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If you only read one thing about photography this week, next week, or for the rest of the year, read this post. ‘Even if your photographic diet only consisted of, let’s say, James Nachtwey photographs, I am relatively certain – relatively, not absolutely – that this photograph will move you. It might even shock [...] I’ve has just told me this will be the venue for our photofilm workshop at Contact photo festival in May in Toronto:
I thought our pad next to Tower Bridge in London is pretty hard to beat but once again Mooserabbit (aka Daniel Seguin) has upped the ante. And if you’re thinking [...] ‘People have changed the landscape in a very brutal way here. But the sea fights back for its natural shape and territory. Local people seem to respect the power of the sea. Nevertheless at he same time they thoughtlessly devastate it. This wired symbiosis makes this piece of land fascinating.‘ Rafal Milach. This is [...] “Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in order to make them fit for further interrogation. This is unacceptable,” said MSF General Director Christopher Stokes. I’m not the only one who has been struck by the one sided reporting of the Libyan revolution. It seems the media were [...] Huffington Post Says ‘Here’s a foolproof way to sell a book of photographs: reconceptualize the best ones in the world. That’s what photographer Tim Mantoani has done with his new book “Behind Photographs,” a compilation of famous photographers holding their famous works‘ My review is here. [...] ‘As I prepared pictures to submit to a contest I could not stop thinking that all these past years the main photo contests chose their winners from among the pictures depicting wars and conflicts. I think that this year will be the same, due to the many bloody events around the world. I [...] Somebody wrote: ‘OK, Kodak’s dead…..and why is it, with the exception of a handful of shooters, none of the photographers who excelled in my generation are working, and why is it that no one really cares? I can think of 40 names, even more from the 80′s who were young at that time…. I [...] Hello Sam, It’s your birthday and I am on the other side of the world, thinking about you. This is your first birthday I have missed since you came out fighting for your first breath eleven years ago and changed me forever. Back then you were an exploding galaxy of potential. You were the [...] ‘I was dumbfounded when a student responded with genuine tears of relief, there in the seminar, to the suggestion that there was a theoretical (ie. political) discourse that affirmed and articulated the extreme tension he often felt when assigned to photograph people living with poverty, sickness or exclusion. That this ethical unease – the [...] According to a tweet I just read by Edmund Clark, Today is the 10th anniversary of the first detainees arriving at Guantanamo Bay. 171 remain there.
‘When you are suspended by a rope you can recover but every time I see a rope I remember. If the light goes out [...] This is a short (humbling) story about something that happened to me today. Mike Lusmore and myself are in Khulna Bangladesh giving a photofilm training to a cracking group of people from Canada, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Australia, Malasia and the UK. We’re staying at a training centre in the city of Khulna, which is [...] Interesting to see the VII photographer Ashley Gilbertson having a gentle crack on twitter at ‘academics’ who ‘complain’ about some of the repetitive imagery of ‘Africa’ that gets published. Gilbertson seems unaware that critical questions regarding the representation of Africa are not in any way limited to academics. Or maybe he just comes from [...] Yesterday I received the following email from a photographer and thinker whose work I really admire (not someone who has anything to prove). The subject was ‘Hetherington’s last photos’ as recently published in the Guardian. This really frustrates me. The ‘cult of the war photographer’ perfectly illustrated, exactly as raised on your blog post. [...] If you hurry you can become our 5000 follower on Twitter. Or if you want a real banging bargain you could buy a Jim Mortram print. Or if you could just listen to another sublime track by LOW. This one is for Mrs duckrabbit who turns a year more beautiful today. She got [...] If you have time I recommend you go and check out the end of year show for the Masters in doc photography and photojournalism at London College of Communication. Go with an open mind about what is photography. There is, if you’re open to look some beautiful, thoughtful work, both journalistic and conceptual. I [...] I’ll get straight to the point. Never in my life have I witnessed such a dedicated group of people, making an incredible difference as the MSF team in Masisi, DR Congo, that duckrabbit documented earlier this year. Following the midwife Sam Perkins around for the week was both an inspiring and humbling experience. She [...] There’s been a rush to like us in the last couple of days. No idea why …. THANKS (always appreciated) However if you want to do something much, much better then liking us on Facebook you can buy a Jim Mortram print. I don’t know how I missed this brilliant post over at DVAPHOTO. If you have any interest in protecting your right to take a picture in public then head over for an incredibly thorough set of links. Thank you Mr Brauer ‘Skip to about 1:45 in the video above to see police obstructing New York Times [...] Part of the absurd fallout from last week’s ridiculous moment when VII’s Anastasia Taylor Lind jumped to her feet and repeatedly punched duckrabbit in the face at the LCC Masters end of year show after-party, have been the attempts behind the scenes to influence what we do or don’t say about it on our [...] “If the game is to be in the right place at the right time, I can’t win at that game, because there’s only one of me,” says Rob Bennett, a Wall Street Journal contract photographer. “I’m resigned to that.” Millions of people with smartphones are now in constant possession of cameras. Nobody plans for [...] |
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