Panos Pictures is exclusively distributing a photo series by Edison Peña, one of the 33 miners trapped in a Chilean mine for 69 days.
Link: Worth a Look: “To Hell and Back”, photos by a Chilean Miner | dvafoto
Panos Pictures is exclusively distributing a photo series by Edison Peña, one of the 33 miners trapped in a Chilean mine for 69 days.
Link: Worth a Look: “To Hell and Back”, photos by a Chilean Miner | dvafoto
Saturday, November 6, at The Bath House Studios in New York City
The following interview was conducted in Baghdad on Dec. 9, 2009, by Michael Kamber, a seasoned conflict photographer himself (“Hard Lessons From Somalia,” “A Long and Dangerous Road,” “Minders, Fixers, Troubles”). He is working on a book about photojournalism and war photography. This condensed version of their conversation begins with Mr. Silva describing his background.
Link: Joao Silva: ‘Acting Despite Fear.’ An Interview by Michael Kamber – NYTimes.com
FOR A HANDLE ON THE US MILITARY’S COMPLICITY IN WIDESPREAD TORTURE IN SAMARRA, IRAQ, WATCH THIS. FRAGO 242 FRAGO 242 is the US military’s abbreviation of a “fragmentary order̶…
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via: PDN Pulse and David McIntyre
John Moore has dedicated himself to covering wartime prisons and detention centers. James Estrin and David Furst of The Times interviewed him.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/in-afghan-and-american-custody/
We work in a medium that can either engage us with a subject in an intimate way or separate us from our subjects with a big mechanical device to hide behind.
There are several ways we should come out from behind that camera to be present.
Usually I avoid rubbing your face in it, but not today. This image, which has been sitting on my desktop for a few months, is offered out of anger, grief, and extreme frustration with press, public, and the Obama administration–and most of all with the
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2010/10/when-we-decide-to-know/
Here are a few stunningly simple pieces that have inspired me. Enjoy!
Link: The art of simplicity and a few things you must see – MultimediaShooter
A town in the middle of nowhere with 36,000 souls and 13 prisons, one of which is Supermax, the new ‘Alcatraz’ of America. A prison town where even those living on the outside live on the inside. A journey into what the future might hold.
A web documentary by David Dufresne & Philippe Brault.
Link: Prison Valley – a web documentary exploring the prison industry
MW What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what is the primary inspiration for you to keep working in this field? KR Proba…
Link: http://2waylens.blogspot.com/2010/10/ken-rosenthal.html
Ziyah Gafic made this video at the burial ceremony for some 775 victims whose bodies were exhumed from mass graves to be reburied at the Potocari Memorial Centre in the suburbs of Srebrenica, Bosnia. The story is told by Hasan Nuhanovic, a United Nations translator who was there at the time.
Link: VII The Magazine
Joao Silva is known for his bravery and his caution in covering battle zones. Friends and colleagues were shocked by news he had been severely injured in Afghanistan.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/widespread-impact-from-an-afghan-mine/
Photo-sharing for pictures taken where you are not allowed to take them
Link: Strictly No Photography
via: Duncan Davidson
John Moore has dedicated himself to covering America’s wartime prisons and detention centers. James Estrin and David Furst of The Times interviewed him.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/in-american-custod/
Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom,” is a series of photographs exploring anxieties of power and globalism, national and intercultural identity, and the notion of non self-constructed and deconstructed individualism.
Joao Silva, a longtime contract photographer for The New York Times, was severely wounded when he stepped on a mine while on patrol with American soldiers.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/asia/24silva.html
“We are a news organization that exists to serve the First Amendment,” she said. “The issue, again, was, Juan Williams, on several occasions — with the thing that happened earlier this week being only the most recent — violated our news code of ethics, to which he is beholden as a news analyst. And it happened again and again. And this time, we decided that enough was enough. That is not a First Amendment issue.”
Link: NPR’s Schiller Says Juan Williams Was Fired Because of Ethics Guidelines – NYTimes.com
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102201682.html?wprss=rss_world
Reading the NYT’s stories about the Iraq War logs, I was struck by how it could get through such gruesome descriptions — fingers chopped off, chemicals splashed on prisoners — wit…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/22/torture.html