Tag: Donald Weber
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Zholtye Vody – VII The Magazine
Link: Donald Weber takes a heart wrenching look at the city of Zholtye Vody in Ukraine. Located near two nuclear waste sites and an enrichment factory in the hub of the Soviet Union’s uranium mining and enrichment area, the homes were built using highly contaminated materials. With a higher radiation level than Chernobyl, over half…
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Review (of sorts): Interrogations by Donald Weber (in actuality an investigation of the shoot-the-messenger syndrome)
Link: Photography essentially is a feel-good exercise for ourselves: We look at photographs to feel good. We want to feel good. It is important to realize that this is usually true even when photographs make us feel bad: it is precisely the fact that we know we should feel bad that can result in our…
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A Gun to Your Head: Inside Post-Soviet Interrogation Rooms by Donald Weber
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/13/a-gun-to-your-head-inside-post-soviet-interrogation-rooms/#1 In academic and literary criticism, the verb “to interrogate” is often a neutral term, stripped of its more violent, forceful resonance. But in Donald Weber’s new book, Interrogations, itself an “interrogation” of the way state power plays out across stretches of…
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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…
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Behind the Scenes: Donald Weber’s new book Interrogations
Donald Weber has a new book of his work in Ukraine and Russia, to be released in Fall 2011 by Schilt
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Worth a look: The Shooting Gallery – videos about photographers
The Shooting Gallery, a tumblr featuring videos about photographers. The videos are divided into two categories: photographers talking and photographers shooting. There are 14 pages of archives to the blog, in which you’ll find videos about the likes of Richard Prince, Donald Weber, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jeff Mermelstein, Stephen Shore, Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller, Cindy Sherman,…
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photo-eye Book Reviews: War Is Only Half the Story, Vol. 3
War Is Only Half the Story, Vol. 3, Photographs by Louie Palu, Asim Rafiqui, Rodrigo Abd, Andrea Bru
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“Picture Head”, a response from Donald Weber | dvafoto
In essence, it’s time we recognize our solipsistic viewpoint of only one way to record and document what we deem “photojournalism.” For far too long we have been held hostage by our own stringent rules, guidelines, methodologies and processes of making and distributing what was supposedly photojournalism. To discount Wolf’s work as anything less then…
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Donald Weber's Interrogation Room – British Journal of Photography
Donald Weber spent four months shooting inside a police interrogation room in the Ukraine, creating a complex portrait of petty criminals as they undergo their “trial by ordeal”, captured at the moment of confession. Diane Smyth questions him. Link: Donald Weber’s Interrogation Room – British Journal of Photography
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Colin Pantall's blog: Donald Weber's Interrogations
Donald Weber’s Interrogations Colin Pantall’s blog about photography, writing, art and politics Link: http://colinpantall.blogspot.com/2010/11/donald-webers-interrogations.html Donald Weber’s latest series is Interrogations (in the current issue of the BJP). It’s portraits of petty criminals confessing in police interrogation rooms – where they don’t have the good cop, bad cop routine but the “bad cop, really bad cop”…
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Interview: Donald Weber, inside the Imperium
we’re talking to photographer Donald Weber who is based in Eastern Europe and is with the VII Network Check it out here.
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VII Photo Expands To Represent Non-Member Photographers
VII Photo Expands To Represent Non-Member Photographers: “The VII Photo agency announced a new division this week called VII Network, which will represent projects by photographers who are not VII members. At its launch, VII Network is representing seven freelance photojournalists: Eric Bouvet, Jessica Dimmock, Tivadar Domaniczky, Balazs Gardi, Ben Lowy, Stephanie Sinclair and Donald…