Interesting piece over on the Grauniad on Massoud Hossaini, the recent winner of a Pulitzer prize. Worth your time.
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I found this incredibly thought-provoking. Photographer Ed Kashi on the realities of spending eight months a year away from his wife and kids. Mike Davis’ Does Story Telling Lose in Multimedia is a poorly-argued position on multimedia. Usually very helpful with his industry insider’s voice, Davis has not met his usual standards. Shame. Davis’ logic is flawed. Let me quote (in bold) and question his three-point disappointment. 1. Thou shalt approach subject matter that mostly happened in the [...]
A fascinating ‘what happened next’…. read it here
Read Blake Andrews’ full assessment here
Step over here to find out why.
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past year or so thinking about how Gypsy and Roma people are represented and misrepresented through photography. Two of my recent projects – Rethink and Elvira and Me – attempt to challenge the prevailing visual stereotypes of indigenous Gypsies and migrant Roma, two connected but separate communities. [...] Everyone needs a little boost on a Monday morning, right? swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/SwqUjkjxmLU&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-20246-youtube-1″, “700″, “567″, “10″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); What a wonderful idea. http://www.vimeo.com/35007176 “Abundance is a fruit harvesting and distribution project that started in Sheffield and since has inspired similar projects across the country. “It’s basically legal scrumping. Tree owners call Abundance, Abundance round up the volunteers, they harvest the fruit, returning some to the owners, and distributing, pickling, or making chutney with [...] …may you all have a perfect day swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/Fcilregu8W4&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-20062-youtube-1″, “700″, “567″, “10″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); The Chernobyl workers now, by Maisie Crow http://www.vimeo.com/33639814 This is a great job for someone going at Save the Children: Full deets here
…just a raw and very powerful blog post that I just read and wanted to share.
Ed Ou is a sickeningly young, talented and humble Canadian photojournalist who has spent much of the past five years covering stories in Somalia and, this year, the Arab Spring. He speaks with a lot of maturity about his journalism in this Canon interview – well worth a quick listen. [...] http://www.vimeo.com/31773934 kudos. From California is a place Remember Bibi Aisha, the Afghan woman whose Jodie Bieber portrait was put on the front of Time Magazine along with a controversial jingoistic strapline? Well, the whys and wherefores about how other people’s words are used to contextualise photographers’ images will be considered at a World Press Photo discussion later this month. Anyway, here is [...] I think Ben would say that they should have used a windshield. But we can forgive the crummy sound just this once. £6,000 worth of fireworks going up in smoke in about 30 seconds in Oban, Scotland, is a sight worth seeing. swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/L6QtigLJD_4&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-18177-youtube-1″, “700″, “567″, “10″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); Fully functional and sure to get you noticed by the ladies I’m sorry, I couldn’t wait. I needed a little something today. Over to The Sunburst Band… swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/BC_-RP6kLWw&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-17690-youtube-1″, “700″, “567″, “10″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); |
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