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do we need bloody smashed bodies to understand what is a earthquake?
do we need burning bodies to understand what is a earthquake?
what do we want to achieve with these bloody images?
Nicola Boccaccini say at Lightstalkers:
Lightstalkers: zoriahs-haiti-workshop-ideas-and-direction
“”"Ethics? I don’t see ethics in photojournalism nowadays, …generally I see only competition in a new type of commercial photography.
…and workshops, in a world overflowed by images are only a simple solution for photographers to make money in other way.
No more sentimental or personal approach in photography, nor the joy to teach something to new generations!
It is very sad but, in my point of view, this is reality.
MONEY vs ETHICS?
MONEY ALWAYS WIN!”"”
AVAILABLE ON THE WEB FOR 3 DAYS – from 9 to 11 november 2009
IN OCCASION OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BERLIN WALL, THE WEBSITE OF THE IRON CURTAIN DIARIES WILL BE AVAILABLE ON CLEAR
from 00:01 of 9 november to 23:59 of 11 november 2009
THE PROJECT
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall two photographers together with two journalists, a director and a cartoonist travelled along the Iron Curtain, the 6.300 km long border that used to split Europe in two blocks from the end of World War II to 1989.
As a result of this experience, The Iron Curtain Diaries 1989-2009 project was born. Two teams provided by videocamera, photocamera, audio recorder and drawing paper have left from Berlin toward two directions: the first heads to the north has travelled along Germany, Polland, Estonia, Lithuania and Russia; while the second heads to the south has touched Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.
They come back to the headquarter with dozen of interviews to writers, politicians, musicians, sport people, photographers, dissidents and ordinary people. whose lives have changed after the Berlin Wall fallen down. These stories create a big fresco, a celebration of the ideals, but also speak about the collapse of the dreams of a new western lifestyle.
The Iron Curtain Diaries 1989-2009 is a coproduction of Peacereporter, On/Off, prospekt fotografi, BeccoGiallo.
“These pictures come out of relationships, not observation.” Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin’s photographs are as touching and shocking today as they were thirty years ago. Their fascination does not necessarily stem from their subject matter—oscillating, as it does, between glamour and the gutter, with rare moments of normality and happiness—but from their radical intimacy. Goldin approaches only those who are close to her with her camera, thus sensitively capturing the everyday suffering from sickness, dependence, violence, and excess. She does not just empathize with the hardships of her friends and family, but is herself an essential part of their lives and experiences. Again and again, her photographic interiors and exterior views reveal the extent to which her photographs are interwoven with her own life and fate. In these works, the acute suffering of others simultaneously comes to represent Goldin’s own abject circumstances.
C/O Berlin presents five of Nan Goldin’s slideshows, several of which will be seen in Berlin for the first time: “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” (1981), “All By Myself” (1995/96), “Heartbeat” (2003), “The Other Side” (2008) and “New Kids Show” (2008). These slide series are highly condensed stories and memories set to music compiled by Goldin herself.
© Picture Sevil Egeli
Still-Dancing needs a new blog entry and Photoschool Projekt 5.6 some publicity.
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