NGOs in Haiti face new questions about effectiveness
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/01/AR2011020102030.html?wprss=rss_world
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/01/AR2011020102030.html?wprss=rss_world
It’s hard to argue with a photographer when they point to a photo of their own that they once loved…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/02/when-is-a-photograph-a-lie/
There is safety in numbers in Cairo, but Ed Ou is trying, when he can, to break away from the photo pack.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/getting-into-cairos-byways/
Steve Davis is a photographer whose images reflect sensitivity and humanity, capture moments just out of view, and tell stories of life on the fringes. They are not headline stories, but quiet, unseen, overlooked stories.
National Post photographer, Brett Gundlock was one of the 304 protestors arrested during the G20 protests in Toronto, last June. Since last Summer, and dissatisfied generally with the representatio…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/brett-gundlock-prisoners-project/
Huge congratulations to photojournalist turned filmmaker Danfung Dennis for winning the top prize in the Documentary Filmmaking category of the Sundance festival awards. He also scooped the World Cinema Cinematography Award for Documentary Filmmaking. His film “Hell and Back Again” was shot on the 5DmkII and follows the story of a Marine fighting in the Afghan war and his subsequent rehabilitation.
Rania Matar’s work focuses mainly on women and women’s issues. She has created searing documentaries of the lives of women and children in the Middle East, the Palestinian refugee camps, the recent spread of the veil and its meanings, the aftermath of war and the Christians of the Middle East. The universal theme: revealing the day-to-day existence of people who have been forgotten or misunderstood with singular compassion and sensitivity. At her home Boston, Massachusetts, she photographs her four children at all stages of their lives and is currently working on a new body of work, “A Girl and her Room,” photographing teenage girls from different backgrounds
Link: Rania Matar: Personal and Poetic, Part 2 « The Leica Camera
About an hour ago, six reporters with Al Jazeera were arrested in Cairo. This follows a crackdown on the news network’s operations by the Egyptian government. Al Jazeera correspondent Dan Nol…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/31/egypt-6-al-jazeera-r.html
5D Mark III Lots of 5D Mark III stuff is coming to the surface now. Over at DPR a post that was identical to an email I received, it uses the “I was told by
via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2011/01/5d-mark-iii-other-random-stuff/
AEVUM: Our Year in Pictures from Aevum on Vimeo.
It’s certainly not unheard of for photographers to cast themselves in the role of activist. Good photography helps to make an argument a whole lot more persuasive so the link is no surprise. But we should worry when they blur the line between activist and journalist because you can’t be both, although some examples of those who try can be found amongst photographers who cover war.
The channel has provided exhaustive coverage of Egypt’s protests despite repeated efforts to block its broadcasts.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/world/middleeast/29jazeera.html?_r=1&hp
“Photographers love life, light, and joy, and all that touches the senses! Maybe nowhere else in the world can this be found more than in Rio-and particularly at carnival time. The Rio workshop will be much more than simply an experience in photography – it will offer the students an exposure to a way of living full of energy, sensuality, outdoor activity, and humanity in one of the world’s most beautiful and exciting cities during the amazing time of the Rio Carnival…”
The son of a Canadian photojournalist who was tortured and killed in an Iranian prison in 2003 will be allowed to proceed with a $17 million claim against the government of Iran, the Montreal Gazette has reported. Stephan Hashemi, son of the murdered phot
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/01/court-allows-son-of-slain-photojournalist-to-sue-iran.html
Alonzo Jordan became a civic figure in his own right. He was a barber, a deacon and a Mason, too. Nearly three decades after his death in 1984, those who knew him still refer to him as Mister Jordan.
He was what Alan Govenar, the guest curator of the Jasper show, calls a community photographer
Link: The Hidden Half of an East Texas Town: Alonzo Jordan, Community Photographer – NYTimes.com
Fiona Rogers is the cultural and education coordinator for Magnum Photos, but it’s under her own name that she launched, in January, Fire Cracker, an online platform to showcase and promote the work of European women photographers.
Link: Supporting European women photographers – British Journal of Photography
Three weeks before WikiLeaks and several media outlets began publishing a massive trove of U.S. diplomatic cables, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange expressed fear that the content of the cables was too explosive for his organization to withstand. “We have
A photographer, working for Sipa Press, is said to be among four French journalists to have been arrested, today, while covering protests in Egypt
Link: Sipa Press photographer arrested in Egypt [update 2] – British Journal of Photography
Gita Lenz created a body of work that withstands comparison to many of the better-known photographers. She spent much of her time making images of the people and the city around her
Link: The death of Gita Lenz Thursday, January 20th | La Lettre de la Photographie