Just a quick collection for today…shouldn’t waste my Perpignan visit sitting in front of the computer…need to get out there and show my own work as well… and mingle…it’s been great to put faces to so many photographers’ names….Haven’t had the pleasure to meet Walter Astrada, but he’s here, and BJP did an interview with him yesterday…

Interviews - Walter Astrada (BJP: August 2010)

Interviews – Philip Blenkinsop (Zorye: August 2010)

Interviews - Alixandra Fazzina (DRadio Wissen: August 2010)

Do it yourself.

Interviews – Rob Hornstra (BJP: August 2010)

Dismantling My Career: A Conversation with Alec Soth

Interviews – Alec Soth (Walker Art.org: August 2010)

Have to blow my own horn here a bit… Alex Garcia did an interview of me to his Assignment Chicago blog on the Chicago Tribune website…Essential reading of course!

Interviews - Mikko Takkunen (Assignment Chicago: August 2010) Tuesday Tips: 10 Questions With…Mikko Takkunen

Articles - BJP: Corinne Day, star of British fashion photography, dies (BJP: August 2010)

Resources / Interviews and Talks – National Media Museum Podcasts

Did I add this the other week already? Can’t remember…

Photographers - Melissa Golden : website : twitter

Collectives - MJR Weekly 75

Twitter - Cristian Movila

Features and Essays – Moises Saman: Iraq’s Resting Places (NYT: August 2010)

Features and Essays – Christopher Morris: South Korea (VII: August 2010)

Features and Essays - Marcus Bleasdale: Kashmir Revisited (VII: August 2010)

Features and Essays – Zed Nelson: Rio Grande (Institute: August 2010)

Features and Essays - Cristian Movila: Jagged Lines (e-Photoreview: August 2010) introduction by Jamie Wellford – Newsweek

Interviews - Alixandra Fazzina (BBC: August 2010)

Tomas van Houtryve on new funding models again…

Articles – Tomas van Houtryve: New funding models, Part II – Introducing EMPHAS.IS (Photographer’s blog: August 2010)

Resources - Emphas.is : funding

Articles - New York Magazine: Fashion Photographer Corinne Day’s Death Confirmed (NY Magazine: August 2010)

Photographers – Karim Ben Khelifa : website : Twitter

Exhibitions - Brent Lewin: Elephants In Between : Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand

Danny Ghitis got in touch… He has a new edit on his website of his personal project in Poland..

Features and Essays – Danny Ghitis: The Land of Oś (Photographer’s website: August 2010) Danny is also part of the Pangea Photo

Features and Essays – Andrea Bruce: Afghan Civilian Casualties (VII Network: August 2010)

Features and Essays - Maciek Nabrdalik: Auschwitz-Birkenau (VII Network: August 2010)

Katrina….

Features and Essays – Melissa Golden: The Surreal Remains of Six Flags New Orleans (TIME: August 2010)

Features and Essays – Matt McDonough: Mental Asylums (NYT Lens: August 2010)

Blogs – Vincent Laforet: Katrina and New Orleans 5 Years Later (Vincent Laforet blog: August 2010)

Articles - NYT: The ‘Housewives’ Husband Who Wishes He Said No (NYT: August 2010) Charles Ommanney

Articles - Guardian: Photo-reportage’s thwarted potential (Guardian: August 2010) Photographs of disasters have become mainstream images in the media, leaving us jaded. So what can seize our minds?

Festivals - Chobi Mela VI selections : International Festival of Photography : Bangladesh 2011

Just passed 6k Twitter followers for my @photojournalism… Very nice!

