Posts Tagged Festivals
Dhiraj Singh: The (New) Eyes Of India
Posted by bruce in Documentary Photography, Photography That Matters, Sub Continent, The Human Condition, War, social displacement 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
Alberto Oviedo
- Bill Owens
- Bruce Berman
- Contact Press Images
- Documentary Photography Project
- History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
- Jonathan Torgovnik
- Lisette Model
- Magnum Photo Agency
- Mary Ellen Mark
- New Deal Network
- Portfolios.com/Bruce
- Richard Misrach
- Robert Doisneau
- Ryan Russell
- Sabastiao Salgado
- Shaul Schwarz
- Zone Zero
Border-Blog- The ‘hood Is Still GoodCopia Street, Jan. 4, 2010 Four blocks to the bridge, to the border. Lots of foot traffic. It comes and it goes, north then south. The neighborhood is changing as the Medical Center becomes a reality, but it’s going to be hard to erase what the neighborhood is. This mural, sneaked in on the side of a little building [...] […]
- Turtle In New MexicoTurtle/New Year’s Eve 2009, New Mexico Las Cruces New Mexico on New Year’s Eve 2009. Turtle, 17, born and raised in this southern New Mexico town. Apache. Defiant and alive. It was as good as Times Square. Better. 2010 Resolutions? Nah. Just keep looking. Share and Enjoy: […]
- Black Cross and Anarchy5:10pm – December 30, 2009 Last block of America. Or is it the first? Fifth Street and El Paso Street, El Paso, Texas. This used to be happy street. It’s still a busy street. It’s the street where the downtown bridge from Juarez exits or, conversely, it is the street where you leave the United States and enter [...] […]
- “WOKIKSUYE CANKPE OPI” (“Remember Wounded Knee”)Marvin, a Pima Indian from Arizona, AIM takeover of BIA offices, Chicago, Christmas Eve 1970 photograph by Bruce Berman ©2009 Dec. 29, 2009 / Wounded Knee Day This is Wounded Knee Day. It calls for remembrance. In the 120 year aftermath, the victims of Wounded Knee have still not received justice, let alone, widespread acknowledgment of the murders of nearl […]
- Centro El Paso/ChristmasShare and Enjoy: […]
- Christmas en El CentroChristmas weirdness, El Paso, Texas – December 20, 2009 Share and Enjoy: […]
- Myths, Ghosts, And, This WindowGhost View south, Dec. 19, 2009 Three of the last four posts have involved this window. The view to the south. One block to Alameda Street, two more down Stevens and, voila, you’re at the bridge, then you’re in Juarez, then, if you keep going, you’re on the carretera to Ciudad Chihuahua, then Torreon, then Puebla [...] […]
- My Window and Mi Compañeros a Sur: Season’s Greetings!Guadalupe #41, El Paso – Dec. 18, 2009 This third floor window looks out onto the Cordova Bridge to Juarez, three blocks to the south. It’s the Season. Guadalupe, I will light you every night -and a string of Christmas lights too- for the rest of the holiday. If anyone in Juarez sees this, please wave [...] […]
- New Mexico JukeLas Cruces, NM/Dec. 14, 2009 Juke boxes. They’re a “warm fuzzy,” no matter how you cut it. No? I just wanna dance. It’s the holidays. Time to dance. And stare at the wall (and the Web) and have luxurious long lunches (and personally enriching) with good friends, now, in the rush of my life, long overlooked. I’m in New Mexico and [...] […]
- A Warm FarewellA piece written to my photography students at the end of a fine semester at New Mexico State University. Forgive the “first person.” Originally posted on their class website at www.nmsu.documentaryshooters.com: Brucini w/New Blanket from a Good Friend, El Paso –Dec. 9, 2009 So it comes to this, the semester ends, we go our own way, we know more [...] […]
- The ‘hood Is Still Good