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Welcome to dispatches Visuals.
If it interests us and we think it’s worth sharing this space is where we will publish essays and conversations that we hope will encourage discussion about the way our world is represented by photographers and the media. We will offer straightforward opinion about the issues we think anyone in the photography ecosystem should be concerned about and occasionally we will showcase photography and run interviews with leading figures from that rarified world.
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Media
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Essays
Collateral Murder Op Ed /
Who hasn’t seen the video of the slaughter of more than a dozen civilians by U.S. army helicopters that took place in a Baghdad residential district on July 12, 2007? Two of the victims, 22-year-old photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and his colleague Saeed Chmagh, a 40-year-old driver, were employed by the Reuters Baghdad bureau. After almost [...]
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The Rape of a Nation – Foto8 Review /
“The continuing human tragedy of Congo is not a statistic. It is a continuing human tragedy…” remarks John Le Carré in the foreword to this book. His words contain the indignation of a man who despairs at the state of humanity that allows the history of Congo to unfold unchallenged as the West looks on. “We must never turn away our gaze,” he implores. With this collection of photographs, made over more than five years, Marcus Bleasdale directs us to look.
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Revolutions in the media economy (5) – the pay wall folly for photographers /
This has been a momentous year for media. In my previous four posts on the revolutions in the media economy, I have used the present uncertainty to take a fresh look at the past many now view nostalgically. This critical view demonstrated that newspapers have always been commercial enterprises rather than altruistic associations, they were [...]
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