Updates
Tuesday 10 November 2009
Features and Essays – Anthony Suau: Twenty Years Later (NYT: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Patricia Lay-Dorsey: Falling Into Place (NYT Lens Showcase: November 2009) Intimate self-portraits reveal a woman living life as if it were a work of art.
Monday 9 November
Videos – Tomas van Houtryve: Twenty-First Century Communists (Vimeo by Panos Pictures: 2009)
Agencies and Collectives – Black Archives
Videos – Anthony Suau on the Fall of Berlin Wall (TIME: November 2009)
(multi)Media – The Digital Journalist November 2009 issue now available online
Books – Anders Peterson and JH Engstrom: From Back Home (Max Ström 2009) Book review / slide show on Lens Culture
Photographers – JH Engstrom : website
Events - Photojournalism Today @ Museum of the City of New York : Tue Dec 15 6:30 PM : Kathy Ryan in discussion with Lynsey Addario and Damon Winter.
Features and Essays – Jessica Dimmock: Coler Hospital (VII Network: November 2009) Coler Hospital in NYC, once known as the Hospital for the Incurables.
Sunday 8 November
Videos - Martin Parr talks about Parrworld (Guardian: October 2009)
Features and Essays – Yuri Kozyrev: Afghanistan Drugs (NOOR: November 2009)
Features and Essays - Pep Bonet: Motorhead (NOOR: November 2009)
Photographers – Walter Astrada : website
Interviews - Anders Petersen and JH Engstrom (BJP: September 2009)
(multi)Media - Afrimages Online
Features and Essays – Gideon Mendel : Kindgmead Eyes (Project website: November 2009)
Saturday 7 November
Videos - Christopher Morris: The New Leader (Dispatches: November 2009)
Awards - Announcing the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize Winner and Runners-Up (Aperture: November 2009)
Features and Essays - Edward Burtynsky: Oil (Foreign Policy: October 2009)
Friday 6 November
Features and Essays - Jonas Bendiksen: Planet Slum (Foreign Policy: November 2009) “Norwegian photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen spent six weeks living in the slums of Nairobi, then Caracas, Mumbai, and Jakarta. His remarkable panoramic images take us inside slum families’ lives, revealing the profound human impulse to fashion not only shelter but a home.”
Features and Essays – Todd Heisler: Maggie Nesciur – The Walker (NYT: November 2009) One in 8 Million series
Articles - Aline Smithson: Photographing Family (Too Much Chocolate: October 2009)
Agencies – NOOR Images November 2009 Newsletter
Features and Essays - Baptiste Giroudon: Portraits of Democracy (Foto8: November 2009)
Photographers - Baptiste Giroudon : website
Thursday 5 November
Features and Essays – Thomas Hoepker: Pictures From a Vanishing Country (multimedia) (Magnum in Motion: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Callie Shell: Backstage with Hillary Clinton (TIME: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Stephan Gladieu: The Women of Standing Rock (Reportage by Getty Images: November 2009) Sioux women in North/South Dakota
Wednesday 4 November
Interviews – Damon Winter (Too Much Chocolate blog: November 2009)
Interviews – Martin Parr (BJP: November 2009)
Features and Essays - Dina Kantor: Finnish and Jewish ( audio slide show) (Forward: November 2009)
Features and Essays – Balazs Gardi: Facing Water Crisis – Rio de Janeiro (VII Network: November 2009)
Interviews / Features and Essays - Peter van Agtmael: ‘2nd Tour, I Hope I Don’t Die’ (NYT Lens: November 2009)
Tuesday 3 November
Books - The New York Review of Books: Review of two new books on Dorothea Lange
Features and Essays - Jim Naughten: Re-Enactors Take On the World Wars (TIME: November 2009) Photographer Jim Naughten immortalizes the men and women who gather annually to transform themselves into characters from the First and Second World Wars.
Events - Lauren Greenfield talk : 7pm : November 20 : @ ACP Austin, Texas
Monday 2 November
Features and Essays - Medith Kohut: A Pilgrimage to Sorte Mountain (NYT: November 2009) Venezuela
Photographers - Meredith Kohut : website : blog
Features and Essays - Alvaro Ybarra Zavala: Plan Oxigeno in Colombia (Reportage by Getty Images: November 2009)
Twitter - VII Photo
Photographers - Justin Partyka : website
Blogs - Mercury News
Sunday 1 November
Features and Essays - Erin Trieb: Behind The Frontlines (MSNBC: October 2009) Afghanistan
Features and Essays – James Cheng: The Faces of Foreclosure (MSNBC: October 2009)
Saturday 31 October
Features and Essays - Thomas Lee: Tuna in Trouble (TIME: October 2009) Tuna populations around the world are being fished more aggressively. Even General Santos, the so-called Tuna Capital of the Philippines, sashimi export and canneries have been hit by a downturn in the number of fish coming to port.
