When I watch a photofilm in which the audio features the photographer talking about their images, I often switch off quite quickly. But when I heard Will Storr talk about his project on male survivors of rape in Congo and Uganda, I didn’t – in fact I was stopped in my tracks. I [...]
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Has Steve McCurry proved himself to be a godlike *******, Nachtwey style? According to the ever brilliant APHOTOEDITOR Old schooler McCurry goes for the craigslist classified ad seeking an intern who is “highly motivated” with a “proven track record of excellence.” This intern must be proficient in “retouching in Photoshop” and [...] 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:
During the judging of the recent World Press Awards one thing you can trust is that, on the whole, the judges will pick great pictures. With a hundred thousand or so to chomp through they’d have to be visually illiterate to do anything else. But can you trust that the work they pick [...] Wish more people made gentle films like this. And wish more people understood this is a convinceing way to engage people about climate change. Thanks @finnryan for sharing
Fly Fishing | Climate Wisconsin from ECB on Vimeo. (amended title because Joerg’s was MUCH better) Take a look at this picture by Damon Winter, as featured on the (excellent) New York Times, Lens Blog, and part of a series featured in the newspaper: The photographs have been taken using an iPhone that automatically applies heavy processing with an iPhone app. [...] Mog wishes to issue a call to arms to emerging photojournalists. Be aware, we are on the brink of a social and cultural revolution that in all likelihood will make Thatcherism seem mild and innocuous by comparison. Too many young photographers based in the UK seem obsessed with looking abroad for stories and [...] Everybody knows (and behind his back everybody says) that one of the problems with the Visa, Festival of Shanty Towns, is that it only has one curator, and as time ticks on more and more people are turning blue trying to squeeze into the narrowness of that curator’s mind. (that may sound a bit [...] I’m In Malmo, Sweden, with the photographer Joseph Rodriguez. We’re working on a radio documentary and photofilm about how a whole generation of young immigrants are being lost to a life of crime and social inequality. Over the last four days we’ve been hanging with some of these young people. It’s been a troubling [...] should be the one and only millennium development goal then watch this important and disturbing film. I apologize for the tiny size of this film which does not in any way do the work justice. For some reason Mediastorm insist the film is either embedded at a width of 460 or 1000 pixels. 460 is too [...] Some of you will have been following the debate about why JF Leroy (Director of the Visa Pour L’Image Festival) has gone to such lengths to give the Haitian photographer Daniel Morel a kicking for uploading 15 of his pictures to Twitpic on the night of the Haitian earthquake. I recommend that you read the posts [...] UPDATE Jean Francois Leroy has emailed duckrabbit to say he will be responding within the next 48 hours. Some of you will have been following the debate about why JF Leroy (Director of the Visa Pour L’Image Festival) has gone to such lengths to give the Haitian photographer Daniel Morel a kicking for uploading [...] Thank you for your response to my post yesterday critisizing the way way certain photo agencies seem content to abuse the rights of indvidual photographers. I am sorry that we misunderstood you. Might that have something to do with upholding a logic that many people find is at odds with your self stated remit [...] The case that opens today according to NPPA: In a case that could set precedent in online copyright legislation and impact photographers around the world, oral arguments are scheduled to begin Friday in a New York City courtroom in freelance photojournalist Daniel Morel’s claim against Agence France-Presse. Morel is suing AFP for using, without [...] Have to say I’m not that arsed about seeing Tim Hetherington’s new documentary Restrepo, which follows the lives of a group of American soldiers in Afghanistan throughout a year. Why? Because it will probably only accentuate an already piss poor stereotypical vision of Afghanistan, told from one side only, much as the massively overrated [...] |
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