https://balkaninsight.com/2024/09/10/we-had-an-impact-kosovo-war-photographer-says-images-affected-wests-policies/
“I thought to myself, ‘I should be there, I should be taking these pictures.’ So, I quit my job and went to Sarajevo where the war had just ended,” Chin stated.
In his new book “Infinity Goes Up On Trial”, Alan Chin travels through the historical challenges that the USA faced since 2020.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/alan-chin-travels-through-a-nation-in-turmoil-in-infinity-goes-up-on-trial/
Chin admitted that it comes naturally to him to weave his personal experiences—as a father, as a Chinese-American who grew up in New York City, as a photographer—into his visual exploration of 2020. “You actually can’t separate your own experience, as a participant and as a witness, from your experience as a journalist or photographer,” he said. “Right?”
This week has been unusually difficult for photographers who are trying to cover the George Floyd protests. Essay and images by photographer Alan Chin.
via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2020/06/photographing-protest/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28Reading+The+Pictures%29
In a recent Facebook post, New York Times writer David Gonzalez confronted photojournalists who make photographs of protests. “Fotogs: What do you value?” he asked. “Now is not a good time to start handicapping which image of Black suffering will get a Pulitzer. Especially when your POC [people of color] colleagues are worried about their families, lives and community.” Veteran photographer Joseph Rodriguez suggested in response to the post that photographers are making the “same ol’ same ol’ images of death, disease, poverty, violence. It is the DNA of several news photo contests.”
Established by old pros, a new fellowship is helping a new generation tell the stories of Motor City
Blink’s Kyla Woods spoke with the founders of Documenting Detroit, Karah Shaffer and Alan Chin, about the importance of documenting Detroit’s rebirth and of cultivating a community of photographers who can tell the untold stories of a people on the up again.
Good hack and lensman that I am, I fight for access to restricted areas, bemused that the young men and women in uniforms who see journalists as intrusive adversaries have no idea that, the dozen years back, I was here too.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/09/alan-chin-lower-manhattan-911-at-twelve/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
If there were ever a more appropriate way to mark the passing of the legions and the silencing of the trumpets, for one moment, at least, it was being around the World Trade Center. The attacks, however – if not the ongoing political fallout – are finally passing into history. I watched as parents had to explain to their children what the occasion was and why the site is important.
“Though anniversaries may just be pushpins on a calendar, they are key markers of our individual and collective lives.” Photographer Alan Chin on loss and change through the 9/11 decade, from New York to Afghanistan, Iraq to New Orleans, and back again.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2011/09/pushpins-on-a-calendar/
The American Dream was not killed on September 11, 2001. As many said at the time, it was an opportunity, tragic and momentous, for the finer aspirations of American idealism to reemerge with passionate exceptionalism. Ten years later, those hopes lie shattered in the dust not of the towers, but of water-boarding, Predator drones, kill teams, rendition, and a national security state.
Over the past year I have been emailed frequently by photographers inquiring the “how to’s” of embedding to Afghanistan, especially those who are first-timers. I wrote very similar emails like this to very experienced colleagues (such as Alan Chin, John Moore, and Teru Kuwayama, to name a few) before I embedded for the first time in 2009. To save us all a lot of trouble (those asking the questions and those having to repeat the advice) I decided to compile a document entailing a list and series of frequently asked “Q and A’s”, as well as information given to me from these colleagues in the field; without their help my embed would have been much more difficult.
Link: Advice for first-time embeds to Afghanistan | Lightstalkers