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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 !
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.
Does he look evil? Can a photograph/simple portrait tell something about ones personality?
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