Articles by still-dancing.com

© Stefan Loeliger

Elemental

In geological terms Iceland is very young and the landscape is alive with the restless play of nature’s forces. Iceland has the largest glaciers in Europe – in fact, 11% of the country is covered by glaciers. The coastline is dotted with more than one hundred fjords and green, fertile valleys extend from many of them.

Iceland also has more than 10,000 waterfalls and countless hot springs. A lot of the country is technically uninhabitable, with the moss-covered rocks of ancient lava flows and tall treeless mountains, but these moonscapes are perfect for exploring an other-worldly looking place.

Enjoy the series Elemental by Stefan Loeliger!

© Ami Vitale

Ami Vitale – Kashmir

Ami’s journey as a photojournalist has taken her to more than 75
countries. She has witnessed civil unrest, poverty, destruction of life, and
unspeakable violence. But she has also experienced surreal beauty and the
enduring power of the human spirit, and she is committed to highlighting the
surprising and subtle similarities between cultures. Her photographs have been
xhibited around the world by the UN, Human Rights Watch, MSF, Oxfam, the
Open Society Institute, and many others.

Ami’s work has garnered the Photographer of the Year
International award, the Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism,
Lucie awards, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting, the NPPA
Magazine Photographer of the Year award among many others. Now a contract
photographer with National Geographic, Ami is also senior producer for the Knight
Center for International Media.

You will find lots of information on the series in the text under every image.

Enjoy the exhibition Kashmir by Ami Vitale!

© Bruno Trematore

Welcome Bruno Trematore as a participating photographer at still-dancing.com!

© 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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© Kirill Surov

Memories for Sale

I have been always fascinated by metaphysical nature of the candid photography. The combination of light, form and subject transforms into something new on the flat surface of a photographic print and the result is often unpredictable. The quest for a successful shot becomes an adventure by itself. On the other hand still life images are produced mostly in a highly controlled environment where a photographer defines all the parameters of the composition and light. I decided to try to fuse these two disciplines together.

The theme for the series was suggested during one my photo sessions at antiques market. While walking between vendors offering fragments of the past I saw a face of a beautiful woman looking at me from the wilted old photograph. It was uncomfortably inappropriate for somebody’s memories to be for sale and to be traded the same way as the rest of the antique merchandise. I was deeply touched and decided to offer a new life for those sold memories.
Since then the boundaries of the main theme blurred a bit, I included some objects with the faces from the past, but the idea remained the same – candid still life portrait photographs in which almost nothing is under control except for the frame composition.

Memories for Sale from Kirill Surov is now online. Enjoy!

© Txema Salvans

Enjoy the exhibition si no hago fotos, me muero by Txema Salvans!

© Jonnek Jonneksson

Welcome Jonnek Jonneksson as a participating photographer at still-dancing.com!

© Shen Wei

Chinese Sentiment

After leaving China for almost a decade, going back to photograph China has been an emotional process of integrating my retrieved memories and my desire of seeking.
My passion for this on-going project is to observe and rediscover the affecting moments in Chinese daily life, both in the private and in the public.

Chinese Sentiment is a personal journey for me to reconnect with the authentic Chinese life and culture.

I intend to look pass the materialistic surface and the political phenomenon, pay appreciation to the concinnity in China; finding the poetic tradition, the romantic serenity, and the inherent beauty of China. My goal is to reveal China from a personal perspective, let the audience experience China internally and see the realness of China.

Enjoy the exhibition Chinese Sentiment by Shen Wei!

Well, obviously you copied a picture of one of our members, photographer Kirill Surov, at flickr.

Then you modified it and now you show it on your flickr account as yours. Bravo, good work.

Original:

Plagiarism:

How can photographers protect themselves better when showing their work on the Internet/flickr? Or do we just have to life with it?

Check out his flickr account “a bout de souffle” >link here< (or these other accounts of him >link< >link< ) whether he also uses a photo you made.

edit: his flickr account has been deleted

Link to discussion in the forum.