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Camera, Camera

June 28, 2010 in photography, politics & life by Bruno | 1 comment

“CAMERA, CAMERA is a stunning new documentary that shows Laos through the fascination and confusion of a traveler’s lens. The directorial debut of award-winning cinematographer Malcolm Murray, the film was written and features interviews by journalist and author Michael Meyer, and was produced by New York Times staff photographer Josh Haner. Throughout CAMERA, CAMERA, Murray and Meyer recreate the experience of traveling in Laos, a fragile yet deceptively brutal world. From ancient temples to mountain villages, in jungles and on rivers, we see what travelers see and discover what they don’t as the plot moves deftly from the comical to the taboo, reveling in the experience of Laos and lingering on things left unsaid. CAMERA, CAMERA is a documentary for anyone who has traveled to or taken a photograph in a foreign country. The film quietly calls upon viewers to ponder the multifaceted and often ambiguous impacts of travel and photography on citizens of two worlds.”

The official website of the movie is here, it also contains a trailer and some stills. I didn’t see the movie, but the trailer is looks promising. It should be featured at the LA Film Festival 2010.

Shaun Tan – The Arrival

December 26, 2009 in politics & life by Bruno | 5 comments

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, (c) Shaun Tan

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.