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Category Archives: Photo-journalism
Review: Will Steacy (ed.), Photographs Not Taken
We live in the age of photo proliferation. Digital technology in all its forms (cameras, phones, computers, the Internet) has made photography the most democratic of media, both in terms of making and disseminating images. And they are everywhere, all the time: on our TVs, our computer screens, our smartphones and in our streets. Of [...]
Also posted in Book reviews, Events, Photo-books 1 Comment
Review: Donald Weber, Interrogations
The title of Donald Weber’s latest book, Interrogations, is very appropriate: both because they are the book’s subject, but also because this book raises a number of difficult questions which it deliberately refuses to answer. Set in Russia and the Ukraine, the book is made up of a series of portraits of people being [...]
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A Hipstamatic plea
Although it appears that not a week goes by without a story of another film stock or photo paper being discontinued, analog photography is undergoing something of a revival at the moment… online… and more specifically on screen, courtesy of the Hipstamatic application. As far as I understand it the point of Hipstamatic is to try [...]
Also posted in Existentialist photo-ramblings, Tangents Tagged Aya Takada, digital, Hipstamatic, iPhoneograpahy, Photo-journalism, prints, smart phones 11 Comments
The art of the caption
Choosing words to go with photographs is a big issue for us photobloggers. Some of us avoid them, others use them with caution, and some, like me, can’t seem to hold them back. Choosing the right balance between words and images is a very tricky thing and this tightrope walk often makes me think about [...]
Also posted in Existentialist photo-ramblings, Japanese photography Tagged captions, Duane Michals, Errol Morris, hipster, Hiroh Kikai, Ken Domon, Kikuji Kawada, Shomei Tomatsu, titles, Tomoko Yoneda 2 Comments
Photography has died (again)
A couple of weeks ago I attended a talk at the American University of Paris given by Fred Ritchin, the author of After Photography, who has been thinking and writing about the future of photography in the digital age for longer than most people. The session was tantalisingly entitled Photography and human rights, but mercifully [...]
Also posted in Events, Existentialist photo-ramblings Tagged Fred Ritchin, Photo-journalism, Photosketch 1 Comment
The Places We Live
A friend of mine at the UN sent me a link to The Places We Live, a photo project by the Norwegian photographer, Jonas Bendiksen, in collaboration with the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. Bendiksen’s series documents life in a series of four slums around the world: Caracas, Venezuela; Nairobi, Kenya; Mumbai, India; and Jakarta, Indonesia. In [...]
The Aftermath Project
I recently received a copy of War is Only Half the Story, Volume II, a publication by The Aftermath Project run by the photographer Sara Terry. The Aftermath Project is a non-profit organization that aims to tell “the other half of the story of conflict” through photographs of post-conflict situations. This latest publication includes work [...]
Also posted in Photo-books, Projects Tagged Aftermath Project, Christine Fenzl, Kathryn Cook, Natela Grigalashvili, Pep Bonet, Sara Terry, Tinka Dietz 1 Comment
Abu Ghraib and Lynndie England
Lynndie England is (thankfully) no longer a hot topic, but I was reminded of her story by this week’s episode of the consistently excellent This American Life. For those of you that haven’t switched on a TV or read a blog (or one of those newspaper thingies) in the past year, England was one of [...]
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Photo-journalism: leaving Nachtwey behind
The excellent dispatches magazine recently organized a debate at Brooklyn’s VII Gallery with Gary Knight, one of the magazine’s co-founders, and Tim Hetherington, a young photo-journalist (and ‘thinker’) who has made some interesting attempts to break out of the dark corner in which photo-journalism finds itself. The debate is available in its entirety on the [...]
Also posted in Events, Existentialist photo-ramblings, Magazines Tagged Gary Knight, Photo-journalism, Tim Hetherington 3 Comments
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