Christopher Morris from VII has got himself  a personal website…

Photographers - Christopher Morris

Features and Essays – Abbas: Tibetan Monks in France (Magnum Photos: August 2010)

Mario Tama and Katrina yet again… this from TIME

Features and Essays – Mario Tama: Katrina (TIME: August 2010)

Venezuela photos in TIME…

Features and Essays – Carlos Garcia Rawlins: Venezuela Cracks Down on Illegal Mining (TIME: August 2010)

Features and Essays – Yuri Kozyrev: Going Home from Iraq (TIME: August 2010)

VII Magazine…

Features and Essays - Ashley Gilbertson: Shell Shock (VII Magazine: August 2010)

Features and Essays – Zed Nelson: Walking the Line (Monocle: 2010) Israel

This Pakistan photo by Alixandra Fazzina published on Le Monde website is somehow really breathtaking…

Features and Essays – Alixandra Fazzina: Pakistan (Le Monde: August 2010)

Agencies – Magnum Greeting Cards (Paperless Post: 2010)

Do read this!

Articles - Kenneth Jarecke: Photographer’s Life is a Juggling Act (tiffinbox.org: August 2010)

Interviews –  Laura Pannack (Telegraph: August 2010)

Blogs – Amanda Rivkin

Features and Essays – Conor Ashleigh: Baby in a Chapel (Foto8: August 2010)

Photographers - Conor Ashleigh

Awards – International Photography Awards 2010 winners gallery

Features and Essays – Telegraph: Foto8 Summershow (Telegraph: August 2010) Ten shortlisted photographers plus winner Laura Pannack choose their own Best in Show

Features and Essays - Rahlam Roslan: Living in Malaysia’s Melting Pot (TIME: August) Roslan website | Twitter

About this so-called Ground Zero ‘mosque’….and the whole issue of Islam in America…I’d recommend people to watch Colin Powell talk about American Muslims on Meet The Press back in Autumn 2008, in which he famously referred to a photo by Platon in New Yorker…

NYC based photographer Timothy Fadek has visited the Muslim-American community center for New York Magazine…

Features and Essays – Timothy Fadek: From Coat Factory to Controversy (New York Magazine: August 2010) Ground Zero Mosque

5 Years from Katrina…

Features and Essays – Alan Chin: Katrina: The Fifth Anniversary (Newsweek: August 2010)

Features and Essays – Kadir van Lohuizen: The New American Diaspora (AARP.org: August 2010) 5 years later, Katrina survivors are adjusting to new lives in Houston.

Interviews – Mario Tama : New Orleans’ Deep Roots Bolstered Katrina Recovery (PBS: August 2010)

More of Mario Tama and Katrina…

Blogs - Mario Tama: 5 Years After Katrina (MSNBC photo blog: August 2010)

Pakistan flood galleries…

Reuters: Pakistan Flood Relief (Reuters: August 2010)

BBC: Pakistan Flood Devastation (BBC: August 2010)

Adrees Latif / Reuters: Pakistan (PicApp: 2010) Found via @coombskj

Features and Essays – Martin Weber: A Map of Latin American Dreams (Reportage by Getty Images: August 2010)

There was supposed to be a link to another new Reportage by Getty Images feature by Antonio Bolfo on NYPD, but it seems it has been taken down since this morning for some reason…. You can find Bolfo’s personal website here.

I posted a link to an Adam Ferguson feature  from Afghanistan on TIME  recently and I noticed there’s also a video narrated by Ferguson..

Features and Essays – Adam Ferguson: Tragedy in Marjah, Witness to a Civilian Casualty (TIME: August 2010)

Another installment of NYT Lens’ Turning Point series…

Interviews – Yana Paskova (NYT Lens: August 2010)

Interviews / Tutorials - Lisa Pritchard : Ask an Agent: Going professional? (BJP: August 2010)

Articles – Guardian: Photographer Horace Ové’s best shot (Guardian: August 2010)

Alex Garcia, a Chicago Tribune staff photographer, runs a great Assignment Chicago photo blog, and I noticed that he had also mentioned my little site during the summer…

Blogs - Assigment Chicago: Inside Secrets of a Photo Blog, One Year Later (Assignment Chicago: 2010) “Some other helpful and interesting sites that I’ve discovered along the way were DVAfoto.com(co-run by a former Chicago-area shooter), PhotojournalismLinks.com, RedBubble.com, and AllDayIDreamofPhotography,“

Twitter - Poul Madsen / Bombay FC

Never liked using telephotos, and never even tried super telephotos…

Equipment – Canon reveals L-series super-telephoto lenses (CPN: August 2010)