Photographers – Thomas Lee : website
Features and Essays - Chien-Chi Chang: Double Happiness (multimedia) (Magnum in Motion: October 2009)
Photographers - Ross Mantle : website
Friday 30 October
Features and Essays - Todd Heisler: Patrick Harris – The Boat Dweller (audio slide show 2:48) (NYT: October 2009) One in 8 Million series
Photographers - Julie Chaussat : website
Festivals - New York Photo Festival 2010 : May 12-16
Photographers - Muge : website
Thursday 29 October
Features and Essays - Tom Stoddart: European Agriculture (Reportage by Getty Images: October 2009) Shot in 2008
Features and Essay - Peter DiCampo: Traveling with Ghana’s Kayayo Girls (audio slide show 4:07) (TIME: October 2009)
Features and Essays – TIME : Ansel Adams in Color (TIME: October 2009)
Features and Essays - Stephen JB Kelly: Qi Lihe District (Foto8: October 2009)
Photographers – Stephen JB Kelly : website
Wednesday 28 October
Interviews and Talks – James Nachtwey on the impact of images (PDN Pulse: October 2009)
Features and Essays - Per-Anders Pettersson: Swaziland’s Paper Reed Dance (Reportage by Getty Images: October 2009)
Features and Essays – Michael Ackerman: Half-Life (Agence Vu: 2009)
Tuesday 27 October
Features and Essays – Tom Stoddart: Blood Minerals (Reportage by Getty Images: October 2009)
Features and Essays – John Stanmeyer: Amazon Ablaze — Global Climate Change (VII: October 2009)
Features and Essays – Moises Saman: For Germany, A Grim Reality (NYT: October 2009)
Monday 26 October
Features and Essays - Nadav Kander : 2009 Prix Pictet Prize winning photographs (BBC: October 2009)
Features and Essays - Marco Baroncini: The Roma in Rome (NYT Lens showcase: October 2009)
Photographers - Marco Baroncini : website
Sunday 25 October
Features and Essays – Mitch Epstein’s Power (NYT Lens: October 2009) Related article
Features and Essays - Robin Hammond: The Halls of Prejudice (Panos: October 2009)
Features and Essays - Brian Berg: Demolition and Gentrification : Sulukule, Istanbul (Foto8: October 2009)
Saturday 24 October
Features and Essays – Antoine D’Agata: Georgian Spring(Magnum in Motion: October 2009)
Features and Essays – Gueorgui Pinkhassov: Georgian Spring (Magnum in Motion: October 2009)
Features and Essays - Alex Majoli: Georgian Spring (Magnum in Motion: October 2009)
Features and Essays - Ron Haviv: Maja and Winter’s Tail (VII: October 2009) Maja Kazazic whose leg was blown off by a bomb during the war in Bosnia in 1993
Features and Essays – Seamus Murphy: Bodahna:An Afghan Obsession (VII Network: October 2009) Bodahna,small quails, hold a fascination for men in Afghanistan
Friday 23 October
Features and Essays - Todd Heisler: Richard Valvo – The Spokesman (NYT: October 2009) One in 8 Million series (multimedia)
Interviews and Talks – Finbarr O’Reilly on his Congo exhibition, currently up in France (Reuters blog: October 2009)
Interviews and Talks – Alessadra Sanguinetti (591Photography Blog: October 2009)
Thursday 22 October
Features and Essays - Richard Mosse: The Tunnel Economy of the Gaza Strip (TIME: October 2009)
Articles - PDN Pulse : How News Work Today : VII Seminar at PPE (PDN: October 2009)
Must Interviews / Features and Essays - Joseph Rodriguez : Social Worker with a Camera (NYT Lens: October 2009)
Features and Essays – a preview of participants photo essays for the 2009 Joop Swart Masterclass
Wednesday 21 October
Features and Essays – Susan Meiselas: In Silence (Magnum in Motion: October 2009) Maternal Mortality in India
Awards - World Press Photo 2010 Contest : Entries open 1 December 2009 : Deadline 14 January 2010
Articles - NYT Magazine : Should Photos Come With Warning Labels ? (NYT Magazine: October 2009)
Features and Essays – Brenda Ann Kenneally : The Upstate Girls (Project website) Preview The Movie
(multi)Media - Parallelo Zero : The Reportage Bank
Tuesday 20 October
Interviews / Features and Essays – Aaron Huey : Still Wounded (NYT Lens: October 2009) Native American reservation in South Dakota
