You probably already know Christopher Morris‘ work. One of the founding members of VII, his conflict photography is unparalleled and his recent work on American politics, including the book “My America,” has redefined visual coverage of the White House. You might not know that Morris has been making videos in addition to his still coverage of American politics.
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Interview: Christopher Morris talks about his videos of the American presidents | dvafoto
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‘We Clean History’: Thoughts on Another Crimea | Disphotic
Another Crimea brings together six photographers from the prominent photographic agencies Noor, VII and Magnum. The photographers (Christopher Morris, Francesco Zizola, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Olivia Arthur, Pep Bonet and Yuri Kozyrev) each produced a documentary photo series, or in one case a film, in the region over ten days in summer 2014
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Balkan War Photojournalists Recall Being ‘Witnesses to History’ | Balkan Insight
Balkan War Photojournalists Recall Being ‘Witnesses to History’
Renowned photographers Ron Haviv and Christopher Morris spoke in Zagreb about how they tried to be the ‘eyes of the world’ during the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia.
via Balkan Insight: https://balkaninsight.com/2019/11/20/balkan-war-photojournalists-recall-being-witnesses-to-history/
US photographers Ron Haviv and Christopher Morris presented some of the most important of their images from the break-up of Yugoslavia in Zagreb on Tuesday evening, with Haviv saying that he went to the Balkan war zone in the 1990s to “witness history” for himself.
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He Said ‘Excuse Me’ And Then Proceeded to Beat the Vice President
He Said ‘Excuse Me’ And Then Proceeded to Beat the Vice President
Photojournalist Ron Haviv shares one photo from his time in Panama in 1989 and the impact it had on the future of the country.
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/06/he-said-excuse-me-and-then-proceeded-to-beat-the-vice-president/
Days prior, photojournalist Ron Haviv had been given a plane ticket by photographer Christopher Morris to cover the controversial election. At the time, he was freelancing and selling his photographs for $50 a piece. In Ron’s words, he barely knew what he was doing.
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A Journalist Was Body Slammed, but Some Conservatives Want the News Media to Apologize – The New York Times
A Journalist Was Body Slammed, but Some Conservatives Want the News Media to Apologize
The treatment of a reporter by Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate in a Montana special election, was either “outrageous” or “totally out of character,” depending on whom you ask.
“It is not cool,” Ms. Ryan, who encountered brusque treatment herself at a White House press briefing, said in an interview. “Who are we? Are we a third-world country? You cannot persecute the press for asking questions about the truth.”
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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 the formation of VII, a traditional photo agency based on the global Web.
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LOOK3: Chris Morris on Shooting War, Fashion and Politics
LOOK3: Chris Morris on Shooting War, Fashion and Politics | PDNPulse
The candid conversation between Christopher Morris and MaryAnne Golon at the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Viriginia, highlighted the varied paths Morris’s career has taken, from documenting conflict and politics to shooting fashion
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/06/look3-chris-morris-shooting-war-fashion-politics.html
“I was always in pursuit of the ultimate conflict photography, basically pursuing the man with the gun,” said Morris of the years he spent covering conflict. “Eventually I started to realize I was pursuing a bunch of idiots with a gun.”
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A Photographer Assaulted: GOP Inciting Violence
A Photographer Assaulted: GOP Inciting Violence
The takeaway from the beating yesterday? Many GOP candidates, their rallies and their photo ops are fostering an atmosphere of violence.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/03/christopher-morris-beating/
Simply, many of the GOP candidates, their rallies and their photo ops are fostering an atmosphere of violence. Combine the commotion of African-American protesters marching through a Trump rally with one of the most seasoned and esteemed campaign photographers standing eighteen inches outside the photographer’s “pen,” and the result is no surprise.
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Secret Service agent body slams TIME photographer at Trump rally – Poynter
Secret Service agent body slams TIME photographer at Trump rally – Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.
via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/secret-service-agent-body-slams-time-photographer-at-trump-rally/399121/
“Additionally, statements by Mr. Trump regarding his disdain for the press and for photographers in particular may have contributed to this incident and should be remedied immediately.”
