© Guy Batey
Welcome Guy Batey as a participating photographer at still-dancing.com!
© Gyula Sopronyi
Fight, Fear, Hope and Faith. Pakistan
Pakistan, a country of 173 million people that encompasses dusty plains, sublime mountain peaks and some of the world’s most densely populated cities, has rarely been a placid place since it became an independent nation in 1947.
The February elections brought Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party, headed by her widower, Zardari, to power and a brief hiatus in the violence.
But the new governing coalition collapsed over petty power struggles, and the militancy resumed. Twenty-nine suicide bombings have claimed more than 400 lives so far this year.
Pakistan is in crisis.
Islamic extremism has metastasized from the lawless tribal areas on the border with Afghanistan to Pakistan’s cities one of the most conflict-plagued regions in the world.
Yet though Pakistan has been a victim of terrorism, it has also been its enabler.
Enjoy the exhibition Fight, Fear, Hope and Faith. Pakistan by Gyula Sopronyi!
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On Feb. 1, 1960, four students from all-black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into a Woolworth five-and-dime with the intention of ordering lunch…
wonderful personal story
quote: “dont you ever ever stereotype anybody in this life until you at least experience them and have the opportunity to talk to him” minute 5ff
>1:1photo magazine, number 5 Winter 2009-10
“The visual arts have been reluctant to erase the frontiers between the erudite and the popular, between art and daily life. From its beginnings art photography has tried to raise walls of isolation, distinguishing itself from the “other photography”. Stieglietz already tried to find acceptance for photography promoting a salon art, using the paradigm of painting. Musea contribute with their celebratory politics and galleries with the craze of unique or limited or numbered copies and managers with their demands of exclusivity. The mannerism of photography schools goes in the same direction… the “democratization” of photography and today’s easy access do not improve its quality, but they do open up opportunities to speed up the permanent changes and mutations that are needed to keep photography alive.
© all photographs by Uwe Krahn – from the series White Noise
Although each image can be seen on birds, there are not even the birds important to Uwe Krahn, but the moods which produces the observed from below the flight of birds. Melancholy, loneliness, freedom, independence and respect at all times to the ground. The photographs were taken with a Diana F camera – a plastic camera from Hong Kong of the ’60s.
More about Uwe Krahn and his wonderful pictures you can check out on his website.
Police stop photographers under anti-terror legislation. Under Section 44 legislation photographers were questioned by officers for taking innocent pictures of tourist destinations, landmarks and even a fish and chip shop. Read the full article here. Please read the related articles, too.
I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! invited on January 23rd all photographers to a mass photo gathering in defence of street photography.
You can watch some pictures of the event at David Hoffmanns website.
In my previous life, the one I had before embracing a camera, I loved comics. During a recent visit at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum I saw some pencil drawings, from an artist whose name I couldn’t recall, that really fascinated me.
The Arrival © Shaun Tan
Luck wanted that, among my Christmas presents, there was also a book from Shaun Tan, the artist whose work I admired in Amsterdam.
The book tells without words the story of an immigrant moving to a new world, you can see his books by yourself following this link. The theme that this book touches, migration, is common in photojournalism, so I think that it might be interesting to have an alternate and refreshing view on a known subject. In black and white.
The decade in news photographs
I wish you, your family and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010 !
Rena Effendis exhibition “House of Happiness” has been already watched over 2.500 times at our website still-dancing.com!
Enjoy the video, where she talks about her work, in particular about her most recent story “Pipe Dreams”.
The book relating to the series can be watched online on her website (great!) and it can be purchased, too.
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