clear on your intentions and know where and how your work will be seen.”
Link: Ian Fisher – American Soldier | The Denver Post | From Basic Training to Iraq and Back:
Photographer Craig F. Walker chronicled the two-year journey of Ian Fisher from high school to Army boot camp to Fort Carson to deployment in Iraq.
Link: 12 Division – Anne-Marie Jackson | News Photographers Association of Canada:
Two gangs, six months, nine homicides. Portrait of a neighbourhood under fire.
Link: whats the jackanory ? – mad dogs and englishmen:
Big up to Simon Roberts for giving WTJ? an exclusive preview of his ‘We English‘ show opening tonight at KlompChing in Dumbo. If you can’t make it don’t forget Simon is giving an artists talk at the gallery tomorrow Friday from 6.00pm. I can promise it will be well worth the effort.
Joe McNally: Blogging & Shooting – RESOLVE Blog from liveBooks on Vimeo.
Master photographer and lighting guru Joe McNally talks with RESOLVE editor Miki Johnson about starting his wildly successful blog – joemcnally.com/blog – and how it has become a community, a source of creativity, and an important part of his business.
Chase Jarvis Blog: Behind The Curtain: The Guts Of A Commercial Shoot:
Whew. If you’ve tuned in at all in the past few days, you’re aware of what I’ve got cooking. To my knowledge this is one of the first (perhaps THE first?) global, multi-week-long, play-by-play commercial shoot to have its behind-the-scenes life chronicled and broadcast almost in real time via blog, Facebook, and Twitter. This will be the deepest look into the black box of photography that I’ve been able to share to date. By a country mile.
Must See: A New Kind of News – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
A new genre of reporting — the Web documentary report — will be formally recognized this year at the world’s most influential photojournalism show, Visa pour l’Image, in Perpignan, France. An award will be given Wednesday to the best of nine entrants, winnowed from more than 100. It is named for the news channel France 24 and the news radio station RFI. Watch this post for an update.
Meanwhile, I’ve chosen four English-language nominees to highlight.
PDNPulse: An Ugly August: 3 Videos of Angry People Attacking Journalists:
It’s a dangerous world out there. Maybe it’s the late-summer heat, but several violent altercations between journalists and subjects have been caught on tape this month. Here are three of them, including a scary incident yesterday in Pennsylvania involving several photographers.