Tuesday, September 11, 2012
World Trade Center Commemorative Time-Lapse of Re-Building
Via YouTube
In honor of the 11th anniversary of September 11th, EarthCam is proud to premiere this new commemorative time-lapse with cinematic views of the World Trade Center site from multiple webcams. The movie focuses on the rise of One World Trade Center, New York's tallest building, and has spectacular shots of the entire downtown New York City skyline. The footage was captured between February 2010 and September 2012.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Panel Discussion | Shifting Sands: Conflict Photojournalism and Ethics
featuring Marcus Bleasdale and Stephen Mayes
Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 6:30pm
Aperture
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
What are the ethical responsibilities of a photojournalist who chooses to cover conflict? Can he or she be truly neutral, or do they have a responsibility to reflect the moral and political imbalances of the situations they report on?
Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2003
© Marcus Bleasdale/VII
The panel will explore the ethical pressures on photojournalists in conflict and will consider their accountability for the positions they take and the pictures they make, how they make them, where they place the work and the voice they attach to it. The discussion will consider the responsibilities and consequences, intended and otherwise, of reporting on conflict.
Marcus Bleasdale – Photographer, VII
Jason Cone – Communications Director, Doctors Without Borders USA
Philip Gourevitch – Journalist, The New Yorker
Thomas Keenan – Director of the Human Rights Project, Bard College
Kira Pollack – Director of Photography, Time Magazine
Stephen Mayes, Moderator – Managing Director, VII
More here.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Bill Eppridge speaks at Echo Foundation and Charlotte Observer exhibit of
Bill Eppridge's photographs. Photo by Meredith Jones
Via Charlotte Observer
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend speaks Echo Foundation and Charlotte Observer exhibit
of Bill Eppridge's photographs. Photo by Meredith Jones
Echo Foundation and Charlotte Observer exhibit of Bill Eppridge's photographs.
Photo by Meredith Jones
Related: DNC Exhibit showcases photos of Robert F. Kennedy
FreePress: Journalists in Need of a Safety Net
Via FreePress
September 4, 2012
More and more independent journalists and citizens are putting themselves on the front lines to cover city halls and city streets, politics and protests — and they’re doing so without the support or protection afforded staff at established newsrooms.
Indeed, these journalists undertake incredible personal and legal risks to do their work. The Committee to Protect Journalists found that of the 179 journalists imprisoned worldwide in 2011, 86 were digital journalists and 78 were freelancers. Here in the U.S., nearly 90 journalists — many of whom are independents or freelancers — have been arrested or detained in the past year, and in state after state people have scuffled with police over their right to record.
We cannot build a bright future for news if we cannot create ways to protect and support the independent and citizen journalists who are trying to create that future.
Some of these journalists are building new networks of support to expand their reach and insulate them from legal threats. Learn more about these ad-hoc support networks in my post on PBS’ Media Shift site.
Original photo by Flickr user P. Weiskel
To support our journalism campaign, please consider a donation to the Free Press Action Fund.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
"I mean, photojournalism is not dead. I think we can agree on that."
Kadir van Lohuizen, interviewed on the New York Times Lens Blog as the NOOR photo agency is commemorating their fifth anniversary at the 2012 Visa Pour l'Image Festival.
Monday, September 3, 2012
DNC Exhibit showcases photos of RFK
Bill Eppridge, Senator Robert Kennedy at a rally in Sioux City, Iowa 1966
©Time Inc.
Via Charlotte Observer
By Claire McNeill
cmcneill@charlotteobserver.com
Magazine photographer followed Kennedy during 1968 presidential campaign
Life magazine photographer Bill Eppridge shadowed Bobby Kennedy on the 1968 presidential campaign trail, witnessing everything from quiet moments to massive rallies.
On June 5, 1968, Eppridge took a famous photo of Kennedy lying on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, moments after he had been shot.
“There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about that man,” Eppridge said.
Now, with politics on center stage in Charlotte, a special exhibit featuring nearly 40 of Eppridge’s photos of Kennedy will be on display.
The show, “One America, One American,” is sponsored by The Echo Foundation and The Charlotte Observer.
Housed in the Observer’s lobby, the exhibition is open to the public Sept. 4-Oct. 19, following The Echo Foundation’s 15th annual award gala opening Monday.
Eppridge, born in 1938 and still taking photographs, will attend the opening, as will Kennedy’s oldest daughter, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a former lieutenant governor of Maryland. Townsend will accept the foundation’s inaugural Family Legacy Award on behalf of the Kennedy family.
Former presidential candidate and retired Gen. Wesley Clark will deliver the night’s keynote address, “Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times.”
Eppridge, a self-taught photographer and veteran of Life, National Geographic and Sports Illustrated, said the exhibit’s timing – coinciding with the Democratic National Convention – is “really special.”
“I think a lot of (delegates) don’t really know who he was or what he stood for or the importance of that man, and maybe this will get them thinking about where we’ve been or where we might be able to go,” he said.
Before Kennedy became a Democratic senator from New York, he was attorney general in the administration of his brother, John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963. Bobby Kennedy was an icon of the civil rights movement and took a strong stance against the war in Vietnam.
