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Ami Vitale; Beauty, Power, Life
Posted by bruce in Africa, Art, Children, Conflict, Documentary Photography, Middle East, News, Photography That Matters, Photojournalism, social displacement, South America, The Americas, The Human Condition on September 2, 2011
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 to highlighting the surprising and subtle similarities between cultures. Her photographs have been
exhibited around the world in museums and galleries and published in international magazines including National Geographic, Adventure, Geo, Newsweek, Time, Smithsonian. Her work has garnered multiple awards from prestigious organizations including World Press Photos, the Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism, Lucie awards, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting, and the Magazine Photographer of the Year award, among many others.
Now based in Montana, Vitale is a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine and frequently gives workshops throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. She is also making a documentary film on migration in Bangladesh and writing a book about the stories behind the images.
Venezuela Bans The Dead
Posted by bruce in Photography That Matters, South America, The Americas, War on November 23, 2010
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 the stroke of the pen. In Mexico the Cartels can dictate no coverage with bullets and bombs. In the United States no coverage can be achieved by citing “Community Standards (if you select the right comunity to cite you can ban anything).”
Wherever you go Seeind and Speaking is under assault. Remember this: the First Ammendment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution).
Venezuela Bans Graphic Photojournalism in Time for Elections
Last Friday, a Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional ran a front page photo of dead bodies piled in a Caracas morgue to address the country’s security problems. Now, the courts ordered a 30 day ban on “violent, bloody or grotesque images” coinciding with the elections campaign period. Read the rest of this entry »
Alan Berner And The American West
Posted by bruce in Documentary Photography, Photography That Matters, The Americas on July 29, 2009
Harold G. Olson and his goat Buddy,
Stuck, Washington, ©2005
(from a story on annexation in
King County, Washington)
Alan Berner is a staff photographer for the Seattle Times.
He is also one of the most exciting, interesting and undiscovered photography talents on the planet.
His work is lyrical, thoughtful, enjoyable, moving, well constructed and intelligent. Read the rest of this entry »
Lartigue: The Human Is The Tool
Posted by bruce in Documentary Photography, fun, Photography That Matters, The Americas on July 13, 2009
For More Photos by JHL: http://photography-now.net/jacques_henry_lartigue/portfolio1.html
In a time when camera phones -and videos- are ubiquitous and that, in many cases, people using them are the only sources of images and information (Iran), the work of Jacques Henri Lartigue is even more relevant than it was in the early 20th Century.
Lartigue, the boy, wasn’t a photographer: he was a kid with a camera. No big deal. Like people with camera phones now.
Look at the images!
Joyous, exuberant, beautiful in composition and moment of capture, they stand as a good document of the times and an excellent expression from that young boy who, obviously, exalted at the possibilities of his life in general and the possibilities of photography in paticular.
So, keep those camera phones snapping (if you have the “snap” sound enabled) and keep posting them on MySpace and Twitter and Flickr and Facebook and keep some of the big hitters (NY Times, etc.) telephone numbers in the other end of that phone, because, once again, we’re reminded, it ain’t the tool, it’s the eye and heart and mind.
Yours (if you use it).
Victor Sera: Uprooted
Posted by bruce in Documentary Photography, The Americas on May 27, 2009
©Victor Sera
GO TO: http://www.fiftycrows.org/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=1&a=7&p=0&at=3
This is a photo essay on the lives of the undocumented as they navigate between their homes and their country chosen for work.
In some ways the “landscape,” of this document has changed since it was photographed in the 1990′s. The immigration interdiction efforts by the United States has reduced the number of migrants and, more recently, the lack of jobs in the U.S. due to the faltering economy has reduced it even further. The personal plight for migrants in the U.S. has changed for the worse, making any return to the mother country impossible due to the danger of the return journey.
This document, however, is still quite valid. The existential delemna of home and heart weighed against stomach and uprootedness is ongoing, worldwide and, as this work shows, problematic.
Sam Faulkner
Posted by bruce in Children, Documentary Photography, Photography That Matters, The Americas, The Human Condition on May 22, 2009
Displacement In The “Heartland”
Posted by bruce in Documentary Photography, Photography That Matters, The Americas, The Human Condition on May 21, 2009
SEE: http://mediastorm.org/0023.htm
A documentary project on Displacement…in the “Heartland!
This photographer shows how “progress,” comes to everywhere and the displacement is not limited to indigenous people either. In the end it is the interests of Capital weighed against the interests of Labor that is the issue of land appropriation and displacement.
Let this documentary speak for itself.
Los Ninos de Las Calles/Mexico
Posted by bruce in Children, Documentary Photography, Photography That Matters, The Americas, The Human Condition on May 20, 2009
GO HERE: http://truthwithacamera.org/mexico_slideshow.mov
Editor’s Note: This is from Truth With A Camera, the incredible workshops supported by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). Never a better example of what Still Documentary Photography is and can do.
Avedon And The American West (Sort of…)
Posted by bruce in The Americas, The Human Condition on February 12, 2009
This is one way to approach Documentary. Severely remove all elements of the subject except the subject itself.
Notice that without a background the photographer absolutely controls the statement.
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