The death of a young Syrian given a camera by Reuters…

“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.

read more ->

http://www.businessinsider.com/molhem-barakats-syrian-war-photos-2014-1

Might switch this here blog to facebook!

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.

Newspaper removes all images…

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

Read more: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2307127/french-newspaper-removes-all-images-in-support-of-photographers#ixzz2ki9bnxoR

Screengrab UN Women Campaign – ingenius

http://unwomenpaigninpractice.tumblr.com/

Incredibly simple and affective way to use text & image plus webcam’s

…to communicate an important issue.

http://9gag.com/gag/aWZ10Dq?ref=mobile

Further heartbreak…

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.

mass production/licencing of images

…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:

http://www.pdnonline.com/news/Startup-Aims-to-Make-8462.shtml?utm_source=Silverpop&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=42155636&utm_term=96312&utm_content

Insta-scam?

http://www.dmlp.org/blog/2013/instagram-uncharted-territory-courts-and-journalists?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CitizenMediaLawProject+%28Digital+Media+Law+Project%29

The essay some folk have been waiting for…

Click to access World%20Press%20Photo%20Multimedia%20Research%20Project%20by%20David%20Campbell.pdf

Watch this short vid!

This is a great tutorial. Incredibly useful.

http://kocistudios.com/start-strong-or-go-home-koci-studios-tips-on-how-to-open-your-video-stories/

June 4th

“The propagandist is a man who canalises an already existing stream. In a land where there is no water, he digs in vain.”

Aldous Huxley

To celebrate June 4th I went to a great exhibition at the British Library called Propaganda: Power and Persuasion.

Last year on June 4th I was in China using a VPN to post about Tiananmen Square…here in the UK this year there was barely a mention in the press and on TV about anything related to Tank Man.

Condition One: Numb?

C1’s Danfung Dennis talks about society’s numbness to traditional media….’immerse-ive  experience’. A little scary perhaps?

Kevin Carter – retold

Seeing is believing?

 

Interesting article in the BJP:

“Beyond the attacks leveraged against Paul Hansen’s winning World Press Photo, the recent controversy over image toning is symptomatic of the current state of photojournalism and its place in a society that has learned not to trust what it sees. Photojournalists, photography directors and post-producers speak to Olivier Laurent, and ask whether objectivity in photojournalism is actually attainable..”

http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news-analysis/2269913/world-press-photo-controversy-objectivity-manipulation-and-the-search-for-truth

– World Press Photo controversy: Objectivity, manipulation and the search for truth

unemployment rises.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/video/2013/apr/16/guardian-witness-promo-video

great…more ways journalists, photographers, videographers are having their trade undermined in the rush for free content from or for (probably both) the modern day consumer needs.

Making the News: Colors

http://www.colorsmagazine.com/magazine/86

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

Incredibly interesting work about documentation in the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize this year. I’m very keen on Broomberg & Chanarin work. It seems to be such an important issue that they have been focused on;

War Primer 2 (2012, MACK). The limited edition book physically inhabits the pages of Bertolt Brecht’s publication War Primer (1955). In the original, Brecht matched WWII newspaper clippings with short poems that seek to demystify press images, which he referred to as hieroglyphics. In War Primer 2 Broomberg & Chanarin choose to focus on the ‘War on Terror’; sifting through the internet for low resolution screen-grabs and mobile phone images, the artists then combined them to resonate with Brecht’s poems. Through this layering of photographic history, Broomberg & Chanarin offer a critique of photographs of contemporary conflict and their dissemination—a theme that has been at the centre of their practice for fifteen years.

http://deutsche-boerse.com/dbg/dispatch/en/kir/dbg_nav/corporate_responsibility/33_Art_Collection/25_photography_prize

World Photo Org winner, outstanding work

http://andreagjestvang.com/photography-2/one-day-in-history/

One Day in History

In Norway, the 22nd of July 2011 has etched itself into the collective and private memory forever. That day, a car bomb killed eight people and damaged the executive government quarter in Oslo. Few hours later, 69 young people were killed at a summer camp on the island of Utøya. The camp was organized by AUF, the youth division of the ruling Norwegian Labor Party.

Around 500 survived the massacre, of whom many were badly wounded. More than half of the survivors were children and youths under the age of 18. They have returned to their daily lives now. They go to school, they hang out with friends and they fall in love. They go to bed every night and look at them selves in the mirror in the morning. But something has changed. The young survivors will live on with their scars — both visible and mental — many of which may never fully heal.

(The project is published as a book called “En dag i historien” by Pax)

 

Andrea Gjestvang

Fade To Black

Looking forward to the content in ‘Fade To Black’

Film. Photography. And everything in between.

Fade To Black is a quarterly, international magazine for the iPad from the team behind the award-winning British Journal of Photography, dedicated to a new generation of image-makers who embrace the convergence of photography, video and multimedia, and all the new opportunities offered by digital capture and distribution to shoot and distribute their projects themselves.

World Press seeking to sell you research

…essentially. Dr. Davd Campbell PR’s whats hes been up regarding his commission to research multimedia…I’d rather they commissioned him to find out if the World Press is relevant anymore…but im sure his finding will be will be interesting none the less, if we are allowed access to it.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/multimedia-research