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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War Stories. From Fenton to Fincher /
War Stories. From Fenton to Fincher. from Hulton Archive on Vimeo.
Passion for Pictures: Talk by Matthew Butson, VP Hulton Archive, Getty Images
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Revolutions in the media economy (4) – disturbing the university /
The social media revolution I have been exploring in this series of posts has disrupted journalism and challenged photojournalism. That is because – as Clay Shirkey makes clear in Here Comes Everybody – the web has not simply introduced a new competitor into the old media ecosystem; it has created a fundamentally different ecosystem.
At the [...]
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Revolutions in the media economy (3) – photojournalism’s futures /
How do the revolutions in the media economy (detailed in the first and second post of this series) affect photojournalism? Given both the crisis in the distribution of information and the new opportunities for the structure of information, what futures are there for photojournalism?
This assumes ‘photojournalism’ is an accepted category of photographic practice. It [...]
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Revolutions in the media economy (2) – the changing structure of information /
Is there actually a crisis in news and journalism? We must not ignore the historical perspective that locates the current problems in the media economy, as my previous post detailed, but Jeff Jarvis is right – if we start from the assumption that there is a crisis for all concerned we will ask the wrong [...]
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Revolutions in the media economy (1) – the context of crisis /
The way news and information is reported and delivered to citizens is undergoing profound transformations, especially in the United States and Europe. In the last twelve months commentary has been rife with claims about “the death of newspapers,” the end of journalism, and the impact this crisis will allegedly have on democratic politics.
In a series [...]
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Paul Marchand 1962 – 2009 /
One of the great names of Bosnian reporting and one of the great mavericks of French journalism Paul Marchand took his own life last weekend.
I knew Paul briefly but the impression he made on me was carved deep. We met in Bosnia. Unlike many resident correspondents in Sarajevo during the dark days of winter [...]
Visuals / Essays / Gary Knight
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Korangal: A Narrow Field of View /
I have just finished answering some messages on Facebook and a post from Yumi Goto caught my eye. Yumi makes excellent references to all things photographic so I usually pay attention to what she posts. The post was a link to a video by the NY Times team in Afghanistan.
The piece is what it is [...]
Visuals / Essays / Gary Knight
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Censorship in Iraq, Anonymous /
Today’s photojournalists in Iraq find themselves faced with new sets of limitations and obstacles. Here is a list of things that are officially prohibited to photograph in Iraq: car bombings, suicide bombings, wounded soldiers without their written consent, memorials for dead soldiers, coffins of dead soldiers, battle-damaged vehicles and Iraqi prisoners. Civilian hospitals and morgues [...]
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Detained, September 2008 /
I got into Abu Ghraib prison through the back door. It was spring of 2004 and the world had just seen those shocking photos that graphically illustrated the abuse of detainees by American soldiers and civilian contractors. I had just covered the first operation in Fallujah, photographing the abortive U.S. assault on the insurgent-held city. [...]
Visuals / Essays / John Moore
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Flickring Out – Photojournalism in the Age of Bytes and Amateurs, July-August 2008 /
Clichés are sometimes true. Here’s one—photographers don’t like to give speeches. At a recent event, photographer Antonin Kratochvil screened slideshows of his work: American soldiers coolly observing the Iraqi distressed and dead; Lebanese militant youths standing restlessly near decaying walls; American evangelicals speaking in tongues. The photographer then clambered onstage, ruddy and scarf-wrapped (“The Bedoins [...]
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Fragility of the Image: Tom Ang on Image Manipulation, April 2008 /
Photography has always claimed more than it could deliver in terms of its ability to be a true record of the seen, confidently claiming its objectivity to be unassailable, appropriating for itself an independence and reliability as observer and recorder with an arrogance that brooked no question. Truly it is the best witness we have [...]
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Passing Thoughts, Paris, May 31, 2008 /
Dear Family & Friends
I have long tried to avoid using euphemisms for the rites of passage, but I must report what most of you know, that Cornell Capa passed away last Friday, attended by one of the three wonderful women who have nursed him around the clock through recent years. I last saw Cornell on [...]
Visuals / Essays / John Morris
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World Press Photo Acceptance Speech, Amsterdam, April 27th 2008 /
A lot of people have asked what this image means to me. It’s a question that I’ve tended to sidestep because it touches on some fairly personal issues. But I thought perhaps I could try and answer it tonight.
For many people, this photograph represents the larger political idea of war. It’s said that the man [...]
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“The King is dead. Long live the King!”, April 2008 /
To the generation of the dead the world looks bleak; everything they believed in is washed away and soon forgotten: the struggles, the values and the knowledge that took a lifetime to collect are gone, ignored and often derided. Meanwhile, as though living on a different planet the young rejoice in the possibilities of the [...]
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