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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 [...] 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 just admit what [...] I read the fascinating article below on Reciprocity Failure sometime back and asked Stan Banos if I could re-publish on the duckrabbit. I still think this subject is practically taboo in an industry that makes such an important contribution to human rights across the globe. The problem is if you start to actually examine the subject in [...] It’s hard to argue with a photographer when they point to a photo of their own that they once loved but now think is a ‘lie’. Simon Sticker has done just that in an interesting post about a photo he took in Rwanda. In photography he says, referring to his own pictures, a [...] “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 [...] duckrabbit followed it thinking that can’t be true, right? PERSPECTIVE ON THIS (from the comment section): Iamnotasuperstarphotographer: “Good to see better gender representation though… I am very happy to see that the glass ceiling is being put under pressure for the benefit of women. Any progress is good progress and I hope to [...] That the blog is edited by a photographer both with enormous talent and integrity and whom is still very much in love with the still image is one of the key reasons (@jamesestrin). Everyday the Lens blog is a reminder that photography is alive and kicking. If you have a spare ten minutes take [...] In this city, and the nation at large, no group has suffered more in the current recession than black men. The recent spike in joblessness that has nearly one in five black males unemployed in 2010 is the end result of decades of high unemployment rates for blacks, with devastating consequences for [...] There’s a wonderful gallery of images from the civil rights movement in America running on the New York Times Lens blog. Some of these images have never been seen, locked away in law archives but will be on show from March 28 to August 11 at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Its easy [...] For African Americans, Native Americans, Asian, Latino… or gays… or under 25… or female… they know that their communities have been, and continue to be, routinely left out of their newspaper. They typically make the news for holidays, crime or food. For many of them, newspapers aren’t dying… they’re already dead. At SXSWi, [...] 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 [...] Check it out. Important stuff. ‘The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can’t believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling. [...] Ok, so anybody reading any of the blogs with which duckrabbit feels an affinity will know that Pete Brook, of prison photography fame, got fed up with all the daft debate surrounding photography and diversity and has decided to do something about it. So he wrote to a tonne of us bloggers asking if [...] ‘Taking it’s name from a darkroom/photo processing technique, the Dodge & Burn Blog is dedicated to DIVERSITY in PHOTOGRAPHY. My posts reflect PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY as I would have loved to have learned it and CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY as I see and value it. Dodge & Burn photography blog will highlight what is often “dodged” [...] I read a comment on Lightstalkers by a photojournalist who said that growing up in London twenty years ago he wasn’t aware of any racism. It’s typical of a revisionist version of the world that has been prevalent in the comments sections of many photography blogs the past couple of months since Stan Banos [...] Either Stan has finally challenged Joerg of Concientious to a game of Twister , or someone, somewhere is kicking off. In this case its a typhoon of a post by Sebastien Boncy that can be found on Amy Steins blog. When Sebastien pretty much opens with these words you know punches won’t be pulled: [...] Some time ago duckrabbit ran a silly competition offering $1000 to anyone who could successfully justify to Stan Banos why PDN set up a 22 strong all white photography judging panel. The competition, and surrounding debate resulted in PDN putting out an apology of sorts. Today I received this comment from the US lawyer [...] |
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