Thursday 29 March 2012
Photojournalism that caught my eye during the month of March….
Features and Essays
One of my big faves, Tomas Munita, had a series from Cuba for Time to coincide the Papal visit to the country… opening double spread from the latest magazine seen here… Lightbox slideshow through the link…
Tomas Munita: Church and State: The Role of Religion in Cuba (Lightbox)
Side note on the above…what made me fall in love with his work? It was his stunning 2006 Oskar Barnack winning series from Kabul. You can see most of the frames here. Man, Leica, and slide film working in perfect harmony…
Japan. 11 March saw the anniversary of the tsunami…
Nachtwey recently got four double trucks in Time for his Japan 1 Year Later portfolio.Pretty rare these days for something like that to happen I think…
James Nachtwey: Japan One Year After (Lightbox)
Daniel Berehulak: Japan One Year After (NPR)
David Guttenfelder: Tsunami, Then and Now (SacBee Frame blog)
Alvaro Ybarra Zavala: Route 45: Japan’s Earthquake & Tsunami Anniversary (Reportage)
Espen Rasmussen: Fukushima Fallout (Panos)
Noriko Hayashi: One Year On (Panos)
Dean Chapman: Fading Memories II (Panos)
Hiroko Masuike: A Japanese Community After the Tsunami (NYT Lens) Related
Chris Steele-Perkins: Tsunami Streetwalk, Kesennuma / Streetwalk 2 (Magnum in Motion)
Syria.
Moises Saman: Refugees Flee Syrian Violence in Turkey (NYT)
Ed Ou: Syrians Find Refuge in Lebanon (NYT)
William Daniels: Escape from Syria (Lightbox)
Tyler Hicks: Glimpses of the Armed Opposition in Syria (NYT)
Rodrigo Abd: Inside Syria (Lightbox) from Guardian
Tyrone Turner: Where Slaves Ruled (Brazil) (NGM)
Recent great International Herald Tribune front page pic by Meredith Kohut and the slideshow on NYT.com…
Meredith Kohut: In Salvador, Prisons Packed to the Bars (NYT)
Pete Muller: Ethiopian Forces in Somalia (Newsweek)
Dominic Nahr: On the Ground: Safe fro Kony? (Lightbox)
Adam Dean: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Campaigns in Myanmar (NYT)
Adam Ferguson: Christians Flee Iraq (NYT)
Ikuru Kuwajima: Astana, Kazakhstan’s Capital Outside In (NYT Lens)
Sergey Kozmin: Elite Russian Military School for Girls (NYT Lens)
Stefano de Luigi: Cinema in Iran (Lightbox)
Eugene Richards: ‘War is Personal’ Continues (Lightbox)
Jocelyn Bain Hogg: British Entertainment (VII)
Anastasia Taylor-Lind: Siberian Supermodels (VII) multimedia
Franco Pagetti: Egypt (VII)
Davide Monteleone: Libya : Winners and Losers (VII)
Stefan Bladh: Youth in Kaliningrad, Russia (Lightbox)
Politics. Russia.
Yuri Kozyrev: On the Campaign Trail with Vladimir Putin (Lightbox)
Politics. US.
This was a TIME magazine cover story early this year…
Christopher Morris: A Day With Obama (VII)
Justin Maxon: On the Trail with Santorum (Lightbox)
Charles Ommanney: Santorum (Newsweek)
Lauren Lancaster: Super Tuesday (New Yorker)
Evan Vucci: GOP Campaign Trail with Instragram (MSNBC photo blog)
Lauren Fleishman: Romney : Super Tuesday (Lightbox)
Stephen Crowley: Smoke-Filled Rooms part 2 (NYT Lens)
Jeroen Oerlemans: Dreaming of Europe (Panos)
Adam Dean: City of Broken Dreams (Panos)
Alfredo Caliz: The Longest Spring (Panos)
William Daniels: Faded Tulips (Lightbox)
Afghanistan.
