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He’s being interviewed about his work photographing Brunels heritage using a recreation of the camera that photographed Brunel in the 1850’s. There is an audio slideshow on the BBC website to go with it. More info on their blog. Team America, don’t forget that Lauren Greenfield’s new film, kids+money, will be broadcast on HBO tonight at 7pm ET/PT. Blogs - Peter Van Agtmael: Ugandan Dispatch No.1 - The Road (Magnum blog: November 28, 2008)  Comments on war photography based on the current Capa exhibition at the Barbican in London: Articles - Waldemar Januszczak: War photography: Truth is the first casualty (Times: November 23, 2008) “Can war photography ever be trusted? Our critic sees an unsettling show about Robert Capa and his legacy” Workshops - Momenta Workshops  Thursday 27 November 2008 Features and Photo Essays - Aaron Schuman: Once Upon a Time in the West (Foto8 Story of the Week: November 25, 2008) “Aaron Schuman heads to the Wild Wild West of Spain in search of the myth of the Spaghetti Western” Photographers - Aaron Schuman : website  A model of the King Abdullah Economic City is displayed in Jeddah, Makkah province, Saudi Arabia on Sept. 14, 2008. (Photo: Franco Pagetti) Features and Photo Essays - Franco Pagetti: A Booming Saudi Economy (VII: November 2008)  Features and Photo Essays - Franco Pagetti: Fighting Militant Islam (VII: November 2008) Wednesday 26 November 2008 People across the pond, check this out… (Photo: Lauren Greenfield) TV - Lauren Greenfield’s new film, kids+money, will be broadcast on HBO this Friday at 7pm ET/PT. People can watch a trailer and other annoucements at http://www.kidsandmoney.tv : Interview with Lauren Greenfield (HBO) Tuesday 25 November 2008 (Photo: Andrea Bruce / Washington Post)  Blogs - Andrea Bruce : Unseen Iraq: In the Kurdish North, Progress for Some (Unseen Iraq : Washington Post: November 23, 2008)  Sheik Mohammed al-Hais waits for all of the participants to arrive. (Photo: Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR) Features and Photo Essays - Yuri Kozyrev: Anbar Sheiks Come Together (TIME: November 24, 2008) “Chieftains from the embattled Iraqi province gather in hopes of winning seats in parliament” Books - Annie Leibovitz: Annie Leibovitz at Work : 240 pages : Random House : Out on November 18, 2008 : ISBN-10: 0375505105 : ISBN-13: 978-0375505102 Monday 24 November 2008 Features and Photo Essays - Eric Grigorian: Touring Ry Cooders California (audio slideshow 3:09) (NYT: November 23, 2008)  “El Mirage Dry Lake is a critical stop in the world of the rock and blues artist.” Features and Photo Essays - Monica Almeida: Getting Their Due (NYT: November 23, 2008) “From 1942 to 1964, the United States and Mexico had an official guest worker program. Scholars believe that more than 2.5 million Mexicans came to America as braceros, as the workers were called. Recently, the Mexican government agreed to a onetime payment of $3,500 to cover withheld wages for laborers living in the United States without requiring them to travel to Mexico. “ Agencies - NOOR Newsletter - 24 November 2008  Sunday 23 November 2008 ISRAEL. West Bank. Migron. 2008. Migron is an unauthorized Israeli settlement now home to approximately 45 families. A defense official said in August 2008 that the settlers would be moved to new homes in a nearby settlement, however construction of new homes could take months. (Photo: Alex Majoli) Features and Photo Essays - Alex Majoli: West Bank Settlements (20 images) (Magnum: November 2008) “The Israeli government has announced that it will cut off public support and funding for unauthorized Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank. Israeli ministers have long complained about the behavior of a minority of settlers, particularly those who live in outposts. In the past, the government has promised to evacuate the outposts but has done nearly nothing. Now, they say, they will take action. The crackdown came a day after a security chief warned that Jewish extremists could try to assassinate an Israeli leader.” (multi)Media - Vewd : “Vewd is a documentary photography magazine continuing the tradition of storytelling through a visual medium” : How to participate : Vewd Contest for student documentary photgraphers  Equipment, Printing, and Self-Promotion - Hance Partners Inc. (US) : “Hance Partners prints fine art photographs for national and international exposure in galleries, museums, special exhibits, and fine art publications.”  Saturday 22 November 2008 An advertisement displaying the time sits on Paulista Avenue. Now, only advertisements that adhere to the statutes of the Clean City law are permitted (Photo: CIA de Foto) Features and Photo Essays - CIA de Foto: Sao Paulo: The “Clean City” (TIME: November 20, 2008) “After decades of enduring advertisements on every building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the city passes a law requiring their removal or reduction.” Surrounded by mountains, the town of Beichuan in Sichuan province, China, has always been vulnerable to earthquakes. The one that struck the southwest region of China on May 12, 2008, proved to be fatal. The entire town of Beichuan was flattened, and 15,000 perished. Still subject to frequent landsides, the town is still a no-go zone. Visitors climb the nearby hills to get a bird’s eye view of disaster scene. Part of the old town has completely disappeared, buried deep under stones and mud. (Photo: Ian Teh / Panos) Features and Photo Essays - Ian Teh: China’s Sichuan Quake: Six Months Later (TIME: November 21, 2008) Half a year after the Sichuan earthquake devastated the town of Beichuan, China, residents in this once-scenic town try to rebuild their lives amidst the rubble.”Captions by Lin Yang. Photographs for TIME by Ian Teh / Panos. Photographers - Christian Hansen : website Friday 21 November 2008 (Photo: Annie Leibovitz) As an art student in the 1970s, Annie Leibovitz (above, in a self-portrait) switched majors from painting to photography. From Annie Leibovitz at Work (Random House, 2008) Interviews and Talks - Annie Leibovitz : The View From Behind The Lens (audio 7:18) (NPR:November 18, 2008)  Thursday 20 November 2008 Emanuel, 17, in his bedroom, Los Angeles. He attends the exclusive private school Harvard Westlake and wants to look “rich” like the other kids. He saved up to buy the designer items displayed on his bed when his family could no longer afford to buy luxury goods. (Photo: Lauren Greenfield) Features and Photo Essays - Lauren Greenfield: Kids + Money (VII: November 2008) “A decade ago, Greenfield’s breakthrough monograph, Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood (Knopf), explored the way Los Angeles youth is affected by an overwhelming materialism that exalts image. One of the photographs depicted Phoebe, a bored, tutu-clad three-year old, lying on a couch in the Barneys shoe department. Now 16, Phoebe makes a return appearance in kids + money. Sensitive to the adverse effects of affluence, she says: In L.A., the money is on the surface level. When you meet someone, it’s like, “Hi, I’m this person. I’m rich,” or “Hi, I’m this person. I wish I was rich.” It shows up everywhere. How tan you are, what jewelry you’re wearing. Girls have $3000 book bags just for school. It doesn’t stop in high school—what car you drive, where you work, what kind of suit you are wearing. It’s a whole image thing that Hollywood forces you to fit into.” “The portraits here are of the film’s subjects, hailing from diverse Los Angeles communities. From rich to poor, Pacific Palisades to East L.A., kids address how they are shaped by a culture of consumerism in interviews that accompany the pictures. kids + money is the latest chapter in Greenfield’s decade long exploration of the role of consumerism in shaping youth culture. For more information, please visit www.kidsandmoney.tv.” Features and Photo Essays - Christopher Morris: The Killers (VII: November 2008)  (Photograph: Bryan Denton) Features and Photo Essays - Bryan Denton: Lebanon’s Mahdi Scouts (NYT: November 20, 2008) “One of Lebanon’s largest youth groups, the Mahdi Scouts were founded in 1985, shortly after Hezbollah itself. Officially, the group is like any of the other 29 different scouting groups in Lebanon. However the group is much larger, with an estimated 60,000 children and scout leaders.” Features and Photo Essays - Michele Palazzi: Via Gordiani (30 stills) (Foto8 Story of the Weeks: 13 November 2008) “The controversial relationship between the Italian Government and the Italian roma community has been the source of various conflicts as of late. The most recent atrocity being the drowning of two young roma girls earlier this summer – their blanketed bodies unnoticed on the beach by locals and paramedics alike. The government’s answer to this deep division within their society is to push towards integration through a stronger policy of control – creating a database of compulsory finger-prints of all of roma people, including minors. This Big Brother-like initiative would infringe on the civil rights of thousands of people.This photographic reportage documents the everyday life of the roma people living in the via Gordiani gypsy camp, a place where the social situation is less problematic than in other camps, but where the families live under strict state control – definitive confirmation of being a second class citizen. “ Photographers - Michele Palazzi : website  Wednesday 19 November 2008 This seems pretty cool: (multi)Media - LIFE photo archive hosted by Google : Search millions of historic photos : “Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.” “The lakes of the upstream nations feed several rivers, including the Syr Darya, which the Soviets diverted to irrigate cotton, thereby diminishing the height of the river by 20 feet in twenty years and turning the area around the Aral Sea, above, into a barren wasteland” (Photograph: Carolyn Drake) Features and Photo Essays - Carolyn Drake: The Politics of Water in Central Asia (TIME: November 18, 2008) “Four former Soviet Republics fight for control of a precious resource” Features and Photo Essays - Felix Clay: Gypsies and Romany travellers in Hampshire (audio slideshow 1:53) (Guardian: