You must believe in yourself, believe in this work and be ready and willing to work harder than you’ve ever worked. You must be able to withstand a seemingly inhumane amount of disappointment and rejection, learn to navigate the unseemly politics and favoritism that is rife in most creative fields, and basically be incredibly resilient. And you must bring your ideas to the table. You must be insatiably curious, sensitive, aware of your surroundings, learn the customs and mores of the places you work, want to engage with people, dedicate yourself to issues, know how to write and express yourself, be gracious, humble, and bring an open heart and mind
Tag: Ed Kashi
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Interview: Ed Kashi – “Abandoned Moments” — Analog Forever Magazine
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The Future of Photojournalism by Ed Kashi – The Eye of Photography
Photojournalism is in transition as a profession and remains an unorthodox career for most. It is certainly not a stable way of life. It has always been a competitive, challenging and dangerous career path, and today it’s never been more dangerous and it’s too often deadly. And it will never return to what it was. In some ways that’s refreshing and presents new opportunities to develop the medium artistically and find a newly relevant and more vibrant place in the expansive media landscape of the digital age.
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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.
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The Unspoken Consequences of a Photojournalist’s Life | TIME
The Unspoken Consequences of a Photojournalist’s Life
“Be mindful of what can be lost when you let that consume you.”
via Time: http://time.com/4311394/the-unspoken-consequences-of-a-photojournalists-life/
Ed Kashi, a documentary photographer and member of the VII Photo agency, writes about the challenges of balancing his professional and personal lives, highlighting the “residual impact” that a lonely profession spent documenting “pain, suffering, violence and death” can have on loved ones.
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Q&A with Ed Kashi: ‘Through social media, we can be our own publishers’ | The National
Q&A with photojournalist Ed Kashi: ‘Through social media, we can be our own publishers’
Ed Kashi talks Instagram and the changing fortunes of photography.
via The National: http://www.thenational.ae/arts-life/photography/qa-with-photojournalist-ed-kashi-through-social-media-we-can-be-our-own-publishers
But we’ve lost a certain amount of care and rumination, space to think about what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. I feel we’re all more than ever hamsters on a wheel – no matter what level of success or however well one might be doing, you’re just a different level of hamster.
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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
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5 Winners of 2015 Aaron Siskind Fellowships Named
5 Winners of 2015 Aaron Siskind Fellowships Named | PDNPulse
The Individual Photographer’s Fellowships support photographic projects with cash awards of varying amounts up to $10,000.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/08/5-winners-of-2015-aaron-siskind-fellowships-named.html
Juan Arredondo of West Orange, NJ
Amy Finkelstein of Takoma Park, MD
Robyn Hasty of Brooklyn, NY
Ed Kashi of Montclair, NJ
Natalie Krick of Longmont, CO -
Ed Kashi, Tim Matsui Win Top Multimedia Prizes at 2015 POYi
Ed Kashi, Tim Matsui Win Top Multimedia Prizes at 2015 POYi | PDNPulse
Ed Kashi has won Multimedia Photographer of the Year honors at the 2015 Pictures of the Year International competition for his project called Syria’s Lost Generation, while Tim Matsui won Documentary Project of the Year for The Long Night, a film he produ
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/02/ed-kashi-tim-matsui-win-top-mutlimedia-prizes-2015-poyi.html
Ed Kashi has won Multimedia Photographer of the Year honors at the 2015 Pictures of the Year International competition for his project called Syria’s Lost Generation, while Tim Matsui won Documentary Project of the Year for The Long Night, a film he produced with MediaStorm about teenage prostitution.
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PDN Video Pick: Ed Kashi and Matt Black for The New Yorker
PDN Video Pick: Ed Kashi and Matt Black for The New Yorker | PDNPulse
For PDN’s January 2015 print edition, we spoke with photographer Matt Black about the photo essay he made for The New Yorker about the drought in California’s Central Valley. Black, who lives in Exeter, California, has been documenting the valley—which pr
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/01/pdn-video-pick-ed-kashi-matt-blacks-california-paradise-burning.html
Kashi proposed that he would shoot motion, and Black would shoot stills, and Johnson was quickly on board. Sky Dylan-Robbins, a video producer at The New Yorker, would edit their work into the 7-minute video that ran on newyorker.com.
