...a photoBook is an autonomous art form, comparable with a piece of sculpture, a play or a film. The photographs lose their own photographic character as things 'in themselves' and become parts, translated into printing ink, of a dramatic event called a book...
- Dutch photography critic Ralph Prins
"My wife and I adopted our baby girl, Carmen Laura, from Bogotá, Colombia. While the courts processed her paperwork, we spent two months in Bogotá waiting to take Carmen home.
Carmen's birthmother gave her a book filled with letters, pictures and poems. "I hope that the hardness of the world will not hurt your sensitivity," she wrote, "When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things."
With those words as a mission statement, I began making my own book for Carmen. In photographing the city of her birth, I hope I've described some of the beauty in this hard place." Lees verder ...
"My wife and I adopted our baby girl, Carmen Laura, from Bogotá, Colombia. While the courts processed her paperwork, we spent two months in Bogotá waiting to take Carmen home.
Carmen's birthmother gave her a book filled with letters, pictures and poems. "I hope that the hardness of the world will not hurt your sensitivity," she wrote, "When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things."
With those words as a mission statement, I began making my own book for Carmen. In photographing the city of her birth, I hope I've described some of the beauty in this hard place." Lees verder ...
Jane Hilton stumbled across the inspiration for her latest project, Dead Eagle Trail, after coming across a dead Golden Eagle in the middle of a road in Nevada. The experience inspired her to document and explore one of the most romantic and iconic archetypes of American culture and history, the cowboy and his way of life.
Dead Eagle Trail is an empathetic portrayal of 21st century cowboys, photographed in their own personal environments and surrounded by their collections of artefacts and memorabilia.
Jane Hilton has worked in both advertising and editorial photography since the 1980s, with documentary projects providing the mainstay of her work today.
The exhibition, Dead Eagle Trail, runs until 21 May 2010 at the Host Gallery in Honduras Street, London. A book of the same name is published by Schilt Publishing. Lees verder ...
By Eugene Richards
Posted on September 22, 2008, Printed on May 15, 2010
http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/investigations/iraqafghanistan/1255/ Lees verder ...
At the beginning of 2006 the war in Iraq was about to enter its fourth year. No WMDs had been found. There was sanctioned torture, deteriorating rules of law, tens of thousands of injured and dead in Iraq, more than 2,000 dead American soldiers, a rising suicide rate among American military personnel, scandals involving private contractors in Iraq and deteriorating conditions inside US military hospitals. All the while the media coolly debated what were to be considered legal or illegal killings in Iraq, what the conflict was costing America in image, what the war was costing the president in his popularity ratings and what the war was costing America in "treasure."
I was asking myself for the thousandth time, "What can I do? Write letters, sign petitions, continue to protest, stop paying taxes?" I was a photojournalist and I had been too silent.
Then one day, after coming home from photographing an anti-war demonstration, though I'm no poet, I wrote a kind of poem. And it was this poem that indirectly led to this project and provided me with a focus.
War is personal It's my seventeen-year-old son Sam that I'm thinking of when I say this
War is a reminder of all that we have
and all that we can lose
War is what happens when we fail
In late 2006 I began work on what would be a series of photo and textual essays focused on the lives of people in this country who'd been profoundly affected by the war. The text and the photographs wouldn't be expository in nature, but experiential and of the moment. I spent time with 26-year-old Tomas Young, who had been shot, paralyzed, four days into his tour in Iraq. Tomas had accidentally overdosed on his meds the morning I visited. I photographed and interviewed Carlos Arredondo, whose Marine son had been killed in combat, then traveled to see Mona Parsons, who was trying to prevent her dutiful son from returning to his military unit in Iraq.
In the months that followed I attended a funeral service for Army Sergeant Princess Samuels; spent close to a week in a VA Hospital in Massachusetts documenting a woman's struggle to keep her brain-injured son alive; interviewed and photographed a former combat medic who, upon returning home, had to deal with his escalating post-traumatic stress disorder; traveled to a small town in Minnesota to do a story on a single mom whose guilt-ridden Marine boyfriend had taken his life.
In January 2010 second year students from Documentary Photography, along with a small group of students from our partner institution, The Royal Academy in Holland, participated in ‘Network Week U.K’.
‘Network Week U.K’ is a weeklong series of visits to many of the UK’s leading photographers and photographic institutions. This is a great opportunity for the students to have firsthand experience of some of the work methods and business practices of these eminent individuals and institutions. This is an annual event, which was preceded by our students participating in a series of similar visits to eminent Dutch practitioners in Holland. The UK visits included visits to the following people:
Anna Fox, Martin Parr, Nigel Shafran, Magnum, Karren Knorr, Brian Griffin, Mark Power, Clare Strand, Photoworks, Simon Norfolk, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Photographers Gallery, Simon Roberts, Boot Books, Smith Design, Val Williams, Am Nuden Da, Broomberg and Chanarin, Stuart Griffiths, Foto 8, Wyatt Clarke Jones, Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Adam Hinton, Tom Hunter,Melanie Friend, David Moore, Marco Santucci, Andrew Buurman and Ed Clarke.
...Photography is the visual medium of the modern world. As a means of recording, and as an art form in its own, it pervades our lives and shapes our perceptions...
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