Jon Lowenstein is an award-winning photo-journalist, and a member and co-owner of NOOR photo agency.
Excellent use of stills, video and audio!
http://www.channel4.com/news/chicago-polar-vortex-cold-weather-jon-lowenstein-portrait
“11 Intense Syria Photos From The 18-Year-Old Photojournalist Who Died In Action”
Eighteen-year-old photojournalist Molhem Barakat was killed in a battle for control of Aleppo’s al-Kindi Hospital on December 20th, 2013.
The Syrian teenager had been photographing the war with equipment provided by Reuters since May 2013 — and his death has generated uncomfortable questions for the news agency, as covered by David Kenner at Foreign Policy.
http://www.businessinsider.com/molhem-barakats-syrian-war-photos-2014-1
PhotoShelter‘s latest digital book “The Photographer’s Guide to Facebook,” which includes one of my favourite photographers Tomas van Houtryve Photography‘s Facebook page as an example of successful social media use. Click the link below to obtain a free PDF copy of the guide, with tips for attracting and engaging social media audiences.
To coincide with Paris Photo’s opening, French newspaper Libération has chosen to remove all images from its 14 November issue in a bid to show the power and importance of photography at a time when the industry is facing unprecedented challenges, say the newspaper’s editors
http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-sea/?ref=magazine
Very impressive use of multimedia and a clear sign that used in this way such projects can communicate their story effectively and to a wider audience than most other forms of story telling.
With explosive disclosures about the long arm of the National Security Agency, the nation is engaged in an intense debate about privacy and spying. Now there is another snoop in town: the contemporary artist.
Annie Tritt for The Wall Street JournalPolaroids collected by Doug Rickard are displayed in his studio.
Fine-art photographers are flocking to what some are calling “surveillance art”—a wide-ranging practice that includes trolling online to appropriate photos of strangers, presenting images of top-secret sites from the ground and air and using covert tactics to shoot unsuspecting subjects. The work is landing in major museums, appearing at high-profile galleries and fetching more than $60,000—even if some of it is lifted straight off the Internet…
PERPIGNAN, France — A 13th-century church is a fitting location for the exhibition of war photographs by Don McCullin, a man intent on paying public penance. Most photographers would be proud of the honors and accolades showered on Mr. McCullin at Perpignan’s Visa Pour l’Image festival this week.
Instead, he recoiled in shame, as if the words had wounded him.
http://www.david-campbell.org/2013/09/05/abundant-photography-misleading-metaphor-image-flood/
#SANDY is a book of iPhone Photos of Hurricane Sandy by acclaimed photographers to be published by Daylight Books in October 2014. 100% of the net proceeds will be donated to Occupy Sandy to support their rebuilding efforts in the New York City area.
Last October 2012, Hurricane Sandy devastated communities in the New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut areas. In response, Foley Gallery and photographer Wyatt Gallery organized an exhibition of iPhone photographs of the storm by acclaimed documentary and fine art photographers. Hundreds of people attended the one night event and almost 400 photographs were purchased. We were able to donate $19,000 in sales to Occupy Sandy and Third Wave Volunteers.
As the first year anniversary approaches, many residents are still struggling to regain normal living conditions. In order to remind the public that people are still in need of assistance and to raise money to support rebuilding efforts, we are producing this groundbreaking book.
Photographers featured in the book are:
Benjamin Lowy
Stephen Wilkes
Ed Kashi
Richard Renaldi
Hank Willis Thomas
Lyle Owerko
Wyatt Gallery
Ruddy Roye
Michael Christopher Brown
Giles Clarke
Andrew Quilty
Craig Wetherby
Erica Simone
13th Witness
Sam Horine
Yosra El-Essawy
Stanley Lumax
Nicole Sweet
Dylan Chandler
Brent Bartley
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sandy-iphone-photography-book
People talk about image fatigued when it comes to images of conflict. And I’m one of them…loads of photographers become a cliche and it gets very hard to related to such tried and tested images of War, Conflict – guys with guns. I believe photos like this engage and communicate a hell of a lot more and if I were a conflict photographer I would spend my days focused on the human adaption to war creating story after story on the periphery. Capa and his ‘close enough’ tag is often interpreted to getting in there and following guys with guns …I reckon, as the late Tim Heatherington said – to witness is not enough anymore – and for me, with the use of multimedia, or at the very least audio slides shows a way to go about documenting whats happening to tell a truthful story is to be close enough to the periphery.
Interesting look at US front covers for TIME magazine compared with the rest of the world…
Its truly disheartening seeing whats happening to Egypt. There are rumors many charges against Mubarak are being dropped while Morsi is having many charges put to him…madness!
http://brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-process-of-video-verification-rabaa.html
…more ways people are adapting or losing out to the mass of images being produced in today’s world of photos-galore, photos-for-all:
‘I want to show you what it’s like to be there as best I can, even if that ends with me running full-speed into a cafe and rubbing lemons all over my face after being tear-gassed’
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/tim-pool-live-streaming-from-istanbul
great article on …’the intersection of journalism, data science, and digital media: How can j-schools prep students for the world they’re headed into?‘
Well worth a read and perhaps essential reading to anyone in the biz, wanting to get in the biz or peeps not doing so well in the biz!
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