Tag: Antonin Kratochvil
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Nieman Reports | Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Link: They are identical mediums, sending different messages. By Antonin Kratochvil with Michael Persson
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Photographer Antonin Kratochvil resigns from VII photo agency amid harassment allegations – Vox
Photojournalism needs to face its #MeToo moment Amid sexual harassment allegations, a legendary photographer just resigned from a prestigious — and troubled — agency. But the industry’s reckoning is woefully incomplete. via Vox: https://www.vox.com/2018/9/7/17761458/me-too-photojournalism-sexual-harassment-vii Amid sexual harassment allegations, a legendary photographer just resigned from a prestigious — and troubled — agency. But the industry’s reckoning…
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Kratochvil Resigns from VII over Sexual Assault Allegations | PDNPulse
Kratochvil Resigns from VII over Sexual Assault Allegations | PDNPulse Photojournalist Antonin Kratochvil has resigned from VII, in the wake of allegations that he sexually assaulted a female member of the agency. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/09/kratochvil-resigns-vii-sexual-assault-allegations.html Photojournalist Antonin Kratochvil has resigned from VII, weeks after a July 16 article in Columbia Journalism Review reported that he…
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Honoring the creation of VII Photo Agency – The Eye of Photography
Honoring the creation of VII Photo Agency Perpignan, Visa pour l’image festival, September 8, 2001. For a few years, a certain gloom reigns over the world of photojournalism, in seemingly continuous decline. Then, however, a group of seven photojournalists– Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, and John Stanmeyer– announced…
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Antonin Kratochvil On His Imaging Style
Antonin Kratochvil On His Imaging Style – A Photo Editor You should never use camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience, to make the pictures with the camera. Not the other way around. — Antonin Kratochvil via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/03/18/antonin-kratochvil-on-his-imaging-style/ You should never use camera to make your pictures. You use…
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Incognito
VII Magazine: With the summer movie season in full swing we thought it would be fun to take a look at the unique portrait style of Antonin Kratochvil as he turns his lens on movies stars, pop singers and others.
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In America
To celebrate the founding of America we present a unique look at The United States by Antonin Kratochvil.
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Look3 2011: Antonin Kratochvil Chats With Scott Thode
LOOK3 2011: Antonin Kratochvil Chats With Scott Thode | PDNPulse Look3, a festival that invites a mix of emerging and professional photographers to take a subjective look at the current photographic landscape, kicked off last night with a slideshow of Antonin Kratochvil’s work, titled “In America.” This touching show o via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/06/look3-2011-antonin-kratochvil-chats-with-scott-thode.html This touching…
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First Glance: LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/06/08/first-glance-look3-festival-of-the-photograph/#1 Each year’s festival centers around three core photographers, called INSight artists, who present an exhibition and participate in on-stage interviews to speak about their process, inspiration and work. This year’s honorees are Antonin Kratochvil, Massimo Vitali, and Nan Goldin, —all artists…
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LOOK3 Preview: Goldin, Kratochvil, Vitali Headline Fest Curated by Kathy Ryan and Scott Thode
Substantial exhibitions of the work of Nan Goldin, Massimo Vitali and Antonin Kratochvil are the major highlights, and the three artists will also talk about their work, with Goldin appearing in a unique conversation with Sally Mann. In addition the festival will feature “Master’s Talks” and exhibitions by Christopher Anderson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ashley Gilbertson,…
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Antonin Kratochvil lecture at World Press Photo
During the masterclass, renowned photographer and founder of VII photo agency, Antonin Kratochvil, gave an evening lecture at FOAM museum. As a photojournalist, he has tackled a good deal of upheaval and human catastrophe, while going about his documentation of the times in which we live. Link: World Press Photo via: P H O T…
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Vanishing – VII The Magazine
In this interview with VII The Magazine, Antonin Kratochvil takes us on a very personal 20-year journey. He gives us a glimpse of what his eyes looked upon that is or may be gone forever. This is a story about loss; the physical loss of place, loss of freedom, historical loss, and the loss of…
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Moscow Nights – VII
In “Moscow Nights” Antonin Kratochvil takes us on a journey into a sphere of decadent sensuality that instantly transports the viewer into a dark, dingy, salacious, circus-like combination of nudity, lust and raw sexual power. It is a view of Moscow’s underworld and, as its voyeurs, it is hard not to be touched by the…
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Photographer Antonin Kratochvil
Photographer Antonin Kratochvil | Outside Online: The world is full of bold photographers who earn their keep by traveling to rough regions. Kratochvil towers above them all, in large part because his extraordinary background gives him a preternatural cool—not to mention credibility—that can’t be taught. “In what we do, the most important faculties are instinct…
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Worth a Look: “Our World At War” by the photographers of VII and the International Committee of the Red Cross
dvafoto says: VII and the International Committee of the Red Cross have just unveiled their globe-spanning project documenting current humanitarian crises, “Our World At War.” The work includes: Lebanon by Franco Pagetti, Afghanistan by James Nachtwey, Haiti by Ron Haviv, Caucasus by Antonin Kratochvil, Liberia by Christopher Morris, Colombia by Franco Pagetti, Philippines by James…
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Shoot! Interview: Antonin Kratochvil
I thought I’d post a short Q&A session I was lucky enough to have with Antonin Kratochvil. Kratochvil, if he’s new to you, is a Czech-born American photojournalist. He is also founding member of the VII Photo Agency. His career is rather epic at this point Check it out here.
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VII Photo Essay: Lebanon, by Antonin Kratochvil
Photo Essay: Lebanon: ” Photos by Antonin Kratochvil Increasing radicalism among militant groups and a deepening chasm between Lebanon’s Sunni and Shiite population is sending the country spiraling downwards. Assassinations and a protracted political crisis is adding to the crisis. www.antoninkratochvil.com”
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Blood Diamonds
From VII, photographs by Antonin Kratochvil: It is estimated that at least one million Africans earn pennies a day in the backbreaking and increasingly fruitless search for diamonds – a $60-billion-a-year industry that, back in the 1990s, rebels in Sierra Leone and Liberia financed their carnage from diamonds plucked out of the rivers and traded…
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The Web This Morning
Photos – Antonin Kratochvil’s Troubles in the Niger Delta PDN – Photo groups lobby to protect copyright orphans PDN – From darkroom to classroom BBC – Al Qaeda attack on Saudi oil facility Balkans, BBC – 10,000 SRS members hold pro-Mladic rally in Belgrade National Review – William F. Buckley Jr. on Iraq NYT –…