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A Documentary Survey Project From China

bruce — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:09:48 +0000

Here is a nice vision for a documentary project that involves multiple photographers, blending old and new. If you speak Chinese you can forgo the subtitles!

Altaf Qadri

bruce — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:53:34 +0000

Altaf Qadri, 35, is an award winning photographer. Qadri, 35, won a World Press Photo award this year for his poignant photograph of relatives mourning over the body of a man killed in a shooting by Indian police in Indian-controlled Kashmir. photography Altaf Qadri Qadri, an Indian citizen, is a native of the Kashmiri [...]

André Cypriano Shoots The Other Venezuela

bruce — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:37:38 +0000

From Shantytown by André Cypriano-©2011 André Cypriano takes us into the forbidden hills of Caracas Venezuela. He takes us into a strange land of oddly shaped houses, winding streets carved out of the hills, into a land so odd and so foreign that it must be myth but can only be reality. He notices, as [...]

Ami Vitale; Beauty, Power, Life

bruce — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:04:01 +0000

Hungary Baths by Amy Vitale©2011 From Ami Vitale’s website (http://www.amivitale.com): Ami Vitale’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 [...]

Henri Still Kicks!

bruce — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:43:53 +0000

Article posted courtesy of Huffington Post and Steve Ettlinger Is Photojournalism Dead Yet? by Steve Ettlinger Born in the 1930?s, come of age in the 1950?s and 60?s, and pronounced near dead in the 1970?s and virtually buried by the closing of magazines/rise of the internet–you have to wonder how it is that some [...]

T. Monk and W. Eugene: Cool

bruce — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:19:52 +0000

Thelonius Monk by W. Eugene Smith, uncropped UPI Photo/Courtesy of the heirs of W. Eugene Smith and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona Cropped image by W. Eugene Smith UPI Photo/Courtesy of the heirs of W. Eugene Smith and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona The 1964 [...]

Venezuela Bans The Dead

bruce — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:20:19 +0000

Photograph by Marina Galperina / August 20, 2010 Editor’s Note: This piece is from Animal. ANIMAL (http://animalnewyork.com/)is a mix of underground culture, city-centric musings, and cultural epithets updated daily, providing compulsory reading for artists, writers, curators, creative peoples, (as well as editors, reporters, and brand people). In Venezuela, Huga Chavez can dictate no coverage with [...]

Andrea Bruce Shoots You In The Heart

bruce — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:33:08 +0000

Ingushetia by Andrea Bruce Andrea Bruce is a passionate, stylish, skilled documentary photography who’s images -in the best traditions of still photography- sear your soul and drive their point through your heart, restoring it instead of terminating it. She is the new breed of documentary photographer that blends all the skills of good journalism with [...]

Ashley Gilbertson: Shrines and Conflicts

bruce — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:26:43 +0000

Contact Sheet of Ashley Gilbertson’s Conflict Photography “He has a very good news sense and for me that’s really essential,” says Cecilia Bohan, foreign picture editor for The New York Times. “I need them [her photographers] to be my eyes and ears on the ground.” Ashley Gilbertson is a VII photographer and one of the [...]

End of Labor Town: Dumping Ground of Old Men in Japan

bruce — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:47:47 +0000

These are not the view of Japan that we normally see. Shiho Fukada shows us how some elderly people in Japan fare. It is not a story unique to Japan. SEE http://www.socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/shiho_fukada/728

Pearl Harbor Brownie

bruce — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:49:12 +0000

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Evgen Bavcar: The Blind Photographer

bruce — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:13:16 +0000

Self portrait by Evegen Bavcar Photography has always been thought about as “another,” way of seeing. And it is. But, usually, we think about that as a person looking through the camera, seeing what’s there, and, through the magic of the camera and the film -or digital- capture process, one sees the world in different [...]