Awards - Fujifilm Student Awards 2010 : Deadline February 28, 2010
Grants - OSI Distribution Grant Winners Announced (PDN Pulse: October 2009)
Awards – Lucie Awards Winners Announced (PDN Pulse: October 2009)
Awards – Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award 2009 Shortlist announced
Features and Essays - TIME: Heroin’s Globan Reach (TIME: October 2009) Great set of images by various different photographers
Features and Essays - Christian Als: Kibera (Panos: October 2009)
Photographers - Luca Tommasini : website
Monday 19 October
Events – BJP Vision 2009 : November 27 : London : Speakers include Eugene Richards and Martin Parr
Interviews / Features and Essays – Fred R. Conrad : Life Sentences (NYT Lens: October 2009)
Features and Essays - Jan Banning: A Look Into Bureuacrats’ Offices (NPR: October 2009)
Photographers - Jan Banning : website
Sunday 18 October
Awards - Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2009 Winners
Features and Essays - Marco Vernaschi: Drug Trafficking in Guinea-Bissau (Lens Culture: October 2009) Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2009 winner
Features and Essays – Moises Saman: We Are Roma (Open Society Institute: October 2009)
Photographers - Talia Herman : website
Articles - VII Photo Panel: Why Photojournalism Still Matters (PDN Pulse: October 2009)
Saturday 17 October
Features and Essays - Todd Heisler: Joshua Febres – The Uncertain Gang Member (NYT: October 2009) One in 8 Million series (audio slide show)
Features and Essays – Danfung Dennis: Battle for Hearts and Minds (Project website: 2009)
Equipment - How Danfung Dennis has covered the war in Afghanistan with 5d mk II (DSLR News Shooter: 2009)
Interviews / Features and Essays - Lu Guang : Infernal Landscapes (NYT Lens: October 2009)
Features and Essays – Moises Saman: No Refuge, Migrants in Greece (Human Rights Watch: October 2009)
Feature and Essays – Vesselina Nikolaeva: No Man’s Land: One the Border of Bulgaria and Turkey (Foto8: October 2009)
Photographers – Vesselina Nikolaeva : website
Thursday 15 October
Features and Essays - Christopher Furlong: Eton College (Reportage by Getty Images: October 2009)
Features and Essays – Justin Mott: In Vietnam, an Education Deferred (NYT: October 2009) HIV orphans in Vietnam
Features and Essays – Bryan Denton: A Moderate Path in a bin Laden Birthplace (NYT: October 2009) Yemen
Wednesday 14 October 2009
Features and Essays - Peter van Agtmael: Two Weeks in Forever (NYT Magazine: October 2009) American Marines in Southern Afghanistan (audio slide show 3:06)
Awards – Magenta : Flash Forward 2010 : call for submissions : deadline December 31, 2009
(multi)Media - The Digital Journalist : October 2009 issue now available online
Interviews / Features and Essays - Tyler Hicks : Kandahar (NYT Lens blog: October 2009)
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Events – Centre for Documentary Practice, Australia : Thursday 15 October : Online symposium on Social Activism through Journalism and Documentary Practice, connecting the world of photojournalism : “We are honored to have some of the finest photo/journalists speaking, such as Paul Fusco, Ed Kashi, Jodi Bieber, Marcus Bleasdale, Shahidul Alam, Gary Knight, Adam Ferguson, Robin Hammond, Michael Coyne, Masaru Goto,Jack Picone, Megan Lewis and others. : The conference will be run using Adobe software acrobat connect pro – on the day, people will be able to just go to our website (www.cdp.edu.au) and there will be a link to take them into the (free) conference. Timezones are on our website under program. Our speakers will be showing stories, giving background info, talking about their practice and answer questions. Sessions will be recorded but not made available until some weeks after the Symposium. We will also be releasing details of an emerging photographer award in the coming days.”