October 27, 2008) “A static caravan site for Gypsies and Romany travellers near the village of Hartley Wintney, near Hook, Hampshire. Plans to expand the number of sites have been hampered by local objections” Photographers - Felix Clay : website  Features and Photo Essays - Michael Stravato: Still Stranded (NYT: November 19, 2008) Hurricane Ike aftermath:  ”Homeless in a Flash, Hundreds in Texas Now Wait for Relief” Tuesday 18 November 2008 Events and Festivals - Frontline Club : HIV / AIDS Season - In the picture with Gideon Mendel - Looking AIDS in the Face : Wednesday 26th November : 7.30pm : £10.00 : Followed by Q&A : “Gideon Mendel is an award winning photographer and has been documenting the impact of HIV/Aids in Africa for more than 12 years, working in 10 different countries to show the many ways the disease has devastated the lives of millions of ordinary people. Tonight, for one night only, he will present his work and discuss his findings. Gideon has worked on in-depth photo projects for many global publications, most notably for the Guardian and in conjunction with the HIV/Aids Alliance. Born in Johannesburg, Gideon Mendel began working as a photographer in 1983 and has since become one of the world’s leading contemporary photojournalists. He was recognised as a key photographer of change and conflict in South Africa in the lead up to Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. In 2003 Gideon released the book: A Broken Landscape, HIV and Aids in Africa and his work was exhibited widely. He is represented by Corbis.” Monday 17 November 2008 (Andrea Bruce/The Washington Post) Blogs - Andrea Bruce - Unseen Iraq: Partying the Night Away in Baghdad (Washington Post: November 17, 2008) “…Hidden away in the basement of the Sheraton Hotel, this “singing party” brings to mind a 1920s speak-easy. It is a party no one talks about but everyone knows about. Such affairs were common in the days of Saddam Hussein and resumed in Baghdad about four months ago, with certain adjustments for the war that intervened. For one thing, partygoers at the Sheraton can’t leave the hotel compound until 5 a.m., when curfew ends….” Features and Photo Essays - New Yorker: Tea and Wallaby (audio slideshow 7:44) (New Yorker: November 24, 2008 issue) “Photojournalists talk about memorable on-the-job meals.” Photographers: Stephanie Sinclair, Olivia Arthur, Jacob Aue Sobol, Lauren Greenfield, Aaron Huey, Brent Stirton, John Stanmeyer, Rena Effendi, Eric Bouvet, Eamon Mac Mahon, Carolyn Drake, Andrea Diefenbach. When José, a business magnate in his 30s, hops into his Ferrari, his bodyguards hustle into a black sports utility vehicle with their weapons at the ready, tailing their fast-moving boss. (Photo: Janet Jarman) Features and Photo Essays - Janet Jarman: Guarding Mexico’s Elite (NYT: November, 16, 2008) “Wealthy Mexicans have long hired bodyguards, but experts say the numbers of those seeking protection have jumped since President Felipe Calderón challenged the country’s drug cartels, bringing unprecedented levels of related violence into the major cities.” Photographers - Janet Jarman : website Interviews and Talks -Roger Tooth (Head of Photography, Guardian) comments on the World Press Photo 2008 exhibition (video 3:19) (Guardian: November 17, 2008) ‘“Some striking photos and a worthy winner to this year’s World Press Photo competition, but where’s the joy asks Guardian head of photography Roger Tooth” Interviews and Talks - Finbarr O’Reilly talk at Ryerson University (video) (Ryerson University webcast: 2006) Videos- Greg Kelly: Beyond Words : Photographers of War (CBC: 2006) NB: Not a direct link. Click: ‘Judge’s Choice’ on the bottom left-hand corner. Sunday 16 November 2008 (Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos) Features and Photo Essays - Paolo Pellegrin: U.S. Election Night - Obama Rally in Grant Park, Chicago (29 images) (Magnum: November 2008)  Features and Photo Essays - Christian Hansen: Failed Elevators, Frustrated Citizens (audio slideshow 2:04) (NYT: November 15, 2008) “The elevators in an East Harlem housing project break down with such frequency that the lives of tenants have been changed, sometimes profoundly.” February 5, 2008.  At a hotel in Chicago, Obama works on the speech he will give after accepting the Democratic nomination. (Photograph: Callie Shell / Aurora for TIME) Features and Photo Essays - Callie Shell: Barack Obama: The Best TIME Photographs (TIME: November 14, 2008) “A commemorative volume tracks the President-elect’s path to the White House. TIME Photographer Callie Shell has been with him every step of the way.” Alec Soth has really reinvigorated the Magnum blog: Blogs - Alec Soth: ‘Wear Good Shoes: Advice to Young Photographers’ (Magnum blog: November 15, 2008) “Today I’m in San Francisco giving a lecture to the Society for Photographic Education. After presenting my pictures and the story of how I became a photographer, I’ll likely be asked if I have any advice for young photographers. Instead of giving just my two cents, I thought it would be cool if I could also offer some advice from my fellow photographers at Magnum. I emailed my colleagues and received 35 different responses.” Download and print the full article as a PDF. Features and Photo Essays - Johan Spanner (photos) Lydia Polgreen (narration): The Spoils: A Scramble for Tin in Congo (audio slideshow 2:15) (NYT: November 15, 2008)  Photographers - Gemma Thorpe : website : “Gemma is a British freelance documentary and reportage photographer based in Beijing. She specialises in social and environmental issues and aims to demonstrate alternative perspectives to those usually found in Western media.” Saturday 15 November 2008 Interviews and Talks - CPN : In front of the Lens : MaryAnn Colon on how to best approach picture editors; the director of VII, Stephen Mayes, gives his thoughts on the rise of digital technology and how imagery is being used in a more dynamic way online; Volker Lensch, the photo editor at Stern, on how photographers should prepare to sell stories to print publications and how to deliver a strong assignment. Also Brent Stirton and a couple others (CPN: November 2008) Friday 14 November 2008 I’m glad the World Press Photo found a venue in London: Museums, Galleries, and Exhibitions - World Press Photo 2008 exhibition : Royal Festival Hall : 13 November - 8 December : 10.00 - 22.30 daily : Tube: Waterloo Campaigns - MSF: Condition Critical (link to the trailer) : “Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run, fleeing a war that rages in eastern Congo, in the provinces of North and South Kivu. They are frightened. Many are sick or wounded. Others have been harassed or raped, or have had everything they own stolen. The people of the Kivus are in a critical condition. The destiny of everyone in this region is shaped by the war. The story of their struggle to survive needs to be told. Starting November 20, 2008, MSF will help the people of the Kivus speak out through this web site.” Something I found via Jenn Ackerman’s blog: (multi)Media - Multimedia Muse : “We’re impudent, we’re plugged-in, and we’re staying anonymous. We’re three photographers who believe in creating a greater corporate news demand for online photojournalism. Currently, news sites often give lousy play to multimedia projects. Lousy play means fewer web clicks. And fewer clicks means that these projects aren’t earning their web hosts the kind of revenue that they could. We created MultimediaMuse to try and turn things around: to help give our industry’s Final Cut creations the display, and their web hosts the clicks, they deserve.”  Awards, Grants, and Competitions - VICE Magazine CTRL.ALT.SHIFT Competition : “VICE Magazine and CTRL.ALT.SHIFT have teamed up with Nan Goldin to launch a competition. They are eager to find images that cleverly combine gender, power and poverty. If you think you have what it takes to produce a striking image that touches on these subjects, then get going by uploading your images to their website before the 24th of November. Runners up will receive a photography pack whilst the final winner, chosen by Nan Goldin, will receive £1000 plus a new digital camera.” (from FOTO8) Deadline November 24, 2008 I wonder if I should look into to the below company to make Photojournalism Links a bit more pleasing to the eye. Equipment, Printing, and Self-Promotion - Graph Paper Press : “Graph Paper Press peddles minimalistic and modular designs that can transform your blog from a tubular list of posts into an aesthetically-pleasing news magazine or portfolio Web site.”  I only recently bumped into this interview… Interviews and Talks - James Nachtwey on his book ‘Inferno’ (text) (Salon: April 10, 2000)  Thursday 13 November 2008 Features and Photo Essays - Stefano Serra: Water Shortage in the West Bank (25 stills) (Foto8 Story of the Week: November 12, 2008)  Photographers - Stefano Serra : website Features and Photo Essays - Jehad Nga: Somalia: The Face of Modern Piracy (TIME: November 13, 2008) “Photographer Jehad Nga gets a rare glimpse of the men who plunder the shipping lanes off the east coast of Africa” Features and Photo Essays - Marcus Bleasdale: Hutu Tutsi Never Again? (VII: November 2008) “Fourteen years after the Rwandan genocide, Hutus and Tustsi ethnic tension overflows in neighboring Congo. 250,000 people have been displaced over the past weeks and Hutu militia, government soldiers and Tutsi warlords battle against each other in the hills of Kivu province. The international community watches silently. A shaky ceasefire between the Congolese army and Nkunda’s troops fell apart in late August and skirmishes between them have continued. “ Features and Photo Essays - Thomas Dworzak: Georgia On His Mind (Magnum in Motion: November 2008)  Features and Photo Essays - Gilless Peress: The Red and The Blue (Magnum in Motion: November 2008)  Wednesday 12 November 2008 Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Fresh MILK : information available also on LS.  