It took me so long to get my last post up as work here in Tanzania has been so crazy busy but this morning I had a some extra time as the heavens had opened last night. When it rains here in Dar es Salaam there is a lot of water and most of it [...]
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The view across the Indian Ocean a stone's throw from our training in Dar es Salaam. Of course I’m talking about me being here in east Africa courtesy of the British Council who have put on a photofilm training course for local journalists, photographers and students here in Dar es Salaam in beautiful Tanzania. [...] 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. [...] With all the debate both about how war is photographed and about Africa is photographed, this African football tournament for amputees injured in war seems like an interesting story to tell as an alternative narrative. Football is immensely popular in the continent, and sport is often used as a strong tool by which to help [...] If the video running off the front page of the Visa website is anything to go by they are: MADNESS and DESPAIR? VIOLENCE and FEAR? EXODUS or maybe just WALKING FOR THE BUS? and BLACK AND WHITE STICK BENDING I can’t wait and I’m really pleased to see that festival Director J F Leroy [...]
“Bereft of a clear narrative, journalists and photographers often confine themselves to stories of suffering, anchored in bleak statistics: 400,000 rapes in one year; 5.4 million deaths between 1998 and 2007. Richard Mosse’s pictures of Congo draw from a different palette of colours, literally….It feels as if we have fallen down [...] Yesterday I put up a post that in part explored how highly staged and stylized photography has come to define how we perceive women survivors of rape in The Congo. I’ve been pretty amazed that no-one wants to defend what has become the pre-eminent way of working on projects as a documentary photographer/photojournalist? Shouldn’t we [...] close today. Last year they awarded the major grant to Stefano De Luigi for a project title T.I.A, ‘This Is Africa’. If you get to the end of this (extended) post you’ll be able to read what a group of Kenyan photographers think of the judges choice but for those who don’t stay the distance [...] The Democratic Republic of Congo is the most colourful place I’ve ever visited. The women even smile. Madam Agata teaches a group of women in their last month of pregnancy to knit (c) Yasuyoshi Chiba/duckrabbit/MSF Infact it’s the Muzungus (white people) who were the most drab, including this dodgy looking geezer:
duckrabbit [...] Ciara Leeming summed it up beautifully on the BBC recently when she said the problem with many ‘photojournalists’ is that they have little understanding of journalism. Dominic Nahr’s set of pics in TIME is a great example. Why? Where is the coherency and where is the story? To be fair to Dominic he’s run around [...] This is very worthy of winning a TED award this year. A lesson in how to give women a voice, deal with tragic circumstances, get away from those socially exclusive private openings, do more than just frame suffering on white walls, use the landscape and bring new people into the beautiful medium of socially concerned [...] I love this. It starts with redemption. Goes to shock and then back to redemption. The emotional maturity and the awareness of the need to engage, not to either preach nor alienate audiences really comes through. I know it is a video but photofilms/photography can and does have this transformative potential by thinking outside of [...] There is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that duck is having an amazing adventure in Kenya. I’ve been attending a four day Masai ceremony in which warriors make the transition to elders. Myself and Yasuyoshi have been the only foreigners invited. It is a great honor. Actually its not [...] “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 almost immediately after [...] As you’ve probably read over the last week, we’re big fans of photo-blogs like the New York Times’ Lens blog, which showcase some of the best photography from around the world each and every day. Alongside Lens, there’s also the Big Picture, run by the Boston Globe. Again, it shows big images every day from [...] (3rd Place, Feature Audio Slideshow, Best of Photojournalism 2010) Congratulations to all the other winners. This video was produced in collaboration with MSF as part of their amazing Condition Critical project. Please do visit the website and leave a comment. THANKS. [...] Photo: the last night of the noughties on the hill of Masailand in Kenya- Yasuyoshi Chiba on duckrabbit [...] |
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