Tag: Ashley Gilbertson

  • l e n s c r a t c h: Ashley Gilbertson

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    Link: Ashley Gilberston is a name you will be hearing a lot of in the future. In case you missed it in the NY Times Magazine on Sunday, Ashley had a series of heartbreaking images that accompanied the article, The Shrine Down the Hall, written by Dexter Filkins, about the bedrooms of America’s young war…

  • “The New Europeans”: A More Subtle Migrant ExodusReading The Pictures

    “The New Europeans”: A More Subtle Migrant ExodusReading The Pictures

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    “The New Europeans”: A More Subtle Migrant Exodus This photo of migrant children at the Gevgelia camp on the Macedonia/Greece border uniquely captures the more daily highs and lows of this historic period. via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/10/the-new-europeans/ I imagine the hopeful and forward-looking tone, filled with casual, friendly and quietly-poignant moments, comes from the…

  • 7 with VII: Fake News – Vantage – Medium

    7 with VII: Fake News – Vantage – Medium

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    7 with VII: Fake News Photographers Babajanyan, Bach, Gilbertson, Kashi, Njiokiktjien, Sobecki and Stanmeyer on fake news’ effects on photojournalism via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/7-with-vii-fake-news-29782e7dfef5 We asked Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter followers to submit questions about fake news as it relates to photojournalism for the next installment of 7 with VII where VII photographers answer your seven…

  • ‘War can feel distant at times like that, but it can also feel never-ending’: Ashley Gilbertson’s photographs of bombing sites in Nigeria – The Washington Post

    ‘War can feel distant at times like that, but it can also feel never-ending’: Ashley Gilbertson’s photographs of bombing sites in Nigeria – The Washington Post

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    Perspective | ‘War can feel distant at times like that, but it can also feel never-ending’: Ashley Gilbertson’s photographs of bombing sites in Nigeria The insurgent group Boko Haram has increasingly victimized children as suicide bombers. Ashley Gilbertson traveled to sites of these bombings to photograph the daily life that is disrupted by these tragedies.…

  • 7 with VII: All About Gear — Vantage — Medium

    7 with VII: All About Gear — Vantage — Medium

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    7 with VII: All About Gear Expert photographers on the lenses, notebooks and tools they carry via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/7-with-vii-all-about-gear-2e55bbef6c96 We asked Facebook, Instagram and Twitter followers to submit questions about gear for the second installment of 7 with VII. Read on for the 7 answers from VII’s Ron Haviv, Sim Chi Yin, Ashley Gilbertson, Arthur…

  • This War Photographer Embedded Himself in a Video Game – LightBox

    This War Photographer Embedded Himself in a Video Game – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/15/war-photographer-video-game/#1 The Last of Us Remastered is a post-apocalyptic video game released earlier this year on PlayStation 4 with an in-game Photo Mode, which freezes the game and lets players shoot, edit and share photographs of their achievements. TIME assigned conflict photographer Ashley Gilbertson…

  • Two New Photobooks Illustrate the Value of War Photography – Feature Shoot

    Two New Photobooks Illustrate the Value of War Photography – Feature Shoot

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    Two New Photobooks Illustrate the Value of War Photography – Feature Shoot Marine Cpl. Christopher G. Scherer, 21, was killed by a sniper on July 21, 2007, in Karmah, Iraq. He was from East Northport, New York. His bedroom was photographed in… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/05/two-new-photobooks-challenge-value-bearing-witness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-new-photobooks-challenge-value-bearing-witness While they grew up on opposite sides of the…

  • Bedrooms of the Fallen: Honoring the Casualties of War – LightBox

    Bedrooms of the Fallen: Honoring the Casualties of War – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/05/22/bedrooms-of-the-fallen-honoring-the-casualties-of-war/#1 Bedrooms of the Fallen, by photographer Ashley Gilbertson. The volume consists of still-life photographs of 40 bedrooms, where troops from the U.S. and around the world slept before dying in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, or their aftermath. It’s to…

  • Three of VII: The Life of a Photograph | PROOF

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    Three of VII: The Life of a Photograph I corresponded via email with three prolific VII photographers—Ashley Gilbertson, Ron Haviv and Gary Knight—on the things that motivate and inspire them.

