in the early 1990s, Yugoslavia explodes, like a return to the origins, April 1992, Sarajevo is under attack from Karadzic’s murderers, Mladic is under the orders of Milosevic in Belgrade. War had already begun in what is now called “former Yugoslavia”. But the siege of Sarajevo, the suffocation of Bosnia-Herzegovina would give this conflict a new dimension. The tragedy would grow deeper.
The photographers were there without fail, courageous witnesses to the unbearable suffering of the local population. As I have said before, photography is dangerous, and as such, it is essential.
It was a bad eastern wind that blew Alain Keler’s family out of Poland before the Second World War, and turned him into a Clermont-Ferrand native, Alain Keler, this French 1997 Eugene Smith prizewinner for his early work on Eastern European minorities. “After the fall of the Berlin wall, I realized that there were lots of problems with and amongst ethnic minorities”
Since I was assigned my first Cubs’ game of the season last night, I figured I would knock out another neighborhood watch post. Obviously, I photographed Wrigleyville.
“Yonkeros,’ a Spanglish derivative of ‘junk,’ is a term for the people and businesses that strip wrecked cars and sell them for parts or scrap metal. Jaime Permuth’s recent body of work Yonkeros, shot over the course of one year, examines the landscape of the junkyards in the Willets Point section of Queens, New York. “In fair weather, this is strenuous, backbreaking work; when the frost sets in it becomes downright monumental”, Permuth says, noting that most of the mechanics grew up in tropical climates of Latin American.
Seeking to show how vulnerable an ostensibly up-and-coming modern metropolis is, Abir Abdullah has been chasing the fires that plague Dhaka, Bangladesh.
A patriot might not readily describe his native city as a “death trap” and a beautiful place in the same breath, but for the Bangladeshi photographer Abir Abdullah, they’re not mutually exclusive. Bangladesh and its capital, Dhaka, one of the most populous and dense cities in the world, face complex challenges, as a robust economy frequently beset by natural disasters.
What better city than New York to exhibit a photographic essay on the citizens of these “megalopolises” where the population numbers in the millions. Martin Roemers decided to look beyond the urban West to Asian and Middle Eastern cities like Karachi, Cairo and Istanbul. Through these images, the viewer discovers that these bustling cities are also home to men.
I went to buy a door handle for my car, and met this 9 year old boy, who had spent his summer building this elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used…
An article published yesterday by Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald details the Department of Homeland Security’s repeated questioning and harassment of an American filmmaker when she has attempted to reenter the country after traveling overseas. According to G
Agents often wait for documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras at the door as she disembarks from international flights. Poitras, a US citizen, has been interrogated for hours, had her personal belongings and reporter’s notebooks seized, held and copied, and her laptop, phone and other devices searched and copied
Easily by the time I get to an assignment I’m completely exhausted because of the money I had to raise, all the gear I had to put together, all the…this last one’s 50 boxes going to Tanzania, two years of fundraising, you know, literally almost 10 years of talking about lions, and then you, of course, your pictures have to start to live up to all the hype that you’ve…not hype…whatever you’ve done
Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood (also see the publisher’s website and my review) made it onto so many “best of 2011” lists that it was by far the most popular book last year. A body of amazing depth and sophistication, it is a shining example of what the contemporary photobook can do. There now is a second edition, and I used the occasion to talk with Christian about the book
It’s not unusual for photojournalists to travel to places that have been scarred by genocide, accident and natural disaster. But photographer Ambroise Tézenas has spent the last few years turning that norm on its head to capture what happens to those sites after the journalists leave, when they become tourist destinations.
PHOTOGRAPHY GQ; Interview; National Geographic; Virginia Quarterly Review; Vogue NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY Harper’s Magazine for “Juvenile Injustice,” October Photographs by Richard Ross Harper’s Magazine for “Uncertain Exodus,” July Photographs by
In the same way that he’s trying to find different stories and make different pictures, Balilty says he’s trying to be a different photographer, too. “If I see photographers in one corner, I go away,” he says. “There is no need to take the same picture as five other good photographers. I’m tying to isolate myself and show the story from different angles, not only visually but mentally, to find small, quite moments within a big a crazy story.”
Here is the crux of the issue: Mr. Eggleston earns more money by the designation of the limited edition. The individual who buys the art has to pay more. So the artist directly benefits from that. It is the artist’s choice, and you can’t change the rules in the middle of the game
let me tell you personally how I have always hired people — whether for a staff position or a single assignment. Bob Gilka used to say that I was the best “discoverer” of new talent in the country. To me, it was always simple for the best people were easy to pick — and Bob had picked some pretty good ones in his time, too. Good people, with intelligence, commitment and “fire in the belly” just stand out. I have always been more interested in the personality than the portfolio.
You can tell by the pixels: The Russian Orthodox Church is accused of Photoshopping a photo on their website of Patriarch Kirill I to “disappear” a $30,000 watch. The church leader has …
You can tell by the pixels: The Russian Orthodox Church is accused of Photoshopping a photo on their website of Patriarch Kirill I to “disappear” a $30,000 watch. The church leader has previously said that the watch does not exist.
A French organisation representing professional photographers has launched a new campaign against the abusive use of photographs, often without proper remuneration, by editors and marketers
So LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and I were there together hanging out and….well, there really isn’t going to be a time I get to say that again, so I’m going to take advantage now.
I was lucky enough to be part of the huge team that the fine folks at ESPN the Magazine put together for their latest One Day, One Game series. The point is to give fans a glimpse into everything that it takes for one single game to be put on with vignettes from every angle imaginable. It was one of my most fun shooting days ever, and I don’t think I can really go back to “normal” access after this. Of course I will, but now will at least have a hard time wondering why I can come back into the locker room and photograph a player in the ice bath.
“Glance” This week, TOP is pleased to be able to offer, once again, a selection of fine prints of our friend Peter Turnley’s pictures of Paris. [UPDATE, Friday 4/6/12, 6:00: Sale has ended.] These prints are available year-round, to all,…
