Friday 1 October 2010

I wasn’t planning on making updates today, but I’ve been at home all day….couldn’t get tickets to the first BPB session, as it was sold out…and it’s been raining cats and dogs…so been doing some paperwork…as well as checking up on Twitter a lot….and there’s so much good stuff out there, I better share some of them already today…otherwise I’m gonna be proper swamped tomorrow! Heading to the Brighton Photo Biennial openings later tonight… so in honour of the festival let’s start with a couple of BPB related links….

Articles – Guardian – Can Martin Parr work his magic on the Brighton Photo Biennial? (Guardian: October 2010)

Interviews – Martin Parr : BPB New Documents (BJP: October 2010)

Interviews – Martin Parr : In Conversation: Martin Parr on curating the Brighton Photo Biennial 2010 (Jotta: September 2010)

Blogs – Hot Shoe: Martin Parr is hands on for the press tour of the Brighton Photo Biennial 2010: New Documents (Hot Shoe Blog: October 2010)

I mentioned to Olivier at BJP on Twitter earlier that he needs a new mic, as the audio in this Chaskielberg interview is pretty poor… and he did say he is getting an external mic for his iPhone next week… so let’s hope we can expect better sound in the future….

Interviews – Alejandro Chaskielberg : Brighton Photo Biennial (BJP: October 2010)

Interviews – Alejandro Chaskielberg (Culture24.org.uk: September 2010)

“The drill scenario for the August exercise went as follows: “The year is 2014, and a new breed of neo-Islamic terrorism is rampant in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio…The current White House Administration is pro-Muslim and has ordered a stand-down against Islamic groups.” The goal is to destroy the enemy command post, or die trying.”

Sweet.

Features and Essays – Ty Cacek: Inside an American Militia (TIME: September 2010) Ohio Defense Force

Features and Essays – Walter Astrada: Undesired (MediaStorm: October 2010) India

Afghanistan with an iPhone…

Features and Essays – Abbie Trayler-Smith: iPhoneistan (Panos Pictures: October 2010) Afghanistan

Workshops – Foundry Photojournalism workshop 2011 to be held in Buenos Aires (LS: October 2010)

Last instalment of the Morel-AFP-Visa saga at Duckrabbit…they were nice enough to give the last word to Mr Leroy..

Articles – JF Leroy: I am Listening (Duckrabbit: October 2010)

Articles – Guardian: Photographer Guillaume Herbaut’s best shot (Guardian: September 2010)

I feel like street photography is going through a revival…

Project – Street Photography Now Project : “Street Photography Now Project is a collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery, London and Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, authors of Street Photography Now (Thames and Hudson). Each week from 1 October 2010, a leading contemporary street photographer will issue a new instruction, written to inspire fresh ways of looking at and documenting the world we live in. Over the following six days photographers around the world are invited to upload one photograph in response, to form part of a Street Photography Now Project Gallery on Flickr. After six days the next instruction will be issued.”

This looks interesting..

Projects – Base Track : Facebook : Twitter

Galleries – Flowers Gallery : Twitter

My friend Amanda finally gave in and got herself a Twitter account

Twitter – Amanda Rivkin

Twitter – World Press Photo

Twitter – Michael David Murphy

Exhibitions – Mike Berube : Know Hope : Station Gallery : Whitby, Ontario : Canada : September 4 – October 17

Amanda also noted I’ve never listed Mark Seliger….Some really great portraits….

Photographers – Mark Seliger

As a final note…32,521 views for the site in September. Thank you.