Interviews – Brenda Ann Kenneally : Troubles Shared (text and slide show) (NYT Lens blog: October 2009)
Features and Essays - Liz Rubincam: Millions of Seedlings (Reportage by Getty Images: October 2009) Tree planting in British Columbia
Sunday 11 October 2009
Features and Essays – Mustafah Abdulaziz: “‘Democratization of Credit’ Is Over, Now It’s Payback Time” (WSJ: October 2009)
Saturday 10 October 2009
Features and Essays – Charles Ommanney: Inside the Obama White House (Reportage by Getty Images: October 2009)
Grants - All 20 finalists of the 2009 Magnum Expression Award have been selected. The winner will be announced October 23
Features and Essays – Justin Partyka: The East Anglians (Foto8: October 2009)
Friday 9 October 2009
New York Times added my little one man operation on the links section of their great Lens Blog, so in honour of that I’d like to remind anybody not visiting Lens regularly, to start doing so from now on.
Features and Essays - Stephanie Sinclair: From Morocco, With Love (VII: October 2009) Notions of love and romance in Morocco
Features and Essays – Kate Brooks: Saudi Women in Focus (TIME: October 2009)
Features and Essays – Q.Sakamaki: The Shifting Sands of Xinjiang (TIME: October 2009) Uighur life in China
Books - ‘Georgian Spring, A Magnum Journal’ (TIME: October 2009)
Thursday 8 October 2009
Talks – Tim Hetherington talk at HOST Gallery (audio 1h13mins) (Foto8: 2009)
Blogs – Visual Student by NPPA
Wednesday 7 October 2009
News – Irving Penn, Fashion Photographer, Is Dead at 92 (NYT: October 6, 2009)
Features and Essays - Michael Benanav: Traveling With the Van Gujjar Tribe (NYT Lens: October 2009) Northern India
Articles - NYT Lens: On Assignment : Not Just One Picture (NYT: October 2009)
Tuesday 6 October 2009
Features and Essays – Joan Stanmayer: The End of Plenty (VII: October 2009) Stanmeyer chronicled the causes and effects of rising food prices.
Features and Essays – Michael Abramson: South Side Blues (NYT Lens: October 2009)
Photographers - Michael Abramson : website
Monday 5 October 2009
Agencies - Noor Images October 2009 Newsletter
Photographers - Anton Kusters : website
Photographers - Gareth Phillips : website
(multi)Media – World Press Photo : Archive
Features and Essays - Nick Ballon: Chacaltaya Mountain, Bolivia (Foto8 Story of the Week: October 2009
Photographers - Nick Ballon : website
Saturday 3 October 2009
Features and Essays – Todd Heisler: Stefanie Rinza : The Animal Rescuer (NYT: October 2009) One in 8 Million series
Features and Essays - Lorena Ros: Strong City (Reportage by Getty Images: October 2009) The Lord Our Righteousness, a cult in Clayton, New Mexico
Photographers – Lorena Ros : website
Friday 2 October 2009
Features and Essays – Adam Ferguson: The War in Afghanistan Up Close (TIME: October 2009) Intimate images of U.S. troops: A photographer’s perspective
Features and Essays – Andreas Seiber: From Somewhere to Nowhere: China’s Internal Migrants (multimedia) (TIME: October 2009)
Articles – NYT Lens: Alexandra Avakian : A Camera as Therapy (NYT: October 2009) Dealing with breast cancer
reminder : Collectives – MJR has a new site : MJR is Matthew Craig, Mustafah Abdulaziz, Ying Ang, Sean Flanigan, Julius Metoyer, Brandon Thibodeaux
Features and Essays – Eli Meir Kaplan (MJR Showcase: October 2009)
Features and Essays – Gareth Phillips (MJR Showcase: September 2009) Gareth Phillips is a documentary photographer based out of Cardiff, South Wales but working extensively throughout the world. His most recent travels have taken him throughout Australia, South East Asia and Europe. Gareth shoots regularly for The Guardian and The Sunday Times in the UK and in 2007 was commended by the Ian Parry scholarship.
Thursday 1 October 2009
Photographers - Toni Greaves : website
Features and Essays - Edmund Clark: Guantanamo (Lens Culture: September 2009)
Features and Essays – Peter van Agtmael: American Wars (Fader: September 2009)
