Japanese photographer Takashi Arai works with daguerreotypes, an old photographic technique which he says record ‘piles of moments’ – revealing the subject’s ‘true personality’. It’s not a quick process and you’d be gutted if you missed the shot. The use of mercury and other chemicals in its preparation makes it somewhat unsafe. But it’s kind of [...]
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“Photography Is presents more than 3,000 phrases that define one of the most democratic and ubiquitous of all art forms. Mirroring the ambiguous and untrustworthy nature of photographs themselves, each phrase in this book has been torn from the context in which it originally appeared. The result is contradictory and chaotic, frustrating [...] More than a million papers relating to the 1953 discovery of the building blocks of life – DNA – are being digitalised and made freely available in a pilot project by the Wellcome Library. Sit back and enjoy this BBC slideshow. Share [...] A sobering lesson on the fate of the world’s glaciers from Mediastorm and the Asia Society, in the week when the UK ‘Con-Dem’ coalition government put pollution standards “on hold”, giving the green light to the building of new coal-fired power stations. Fantastic. Share [...] I’m not usually a fan of photographer-narrated slideshows but I really love this one by Brian Lesteberg because he’s telling his own story rather than contextualising someone else’s. Wonderful pictures and a touching, human little tale. Spotted on Hin Chua’s blog. Share [...] “Harrowing photographs do not inevitably lose their power to shock. But they are not much help if the task is to understand. Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us……[they] don’t tell us everything we need to know.” I’m just coming to the end of Susan Sontag’s seminal essay on our response to [...] “You can live vicariously through images of conflict. There is an underlying exoticism to it. Depicting war doesn’t bring it to an end. I felt sickened by it, but didn’t want to give up what I was doing. I started feeling you had to be more complex in your approach – examine [...] I just found this picture, while sorting through some of my old work. It’s from the Kolkata metro and it still makes me smile. Only in India…… Share [...] Some words of wisdom from Mark Lubell, managing director of Magnum Photography and founder of its multimedia arm, Magnum in Motion, in the latest Sortir du cadre interview, looking at the future for photojournalism. Previous treats have included VII director Stephen Mayes. “If Robert Capa had said ‘no way, I’m not using a hand-held camera’ then we [...] The work of Great War poet Siegfried Sassoon is remembered on this BBC audio slideshow (sorry Ben, I mean photofilm ). It’s quiet and poignant and worth your time – a great little glimpse into the horror and senselessness of the trenches. Share [...] NOT my weekly shopping list… …just a few of the wierd and wonderful contraband items Taryn Simon photographed over five days and nights at New York’s JFK Airport. I urge you to check out the story on the NY Times Lens blog, because it’s great. Then look through the extra images on the second slideshow. And then, when [...] Here’s something to keep you quiet over this miserable mid-summer weekend. I highly recommend that you watch the documentary Shooting Robert King, if you haven’t already. Check it out for free below. Watch more free documentaries Share [...] - Joerg Colberg of Conscientious on why multimedia producers should move beyond the linear narrative. Share [...] “Year-round in Ghana, the sun sets at 6pm and rises at 6am – thus, the residents of communities lacking electricity live half of their lives in the dark. Over ten years ago, the government of Ghana began a massive campaign to provide the country’s rural north with electricity, but the project ceased [...] Share [...] I’ll be trundling up the M6 today to spend the weekend at Appleby Horse Fair. Thousands of Gypsies and Travellers are going to be joining me in this quaint village in Cumbria, northern England, where they will spend the next four days trading horses and catching up with friends and family. It’s a rather special event [...] I’ve heard of the photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally before but I’ve never really explored her work until tonight. Woahhhhh…..I’m blown away. Her approach is very much in the vein of Joseph Rodriguez – in her honesty, warmth and respectfulness to the people who share their lives with her. Like Rodriguez, she also shows a long-term commitment to the people [...] Photographer Aaron Huey has spent five years getting to know the Lakota Sioux and shows his work in this TEDx lecture. This talk should be essential viewing for Americans – but its truths could equally apply to other countries where indiginous peoples have been repressed. 100 years after the so-called Indian Wars, America’s first nation live a disturbing [...] |
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