Features and Essays – Meridith Kohut: Venezuela’s Climate of Crime (NYT: August 2010) Related video

Features and Essays - Keith Dannemiller: Coming of Age in Ciudad Juarez (TIME: August 2010)

Photographers - Keith Dannemiller

Features and Essays - Andy Levin: Coney Island (NYT Lens: August 2010)

Features and Essays – Anastasia Taylor-Lind: School for female Cossacks (Guardian: August 2010) Winner of 2009 GU/RPS Joan Wakelin award

It seems more and more common to make entire websites dedicated to a project…

Features and Essays – Ashley Gilbertson: Bedrooms of the Fallen (Project website: August 2010)

Features and Essays – Seamus Murphy: Phoenix: Afghanistan 1994-2010 (VII Magazine: August 2010)

Agencies - Reportage by Getty Images: David Hogsholt’s China portfolio (Reportage by Getty Images: August 2010)

Articles - Martin Parr: how to take better holiday photographs (Guardian: August 2010)

Articles - BJP: Magnum to make its photographers more contactable (BJP: August 2010)

Articles – BJP: Independent thinking (BJP: August 2010) The editorial market is changing. With fewer pages reserved for photography and declining revenues, independent photo agencies have been forced to adapt, testing strategies that will help them survive the downturn.

Facebook - Steve McCurry Official Page

Facebook - Assignment Chicago blog

Twitter – Alex Garcia

Twitter - Katie Hayes

Twitter - Damaso Reyes

Twitter - Sebastian Liste

“The trouble with color film, Salgado says, is that “it is too much real. It doesn’t allow you to have a single degree of imagination.” Besides, he adds, when he used color, “I was very preoccupied with color. It was a huge distraction.”"

Interviews - Sebastiao Salgado : The Eye of The Photojournalist (NYT Mag: 1991)

Salgado interview from 2008 in Der Tagesspiegel… for people who understand German… I don’t.

“Q: Sie sind bekannt dafür, dass Sie ausschließlich mit Schwarzweißfilmen arbeiten…

Salgado: …soll ich Ihnen was verraten? Ich habe angefangen, digital zu fotografieren.”

Does Salgado say there, he shoots digital now? O’Lord Almighty!

I love this George Georgiou work.. Would like to get my hands on the book…

Features and Essays - George Georgiou: Modern Turkey (NYT Lens: August 2010) Georgiou’s website | blog

Features and Essays – Sami Siva: The New ‘Kashmiri Intifadeh’ (TIME: August 2010) New generation of protesters want one thing:Indian army to leave Kashmir

Features and Essays - Stuart Franklin: Turkish Hazelnut Harvest (Magnum Photos: August 2010)

Features and Essays – Tim Hetherrington: Restrepo (Visura: August 2010)

Photographers – Sami Siva

Interviews and Talks – Professional Photographer: 25 Bad Boys of Photography (PP: August 2010) Professional Photographer editor Grant Scott and deputy editor Eleanor O’Kane are joined by photographer Peter Dench in a discussion of the list of ‘ The 25 Bad Boys of Photography’ in the August issue of the magazine. The debate centres on the diverse lives of the photographers who made the final list, including Guy Bourdin, David Bailey, Helmut Newton, David Hockney and Wolfgang Tillmans, whose acceptance of the Turner Prize in 2000 was widely criticised.

NPR on health of photojournalism….

Articles – NPR: Is Photojournalism Dead? We Almost Hate To Ask (NPR: August 2010)

Matt Johnston comments on the recent Black Star Rising article about bogus reasons for working for free… Johnston argues there are some good ones as well…

Articles – Matt Johnston: Why is free a four letter word? (Photographer’s blog: August 2010)

Dissent Magazine on Aisha portrait…

Articles – Dissent Magazine : Susie Linfield: What’s Right with This Picture? (Dissent: August 2010)

Photographers – Jenny Lynn Walker

Photographers - Bill Putnam : website : Twitter

Photographers – Anna Barry-Jester

Photographers - Hilda Perez

Twitter - MaryAnne Golon

Features and Essays - Lynsey Addario: India’s Mining Magnates (NYT: August 2010)