Deadline 31 December 2008 News - 2008 Frontline Club Award : “Yuri Kozyrev wins the Frontline Club Award for his exceptional coverage of the Iraq war. His photographic essay starting from March 2003 covers the lives and stories of the people in and around Baghdad during the US-led attack. Almost six years after the war began, the mission there is far from accomplished. Yuri Kozyrev has been on the ground almost continually for the entire length of this conflict, and has given the world a comprehensive, unique, and honest portrait of the people that it has involved. ” Links to his photo essays can be found here (NOOR gallery) and here (TIME magazine gallery). Also, the Dispatches magazine has some of Kozyrev’s Iraq work up here.   Features and Photo Essays - NYT (various photographers): Dogs Serving Veterans (NYT: November, 2008) “America’s VetDogs, part of the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, provides disabled veterans with service dogs. “ Tuesday 11 November 2008 Photographers - David Burnett : website : blog Remembrance poppies are attached to a battle-scarred tree in what the British called ‘Sanctuary Wood’, part of Hill 62 on the Ypres-Salient. (Photograph by Stefan Boness) Features and Photo Essays -  Stefan Boness: Landscapes of the ‘Great War’ (TIME: November 10, 2008) “During World War I, hundreds of thousands of Allied and German soldiers died in battlefields around Ypres, Belgium. Ninety years on, the scars of war are still visible. Photographs by Stefan Boness from the book, Flanders Fields.” (multi)Media - On the Road Media : “On The Road Media is a multimedia production and storytelling team founded by Reporter/Producer Laura Lo Forti and Photojournalist Justin Mott in 2007. Using still photography, HD Video, professional audio, and the power of the written word, On The Road Media specializes in documentary storytelling in a variety of genres. In addition to conceptualizing and producing their own stories, On The Road Media also accepts commissioned projects (NGO’s, Private Corporations, etc) and editorial assignments from publications and photo-agencies for the web. On The Road Media independently distributes their editorial work along with distributing internationally through World Picture News.” Monday 10 November 2008 Once a hunting lodge for Afghanistan’s last king, a small stone castle has been home for a year to an American cavalry troop, an Afghan infantry company, a Navy corpsman and two American marines. The base, near Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, is intended to draw Taliban attacks away from more populated regions. (Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Tyler Hicks: A Military Outpost in Afghanistan (15 stills) (NYT: November 10, 2008)  I visited London only briefly last week and I didn’t have the time to hit the Barbican for the Robert Capa exhibition, but I’m hoping to fix the matter the next time I head to the city. Museums, Galleries, and Exhibitions - BBC: This is War (audio slideshow 2:30) (BBC online) “A new exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London provides a chance to see the work of photographer Robert Capa, once described as the greatest war photographer in the world. Three boxes of his work containing over 3,500 negatives previously thought to have been lost were recently unearthed, and here Cynthia Young, the curator of these pictures at the International Center of Photography in New York, speaks about these and some of his more famous pictures.” Photographed, recorded and produced by Phil Coomes and Caroline Briggs (multi)Media - November 2008 issue of the Digital Journalist now available online. Sunday 9 November 2008 AIDS campaigner Joan Koisianga demonstrates how to put on a condom to the pupils of Iikidinga Secondary School near Arusha, Tanzania. (Photographs By Tom Stoddart / Getty Reportage) Features and Photo Essays - Tom Stoddart: Lest We Forget: Africa’s AIDS Crisis (14 stills) (TIME: November 9, 2008) “In sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS kills 6,500 every day, leaving millions of children orphaned. A new exhibition looks at this often forgotten tragedy. Lest We Forget, an exhibition by Tom Stoddart can be viewed at Leicester Cathedral, U.K., throughout November.” Features and Photo Essays - Jacopo Quaranta: Naomi (18 stills) (Foto8 Story of the Week: November 5, 2008) Mr. Torres walks with a cane and speaks slurred but comprehensible Spanish. After he awoke from his coma, his father said, “We cried with surprise. We cried with joy. You could have paddled away on our tears. Then, after that, he improved every day. He didn’t take baby steps. He jumped. He leaped.” (Photo: Josh Haner/The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Josh Haner: A Life Rescued (12 stills) (NYT: November 9, 2008) “Antonio Torres, 19, outside his family’s home in Gila Bend, Ariz. Mr. Torres, a farmworker and legal immigrant, suffered catastrophic injuries in a car crash in June and was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Phoenix. He had no insurance and did not qualify for Medicaid. So, less than two weeks after the accident, the hospital sent Mr. Torres, who was comatose, to Mexico. Five days later, his parents found a California hospital to accept him and brought him back into the United States. He arrived from Mexico in septic shock but survived — and thrived.” Features and Photo Essays - Gerald Holubowicz: Yes We Did, Harlem Celebrates Obama Victory (multimedia 3:28) (photographer’s blog)  Photographers - Benjamin Thomas : website (multi)Media - SocialDocumentary : “Create and explore photo documentary websites investigating critical issues facing our world today.” Blogs - James Danziger : The Year in Pictures : “James Danziger has been involved in photography for a long time. His blog “The Year in Pictures” is a record of photographs (and a few other things) that have captured his attention.” Blogs  - Michael George : Inceptive Notions : “Michael George is a photography and imaging major at the Tisch School of the Arts within New York University.” Workshops - Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2009 : Registration now open. DATES: 26 July - 1 August 2009 LOCATION: Manali, Manali-Kulu Valleys, Himachal Pradesh, Indian Himalaya. “Created to provide training, education and networking to emerging photographers and students who normally would not be able to afford workshops, Foundry is a grassroots workshop series held in inspiring and photographically challenging global locations. Foundry 2009 will be held in Manali, India during the week of July 26 - August 1. Tuition is $900 US and $450 for South Asian students.” Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Alexandra Boulat Scholarship : “To honor the memory of Alexandra Boulat, who taught  at TPW in these last years, TPW has created a special scholarship. This will consist in the possibility to attend a workshop in Tuscany for free (included room and board - not including travel expenses) and work  under the guidance of  master photographers. It will be offered to a young photojournalist, male or female, under 35 year old. To apply for this scholarship send a CD to: TPW, P.O.Box 931, Bologna Centrale , 40124 Bologna, Italy. Please, send only regular mail, not express courier because the P.O. Box does not accept it. Within April 30th 2009, with 1 to 3 photojournalistic projects, each of 15  to 25 images (size 100 dpi, long size 1200), your personal data, cv, explanatory note for the projects and captions.TPW will make a first selection of best works and made the final selection with VII.” NB: Not to be confused with the Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Grant. Deadline: April 31, 2009. Saturday 8 November 2008 Videos - In Harm’s Way  - War Photographers Zoriah and Alissa Everett (YouTube) The film has created a lot of discussion at Lightstalkers. Interviews and Talks - Ashley Gilbertson and Campbell Robertson in conversation with New York Times’  Baghdad Correspondent Stephen Farrell (article and video 7:43) (NYT Baghdad Bureau Blog: November 6, 2008) “Ashley Gilbertson is a freelance photographer who has worked in Iraq since 2002, largely on assignment for The New York Times. Last year, he published his first book, “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War. Campbell Robertson is a culture reporter for The New York Times. He will return to Iraq later this month.” Friday 7 November 2008 Blogs - Simon Roberts: Underwhelmed by Parr (Simon Roberts : We English: November 3, 2008)  Thursday 6 November 2008 Events and Festivals - Angkor Photography Festival : Siem Reap, Cambodia : 23 - 28 November 2008 : “The Angkor Photography Festival was created in 2005 and this year, for the fourth time, the temples of Angkor will become a hub that will draw both famous and passionate photographers from around the world.  This year the festival will showcase outdoor projections celebrating regional and international photographers in different locations in Siem Reap. The strong educational goals of the Angkor Photography Festival set it apart from other photography events.  Photographers Antoine d’Agata, Vincent Soyez, Laurent Zylbermann, Jean Chun, David Hogsholt and Patrick de Noirmont will tutor free workshops for emerging Asian photographers and the festival will also present outreach programs for vulnerable people.  Gary Knight and Philip Blenkinsop will also present results of workshops. www.photographyforchange.net” Interviews and Talks - ‘Christopher Anderson on objectivity’ (video 5:51) (Magnum blog: November 1, 2008)  If you go to powerHouse Books’ site, you can see an NBC News piece (2:01) where Scout Tufankjian talks about photographing the Obama campaign. For 23 months(!).  Books - Scout Tufankjian: Yes We Can (powerHouse Books 2008) Hardcover, 8.375 X 11 inches, 192 pages, 250 full color photographs. ISBN: 978-1-57687-504-9. Out on December 8.  The following Peress’ piece is both scary and hilarious. You’ll know what I mean once you watch it.  