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duckrabbit
David White
Ciara Leeming
John Macpherson
Peter
Sara Trula
Carl Pendle
Joni Karanka
Mike Lusmore
Madeleine Corcoran

The face of the Gujarat riots meets his photographer ‘saviour’

 

A fascinating ‘what happened next’…. read it here

What groundbreaking images of ‘Africa’ can we expect this year from Visa Festival of Shanty Towns?

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 [...]

Male rape – Guardian photofilm

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 think [...]

Become a real photographer; shoot porn and tramps with the new Fuji x100

It’s funny to watch how photojournalism and advertising are merging. Pushed by the likes of World Press and Visa Festival of Shanty Towns, photojournalism is more and more judged as an aesthetic pursuit, bringing it closer and closer to (high end) advertising.

The holy grail of advertising on the other hand is authenticity, which [...]

Getty Grants For A Good Laugh

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 [...]

Open Eye – THE OTHER (side of Sweden) – photofilm

‘When people see me they see a criminal Arab guy, that’s the first thing they get in their head. I wake up every day after two o’clock. Go out at three. Three hours later the sun is down. It’s a disgusting feeling. I don’t do anything, I don’t make my parents proud … I [...]

How we treat others less fortunate then ourselves

is a mark of how we should be judged as individuals and as society. Also as a company.

Thank god for the great people at Bombay Flying Club, for caring so much they put their hands in their own pocket to tell this important story of how some refugees are treated in Denmark.

Sobering.

[...]

Open Eye: Lebanon’s missing (Radio documentary and photofilm on the BBC)

(PLEASE SHARE THIS IMPORTANT STORY)

If you didn’t get to listen to the fascinating and harrowing piece on the BBC World Service this morning about the photographer Dalia Khamissy‘s attempts to document what happened to the thousands who were kidnapped and disappeared during the Lebanese civil war, then you can listen again here. You can [...]

Open Eye, The Missing – Imm Aziz

“If I had only known that my sons were going and that I would not see them again I would have thrown myself under the wheels of the truck that took them.” Imm Aziz

Palestinian Amina Hassan Banat, 78, better known for Imm Aziz, sits on a sofa placed under the framed portraits [...]

Photofilm, “If he is dead, I need proof, let me bury him”

It’s an argument sometimes given by supporters of the most visually gratuitous forms of photojournalism that we need to see the full horror to understand the ‘truth’.

A woman’s husband is taken out and shot.

Are you really prepared to make the argument that by witnessing the event, and presenting it back to me on [...]

AFP, CNN, Getty, ABC, V Morel, why this case matters to all professional photographers or why Getty could be selling your photos without you even knowing …

Tonight I have received a copy of the transcript of the court proceeding in the case of AFP, Getty, CNN and ABC against Daniel Morel (for the background to this case read here).

You can download the proceedings here: AFP v Morel

It’s no exaggeration to say that the arguments presented in court mean that [...]

Why AFP, Getty, Jean-Francois Leroy, CNN, ABC, CBS love photographs but have no time for photographers, or ‘it wasn’t rape your honor because she was in the room and I was horny’

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 his [...]

The Green Book Materials

This is a masterclass in documentary production. Nothing is out of place. Watch for the ending. It just crushed me.

The Green Book Materials from phos pictures on Vimeo.

No other journalist in the UK is using multimedia on a project in such a sustained and important way as Ciara Leeming

This is essential work that deserves widespread recognition. It’s not sexy because the people in the stories are mainly working class white people but it’s a template for in depth reportage on an important subject.

Classic cars in Gaza

The BBC have featured some pretty surprising audio slideshows about life in Gaza and the West Bank, not least one duckrabbit features before about Palestinian Bagpipers.

Here’s an audio slideshow that will get Rabbit salivating (being an owner and restorer of classic cars):

Israel and Egypt’s blockade of Gaza means there are very few new [...]

TB Day, BBC slideshow

The devastation caused by TB is a rarely told story. For many people in the developed world TB is a disease consigned to history. If only. Two million people still die every year from TB.

To mark TB day the BBC is running this powerful and informative slideshow featuring the photography of David Rochkind, [...]

Mishoka's story

(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. [...]

How photography lies

even when it’s telling the truth?

Essential reading.

Charles Moore: I fight with my camera (watch this, please)

Charles Moore is the legendary Montgomery photojournalist whose coverage of the Civil Rights era produced some of the most famous shots in the world (the dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham, the Selma Bridge, and Martin Luther King’s arrest in Montgomery, among many others.) His photographs are credited with helping to quicken the [...]

War photographer: a dangerous idolatry

“In times when (some) photographers hold celebrity status, it is useful to be reminded that a good photograph does not solely depend on the photographer’s ability to choose the right subject, location and light, but also on the chemistry and the collaboration, between photographer and subject…Despite my deep sympathy for socially inclined photographers, when [...]