As I wrote earlier… All the photographers in Afghanistan do seem to be in Marjah…

Features and Essays - Adam Ferguson: A Civilian Casualty in Afghanistan (TIME: August 2010) Marjah

Features and Essays – Kieran Dodds: Behind Mugabe’s Iron Curtain (Panos Pictures: August 2010)

Features and Essays – Sascha Pflaeging: US Women Combat Veterans (BBC: August 2010) Pflaeging’s website

Features and Essays – Corentin Fohlen: A Tenuous Existence (NYT: August 2010) Expulsion of Roma Raises Questions in France

@1854 @foodforyoureyes tweeted earlier that Corentin Fohlen is the winner of this year’s City of Perpignan Young Reporter Award.

Fohlen’s website

Agencies – VII Newsletter August 2010

Articles – Guardian: Herman Leonard obituary (Guardian: August 2010) Photographer famed for his jazz images that captured the very essence of the music

Articles - Guardian: Photographer Lynne Cohen’s best shot (Guardian: August 2010)

Tumblr – Agnes Dherbeys

Just over a week before heading to Perpignan…

Photo: Athit Perawongmetha

Festivals - Reportage by Getty Images at Visa Pour L’Image

Twitter - Benjamin Rasmussen

Blogs – Luke Sharrett

Features and Essays - Magnum Photos: Where Artists and Writers Live and Work (Slate: August 2010)

Features and Essays - New Yorker Photo Booth: The Road Back to New Orleans (work by Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen) (New Yorker: August 2010)

Features and Essays - Irina Kalashnikova: North Korea (Reportage by Getty Images: August 2010) Kalashnikova’s website

Features and Essays – NYT Magazine: Documenting the Life of 20-Somethings (NYT Mag: August 2010) 13 young photographers document their generation using iPhones

Features and Essays – Stefano di Luigi: Kenya Drought (VII Magazine August 2010)

Features and Essays - Ian Teh: Dark Clouds [multimedia] (Panos Pictures: August 2010) China

Features and Essays – Robin Hammond: As I See It (Panos Pictures: August 2010)

Features and Essays – Tomas Munita: A Workers’ Revolt Endures in Peru (NYT: August 2010)

Features and Essays - Gareth Phillips: Rogue Tailor Needles Savile Row, Gets Himself a (Law)Suit (WSJ: August 2010)

Features and Essays - Joseph Rodriguez: Personal Violence (Visura: August 2010)

Agencies – Stockland Martel : website : blog

Interviews and Talks – Ed Kashi : A Photographer’s Journey Near and Far (FORA.tv: August 2010)

Interviews - Charlie Mahoney (BJP: August 2010)

Interviews – Robert Caplin (NYT Lens: August 2010)

Interviews – Steve Peck -Picture Editor, Wired Magazine (Professional Photographer: 2010)

Interviews – James Mullinger – Photo Editor, GQ Magazine (Professional Photographer: 2010)

