Posts Tagged photography
Andrea Bruce Shoots You In The Heart
Posted by bruce in Conflict, Documentary Photography, Middle East, Photography That Matters, The Human Condition, War, Women, social displacement on July 2, 2010
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 all the skills of great graphic image-making and produces a coctail that is nothing less than photo alchemy.
Take a look: http://www.andreabruce.com
Henri Still Kicks!
Posted by bruce in Documentary Photography, Photography That Matters, The Human Condition on July 2, 2010
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 aspects of this wonderful world are still around. Read the rest of this entry »
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
Evgen Bavcar: The Blind Photographer
Posted by bruce in Documentary Photography, Photography That Matters, The Human Condition on August 18, 2009
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 way.
More advanced photographers and appreciators of photography then allow for the transformative recognition of the quality and angle of light, of the Decisive Moment, of the power of distance to subject or, even, luck or magic.
It is this latter idea that infuses the work of Evgen Bavcar ((“E-oo-gen Ba-oo-char”), the Slovenian photographer is completely blind, completely eccentric and his images are totally wonderful. 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 »
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.
Prostitution: Pain
Posted by bruce in Documentary Photography, Middle East, Photography That Matters, prostitution on June 8, 2009
©2009 Photograph by Mimi Chakarova
GO TO: http://www.mclight.com/slideshow.html
Editor’s Note
This is one of the most painful documentaries I have ever seen.
Even more amazing is the fact that the work is not the slam and splash type of photojournalism that deals in blood, guts and flames.
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.
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.
Photography Sites
Border-Blog- Letter to my friend: I’m On My Way MartinMartin, man of dignity and courage, Lomas del Poleo, Summer 2009 Dear Martin, I said I would be back to Lomas and I haven’t been back in a year now. It’s crazy. I drive to work in Las Cruces three times a week and I look to the west and I can see you, I […]
- Is Photojournalism Dead Yet? Cartier-Bresson’s Isn’t (almost)!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 aspects of this wonderful world are still around. Last week […]
- Do You Have Shares In Hell?Street kids on Avenida Technologico, Juarez – 2010 Pictures? More pictures of dead bodies in the streets of Juárez? Hard to want to do. I’m not visiting. I live here. It’s better when you have to get the images for your boss/editor and then high-tail it to the airport. But, I’m not working for a […]
- AnnouncerSalvador Valentino, Ring Announcer El Paso, Texas – May 23, 2010 Share and Enjoy: […]
- Sequesterer(alleged) Sequesteredla acusación (perp walk) en Juárez, May 15, 2010 Iasi Emanuel Rodriquez Gamez , aka “El Enano (the dwarf),” 22, is led down a hallway, by a member of the Federal Police at the Ministry of Justice (Procuraduria de Justicia del Estado) in Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He is accused of being the leader of […]
- Era(s) Coming and GoingTown plaza, Zaragoza, Chihuahua-05/08/2010 Share and Enjoy: […]
- Fire in JuárezMan of fire/hombre de fuego, Juárez-o5/08/2010 Share and Enjoy: […]
- Half Dead City Is Fully AliveZaragoza (Juarez), Chihuahua, street kids at scene of a murdered woman, 05/08 ©Bruce Berman 2010 Two border towns. El Paso and Juarez. One city is half dead and the other is in a coma. Guess which is which? As always, a trip to Juarez puts everything in perspective and raises big questions. For openers: We […]
- (Not) The AmericansJuarez, April 23, 2010 Went looking for trouble. People waved at me. OK. Share and Enjoy: […]
- At least 6 police and one sicario killed in JuarezDead Police and Murderer in Juarez by heroic by anonymous El Diario de Juarez photographer Today in Juarez. More of the same. If this were anywhere else we’d be sending aide and 120,000 troops. Instead we send DEA Agents (under the terms of the “Merida Initiative”) and clandestine military “trainers,” to train soldiers and police…to […]
- Letter to my friend: I’m On My Way Martin