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TIME’s Christopher Morris Slammed To Ground At Trump Rally | NPPA
TIME’s Christopher Morris Slammed To Ground At Trump Rally
Photojournalist Christopher Morris, on assignment for TIME magazine covering a Donald Trump rally today in Radford, VA, was involved in an incident with a Secret Service agent as he tried to photograph Black Lives Matter protesters who were being thrown o
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/times-christopher-morris-slammed-ground-trump-rally
Kennerly also wrote, “Chris can be faulted for using an expletive when the agent tried to block him from taking a photo, but their training definitely doesn’t teach them to assault people for something they said – at least it didn’t used to …”.
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VIDEO: Time Reporter Grabs Secret Service Agent’s Throat at Trump Rally *UPDATED* – Breitbart
VIDEO: Time Reporter Grabs Secret Service Agent’s Throat at Trump Rally *UPDATED* | Breitbart
According to The Independent Journal’s congressional reporter Joe Perticone, the man holding the camera in the video below is a journalist. Perticone |
via Breitbart: http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/02/29/video-reporter-grabs-neck-of-secret-service-at-trump-rally/
“These “photographers” are agent provocateurs deliberately sent to cause trouble. ”
Measure for Measure.
Kick the shyte out of them.
As soon as they grab, kick the shyte out of them.
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Secret Service agent brutally choke slams a photographer at Trump rally
Secret Service agent choke slams a photographer at Trump rally
A photographer working a Donald Trump rally was thrown to the ground by security.
via Mashable: http://mashable.com/2016/02/29/trump-photographer-choke-slam/#7KuJTAd8Lmqo
The incident, which was captured in numerous videos, begins when the photographer, Christopher Morris, attempts to shoot a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters, who disrupted the Trump rally by marching out with their hands above their heads.
He is stopped by an agent and then tells him, “Fuck you.” The agent asks, “What?”
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Behind the Scenes of The Candidates by Christopher Morris | TIME
See How the Slow Motion ‘The Candidates’ Was Filmed
Christopher Morris takes us behind the scenes
via Time: http://time.com/4206960/behind-the-scenes-candidates-christopher-morris/
The clip lasts 10 seconds, but Morris’ camera movement that day – his sweep across that front row in that Noah’s Event Venue in St. Clive, Iowa – took less than a second to film using Vision Research’s Phantom, a high-speed camera that shoots more than 720 frames per second.
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Conversation: Christopher Morris and Jošt Franko
Link: Conversation: Christopher Morris and Jošt Franko | PROOF
As a part of the VII Mentor Program, emerging photographer Jošt Franko has been mentored by VII member Christopher Morris for the past two years. In this edition of Conversations, Morris talks about what sets Franko’s work apart, Franko shares his future goals, and together they discuss the dynamics of their working relationship
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Waiting for the New Pope by Christopher Morris
LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/03/14/waiting-for-the-new-pope-by-christopher-morris/#1
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Conclave: A Short Film by Christopher Morris
LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/03/14/conclave-a-short-film-by-christopher-morris/
TIME assigned contract photographer Christopher Morris to document the Papal Conclave earlier this week. In addition to his work as a photojournalist, Morris also directed and produced a short film, ‘Conclave’, about the anticipation of the crowds congregating in St. Peter’s Square for the announcement of the new Pope.
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‘Americans’: Christopher Morris Captures a Nation Divided
LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/12/03/americans-christopher-morris-captures-a-nation-divided/#end
I’ve taken real pains to make sure there’s no political photography. There aren’t any portraits of Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, and no pictures of rally signs. Instead, I sought to make an anthropological study of America—not for this week, or for this past election cycle—but a body of work that future generations could look back on to get a sense of the country’s mood.
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On the Road with Mitt Romney by Christopher Morris
LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/11/06/on-the-road-with-romney-by-christopher-morris/
Photojournalist Christopher Morris spent the last week of the campaign photographing Romney on the trail for TIME
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Mr. President
Pivotal midterm elections in the United States are taking place on Tuesday November 2nd. President Barack Obama is under increasing pressure from the Republican Party and the Tea Party to maintain control of the U.S. Congress. We thought it would be interesting to look at an exclusive interview with Christopher Morris about the three videos he has done about the President and the difficulties he faces.