Photographers - Benjamin Rasmussen

Photographers – Natalie Behring

Photographers – Luca Tronci

Photographers – Luca Sola

Photographers – Charlotte Kesl

Twitter – Jason Andrew

Awards - Magnum Expression Award : Deadline August 31 2010

Awards - BJP International Photography : September 30 2010

Awards – Terry O’Neill Award : Deadline October 22 2010

Time for a little rant…

Photo: Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images

There have been a lot of complaints that the international community’s response to the devastating Pakistan floods has been inadequate. It got me thinking of the response and reaction of the Western photojournalism community, more specifically from publishers and photographers. Of course the initial death toll caused by the Pakistan floods is nothing compared to the Haiti earthquake, but its repercussions are in a sense bigger, with 6 million people in desperate need of emergency aid according to the UN. Now I remember, as I’m sure everyone does, how photographers  - both media and self- assigned – rushed to Haiti to cover the earthquake aftermath, but I haven’t seen anything even remotely close to that kind of reaction and response as a result of the Pakistan floods. I wonder why that might be?  After the Haiti earthquake struck, TIME magazine immediately sent two photographers there, Shaul Schwarz and Timothy Fadek, whose work was shown prominently  in a daily updated photo gallery on the magazine’s website, and a week into the aftermath they also dispatched James Nachtwey. I just had a look at TIME’s photo essays page on their website, and there is only one single Pakistan floods gallery, published on August 2, which is made up of photographs taken by EPA, AP, Reuters, and Getty Images photographers. And New York Times, who sent several of their own staffers, including Damon Winter,  and regular freelancers to Haiti, has opted not to send anyone of their own to Pakistan, instead publishing several photo galleries (here, here, and here) made up entirely of wire photographs. So there are photographers on the ground and of course NYT has to be congratulated for publishing some of the work, but I would argue that if a newspaper or a magazine is committed to seriously covering an issue, like both TIME and NYT did in Haiti, they will assign their own photographers. And I would argue that one can potentially receive a more comprehensive view of a catastrophic situation such as the Pakistan floods, at least photographically, by looking at larger bodies of work each done by single observers. I tend to overlook those photo galleries made up of several photographers’ work, those ‘wire galleries’ as I call them, no matter how good the work in them might be – as in the case of Getty’s Daniel Berehulak whose always terrific photos can be seen as part of the only TIME Pakistan floods gallery – and preferring to see work comprising a singular vision such as Alixandra Fazzina’s flood photos on NOOR website. I just hope there were more photographers out there in Pakistan doing this kind of in-depth work. You’d expect so, as you’d expect the aid dollars piling up, considering the magnitude of the natural catastrophe…

Features and Essays – Pascal Maitre: The Pierced Heart of Madagascar (NGM: September 2010)

Pascal Maitre interview from 08..

Features and Essays - Philippe Brault: Welcome to Prison Valley (TIME: August 2010) Fremont County,CO has made incarceration into a local specialty industry

Features and Essays – Mustafah Abdulaziz: Ramadan in New York City (WSJ: August 2010)

Last year all the Afghanistan stories seemed to come from the Korengal Valley (Kunar Province). This year it seems to be from Marjah (Helmand Province)…Go figure…

Features and Essays – Mauricio Lima: Soldiers’ Tattoos in Marjah, Afghanistan (TIME: August 2010)

Features and Essays – Matthew Niederhauser: China’s New Tomorrowland (FP: August 2010)

Frank Evers’ INSTITUTE just keeps growing and growing…Introducing David Maisel…

Agencies – David Maisel joins INSTITUTE for Artist Management (INSTITUTE: August 2010)

Maisel’s work in BJP…

Articles - BJP: The dust man settles (BJP: August 2010)

Maisel’s website

Collectives – MJR Weekly Collection 73

I’m putting together portfolios for Perpignan and been wondering how to show my work as my big 12x16in portfolio box is back in Swansea where I’m not returning to before heading to Visa Pour l’Image end of next week via London.

Was in touch with Daniel Cuthbert who’s putting his own portfolios together and he pointed out this Lightstalkers thread he started…LS can be so useful. Shame about all the bickering that goes on there often…

Tutorials - Lightstalkers: Digital portfolios and editors (LS thread: 2010)

Daniel’s info btw… Photographers – Daniel Cuthbert | Twitter

Twitter – Brent Foster

Interviews – J H Engstrom (Viceland: August 2010)

More of these great interviews done by Gerard Holubowicz on the present and future of photojournalism…

Interviews - Paul Melcher (gholubowicz.com: 2010)

Interviews - Jean Pierre Pappis : Polaris Images (gholubowicz.com: 2010)

More on the topic…

Articles - Jeremy Nicholl: And Now For Something Completely Different: Is Photojournalism Dead Yet? (Photographer’s blog: August 2010)

Blogs - Peters Marshall: Flattry, Thieving and Photojournalism (Photographer’s blog: August 2010)

And now REALLY for something completely diffrent…As a Finn I feel I must give a shoutout to Newsweek for their World’s Best Countries piece…And the winner is…

I’m living in number 14 though…