Posts Tagged Women
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
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 »
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.
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