We’ve become such a 24/7 moving world with a constant stream of news and sound and pictures,” writes Light. “And the wonderful thing of a still photograph is you get to linger, you get to stop, you get to look, you get to think, you get to react, and it is a very different experience.
Tag: Stephen Ferry
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Stephen Ferry Documents the Colombian Conflict
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/10/09/violentology-stephen-ferry-documents-the-colombian-conflict/#end
Photographer Stephen Ferry has spent ten years documenting the ongoing internal armed conflict in Colombia — a situation that, he says, is often overlooked or miscast as a ‘drug war’ outside of the country. In his recently-published book, Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict, Ferry presents a comprehensive look at this incredibly complicated and brutal conflict with the use of his own photographs, historical imagery and text.
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Stephen Ferry’s Manual of Colombian Conflict
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For the past ten years, the photographer Stephen Ferry has working on what he calls a “collective photographic record of the Colombian conflict.”
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Stephen Ferry Recipient of First Tim Hetherington Grant
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The project examines the history of the guerilla war in Colombia and encompasses a decade of Ferry’s images from the conflict-torn nation
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Stephen Ferry Receives First Tim Hetherington Grant
The annual grant of €20.000 was given for Ferry’s project “’Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict,” chosen by a selection committee from among 222 applications by photographers of 56 nationalities.
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Aftermath Project Announces Winners of Special Grant
Aftermath Project Announces Winners of Special Grant | PDNPulse
Four photographers have been selected to share a $65,000 special grant to support documentary coverage of the Sahrawi people of Africa and their ongoing struggle for independence in a disputed region of the Western Sahara, the Aftermath Project has announ
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/04/aftermath-project-announces-winners-of-special-grant.html
Photographers Stephen Ferry of the US, Christian Tasso of Italy, Simona Ghizzoni of Italy, and Arthur Conrad Kisitu of Uganda will receive money to support their various projects about daily life, culture, and the role of women in the Sahrawi community.
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Showcase: It Couldn’t Be, but It Is – Lens
Showcase: It Couldn’t Be, but It Is
Stephen Ferry saw the magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez from his first hours in Colombia. Then, as Valerie Lapinski reports, he set out to photograph the source.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/showcase-119/
“I wish I could bring you your coffee right now,” he told them, “but there are eight highly armed men attacking the building at this moment. And they are stealing the payroll. But that should blow over in half an hour, and the coffee man will be able to get in.”
So it was that Stephen Ferry, one of the guests, got his first taste of the real in magic realism, on his first trip to Colombia in 1995.
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PDNPulse: Getty Awards "Good" Grants to Stephen Ferry, Karen Kasmauski
PDNPulse: Getty Awards “Good” Grants to Stephen Ferry, Karen Kasmauski:
Stephen Ferry has won a grant to support his project for Human Rights Watch, “Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Widespread Threats and Political Violence Against Colombian Civilians.”
Karen Kasmauski has won a grant for a documentary project for Save Our Cumberland Mountains.