FNAC, a French entertainment retail chain, has unveiled the recipients of its inaugural photojournalism grants with photographers Jan Banning, Cedric Gerbehaye and Anastasia Taylor-Lind each receiving €8000
Link: French retail chain offers three photojournalism grants – British Journal of Photography
A lawsuit sheds a negative light on the way the British tabloid the News of the World relied on phone hacking.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/world/europe/02hacking.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Court papers in the case, as described by people familiar with the lawsuit, shed a stark and unflattering light on the newspaper’s reliance on phone hacking as a standard reporting method. This conduct is at the heart of a growing array of civil lawsuits and criminal inquiries against the paper and News Group.
Ricoh’s GXR system is about to get a Leica M lens-mount. This will let you take pretty much any of the legendary lenses and put them in font of a tailor-made sensor. The GXR system, you may remember, is Ricoh’s rather weird take on cameras. The “body” is
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/ricoh-adds-leica-lens-friendly-sensor-to-gxr/
The new lens unit is actually lensless, with an M-mount for your legacy lenses. The sensor will be an APS-C sized 12.9MP CMOS model, and have its own focal-plane shutter.
This project grew out of a curiosity to find out what Chinese people think about their country and their future. In 2010, I traveled throughout major urban centers in eastern China stopping people on the street to ask the same two questions about their country and their future. The respondents filled out a one-page typewritten questionnaire that included these two questions and some basic information including name, age, and occupation. The questions were interpreted variously, and the responses range from prosaic to poetic, from rote to inspired, and from unemotional to patriotic. While it’s difficult to draw conclusions about the entire population, the people photographed here expressed a sincere love of country and optimism about the country’s future development and peaceful position in the world.
Link: We Chinese – Wo Men Zhong Guo Ren – 我们中国人 – by M. Scott Brauer
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/01/AR2011020102030.html?wprss=rss_world
In the squalid camps where 800,000 people still languish, many Haitians routinely say their misery is exploited by NGOs to raise funds rather than raise them up from poverty. Children throw rocks at photographers from aid groups trying to take their pictures, demanding money.
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/
It’s hard to argue with a photographer when they point to a photo of their own that they once loved but now think is a ‘lie’.
Simon Sticker has done just that in an interesting post about a photo he took in Rwanda.
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/
Ed Ou was an intern at The Times (“A Dozen Promising Photographers“) and is now a freelancer, represented by Reportage by Getty Images, shooting for The Times in Egypt. He has photographed in the Middle East, Africa and the former Soviet republics. James Estrin spoke with him by phone early Sunday morning and early Monday morning, Cairo time.
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/
Gundlock has tracked down many of those also taken into custody. He has asked each of them to provide a (very) short statement on the experience of being picked process through protest policing and city jail.
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
Ed Ou was an intern at The Times (“A Dozen Promising Photographers“) and is now a freelancer, represented by Reportage by Getty Images, shooting for The Times in Egypt. He has photographed in the Middle East, Africa and the former Soviet republics. James Estrin spoke with him by phone early Sunday morning and early Monday morning, Cairo time.
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/
Lots of 5D Mark III stuff is coming to the surface now.
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
Other broadcasters, including CNN, said their reporters had been attacked and their cameras smashed by security forces.
“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
Stephan Hashemi, son of the murdered photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, filed suit against Iran, its supreme leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei and two government officials who allegedly authorized the torture of Kazemi
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