Alixandra Fazzina: Over Mountains, Underground (NOOR)
Jason P Howe: Afghanistan: Saving Private Bainbridge (Telegraph)
Andrea Bruce: Skiing in Afghanistan (NYT Lens)
Larry Towell: Afghanistan (Lightbox)
Peter Hapak: Olympic Women’s Boxing Hopefuls (Lightbox)
Rian Dundon: A View From Inside The Other New China (Burn)
Spencer Platt: Haiti Landfills (MSNBC photo blog)
Sally Ryan: Home No More (zReportage)
Kate Holt: Education for All (zReportage)
John Pendygraft: If I Die Young (zReportage)
Peggy Peattie: Angels of Milot (zReportage)
Fredrik Naumann: A Voice from Rost (Foto8)
Rob Hornstra: Empty Land, Promised Land, Forbidden Land (Foto8)
Dominic Nahr: Voices of Protest in Senegal (Magnum Photos)
Mila Teshaieva: Promising Waters (Lightbox)
Kevin Frayer: Holi Festivities (SecBee)
Chris Kelly: Situation in Southern Kordofan (Photographer’s archive)
Tomas Wiech: Poland’s Great Adventure (NYT Lens)
Brent Lewin: India’s ‘rat hole’ Mines (National Post)
Pete Pin: Cambodian Americans (NYT Lens)
Martin Parr: Think of Finland (Magnum)
Alejandro Cartagena: Car Poolers (Photographer’s website)
Erica McDonald: Change in Park Slope (NYT Lens)
Ben Lowy: Ohio’s Long Road to Recovery (Reportage by Getty Tumblr)
Graeme Robertson: Portraits of Malawi (Guardian)
Carl de Souza: The Maasai Cricket Warriors (Atlantic) Kenya
Enjoyed these sports pics…
Fred R. Conrad: Spring Training (NYT Lens)
NYT Lens (various photographers): Postcard from London
Kate Peters: Yes, Mistress (Institute)
Jonathan Torgovnik: Rebuilding the DRC (BBC)
Tom Stoddart: Women of Sarajevo Revisited (Reportage)
Bruce Gilden shooting fashion for Vice…
Bruce Gilden: In Broad Daylight (Vice)
Daniel Cuthbert: First on Scene : South African Paramedics (BBC)
Alex Troesch and Aline Paley: Mexican Pointy Boots (Lightbox)
Danko Stjepanovic: North Kosovo (photographer’s website)
Interviews and Talks
“I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else’ – Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastiao Salgado (Guardian)
Sebastiao Salgado (Vimeo)
Excellent 9 minute video by Finnish photographer Rami Hanafi on Martin Parr working in Finland…
Martin Parr : Making of ‘Think of Finland’ (Vimeo)
Zohra Bensemra: My journey into Syria’s nightmare (Reuters)
Ed Kashi (NYT Lens)
Samuel Bollendorff (BJP)
Elliott Erwitt on the art of photographic sequencing (BBC)
Lynsey Addario (Newsweek)
Lynsey Addario (Newsweek)
Davide Monteleone (Develop Tube)
Sean Gallagher (Atlantic)
Alex Prager : this year’s Foam Paul Huf Award winner (BJP)
Sebastian Salgado : The Photographer as an activist (Youtube)
Giles Peress (Youtube)
Pieter Hugo (Vimeo)
Barbara Davidson (LA Times Framework blog)
Homer Sykes (Photoshelter blog)
Olivia Arthur (IdeasTap)
Naomi Harris (Thisisthewhat)
Dominic Bracco II : Turning Point (NYT Lens)
Fiona Rogers (IdeasTap)
Giles Duley : Becoming the Story (TED on Youtube)
Justyna Mielnikiewicz (TED Youtube on Reportage)
Steve Pyke (PicBod)
Mark Power (Impressions Gallery)
John Moore on on ‘Epic’ Libya Battles, Arab World Revolutions (Click)
Shaun Fenn : From Assistant to Photographer: Shaun Fenn’s Professional Transition (PDN)
Articles
Tyler Hicks on his assignment to Syria with late Anthony Shadid…
Tyler Hicks: Bearing Witness in Syria: A Correspondent’s Last Days (NYT)
Javier Espinosa: How I escaped from Homs as Syrian forces closed in (Guardian)
PDN: Remembering 13 Unsung Heroes of Photojournalism
NYT: Stan Stearns, Photographer of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s Salute to Father, Dies at 76
NYT: Lillian Bassman, Fashion and Fine-Art Photographer, Dies at 94
Lynsey Addario was featured on Guardian’s brilliant ‘Best Shot’ series…
Guardian: Photographer Lynsey Addario’s Best Shot
Guardian: Photographer Tom Craig’s best shot
Related… Guardian: My best shot: The one that got away | For five years, G2 has been asking photographers to tell us the story behind their best shot. But what about their worst? Jane Bown, Martin Parr, Terry O’Neill and others reveal all