Features and Photo Essays - Gilles Peress: Scarecrow (multimedia (9:19) (Magnum InSight America: November 2, 2008)  Features and Photo Essays - Mario Tama: Election 2008 in the Heart of the Civil Rights Struggle (TIME: November 6, 2008) “Photographer Mario Tama visits Selma and Birmingham as the nation elects its first black president” Duncan McCormack III preparing for a dove hunting trip in Ahome, Mexico. The location is considered to contain some of the most bountiful bird grounds in the world, but is also home to violent drug gangs. (Photo: Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Andriana Zehbrauskas: Pushing the Limit (NYT: November 6, 2008)  Features and Photo Essays - Magnum (various photographers): Election Night (Magnum InSight America: November 5, 2008)  Features and Photo Essays - Magnum (various photographers): Crime and Punishment (MiM): November 2008) “November 06, 2008 - Elkie Lee Taylor, 47, convicted in the robbery and murder of 64-year-old Otis Flake in Fort Worth, will be executed by lethal injection.In November 2008, six men are scheduled for execution in the state of Texas. Among 195 countries in the world, 137 have abolished capital punishment according to Amnesty International. How much longer will The United States continue to execute prisoners?” Wednesday 5 November 2008 Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog is really worth its name. Check out this entry about the President-elect. Features and Photo Essays - ‘The next President of the United States’ (35 stills) (Boston Globe: Big Picture: November 5, 2008) Now that the presidential election is finally over, we can again start paying a little more attention to what’s happening elsewhere in the world. Congo. Features and Photo Essays - ‘Conflict in Congo, Refugees on the Move’ (Boston Globe: Big Picture: November 3, 2008)  Iraq. Every six months, detainees are given an opportunity to have their case evaluated by a board of three American military officers; a lieutenent colonel, a captain, and a sergeant. (Photo: Yuri Kozyrev) Features and Photo Essays - Yuri Kozyrev: Prison Life Inside Baghdad’s Camp Cropper (14 stills) (TIME: November 5, 2008) ”Photographer Yuri Kozyrev gets a rare glimpse into a crowded Iraqi detention center.” Hi Sarah. Bye Sarah. (Photo: Christopher Morris / VII for TIME) Features and Photo Essays - TIME (Christopher Morris / VII and Danny Wilcox Frazier / Redux): John McCain’s Campaign Farewell (12 stills) (TIME: November 5, 2008) “The GOP nominee concedes defeat at a somber gathering at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona” OK, a bit more Obama. Then I’m gonna ban all O-features for a while, before this blog turns into Obama Links. I must admit I got a bit teary-eyed watching Obama last night. Not quite sure whether it was his oration or just seeing all those other teary-eyed people on TV.  On Nov. 4, Mr. Obama and his family at Grant Park. “It’s been a long time coming,” he told the crowd, “but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.” Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times Features and Photo Essays - NYT (various photographers): How Obama Won (22 stills) (NYT: November 5, 2008)  The election was a great journey, but the real one is no doubt just about to start. Let’s hope W. won’t get down to anything too nasty during the last days of his reign. Features and Photo Essays - TIME (various photographers): Obama’s Victory Speech in Chicago (21 stills) (TIME: November 4, 2008)  I’ve really enjoyed Magnum’s Insight - America project. Here’s a feature by Paolo Pellegrin . This is from Slate. On the eve of an election in the midst of an economic downturn, Magnum presents recent work by Paolo Pellegrin, who entered the belly of the beast on Wall Street in conjunction with the InSight America documentary project. NEW YORK CITY—Wall Street, 2008. © Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Photos Features and Photo Essays - Paolo Pellegrin: Wall Street Blues (17 stills)  (Slate: November 3, 2008)  SHARTLESVILLE, Pa.—The “Roadside America” tourist attraction, Oct. 24, 2008. © Thomas Dworzak / Magnum Photos Features and Photo Essays - Thomas Dworzak: Election Road Trip (13 images) (Slate: November 4, 2008)  Tuesday 4 November 2008 It’s gonna be an exciting night…. Mr. Biden spoke at a rally in Zanesville, Ohio, one of at least four appearances on Monday. A week ago, two or three events a day was the norm for each of the vice-presidential candidates. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Ozier Muhammad: Stretch Run: Senator Joseph Biden (NYT: November 3, 2008)  As the campaign reached the final days, Gov. Sarah Palin hit the trail — and several states — to make the case for the McCain-Palin ticket. Left, Ms. Palin’s husband, Todd, watched her speak in Raleigh, N.C. on Saturday. (Photo: Todd Heisler/The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Todd Heisler: Stretch Run: Gov. Sarah Palin (NYT: November 3, 2008)  Monday 3 November 2008 Senator Barack Obama boarded his campaign plane in Jacksonville, Fla. (Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - NYT: Election Eve : Democrats (By Damon Winter, Ozier Muhammad, and Doug Mills) / Republicans (By Todd Heisler and Stephen Crowley) (NYT: November 3, 2008)  Features and Photo Essays - James Estrin: The Educator Crusader (NYT: November 3, 2008) “Eva S. Moskowitz is the chief executive of Harlem Success Academy, a chain of four charter schools started in 2006. A former university professor and City Council member who is passionate about education, she has drawn notice for her demanding and still political style of running the schools.” Not a pretty picture in Congo. Hopefully, the situation down there will be paid a little more attention after Tuesday. Seriously doubt it, though. Congolese vented their outrage at the failure of the United Nations peacekeeping force to stop the rebel advance. (Photo: Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press) Features and Photo Essays - NYT (various photographers): Congo on the Brink (11 stills) (NYT: November 2, 2008)  Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Luis Valtuena International Humanitarian Photography Award : Deadline 5 November 2008 Articles - Jim Johnson: The Psychology of Compassion (Politicstheoryphotography blog: 11 October 2007)  Sunday 2 November 2008 I was listening to the below Jehad Nga conversation on my iPod during my morning run. Worth checking out. I think I have to play it another time myself to see the photos as well. Interviews and Talks - Jehad Nga : In the Picture with Jehad Nga. Somalia Through the Lens (video 61 min) (Frontline Club events video: September 5, 2008) “Jehad Nga is one of the most talented emerging photographers on the international scene and for the last three years has worked intensely in and around Mogadishu. For one night only he will present a selection of images from his portfolio and talk about operating as a photographer in one of the world’s most dangerous environments” Saturday 1 November 2008 I’m very much looking forward to having the election over and done with, so I can have my life back. Feels like all I’ve been doing this year has been to follow the elections. NBC cameraman John Kooistra sleeps on the campaigns airplane, Straight Talk Air, in front of full figure cutouts of John McCain and Sarah Palin. The likenesses act as surrogates due to the lack of press access to the candidates. The curtain between the front and rear the planes two sections for McCain and staff, and press, respectively remains closed most of the time. (Photo: Lauren Greenfield) Features and Photo Essays - Lauren Greenfield: McCain 2008 Campaign (VII: October 2008) Photographed for the New York Times Magazine. Features and Photo Essays - Christopher Morris: John McCain’s Final Push (TIME: October 30, 2008) “TIME Photographer Christopher Morris joins the GOP candidate in the last days of his campaign” Features and Photo Essays - Callie Shell: Barack Obama Hits the Homestretch (TIME: October 30, 2008) ”TIME photographer Callie Shell travels with the Democratic nominee in the campaign’s final days” I wonder if the US and its allies are still in Afghanistan in four years’ time. The isolated outpost imposed an unforgiving condition: anyone injured would have to wait for an evacuation. It was up to the team of medics to keep Jamaludin alive. Left, Sgt. Zackary Filip called for help. “They need to call a medevac,” he said. “They need to call it now. Urgent.” (Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Tyler Hicks: A Frantic Hour With the Wounded (NYT: November 1, 2008) “On an October morning, the Taliban began firing mortars at Combat Outpost Lowell, a remote base in Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan. Explosive mortars blasted shrapnel deep into two Afghan men.” Friday 31 October 2008 Workshops - Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2009 : “Created to provide training, education and networking to emerging photographers and students who normally would not be able to afford workshops, Foundry is a grassroots workshop series held in inspiring and photographically challenging global locations. Foundry 2009 will be held in Manali, India during the week of July 26 - August 1.” I went to the first one held in Mexico City and I had the best time. Cannot recommend enough. Will head to India as well, if I can.  Boosaaso’s fishing port. (Photo: Jehad Nga for The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Jehad Nga: The Pirates of Somalia (NYT: October 31, 2008) “Boosaaso may be one of the most dangerous towns in Somalia, but it is also one of the most prosperous. One line of work — piracy — seems to be benefiting quite openly from all the lawlessness and desperation in the country. “ A girl goes to fetch water for her mother in Daadab. (Photograph: Marcus Bleasdale) Features and Photo Essays - Marcus Bleasdale: Somalia Exodus (VII: October 2008) “Somalis have been fleeing from fighting and insecurity for the past 20 years. Most have ended up at the Dadaab refugee camp across the Kenyan border, which is now the largest in the world with an official 215,000 registered refugees or an unofficial 250,000. Recent arrivals recount rape, summary executions and indiscriminate bombing in Somalia. ” Features and Photo Essays - Damon Winter (covering Obama) and Stephen Crowley (covering McCain): Obama and McCain Make Their Cases in The South (NYT: October 31, 2008)  Features and Photo Essays - Walter Astrada: War and Displacement on Congo (TIME: October 30, 2008) NB. Only 13 of the 16 photos are by Astrada but I marked this as his feature anyway. The series of 16 images include one photo by Roberto Schmidt, one by Karel Prinsloo, and one simply marked ‘Reuters’.  