  • Ashley Gilbertson on RISK and War Photography

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    Link: SPAN 2014: Ashley Gilbertson on RISK and War Photography | PS122.TV | As part of a larger 6-hour round robin style conversation, Photographer Ashley Gilbertson spoke on RISK and war photography

  • It’ll Be Better Next Year

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    It’ll Be Better Next Year via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/10/itll-be-better-next-year.html “Did it rain last night?” Cash Murdock, age eleven, asks his father. “Nope, no rain,” the forty-three-year-old rancher, Casey, replies. “Maybe tonight.” With this exchange, Ashley Gilbertson and Ed Kashi introduce the small farming and ranching community in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, which was the epicenter…

  • Palm Springs 2013: Ashley Gilbertson

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    Link: Palm Springs 2013: Ashley Gilbertson | Le Journal de la Photographie Ashley Gilbertson is an award-winning member of VII Photo. Gilbertson’s imagery from Iraq, where he worked from 2002 until 2008, earned him critical acclaim from the Overseas Press Club which awarded Gilbertson the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal for his 2004 work in…

  • Overexposed: A Photographer’s War With PTSD

    Overexposed: A Photographer’s War With PTSD

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    Overexposed: A Photographer’s War With PTSD “One of the truly great things about war … is that all you have to do is survive.” via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/overexposed-a-photographers-war-with-ptsd/266468/1/ “‘I don’t think you can go into the most traumatic situations that arise on earth, voluntarily, and come back unchanged,’ said Ashley Gilbertson, who admits that his…

  • Ashley Gilbertson on social media: “I love taking pictures of my wife and son but they are for me.”

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    Ashley Gilbertson on social media: “I love taking pictures of my wife and son but they are for me.” Prison Photography (PP): You use Twitter. Ashley Gilbertson (AG): I initially got on Twitter because I found Facebook pretty boring. It was turning into people’s family photo albums, which is… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.org/2012/12/20/ashley-gilbertson-on-social-media-i-love-taking-pictures-of-my-wife-and-son-but-they-are-for-me/ “I present certain photographs…

  • Ashley Gilbertson: Finding Occupy Wall Street on Film

    Ashley Gilbertson: Finding Occupy Wall Street on Film

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    Ashley Gilbertson: Finding Occupy Wall Street on Film The Occupy Wall Street movement started out as a kind of headless dragon, with no apparent leadership or distinct goals; and the Australian photographer … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/11/ashley-gilbertson-occupy-wall-street.html?currentPage=all “Photographing Occupy Wall Street was one of the most difficult stories, visually speaking, that I’ve had to…

  • VII Photo Agency Brings in New Members

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    VII Photo Agency Brings in New Members | PDNPulse Three months after VII Pboto announced a shakeup to its structure, the changes at the photographers’ cooperative have finally played out with the announcement today of its new members. They are Davide Monteleone, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Lynsey Addario, Joc via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/09/vii-photo-agency-brings-in-new-members-and-new-money.html They are Davide Monteleone, Anastasia…

  • LOOK3 2011: Ashley Gilbertson’s Exhibition About Dead Soldiers Defaced

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    LOOK3 2011: Ashley Gilbertson’s Exhibition About Dead Soldiers Defaced | PDNPulse The public had a strong reaction to the exhibition at the LOOK3 Festival of Ashley Gilbertson’s Bedrooms of the Fallen photographs, which show the bedrooms of soldiers who died as a result of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The photographs are being exhibit via…

  • LOOK3 2011: Ashley Gilbertson On War, PTSD and His Project Bedrooms of the Fallen

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    LOOK3 2011: Ashley Gilbertson On War, PTSD and His Project Bedrooms of the Fallen | PDNPulse At a Master’s Talk this afternoon at the LOOK3 festival in Charlottesville, VA, Ashley Gilbertson talked passionately about his project, “Bedrooms of the Fallen,” which depicts the rooms of soldiers from coalition countries such as the United States, Fran…

  • LOOK3 Preview: Goldin, Kratochvil, Vitali Headline Fest Curated by Kathy Ryan and Scott Thode

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    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,…

  • The 6th Floor: A Conversation With Photographer Ashley Gilbertson

    The 6th Floor: A Conversation With Photographer Ashley Gilbertson

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    This week, Ashley Gilbertson won a National Magazine Award for his photo essay “A Shrine Down the Ha