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Fund Established for Injured Photog Joao Silva and Family | PDNPulse
Since the news went out that photographer Joao Silva had been severely wounded when he stepped on a mine in Afghanistan on Saturday, colleagues have sent messages of support to Silva’s Facebook page and The New York Times, where Silva is on contract. Ph
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Direct donations can be made using a PayPal link on storytaxi.com, a Web site run by the non-profit Hekaya Digital Storytelling.
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Lola Dupre’s strange photomontage portraits
Scotland-based artist Lola Dupre cuts up photographs and collages the snips into mind-bendingly weird and witty deformed portraits. She is a master of scissors, glue, and surrealism. Hi-Fructose po…
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Scotland-based artist Lola Dupre cuts up photographs and collages the snips into mind-bendingly weird and witty deformed portraits.
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It’s World Series time – so I thought I would ask my own personal baseball freak expert, Brad Mangin, about curating a little online gallery featuring the ten best World Series photos to have ever been taken.
Link: The 10 Greatest World Series Photos of All Time – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
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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
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Saturday, November 6, at The Bath House Studios in New York City
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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
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FRAGO 242 and How the US Military Duped Photog. John Moore
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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When US military became aware of Iraqi torture of other Iraqis, to quote The Guardian‘s David Leigh, “FRAGO 242 meant that no further investigation was necessary.”
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In Afghan and American Custody
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/
John Moore of Getty Images has visited American-run detention centers in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib and Camp Cropper; prisons for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan run by that country’s National Directorate of Security; the Pul-i-Charkhi prison outside Kabul; and, more recently, the Guantánamo Bay detention center. He is gathering these images in a longterm project, “Detained.” James Estrin and David Furst interviewed him by telephone in August and then again briefly following his most recent visit to Guantánamo.
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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.
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When We Decide to Know – Reading The Pictures
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/
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 public.
The photograph records a badly maimed soldier being delivered to a military hospital in Kandahar.
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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
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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
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Ken Rosenthal
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
Start with a very honest look at your own work. You should be excited about your own work, impressed with the work you have created. Edit ruthlessly. If you have exhibited a long-term commitment to photography, and you have a tightly edited, cohesive, and well resolved body of work then ask yourself a few simple questions:
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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
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Widespread Impact From an Afghan Mine
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/
Friends, colleagues and competitors of the photojournalist Joao Silva — there are many people in the first two categories, very few in the third — struggled to make sense on Saturday of the news that he had been severely injured when he stepped on a mine in Afghanistan.
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“Those of you who know Joao will not be surprised to learn that throughout this ordeal he continued to shoot pictures,” said Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, in a memorandum to the staff.
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Photo-sharing for pictures taken where you are not allowed to take them
Link: Strictly No Photography
via: Duncan Davidson
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In American Custody
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/
John Moore of Getty Images has visited American-run detention centers in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib and Camp Cropper; prisons for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan run by that country’s National Directorate of Security; the Pul-e-Charki prison outside Kabul; and, more recently, the Guantánamo Bay detention center. He is gathering these images in a longterm project, “Detained.” James Estrin and David Furst interviewed him by telephone
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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.
