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 dead have left behind. The series is called Bedrooms of the Fallen.
Tag: Ashley Gilbertson
-
l e n s c r a t c h: Ashley Gilbertson
-
“The New Europeans”: A More Subtle Migrant ExodusReading The Pictures
“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 fact Ashley Gilbertson was photographing the migrant crisis on assignment for UNICEF
-
7 with VII: Fake News – Vantage – Medium
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 questions. Read on for the answers from VII members Anush Babajanyan, Ashley Gilbertson, Ed Kashi, Ilvy Njiokiktjien, Nichole Sobecki and John Stanmeyer, and VII Mentor Program photographer Arnau Bach.
-
‘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
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.
When I go to places that have been bombed, they look nothing like the ghastly images we see all too frequently: There are no destroyed buildings; no severed limbs dangling from tree branches; no mushroom clouds of smoke or scent of charred flesh
-
7 with VII: All About Gear — Vantage — Medium
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 Bondar, Ed Kashi, Poulomi Basu and Sarker Protick
-
This War Photographer Embedded Himself in a Video Game – LightBox
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 to use the Photo Mode to document the game’s protagonists as they fight to survive in a zombie-infested world. Gilbertson writes about his experience.
-
Two New Photobooks Illustrate the Value of War Photography – Feature Shoot
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…
While they grew up on opposite sides of the world, Ashley Gilbertson [Australian] and Peter van Agtmael [American] found themselves trudging through the same Iraqi soil in the mid-2000s. Unlike soldiers in uniform, however, Gilbertson and van Agtmael holstered cameras instead of guns, training lenses instead of barrels on discrete moments of soon-to-be-history
-
Bedrooms of the Fallen: Honoring the Casualties of War – LightBox
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 be published by the University of Chicago Press this June.
-
Three of VII: The Life of a Photograph | PROOF
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.
-
It’ll Be Better Next Year
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 of the Dust Bowl in the nineteen-thirties, and is presently experiencing the region’s worst drought in fifty years.
-
Palm Springs 2013: Ashley Gilbertson
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 Falluja.
-
Overexposed: A Photographer’s War With PTSD
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 experience in Iraq is never far from thought.
Eight years after Gilbertson and Dexter Filkins climbed those steps, those perilous moments on the step have followed Gilbertson.
‘A 22-year-old kid was killed because Ashley needed a photograph,’ Filkins said. ‘He’s tormented by that.’”
-
Ashley Gilbertson on social media: “I love taking pictures of my wife and son but they are for me.”
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 to the world that are very carefully edited and all of a sudden I’m making photographs on the fly and they’re bad! That’s got to hurt my reputation!
“
-
Ashley Gilbertson: Finding Occupy Wall Street on Film
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 cover in years,” he told me. “My photographs looked as disparate as the motivations of the hundred or so people who lived full time in the park.”
-
VII Photo Agency Brings in New Members
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 Taylor-Lind, Lynsey Addario, Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Stefano de Luigi, Venetia Dearden, Jessica Dimmock, Adam Ferguson, Ashley Gilbertson, Seamus Murphy, Maciek Nabrdalik, Tomas Van Houtryve and Donald Weber.
-
LOOK3 2011: Ashley Gilbertson’s Exhibition About Dead Soldiers Defaced
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 PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/06/look3-2011-ashley-gilbertsons-exhibition-about-dead-soldiers-defaced.html
Someone had cut the word “suicide” out of the caption under the photograph, and had carved the word “hero” into the bed depicted in the photo.
-
LOOK3 2011: Ashley Gilbertson On War, PTSD and His Project Bedrooms of the Fallen
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
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/06/look3-2011-ashley-gilbertson-on-war-ptsd-and-his-project-bedrooms-of-the-fallen.html
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, France and Scotland who were killed at war.
-
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, David Liitschwager, Steve McCurry, Mary Ellen Mark and Martin Bell, as well as a special exhibition of George Steinmetz photographs hung from trees in downtown Charlottesville.
Link: LOOK3 Preview: Goldin, Kratochvil, Vitali Headline Fest Curated by Kathy Ryan and Scott Thode
-
The 6th Floor: A Conversation With Photographer Ashley Gilbertson
A Conversation With Photographer Ashley Gilbertson
This week, Ashley Gilbertson won a National Magazine Award for his photo essay “A Shrine Down the Hall.” The photographs published in this magazine were a selection from a larger project, which is ongoing.
via The 6th Floor Blog: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/a-conversation-with-photographer-ashley-gilbertson/?partner=rss&emc=rss
We met to discuss the project, “Bedrooms of the Fallen,” on Wednesday in a coffee shop near where he lives in New York City. Gilbertson was accompanied by his wife, Joanna, and their small son, Hugo. Joanna explained that the germ of the project was an effort to keep Ashley out of Iraq, where he had worked on and off since 2002. Looking back, they both agree that this project has been much more difficult than straightforward war photography.