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Haiti Workshop? Photojournalism Today?

February 15, 2010 in politics & life by Stefan Rohner | 2 comments

©Rodrigo Abd

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!”"”

50 years ago; The Woolworth Sit-In

February 1, 2010 in politics & life by Dietmar | 1 comment

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…

read article here

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

1:1foto magazine, democratizing photography, what for?

January 31, 2010 in photography, politics & life by Guillermo Labarca | 2 comments

>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.

I’m a photographer, not a Terrorist

January 26, 2010 in photography, politics & life by Dietmar | No comments

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.

Shaun Tan – The Arrival

December 26, 2009 in politics & life by Bruno | 4 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 © 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.

Still-Dancing Heinachtsman wishes you all a wonderful Christmas

December 24, 2009 in politics & life by Still-Dancing | 12 comments

The decade in news photographs

December 23, 2009 in politics & life by Dietmar | 2 comments

The decade in news photographs

I wish you, your family and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010 !

Intended Consequences – mediastorm

November 19, 2009 in politics & life by Dietmar | No comments

Intended Consequences by Jonathan Torgovnik at mediastorm

The Iron Curtain Diaries 1989-2009

November 9, 2009 in politics & life by Stefan Rohner | 3 comments

the-wall

The Iron Curtain Diaries

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.