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Peter (our Director of Operations) gave an interview to Al Jazeera today about the Kony film (don’t worry this post is NOT about that). One of the questions was ‘What did Stop Kony do that mainstream media is not doing in Africa?‘ But here’s the thing. You are the mainstream media. You and your friends, [...] This afternoon the winners of the World Press Photo Multimedia awards will be announced. Last year the panel was chaired by Ed Kashi from the photo agency VII (great choice) and another member was Andrew De Vigal, multimedia editor at the New York Times (another great choice). I think there was just six judges. First [...] A few people have asked me recently why I never write much about my travels with duckrabbit. Mainly its because we don’t bang on (bore you) too much about our work on the blog and also because it takes time to process new places. I do want to share with you though something utterly magical [...] It would be impolite to steal Invisible Children’s thunder and I’ll admit they’ve had a small modicum of attention, but they should leave the advocacy videos down to the big boys. So with that in mind we’ve pulled in every favor we could to have this film put together for Kony. It’s a simple message, [...] Or just how lucky those of us who have a healthcare system are then read this, which I lifted from the excellent MSF Field Blogs About Ferry Ferry is a field coordinator for MSF, currently working in the mountains of the Hauts Plateaux in Congo (DRC). Sliding through magic bamboo 04/03/2012 Ferry Schippers [...] But in the meantime this is absolutely magical and ever so slightly surreal (for Saturday). Sister Rosetta Tharpe filmed in 1964 at a disused railway station In Manchester, England. The band performed on one platform while the audience were seated on the opposite platform. Hunted a live version of this much loves tune by [...]
‘It was a few days after my birthday when my Dad bought me a bike for my birthday, I must have been 5 or 6 or something. I was out the front of the house ridiing my bike during the day and Mum’s then husband turned up and even though it pains me to [...] One of the most silly things that gets batted about in the photography world is the belief that ‘a great photo needs no explanation’. It’s as daft as saying a film is only great if it works without a soundtrack. That’s not to say that photos can’t be great in their own right. To deny [...] Ask youself, when you read the caption, do you feel the urge to click on the link and see the picture? Do you know who this is? A living legend of East Africa – 100-years old drummer, singer, herbalist and “rebel”, a Muslim who often goes without her veil and loves smoking cigarettes. Most entertaining [...]
‘Social-networking theory aside: Shouldn’t we be taking pictures? Isn’t photography about photographs and not about promoting the crap out of photographs?’ Full post here. Today I found in a dusty packed away box an old letter from my dad to my eldest son Samuel.
Maybe you’ve had that experience? Finding, with surprise, something that comes from someone you’ve loved and is now gone. The way for a moment the world around you ceases to exist. The [...] 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 you. [...] 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 about [...] ‘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 wonderful [...] “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 largely [...] 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 do [...] 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 am [...] |
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