Thursday 30 October 2008 I would kinda like to think the house in this photo is McCain’s eighth (or is it ninth? tenth?), the one where he’ll hide after next Tuesday: Inez, Kentucky Site where LBJ launched the “war on poverty,” April 23, 2008. (Photo: Christopher Morris / VII) Features and Photo Essays - Christopher Morris: John McCain’s Long Distance Campaign (TIME: October 30, 2008) “TIME photographer Christopher Morris has covered the GOP nominee since the beginning” Hope this does not come across as some kind of sick reference to a great tragedy, but this Callie Shell photograph from Obama bus, made me think of Paul Fusco’s images of people saluting RFK’s funeral train: St. Louis, Missouri View from the campaign bus, October 18, 2008. (Photo: Callie Shell) Features and Photo Essays - Callie Shell: What Obama Saw (TIME: October 30, 2008) “TIME photographer Callie Shell shows what the Democratic campaign looked like from the candidate’s point of view” I am really looking forward to catching Jacob Aue Sobol’s speech next week at BJP’s Vision ‘08 conference in London: Books - Jacob Aue Sobol: I, Tokyo (Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing: 2008) Aue Sobol’s books at Magnum Store.  There’s a fascinating discussion going on at Magnum Blog about JM Colberg’s blog piece (see yesterday’s updates) regarding the visual language of photojournalism and he has written another blog entry to clarify some of his points:  Blogs - JM Colberg : Conscientious : Some more thoughts on the visual language of photojournalism (JM Colberg - Conscientious: October 29, 2008)  More related discussion: Blogs - Jim Johnson : Notes on Politics, Theory, and Photography: James Nachtwey & the Campaign Against XDRTB ~ Caught in the Conventions of Photojournalism (politicstheoryphotography blog:  October 29, 2008)  I felt a little stab in the heart watching the below video. You probably don’t have to wonder why: Videos - ‘Angola’ :”A spoof movie trailer dedicated to the ubiquitous photographic cliché of placing a subject’s face at the bottom of the frame and showing only the eyes. (YouTube video)  Reminder: Jobs -  Lauren Greenfield studio seeks photo assistant: “Lauren Greenfield seeks LA-based photo assistant/archive manager. Assistant provides creative, lighting, and logistical support for photo/ film work. Must have professional photo assistant experience, knowledge of lighting and digital equipment (Canon), strong interpersonal skills and journalistic interest. E-mail resume, cover letter and references to info@laurengreenfield.com. Salary TBN, and health benefits.” Wednesday 29 October 2008 Photos of unidentified murder victims flash in front of family members gathered at the Baghdad morgue. (Andrea Bruce/The Washington Post) Blogs - Andrea Bruce : Unseen Iraq: A Grim Ritual at the Baghdad Morgue (WP: October 26, 2008)  Features and Photo Essays - Andrea Bruce: Searches Filled with Sorrow (WP: October 2008) ”Families missing loved ones look over images of unidentified murder victims at the Baghdad morgue.” Features and Photo Essays - NYT (Narration: Paul Vitello; Photos:Nicole Bengiveno, Gabriele Stabile, Ruby Washington): Two Paths Toward Death, One Voice of Comfort (audio slideshow 3:39) (NYT: October 28, 2008)  Hospice Chaplains Take Up Bedside Counseling By Paul Vitello : ”Some of the hospice patients talk about their impending deaths, or about God. Most just talk about what people always talk about — unfinished business and unanswered questions: regrets over firing an employee 50 years ago; the pet no one has yet promised to adopt; feeling sick to death of being sick yet not ready to die.”  Three new Magnum in Motion multimedia essays: Features and Photo Essays - Bruce Gilden: Foreclosures (MiM: October 2008)  Features and Photo Essays - Alessandra Sanguinetti: Los Angeles (MiM: October 2008)  Features and Photo Essays - Patrick Zachmann: Un Jour, La Nuit (MiM: October 2008)  And now to something completely different… Take a look at Nachtwey’s XDR-TB slideshow again and then read this:  JM Colberg: Some thoughts on the visual language of photojournalism (JM Colberg : Conscientious blog: October 28, 2008)  Agree? Disagree? For further discussion, see this Magnum Blog entry.  Tuesday 28 October 2008  An American soldier near an Iraqi Amy base in western Mosul. (Photo: Joao Silva for The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Joao Silva: Escalating Conflict in Mosul (NYT: October 28, 2008) “The American military is increasingly concerned that Mosul, a northern city in Iraq where insurgents remain strong, could degenerate into a larger battleground.” Monday 27 October 2008 Agencies, Collectives, and Stock - Bombay Flying Club : Two Danish photojournalists, Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov. Blogs - Bombay Flying Club  Features and Photo Essays - Poul Madsen / Bombay Flying Club: Bucharest Below Ground. Web documentary project about street children and drug addicts in Bucharest, Romania. It follows the stories of three Romanians – an NGO worker, a homeless man and his family and a homeless young man – through photographs, interviews and film. Photographers - Poul Madsen : website  Sam, 15 “I want to see drastic change from the Bush Administration in terms of foreign policy and especially the environment.” (Photo: Morgan Hagar) Features and Photo Essays - Morgan Hagar: If Teens Could Vote (TIME: October 27, 2008) “At a Los Angeles Rock the Vote event in September, photographer Morgan Hagar asked teenagers to complete the sentence, “If I could vote in this election, it would be because…” (multi)Media - Photojournale Sunday 26 October 2008                                              The empty parking lot at the General Motors plant in Janesville, Wis. On Oct. 13, G.M. announced that it was closing the plant, which just a year ago was churning out 20,000 Suburbans, Yukons and Tahoes each month. (Photo: Peter Wynn Thompson for The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Peter Wynn Thompson: Saying Goodbye to the S.U.V.  (NYT: October 26, 2008) “For years, General Motors lived off its full-size sport utility vehicles, reaping large profits on stellar sales results. Now, however, the era of the big S.U.V. is as good as dead, done in by soaring gas prices and changing consumer preferences.” Photographers - Stephen Ferry : website   News - Alex Rivera, Photojournalist of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 95 (NYT: October 26, 2008)  Interesting visual take on the presidential election by New York Times’ Damon Winter: Features and Photo Essays - Damon Winter: Political Landscape (audio slideshow) (NYT: October 26, 2008)  Features and Photo Essays - Todd Heisler: Main Streets in New York (13 stills) (NYT: October 26, 2008) “There are Main Streets in the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, on Staten Island and even (technically) in Manhattan.” I’m not particularly interested in fashion, but I recently bumped into these two magnificent fashion show features by my two faves Christopher Anderson and Paolo Pellegrin: (Photograph: Christopher Anderson) Features and Photo Essays - Christopher Anderson: Sideshows (The New York Magazine : Look: May 6, 2008) “Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson captures the weeks’ gorgeous moments—peripheral, otherworldly, iconic.” (Photograph: Paolo Pellegrin) Features and Photo Essays - Paolo Pellegrin: From Every Angle (The New York Magazine : Look: November 26, 2007) “Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin captures the beauty, chaos, and drama of the runways.” (Photograph: Jean Chung for the International Herald Tribune) Features and Photo Essays - Jean Chung: A Champion Korean Boxer (NYT: October 26, 2008) “For South Koreans, boxing is mainly a sport of the past, a metaphor for what the country was in the 1970s and ’80s before its economy jumped to 13th largest in the world. Now, a girl whose family fled North Korea is breathing just a hint of new life into the sport by winning a world championship at age 17. “ Saturday 26 October 2008 Men and women dressed in traditional South Ossetian clothing waited to greet Mayor Yuri Luzhkov of Moscow earlier this month, on his first visit to the separatist enclave. (Photo: James Hill for The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - James Hill: Russia’s Mayor (NYT: October 24, 2008) “South Ossetian separatists hail Mr. Luzhkov as a liberator, and he is so popular that a street was named after him in Tskhinvali, the capital.” Features and Photo Essays - Nicole Bengiveno: Coffee Generation (NYT: October 24, 2008) “Despite economic troubles, New Yorkers are fast discovering an aromatic world beyond diner coffee and even beyond Starbucks. Eight years ago, when Ken Nye opened the first Ninth Street Espresso store in an out-of-the-way section of Alphabet City, he knew he was facing tough times.” (multi)Media - Dispatches 2/2008 is out. This time the magazine is tackling Iraq. Features and Photo Essays - Yuri Kozyrev: Beyond Iraq (Dispatches: 2/08) Features and Photo Essays - John Moore: Detained (Dispatches 2/08) News - Latest Canon Professional Network Newsletter available online. Awards, Grants, and Competitions - World Press Photo jury announced (CPN: October 2008) Friday 24 October 2008 (multi)Media / Blogs - Lens Culture : website : blog Features and Photo Essays - The New York Times : Photographers’ Journal: Updates from the Campaign Trail (NYT: October 24, 2008) Weekly updates from Stephen Crowley, Richard Perry, Doug Mills, Ozier Muhammad, and Damon Winter. Blogs - Kenneth Jarecke Features and Photo Essays - Ben Edwards: Democratic Vistas (Foto8 Story of the Week: October 23, 2008) “America was buzzing, it was 1990 and Bush senior, then President of the USA was going to give an address to the nation that night at 9pm. Everybody knew he was going to announce the first assault on Iraq. Armed with Leicas I trundled down to a bar on the west side of lower Manhattan to meet a friend. At 9pm Bush was on the screen. The cacophony of noise in the bar stopped; somebody pulled the plug on the jukebox. The only sound was Bush senior announcing the inevitable. War.” Manuel Meza, an American citizen, had lunch with his wife, Margarita. The Mezas have been married for