And… Guardian: My Worst Shot
Guardian: The Month in Photography
Guardian: Photographs Not Taken: what makes a photographer freeze? | A new book of essays by photographers explores the missed opportunities of images never captured
NYT Lens: Empowerment, Through a Lens
David Campbell: Kony2012, symbolic action and the potential for change
NYT: David LaChapelle, From Photographer to Artist
Verve: Kirsten Luce
Verve: Jeremy Nichol
Verve: Alessandro Grassani
Verve: Jonathan Lewis
Verve: Max Sher
Boston Globe on VII Photo’s Hipstamatic shot exhibition…
photo: John Stanmeyer
Boston Globe: With Hipstamatic app, photojournalists smartphone it in to new exhibit
Nick Stern: Why Instagram photos cheat the viewer (CNN)
PDN: Eggleston’s First-Ever Large Pigment Prints Earn 5.9 Million at Auction
D Perez: Chimping (Vimeo)
Guardian: All About Eve
NYT Lens: Steichen, A New Trove From an Old Master
Diane Smyth: Dana Popa (PhotoMonitor)
BBC: England Uncensored by Peter Dench
Lightbox: DEVELOP Tube: A photographic resource grows
BJP: World Photo London is starting next month, packed with talks, seminars and workshops
Eggleston Shore (video on 1000Words blog)
Conscientious: How to make a photobook | related
Gregory Crewdson movie : trailer
PhotoShelter: Should Photo Contests Require Original Image Files?
Awards, Grants, and Competitions
Elles van Gelderen and Ilvy Njiokiktjien won first prize in World Press Photo Multimedia contest for “Afrikaner Blood….Not surprised. I remember telling friends after Perpignan that one of the best things I had seen during the festival was that exact multimedia piece….
photo Ilvy Njiokiktjien
BJP: World Press Photo announces Multimedia contest winners | Related: Bombay FC: WPP Multimedia Judging part 2 . Part 1
FotoVisura winners…
Photo: Erin Trieb
FotoVisura Photography Grant Winners
BJP: Anastasia Taylor-Lind has won the Center Project Award in Santa Fe
BJP: Paul Graham wins the Hasselblad Foundation International Award for Photography, worth $150,000
Days Japan Photojournalism Awards 2012
Slideluck Potshow is coming to London again….
Slideluck Potshow London IV Submissions | related on Wayne Ford’s blog
NPPA: Justin Maxon, Katie Orlinsky Win 2011 Alexia Foundation Grants
Finland’s press photos of the year…
Sami Kero got the POY with a photo from Cairo…
photo: Sami Kero / Helsingin Sanomat
Finland Press Photos of the Year 2011
London Festival of Photography 2012 Prize
The City of Levallois Photography Award
Eddie Adams Workshop now accepting submissions
Guardian Student Media Awards 2012
Agencies and Collectives
Magnum open to submissions again. Last year they didn’t take any new nominees, if I remember correctly…
photo: Burt Glinn
Apply to become a member of Magnum Photos : 2012 Submissions are now open : Deadline is 08/06/12
photo: Venetia Dearden
VII Photo Newsletter March 2012
Prime Collective March 2012 newsletter
Reportage by Getty Images: Natalie Naccache now part of Emerging Talent
Read about this commercial agency on Twitter… Good line-up of photographers.. including Tom Stoddart..
Making Pictures : commercial photo agency : London
Books
VII Photo’s Questions Without Answers book featured on Phaidon blog…
Photo: Alexandra Boulat
Phaidon: The defining images of our turbulent times…VII: Questions Without Answers
Jörg Colberg: Better by Design: The role of design in the making of five modern photobooks (BJP)
multiMedia
Blogs
Happy belated birthday to Lightbox!
photo: Joakim Eskildsen
Lightbox: A Year of Great Photography
Crowd Funding and related
photo: Andre Liohn
Almost Dawn in Libya aka ADIL (NYT Lens)
Photo Time Machine on Kickstarter
Respecting My Elders on USAProjects
Jobs
Save The Children : 3 month internship opening in the Film&Photo team
Photographers
To finish off… KillShot: A Rifle Camera for Hunting with Photos Instead of Bullets