Eppridge said Bobby Kennedy’s importance lay in his honesty, popularity and dedication to getting troops home from Vietnam as soon as possible.
“I had quite unusual access to that man. I heard and saw and knew things that other people didn’t, and I realized that he was dead serious when he told us, ‘We are out of Vietnam on the day I take office,’ ” Eppridge said. “I don’t think anything was impossible to him.”
The Echo Foundation will also display the winning photographs from its international student photojournalism competition, which sought photography responding to the question, “What does democracy or tyranny; justice or injustice look like?”
From more than 500 entries from students across the globe, Tobin Jones, who attends the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom, was chosen as grand-prize winner.
Jones won the opportunity to travel to Charlotte during the convention and take photos alongside Eppridge for one day.
Want to go?
The free public exhibit, “One America, One American,” is open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 4-Oct. 19 in the Observer lobby, 600 S. Tryon St.
"labor Day and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers"
John Loengard: Ranch Foreman, Whistle Mills, Flagstaff, AZ, 1970
US Department of Labor: The History of Labor Day
Labor Day 2011
Labor Day 2010
Sunday, September 2, 2012
The Kennedys, By Mark Shaw
"These photographs were taken in order to catch and reflect the mood, the feeling of a given moment. If the viewer receives from these pictures an understanding of the affection of the Kennedys for one another, their high spirits and enjoyment of life, the book will have fulfilled its purpose." So wrote the Life magazine photographer Mark Shaw in the original 1964 edition of The John F Kennedys: A Family Album.
But in this new expanded edition, Shaw's widow reveals that the publication was also a coping mechanism; that Shaw had become not only the Kennedy's unofficial family photographer but a close friend. It explains why the work of this pre-eminent fashion and portrait photographer never recovered from Kennedy's assassination, but also how he'd been able to get such fresh, candid shots; shots that, with their vigour, vitality and promise of fresh hope for America's future, were arguably instrumental in Kennedy's election successes. Shown right, Jackie on the beach in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, with her daughter, Caroline.
Available from Reel Art Press $75
Fine art photographs available from Monroe Gallery of Photography
GQ (Germany) Article and Slide Show
BBC: As a new book of images of The Kennedys by Mark Shaw is published in the UK, we talk to the editor Tony Nourmand about how images help the political campaign. Listen here.
BBC: As a new book of images of The Kennedys by Mark Shaw is published in the UK, we talk to the editor Tony Nourmand about how images help the political campaign. Listen here.
Available from Reel Art Press $75
Fine art photographs available from Monroe Gallery of Photography
Saturday, September 1, 2012
News photographers gather in Perpignan for 24th Festival International of Photojournalism
Employees fix a photograph by Italian Alex Majoli prior to the opening of the exhibition devoted to the work of the World Press awarded photographers as part of the International Photojournalism Festival of Perpignan "Visa pour l'image" on August 31, 2012 in Perpignan, southern France. Majoli won the first prize in the general news singles category for this photograph featuring protesters in Tahrir square reacting to a speech by the former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. The festival takes place from September 1 to 16. AFP PHOTO PHOTO / RAYMOND ROI Via artdaily.org
PERPIGNAN.- VISA pour l’image is the premier International Festival of Photojournalism held in Perpignan, France. This festival is a unique event where you can join thousands of kindred spirits who share a love and passion for photography. View the greatest photojournalist work from around the world in exhibitions across the city. Experience the evening screenings in the dramatic open air medieval enclosure of the Campo Santo. Take part in symposiums and conferences and meet the foremost photo agencies and manufacturers of photographic related equipment.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions are open from September 1 to 16, 2012. They present stories or anthologies of a photographer's work, reporting on wars, nature, the environment, people, religious issues, and social phenomena, plus the great scourges of our time.
Screenings
Campo Santo is the venue for the evening screenings. The program includes a chronological review of the news stories from the previous year, reports and features on social issues, war, stories that have made the news and others that have been kept quiet.
Meetings
Perpignan is the place where professionals can discuss their problems, debating issues involved in producing and using pictures and the future of the profession. The symposium and "meet the photographer" sessions cover a wide range of questions.
Full program here.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Selections from People Get Ready: The Struggle For Human Rights
Cairo, Egypt — February 8, 2011
Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR for Time
"Beyond the revolutions in Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Libya, I
also traveled to cover the protests in Moscow, Greece and Tunis. I came to the
conclusion that each revolution must be assessed in its own context, because
each had a distinctive impact. The drama of each revolution unfolded
separately. Each had its own heroes, its own crises. Each, therefore, demands
its own narrative. In the end, the differences between them may turn out to be
more important than their similarities, however. And the common thing about all these protests
is the number of young people who really want to bring changes to their
country. That’s what’s most incredible. We have a new generation of people who
are sick and tired of what’s going on. Call it the Jasmine Revolution, the Arab
Spring or the Facebook Revolution, there’s a powerful Sirocco blowing across
the world, and young people realize there’s another life and they want to live
differently." --Yuri Kozyrev
Previous Selections
People Get Ready: The Struggle For Human Rights exhibition continues through September 23, 2012
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