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California: Paradise Burning – The New Yorker
California: Paradise Burning
A video captures the historically severe drought in the state’s normally fertile Central Valley.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/california-paradise-burning
Photographers Matt Black and Ed Kashi recently spent time with the farmers and shepherds of the Central Valley, documenting their ongoing struggles
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APAD blog
Official Press Release Announcing APAD’s Continued Awesomeness
What makes the APhotoADay listserv unique is community. Since 2001, I’ve watched people grow up on there. Find their voice. Come into their own. Some have grown from young college photographers into…
via APAD blog: http://blog.aphotoaday.org/post/96485398135/official-press-release-announcing-apads-continued
This year’s auction will be held online through Paddle 8 and includes photographs contributed by Ed Kashi, Vince Musi, Melissa Farlow, Randy Olson, Damon Winter, Todd Heisler, Ami Vitale and many, many other accomplished photographers. The auction will begin on September 2, 2014 and will end on September 16.
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Inspirational Interview Packed Full of Useful Lighting and Photojournalism Tips
Inspirational Interview Packed Full of Useful Lighting and Photojournalism Tips
Photojournalist Ed Kashi has received many accolades over the course of his photojournalistic career, and in this short interview with Marc Silber, he
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/07/07/inspirational-interview-packed-full-useful-lighting-photojournalism-tips/
Photojournalist Ed Kashi has received many accolades over the course of his photojournalistic career, and in this short interview with Marc Silber, he shares some of what he’s learned about light and the art of photojournalism.
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What’s In Your Camera Bag?: Photojournalist Ed Kashi
What’s In Your Camera Bag?: Photojournalist Ed Kashi – Feature Shoot
What’s the most unusual item in your camera bag? The headlamp. There are two things I’ve learned working in the field for more than 30 years—always have backups of your important gear and always be prepared for contingencies. So one contingency is being o
What is the one thing you would advise a photographer to carry with them at all times? Their wits, so they keep aware of their surroundings and find great images. In terms of gear, bring a camera you are comfortable using.
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Lost Generation: Directors Give Voice to Syrian Refugees
LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/01/23/ed-kashi-julie-winokur-meet-syrias-young-refugees/
More than two decades after photojournalist Ed Kashi documented Kurdish refugees streaming back from Iran and Turkey to their fractured homeland, he returned to the same patch of land to witness the impact of Syria’s unending civil war on what is being called a Lost Generation.
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Helping a Fallen Freelancer
Helping a Fallen Freelancer – Ed Kashi
There are some iconic images that stick in our minds when we reflect on the past 11 years about Iraq. Perhaps footage of US contractors who were killed and dragged through the streets of Fallujah. Or George W. Bush ducking a flying shoe during a press con
via Ed Kashi: http://edkashi.com/blog/helping-a-fallen-freelancer/
There are some iconic images that stick in our minds when we reflect on the past 11 years about Iraq. Perhaps footage of US contractors who were killed and dragged through the streets of Fallujah. Or George W. Bush ducking a flying shoe during a press conference in Baghdad. Iraqi cameraman, Yasser Faisal Al-Joumaili is the source of these and many other resonant images from the Iraq war years.
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A Chat with The Kashis: A Photojournalism Family Juggles Chaos and Calm
Link: A Chat with The Kashis: A Photojournalism Family Juggles Chaos and Calm | PROOF
Ed Kashi’s story on northern Nigeria’s Islamic insurgency appears in the November issue of National Geographic magazine. His wife, Julie Winokur, is a writer/filmmaker, and co-founder of Talking Eyes Media. They have two children, Eli, 18, a college freshman, and Isabel, 15.
In this edition of Conversations, National Geographic senior photo editor Alice Gabriner chats with the Kashi family about love, work, and finding the balance between the two.
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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.
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In the Eye of the Storm: Capturing Sandy’s Wrath
LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/30/in-the-eye-of-the-storm-capturing-sandys-wrath/#1
As Sandy drew near, TIME asked five photographers — Michael Christopher Brown, Benjamin Lowy, Ed Kashi, Andrew Quilty and Stephen Wilkes — to document the hurricane and its aftermath via Instagram.