six years, but Mrs. Meza was deported and now drives three hours to visit her husband at the fence. “It’s strange,” he said, “but our love is stronger than the fence.” (Photo: Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Sandy Huffaker: Friendships at the Border (NYT: October 22, 2008)  ”In a sign of changing times, new border fencing that the Department of Homeland Security is counting on to help curtail illegal crossings and attacks on Border Patrol agents will slice through the park, limiting access to the monument and fence-side socializing.” Photographers - Sandy Huffaker : website Jewish settlers near the tomb. (Photograph: Rina Castelnuovo for the New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Rina Castelnuovo: Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank (11 stills) (NYT: October 24, 2008) “Situated in the heart of a Palestinian district on the West Bank is Joseph’s Tomb, a tiny half-derelict compound that many Jews believe is the final burial place of the son of Jacob, the biblical patriarch. “ Photographers - Jehad Nga : website Thursday 23 October 2008 (Photograph: Callie Shell) Features and Photo Essays - Callie Shell (photos) Joe Klein (report): Barack Obama : The TIME Interview (audio slideshow 3:36) (TIME: October 23, 2008) “Behind the scenes photographs by Callie Shell / Aurora for TIME” Blogs - Daylight Magazine New multimedia from MediaStorm: Features and Photo Essays - Jonathan Torgovnik: Intended Consequences (multimedia) (MediaStorm: October 2008)  ”An estimated 20,000 children were born from rapes committed during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Intended Consequences chronicles the lives of these women. Their narratives are embodied in portrait photographs, interviews and oral reflections about the daily challenges they face today.” Photographers - Jonathan Torgovnik : website India. Mumbai. 2006. A girl walks along a water pipe in the Industrial Area of Dharavi. Although it functions as a throroughfare through this area of the slum, the water in the pipes is headed for the more affluent southern areas of the city. Dharavi is one of Mumbai’s biggest and longest standing slums. Home to somewhere between 600 000 and one million people, it is a beehive of recycling and manufacturing industries. However, Dharavi sits on prime real estate right in the heart of the booming megapolis, and is in close vicinity to the new Bandra-Kurla Complex, a new financial hub. Dharavi is now scheduled for redevelopment, meaning everything in the slum, for good and bad, is set to be demolished. © Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos Blogs - Jonas Bendiksen: The Places We Live (Magnum blog: October 23, 2008) “In 2005, I started work on The Places We Live, a project about urban poverty and slums. For three years, I visited dozens of families in four slums around the world. “ Features and Photo Essays - Jonas Bendiksen The Place We Live : Bendiksen’s latest project is out both as a book and a website. I don’t usually post any travel or lifestyle features /photo essays, but saw this Adriana Zehbrauskas one on NYT Times site last night, and gonna add it, just because she’s such a cool lady. (Photo: Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Adriana Zehbrauskas: Casa de los Colores (NYT: October 23, 2008)  La Cieneguita, Mexico. ”Mr. McLauchlin is an American assemblage artist who makes furniture, decorative objects and jewelry. “The house is really a showroom. Just about everything is for sale,” he says.” Wednesday 22 October 2008 Events and Festivals - Documentary : The Future of Contemporary Photography: The New York Photo Festival 2008. “This exciting new documentary short, The Future of Contemporary Photography, provides a dynamic look into the New York Photo Festival 2008 (NYPH08), and premieres at PDN Photo Plus Expo on Thursday, October 23, 2008. The film explores the curatorial insights of four leading photo editors, the festival’s founders, and the many cutting-edge artists who shared their work. The film asks curators, artists, and viewers to make their own aesthetic judgments on the state of modern photographic image making.” Screening: Thursday, October 23 at 1:00pm, Friday, October 24 at 11:00am and 2:00pm, Saturday, October 25 at 10:20am and 2:40pm. @ Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York. Related: 3D Coverage of the NYPH. NYPH on Flickr. (Photograph: Adam Ferguson) Features and Photo Essays - Adam Ferguson: Training Afghanistan’s Police Force (audio slideshow 2:31) (TIME: October 22, 2008) “In Afghanistan’s Ferah province, the nation’s police trains with US military to make Afghanistan a safer place — both for civilians and officers”  Photographers - Adam Ferguson : website Features and Photo Essays - Andrea Bruce: Unseen Iraq: from Fishing to Ferrying (7 stills) (WP: October 2008) “Many fishermen in Baghdad’s Tigris River area are out of work as fish stocks dwindle, and have taken to ferrying people across the water to make money.” Bruce’s blog entry related to the story. (Photograph: Jocelyn Bain Hogg) Features and Photo Essays - Jocelyn Bain Hogg: British Youth (VII Network: 2008) “With the news of rising knife and gun crime, urban gangs, teenage killings, suicides and binge drinking rife in the British media, this body of work, photographed throughout the summer of 2008, attempts to define the real experiences of British Youth today. Across the country from Renfrewshire to Cornwall, under 24-year-olds were photographed and documented on tape in their own words. Youth-led events such as the London Mela, The Notting Hill Carnival, Cambridge University May Week and Varsity Polo intersperse the individual portraits, and an essay on the British on holiday on the Greek island of Zante (Zakynthos) completes the overall picture.” From her website: “Commissioned by Sky News Online, Jocelyn spent the Summer months photographing and recording many aspects of Britain’s youth.” The same story with annoying interactive graphics on Sky News site.  Photographers - Jocelyn Bain Hogg : website  Tuesday 21 October 2008 Mohammad Raheem and his daughter Teba were wounded in fighting outside their home four years ago. (Photo: Max Becherer/Polaris, for The New York Times) Blogs - Max Becherer: The Gap: Haifa Street 2004 and 2008 (NYT Baghdad Bureau: October 21, 2008)  Events and Festivals - Brighton Photo Biennial 2008 : the festival on YouTube Blogs - Reuters Photo Blog . The latest post is by Jim Bourg regarding his photograph of John McCain taken in the last of the three debates between the 2008 US presidential nominees. (Photo: Jim Bourg / Reuters) Equipment, Printing, and Self-Promotion - Paper and Inks (UK) : They sell loads of different kinds of photo papers meant for digital printing. Monday 20 October 2008 I want to predict some World Press Photo prizes for Platon for his series on the U.S. military published in the New Yorker last month. And who says photography can no longer have an influence. I got goose bumps yesterday watching Colin Powell on Meet the Press refer to the photograph below as he explained his decision to back Obama for the next U.S. President: Elsheba Khan at the grave of her son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. (Photo: Platon) Blogs - PDN Pulse : Colin Powell Cites Platon Photo in Obama Endorsement (October 19, 2008) ”President Bush’s former Secretary of State Colin Powell was moved to endorse Barack Obama in part by a photo he saw in a magazine.” Photo: Scott Dalton for The New York Times Features and Photo Essays - Scott Dalton: A Whimsical Riff on the Bookmobile (NYT: October 19, 2008) ” Luis Soriano, of La Gloria, Colombia, created the “Biblioburro” in the belief that the act of taking books to people who do not have them can somehow improve this impoverished region.” St. Paul, MN, 2008 © Alec Soth/Magnum Photos Blogs - Alec Soth : If I was a president, I’d have a kick-ass blog (Magnum blog : October 19, 2008) Soth is on a mission to revive the Magnum blog and asks readers to write how to make it better. He’s referencing Christopher Anderson’s blog entry from earlier this year, which got a really fascinating discussion going between him and some of the readers.  With Election Day just over two weeks away, Senator Barack Obama campaigned on Sunday in Fayetteville, N.C. (Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Damon Winter: Obama Plays Offense as McCain Defends Turf (NYT: October 20, 2008) Features and Photo Essays - Astrid Schulz: Qalqiya Zoo, Palestine (14 stills) (Foto8 Story of the Week: October 15, 2008) “Qalqilya, a former market town with a population of more than 45,000 is located in the northwest of the West Bank near the border with Israel. It is almost completely encircled by the eight metre high barrier wall that separates farmers from their land, families from each other and visitors from the town’s attraction – a small animal park. The animal park opened in 1986 and is now the only municipal zoo in either the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. The zoo’s director, Dr Sami Khader, has struggled to keep it functioning, and its animals alive, during the region’s troubled past few years.” Photographers - Astrid Schulz : website Photographers - Ramin Talaie : website : blog Agencies, Collectives, and Stock - Document Iran : “Document Iran Images provides the latest news, features and stock images from Iran and about Iran.” Sunday 19 October 2008 A number of United States soldiers from the Sixth Squadron, Fourth Cavalry, left Combat Outpost Lowell near Kamu to replace soldiers at a hillside “overwatch” position. (Photograph: Tyler Hicks)  Features and Photo Essays - Tyler Hicks: A U.S. Outpost Fire (NYT: October 18, 2008) “Since the start of the war in Afghanistan in 2001, the northern part of the border with Pakistan has been a particular focus of concern for American forces. The borderline there is essentially a legal fiction, an imaginary line that separates people with the same ethnicity and history, drawn across hundreds of miles of terrain so rugged it is impossible to fence off or even fully patrol. “  (Photograph: Bryan Denton) Features and Photo Essays - Bryan Denton: Rising Sectarian Violence in Tripoli (NYT: October 16, 2008) “The crumbling streets of Lebanon’s ancient northern city of Tripoli are starting to resemble a battleground. A string of bombings over the past two months has left at least 20 people dead and scores wounded.” Features and Photo Essays - Carolyn Drake: Cotton Farmers in Tajikistan (NYT: October 15, 2008) “Cotton is king in Tajikistan, at least as far as the government is concerned. In fact, say agricultural experts, the regal metaphor is apt: the system is close to feudal. Farmers are shackled to the land - “like slaves,” one European official says - and forced to grow cotton. “ Saturday 18 October 2008 (multi)Media - New issue of 8 Magazine is out. Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Guardian Student Media Awards 2008 : Student Photographer of the Year : shortlist : Simon Miller (University of Central Lancashire) James Robertson (University of Edinburgh)  Michael Carroll (London College of Communication) Tom David King (LCC) Adam Patterson (LCC Photographers - Michael Carroll : website Interviews and Talks - Canon Professional Network : In Front of the Lens : “Canon talks on film to some of the leading figures in photography including the photographers whose work was exhibited at the 2008 and 2007 Visa pour l’Image festivals of photojournalism in Perpignan, France. Here they reveal their roles in photography, the stories behind their images and their main inspirations. “ MaryAnne Colon ( chair of the World Press Photo 2009 jury), Hady Sy, Dirck Halstead, Jonas Bendiksen (on his work in Mumbai), Jane-Evelyn Atwood, John Stanmeyer (on his work on Malaria). Friday 17 October 2008 (Photograph: Kevin Moloney)  Features and Photo Essays - Kevin Moloney: Preserving a Dying Language (audio slideshow 1:44) NYT: October 15, 2008)  Photographers - Kevin Moloney : website Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Magenta Flash Forward 2009 : “The Magenta Foundation is pleased to announce year five of its Emerging Photographers exchange. With every year our artists exchange program grows and gets stronger. This is an open call for submissions: All photographers in Canada, the US and the UK under the age of 34 may submit; there is a small administration fee . Payments may be made via Pay Pal on our web site.”  Submissions open on Thu, Oct 16, 2008. Deadline December 31. Thursday 16 October 2008 (multi)Media - Out of Focus - The site is in Swedish, but there’s some good photo stories. (multi)Media - The Raw File : “The Raw File was created to produce and distribute socially reflective media that will provoke discussion. It is our hope that these conversations will intersect the lines of race and class, private and professional. “ (multi)Media - Lunatic Magazine : “Creative contemporary photojournalism” Wednesday 15 October 2008 I added the link to the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism 2008 talks (Hannover, Germany, June 2008) the other day, and having just watched Kratochvil’s lecture video, I really recommend checking it out. It is a proper treat. I saw Kratochvil speak at the first European VII Seminar last year in London,but the schedule there was pretty tight and some of the VII members spoke quite briefly. Kratochvil’s Hannover lecture is a lot more comprehensive presentation of his career. Interviews and Talks - Antonin Kratochvil at Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism 2008 (June 18, 2008. Hannover, Germany) Some recent work by  him: In God’s Country (Dispatches March 2008) I wonder when the new issue of Dispatches is coming out. I thought the magazine was supposed to be a quarterly. Videos - Christopher Morris: The Dear Leader (Dispatches 2008) Morris’ excellent short film about President Bush. Also, do have a look at this:  (multi)Media - InSight America (Magnum Photos) : “InSight America is an innovative documentary project that aims to explore these questions on the eve of one of the most important elections in American history. Calling on the talents of some of the world’s most respected photojournalists, using the Web to update their observations daily, InSight America is a collage of personal investigations and reflections that attempts to capture the things preoccupying Americans during the weeks leading to Election Day.” Photographers - Andrew McConnell : website  Photographers - Maciej Dakowicz : website  Tuesday 14 October 2008  A worker arrives for the morning shift. (Photograph: Andrew McConnell) Features and Photo Essays - Andrew McConnell: The Terrible Beauty of the Salt Mine (TIME: October 14, 2008) “A lake in Uganda offers local residents a chance for good money, at considerable cost to their health” Cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov, left, and Col. Mike Fincke of the Air Force, who is a NASA astronaut, put on water-cooled suits. The suits are used under Orlan spacesuits, which are used in space walks. (Photo: James Hill for the New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - James Hill: Life at Star City (NYT: October 14, 2008) “The United States and Russia work together at Star City, the training ground for cosmonauts that now hosts American astronauts and spacefarers from around the world who ride aboard the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station.” Havva Yilmaz, shown center, found herself at the center of a political and cultural storm when she began wearing a head scarf in high school. (Photo: Lynsey Addario for The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Lynsey Addario: A Fight to Wear Head Scarves (NYT: October 14, 2008) “In most Muslim countries, it would be a nonevent to wear an Islamic head scarf. In Turkey, which has built its modern identity on secularism, head scarves are banned in schools and universities. “ Features and Photo Essays - Gilles Peress: Wakes (6:06) (MiM: October 2008) “September was already a dark month for New Yorkers. Then the bull market died. Gilles Peress attended the memorials at the World Trade Center and at Wall Street.” Another poor Magnum in Motion essay. Nothing wrong with the photos, but I don’t understand why they try to make some sort of video art out of these multimedia essays. I have a particular grudge against the images changing so damn fast. Features and Photo Essays - Elliott Erwitt: New York (3:45) (MiM:October 2008) “Capturing the true diversity that makes this city great, this selection of images spans Erwitt’s career, including many previously unseen works from the ’50s and the ’60s.” Monday 13 October 2008 Features and Photo Essays - Carol Guzy: A Mother’s Risk (Three separate slideshows) (WP: October 2008) “In Sierra Leone, one in eight women die in childbirth, a problem that gets little attention from international donors who are far more focused on global health threats such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS”. Related video.  Info on Carol Guzy at World Press Photo site.  (Photograph: Nina Berman) Books - Nina Berman: Homeland (Trolley Books) ISBN: 978-1-904563-72-3. Available for pre-order, released 26 October 2008. “Nina Berman, as an American photographer looking at America, delivers a caustic and surreal vision of the United States during the Bush years in her new book Homeland. A product of seven years work, with images from across America, Berman gives us a peek into the bizarre manifestations of the homeland security state and the ideologies that have reshaped post 9-11 America.” Books - Trolley Books : “Publishers of photography and contemporary art books”  Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Fujifilm Student Awards 2009 :  Deadline: February 28, 2009. News - Walter Astrada wins the BJP International Photography Award Single Image category (1854 blog: October 13, 2008)  Features and Photo Essays - NYT: Photographer’s Journal (various photographers) : Updates from the Campaign Trail (multimedia)  (NYT: October 2008) Features and Photo Essays - Monica Almeida: No Job, and No Recourse Until November (audio slideshow 2:39) (NYT: October 12, 2008)  (multi)Media - The Digital Journalist October 2008 issue now available online. Features and Photo Essays - David White: Chucking Out (or what happens in Britain when it gets dark (audio slideshow) ( DuckRabbit.info: October 2008) “Chucking Out is the latest duckrabbit production. Its ‘a short, funny and brutally honest portrait of late night British town center drinking culture’ … something politicians occasionally get terribly upset about but which seems to go from strength to strength. ”  Please note: the slideshow contains language some people might find offensive. Sunday 12 October 2008 “The Hotel Chelsea is perhaps the city’s most storied hotel, and forgotten bargain with rooms that start at $149 a night (pretax), a pittance in New York.” (Photo: Michael Kamber for The New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Michael Kamber: The Frugal Traveller in New York (NYT: October 12, 2008)  Interviews and Talks - Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism 2008 lectures : Antonin Kratochvil, Steve McCurry, Vanessa Winship, Thomas Dworzak and others. Interviews and Talks - David Griffin on how photography connects us with the world (video 15 minutes) (TED talks: February 2008) “The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories.”  