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US photojournalist Ed Kashi is in London next week for an exhibition of his project Curse of the Black Gold, looking at the Nigerian oil business, and a series of other events. For more info about the show and talk on Monday at Host Gallery check out the Foto8 site. He’s also speaking at [...] “I don’t think there is any one photograph that can encompass the loss that people suffered. I think there comes a time when you need to have a group of images or a combination of words, of audio, video and stills to hit you on all senses for you to really [...] It’s difficult to squash a big subject like the US civil rights movement into a 15 minute multimedia piece but Platon’s current project for the New Yorker at least offers a taster so anyone with an interest will hopefully look into the era more deeply. Contemporary portraits of some of the (often very elderly) surviving [...] I feel off-balance, and unable to keep up with the pace of the life unfolding in front of me. There are a million obvious images, but none that feel right to a frame. I see and yet I cannot find. I struggle to look, but yet I sense that I am not looking in the [...] I’m not – on the whole – personally a fan of multimedia pieces where the photographer talks over his own work. But I’ll make a big exception for this one from Magnum’s largest character, Bruce Gilden, who says there’s a gangster in all of us. What a start to the weekend. Share on Facebook Sadly people are not really interested in the photographs I take of a rather depressing side of our society – Don McCullin. In 1989, British photojournalist Don McCullin approached the current affairs programme Newsnight with the idea of a highlighting the growing problem of London’s homeless – a short film that can now been seen on [...] Whatever your thoughts on the mass media scramble to Haiti over recent weeks, there’s no denying the effectiveness of this panorama of the destroyed Notre Dame cathedral in Port au Prince, by NY Times photographer Fred R. Conrad. The archbishop, Joseph Serge Miot, was among an estimated 200,000 people killed in the devastating Jan 12 earthquake.
BBC Radio 4 has been thinking about photojournalism over the past 24 hours: Are Haiti pictures too graphic? Save the Children aid worker Ishbel Matheson and former Guardian picture editor Eamonn McCabe discuss the question of “disaster porn” and whether you can tell the story properly without showing graphic images on the Today programme. Meanwhile, Overexposed tells the story [...] Magnum’s Susan Meiselas on photography’s potential to connect and move audiences by “expanding the circle of knowledge” about human rights and social justice issues. CIARA LEEMING Share on Facebook |
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