Posts Tagged Festivals
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.
Dhiraj Singh: The (New) Eyes Of India
Posted by bruce in Documentary Photography, Photography That Matters, social displacement, Sub Continent, The Human Condition, War on August 6, 2009
From “Six Feet Under,” ©2009Dhiraj Singh
For more work by Dhiraj Singh, SEE: http://www.dhirajsingh.com/01.htm
Dhiraj Singh is a Photojournalist who lives in Mumbai, India. His work has been published in numerous international magazines and online journals, including Newsweek, Vanity Fair, msnbc.com, The Wall Street Journal, L’Expresso, and, many others. He has won numerous awards (see his “bio,” on his site, above) and participated in many exhibitions. His pictures of the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 were part of the prestigious group exhibition titled, ‘Bearing Witness’ held in Mumbai in 2009.
Documentaryshooters is honored to have permission to publish Mr. Singh’s work. We feel he has the insights and skills to show India as it is, depicting its greatness and its struggles, its deep and ancient soul as well as its modern and energetic heart. He, as no other photographer has, since, the great Raghu Rai’s seminal work of the 1970′s, ’80′s and 90′s, not only shows India and the sub continent, he makes us feel it. Read the rest of this entry »
Shawn Baldwin Feels Egypt
Posted by bruce in Africa, Documentary Photography, Middle East, social displacement on June 16, 2009
Man selling popcorn at a moulid, Tanta, Egypt, ©Shawn Baldwin
GO TO: http://www.shawnbaldwin.com/
Shawn Baldwin’s photographs of Egypt are lyrical, soft, sometimes tough, nuanced and, mostly, an eye that sees with the heart and feels with the intellect.
This is the kind of documentary that lets its viewers see as if they were there (although you’d have to be looking as hard as he is and putting in your time to get these beautifully done images).
In the end, because these are not screaming and specific, this work let’s us know a place and people without prejudice.
Photography Sites
Border-Blog- Lost And Looking For Redemption In The Mountains of JuarezMan#26, The Other Truth series, Juarez, May 2011 Christmas Eve/El Paso A Personal Narrative Lost and abandoned. Christmas Eve reminds me of that, right now, as I look out my south-facing window to Juarez (three blocks away) across the valley of Juarez, to the foothills of the Sierra Madre, where Creamac sits, CREAMAC, the “mental […]
- Crossing the Rio without ConfusionUndocumented Women CrossingThe R2, Juraez-El Paso, 1984 Text and photograph by Bruce Berman The river with two names: Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte. Depends where you begin and where you end and where you return to. These women are heading north. It was a long time ago. Everything has changed and nothing has changed and […]
- Man In The SegundoMan in the Segundo, El Paso — Sept. 2011 Photo and Text by Bruce Berman Man from Anthony, New Mexico, describing his younger days in the Segundo barrio. The Segundo barrio is El Paso’s most historic neighborhood, hugging the border with Juarez, Mexico and architecturally intact from the 1880’s “railroad boom,” that brought fired […]
- Robot Geeks Attack El PasoV.I.P. at Robo-Geek Fest, El Paso, Texas all photographs by Bruce Berman Robots at Robo-Geek Fest, El Paso, Texas Robot attacks little girl at Robo-Geek Fest, El Paso, Texas Story by Bruce Berman El Paso —- Four-wheeled robots wielding paintball guns took over the Western Technical College Northeast campus on October 15, when students […]
- Night Out With The Man Who Loves DogsThe man who loves dogs (who doesn’t?), Las Cruces, New Mexico, September 2011 FOR SLIDESHOW: Photos and Text by Bruce Berman Las Cruces NM — Gary Bailey. Mensch (in Yiddish it means “a person of integrity and honor”). He is the man who loves dogs. One of them. He rescued all five of these. The […]
- House of the AbandonedMaria Full Of Grace, from The Other Truth (T.O.T.) series, Juárez, May 2011 Photo and Text by Bruce Berman Juárez — Maria. Full of grace. And other emotions. A permanent resident of CREAMAC, in the hills of Juárez, way up there, near the Guadalupe, the last place on one of the last streets, near the […]
- An Iconic Survey of the Border Funklands:1975–2011Teepee on the Carlsbad Highway, from the Funklands Project ©Bruce Berman FOR SLIDESHOW: […]
- The Heart of El Paso/Alligators And Kids With HeartLuis Jimenez’ Largartos (Alligators) in San Jacinto Plaza, El Paso, Texas, July 2011 by Bruce Berman El Paso – by Bruce Berman This is what kids do on their Quincineras in El Paso. They go to the heart of El Paso. They go to the downtown plaza, the “San Jacinto Plaza.” This is […]
- Prom Night: The Boogie Man Is A Long Way AwayProm Girl, El Paso, Texas –May 2011 Murder schmurder! It’s Prom Night in El Paso. Those buildings in the background are downtown El Paso. The space behind, the mountain, that’s Juarez. That girl there, in the foreground, the one with the whimsy and the joy and the hopes and the fragility, she’s a […]
- Waiting For WorkThree guys waiting for work, El Paso , TX. May 2011 by ©Bruce Berman […]
- Lost And Looking For Redemption In The Mountains of Juarez