Posts Tagged humanitarianism
End of Labor Town: Dumping Ground of Old Men in Japan
Posted by bruce in Documentary Photography, Photography That Matters, social displacement on December 27, 2009
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
Moises Saman: Lost Boys of Afghanistan
Posted by bruce in Children, Documentary Photography, Middle East, The Human Condition on August 31, 2009
Lost Boys of Afghanistan by Moises Saman
See this stirring slideshow by Moises Saman shot for The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/27/world/20090827AFGHANMINORS_index.html
Dhiraj Singh: Video Biographer
Posted by admin in Documentary Photography, Photography That Matters, The Human Condition, social displacement on August 7, 2009
“My name is Dechen.”
Watch this touching video done by Dhiraj Singh.
He did an interesting thing: A Video Biograph.
In a way, all Visual Journalists who do stories on people, are doing “biography,” but with the addition of audio, where the subject can speak for themselves (edited, of course), where the image-maker can animate the images and drive the viewer’s emotions, the subject of the story becomes more “alive,” the depth is ratcheted up, and, potentially, the medium is beginning to resolve the age old struggle of photojournalism: Who’s viewpoint is this about? The subject’s or the photographer’s? Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
Parikarma: But It Rained
Posted by bruce in Documentary Photography, War, social displacement on August 6, 2009
Parikrama: But It Rained from Split Magazine on Vimeo.
This is a rock band video based on a magazine article about kidnap victims in Kashmir and those who wait for their return. This is one of India’s most revered bands and was one of India’s all time most popular rock songs.
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, Photography That Matters, The Americas, fun 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).
Vote
Posted by bruce in Documentary Photography, Photography That Matters, The Human Condition, social displacement on July 2, 2009
“Vote,” Selma Voting Rights March, 1965
©Bruce Davidson
Sometimes we forget that the “Big Work,” the work that one becomes known for making isn’t all there is.
Bruce Davidson went south, from Chicago, on instinct.
The world was shaking and he felt the vibe.
The time was now: Civil Rights.
Real change.
Without assignment or specific destination he “nailed it,” and was able to work on the edges of the news, tell the story from a personal and deeply intimate viewpoint.
This image, for me, is one his best. Beautiful composition. Beatiful moment. Beautiful storyline. Iconic and packed with all the elements that make it a novel unto itself, if this was the only photography that existed from the era it was shot in, it would, I think, be enough to tell the story of the struggle.
One word and one image: sometimes it’s enough: Vote.
For More on Bruce Davidson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Davidson_(photographer)
Go Fly A Kite
Posted by bruce in Children, Documentary Photography, fun on June 10, 2009
GO TO: http://todayspictures.slate.com/20090610
Magnum Photographers Fly The Kite
It can’t all be angst and drum!
Every once in awhile a good shooter has got to have some fun, or, at least, see others having fun.
That’s worth a document, right?
People still having fun?
Concept!
Azerbaijan: Displacement Ex-Soviet Style
Posted by bruce in Middle East on May 28, 2009
©Rena Effendi
GO TO: http://www.fiftycrows.org/index.php#s=0&p=0&a=2&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&at=1
Displacement. A world wide problem. When the Grid comes you got to move no matter that there is no good place to go to from the bad place you have become accustomed to. It looks the same in Azerbaijan, Mexico DF, Lomas del Poleo, Chicago…wherever.
Rena Effendi takes us into the rarely seen inner Azerbajian, to the mahalla neighborhood in the capitol city of Baku.
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.
Braziliano Documentary Photographer
Posted by bruce in Documentary Photography, Photography That Matters, The Human Condition on May 20, 2009