more info David Griffin. Blogs - David Griffin Blogs - National Geographic  : Blog Central Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Unicef Photo of the Year. Deadline: October 31, 2008. “Home on the Plain: Chief Dull Knife College, in the rear of this photo, is located in the town of Lame Deer, Montana, on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.” (Photograph: Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images) Features and Photo Essays - Kenneth Jarecke: Sharpening Minds at Chief Dull Knife College (TIME: October 10, 2008) A tribal college on a Cheyenne Reservation seeks to teach Native Americans what other schools don’t. On Oct. 6, the first day of the new school year in Baghdad, students gathered on the playground at the Amal high school for girls in the Amel neighborhood. (Photo: Max Becherer for The New York Times) Features and  Photo Essays - Max Becherer: Back to School in Iraq (NYT: October 11, 2008) “With security improving after five years of war in Iraq, students are returning to their old neighborhoods or to different ones now separated along ethnic and sectarian lines.” Photographers - JR : website Saturday 11 October 2008 Twin sisters Natalie and Ani, 5, at the playground adjacent to the central green space at the Americana mall: complete with a jungle gym, sand box, and sitting area where parents can watch their children. Often, one parent watched the kids while the other one shops. (Photograph: Lauren Greenfield) Features and Photo Essays - Lauren Greenfield: Americana (VII: October 2008) Street children bathe at a care centre in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, in October 2006. (Marcus Bleasdale/VII) Features and Photo Essays - VII:  Special Report : 60th Anniversary - Declaration of Human Rights (VII: October 2008) I was looking at old issues of Enter and bumped into this Trent Parke interview from 2005, that I thought was a really good read. Have a look:   Interviews and Talks - Trent Parke  (Enter: June 2005) More info on Trent. Friday 10 October 2008 Agencies - NOOR : Newsletter 10 October 2008  Equipment, Printing, and Self-Promotion - Pro Centre (London) : “Owned by Hasselblad (UK) Limited, The Pro Centre opened in 1988 and is dedicated to providing an exceptionally fast, reliable and friendly service to London’s professional photographers. We specialise in the hire of the most in-demand camera and lighting equipment, and a wide range of accessories and other products. We continue to hold large stocks of film, background paper and other consumables for sale.” Photographers - David Lang : website Thursday 9 October 2008  Features and Photo Essays - Tom Stoddart: London Falling (TIME: October 9, 2008) “As financial markets approach meltdown, the City of London — once hailed as the business center of the world — faces uncertain and painful times.” Photographers - Axelle de Russe : website  Events and Festivals - Vision 08 : ‘BJP’s Essential Annual Event for Pro Photographers’ : 7 November 2008 : Business Design Centre, London N1.    (multi)Media - American Journal : “American Journal examines the diversity of the United States, offering true stories about the events and icons that form its identity. Our mission is to provide glimpses into the American culture, giving a better understanding of the country and its people.”  (multi)Media - The 37th Frame : “The 37th Frame is dedicated to bringing readers the best of the photojournalism on the internet. We will search the web sites of newspapers, magazine and the best independent photojournalists around the world and post links to the work.”  Events and Festivals - Frontline Club (London): In the Picture with Irme Schaber: The Life and work of Gerda Taro, Fri 17th October, 7.30pm Price: £10 Introduced by John Morris (former picture editor Life, Magnum, New York Times), followed by Q&A. Location: 13 Norfolk Place, London, W2 1QJ  Wednesday 8 October 2008 Books - Robert Wilson: Helmand (Jonathan Cape 2008) ISBN-10: 0224087495 ISBN-13: 978-0224087490 Awards, Grants, and Competitions - World Press Photo 2009 Contest : Deadline 15 January 2009 Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Sony World Photography Awards 2009 : Deadline 31 December 2008 Tuesday 7 October 2008 Museums, Galleries, and Exhibitions - Barbican Art Centre, (London) :  This is War! Robert Capa at Work (preview on the Magnum Photos site) : 17 October 2008 - 25 January 2009 Awards, Grants, and Competitions - The AOP Photographers Awards 2009 : “The AOP Photographers Awards 2009 is now inviting entries from Full and Provisional members of the AOP. To find out more and to download your entry form, please click here .You have to be a member to enter, for information on joining please click here . ” Deadline: 31 October 2008. Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Renaissance Photography Prize 2009: ” Renaissance is an international photography competition that seeks outstanding images to celebrate the experience of living. Whether you capture a moment from your own life or explore the theme more generally, Renaissance invites you to enter photographs that express and celebrate “Moments that Matter”. Judges : Brigitte Lardinois - senior research fellow at LCC and editor of Magnum Magnum Eamonn McCabe - former Guardian picture editor and 4 times Sports Photographer of the Year Martin Parr - renowned Magnum photographer Charlie Waite - internationally acclaimed landscape photographer Prizes and  Exhibition Renaissance prize - £3,000 awarded to overall winner Category prizes - £500 best in category; £250 for runner-up Exhibition - 60 finalists will have the chance to be exhibited and sell their work The competition opens at 10 a.m. on the 1st October 2008. It closes at 10 p.m. on the 11th January 2009. Judging takes place on the 20th January 2009, and winners will be notified soon after. e New York Times) Features and Photo Essays - Moises Saman: Women Gaining Rights in Bamian (NYT: October 5, 2008) “Far away from the Taliban insurgency, in this most peaceful corner of Afghanistan, a quiet revolution is gaining pace. Women are driving cars, working in public offices and police stations, and sitting on local councils.” Monday 6 October 2008  Features and Photo Essays - Marcus Bleasdale: Albino Killings (VII: October 2008) “Locally known as the “Zeru Zeru”, or ghosts, albinos in Tanzania have been stigmatized for centuries. Many are banished by their families who see their condition as a curse on the whole family. Over the past years albinos in east African face a much more deadly threat. They have become the prey of traditional healers or witch doctors, who kill them to harvest their body parts for get-rich-quick concoctions. Foreign Witch Doctors sell their trade to fishermen and miners who hope to benefit in business by wearing “GriGri” which contains the body parts. Locally it is thought that the albino organs possess mystical powers that can make a person fabulously rich within a short time. To show how serious the problem is, recently buried albino dead bodies are sometimes exhumed at night in search of the ’magical organs’. Since the mining and fishing industries are currently enjoying an unprecedented boom, the two sectors are attracting people from all walks of life and cultures and this factor has increased the albino risks.” Features and Photo Essays - Paolo Pellegrin: 2008 Olympic Athletes (3:20) (Magnum In Motion: September 2008) I love Pellegrin but I find this particular presentation of the essay to be a very good example of bad use of multimedia. Actually, I’m not that big fan of a lot of these fancy multimedia projects out there. I often prefer simple slideshows with music and maybe a little text (see for example the new Nachtwey story on TB) which let the still-image speak more for itself. Blogs - Unseen Iraq by Andrea Bruce (Washington Post)  Features and Photo Essays - Andrea Bruce: Freedom in Baghdad (Washington Post: October 2008) “Iraqi detainees are released in Baghdad after they were transported, hands tied, from the U.S. detention facility Camp Bucca, in southern Iraq.” Features and Photo Essays - James Nachtwey: XDR-TB  (stills on VII site) / slideshow (3:34) TIME article The Forgotten Plague by Alice Park related to the story. Features and Photo Essays - Gerald Holubowicz: Wall Street - The Fall (multimedia) Photographers - Gerald Holubowicz : website Blogs - DuckRabbit : “duckrabbit is a production company formed by radio producer/journalist Benjamin Chesterton and photographer David White.” Photographers - David White : website Thursday 2 October 2008  Features and Photo Essays - Antonin Kratochvil: Wall Street (VII: October 2008) “At the height of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the sale of Merrill Lynch to Goldman Sachs, Antonin Kratochvil trawled Wall Street, capturing what little is left of the glory days of four-hour lunches, expensive dinners, and Astons Martins. That has been replaced by bankruptcies, massive job losses, and fearful speculation of an economic depression. “ www.antoninkratochvil.com Somehow I had missed this one over the summer..  Interviews and Talks - Brent Stirton : Behind the Lens (CNP: July 2008) News - Canon Professional Network: Canon Europe expands Ambassadors Programme (CPN: September 2008) Photographers - Ziv Koren : website. He is one of the new Canon Ambassadors. Equipment - Canon Professional Network : EOS 5D II Blogs - Zoriah : Guardian comment article (July 25, 2008) by Robert Fox about the termination of Zoriah’s embed with the US troops in Iraq. Blogs - Getty Images : Blog Central Wednesday 1 October 2008  Features and Photo Essays - Ron Haviv: Haiti (VII: September 2008) “Actor Matt Damon and Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean arrived in Haiti’s to raise awareness for floods by handing out food and lending star power to relief efforts. Damon and Jean are encouraging people to help the United Nations raise more than $100 million for an estimated 800,000 people left in dire circumstances by four devastating tropical storms and hurricanes. For information on how to help, visit: www.yele.org“  Features and Photo Essays - Marcus Bleasdale: The Financial Crisis (VII: September 2008) I don’t think I ever posted the following link before, as the story was put on the TIME website while I was in Lebanon. But I think it’s worth being put in the photojournalism links archive. It’s not often you see this type of stories shot in medium format. Features and Photo Essays - Benedicte Kurzen: Transforming Sasol (TIME: September 4, 2008) “As the coal refinery steps out of the shadow of its past, photographer Benedicte Kurzen is granted unprecedented access to the company’s operations in Secunda, South Africa.”  Tuesday 30 September 2008  Interviews and Talks - Platon : Home and Away (audio 9:48)) (New Yorker: September 29, 2008) “In this week’s issue, the photographer Platon has a portfolio of photographs of members of the military and their families. Here Platon discusses his subjects and his pictures.” Photographers - Platon : website. He has just become a staff photographer for the New Yorker magazine.  Features and Photo Essays - Ben Baker: United Nations Portraits (TIME: September 29, 2008) “An Aussie photographer wrangles some of the world’s most powerful men and women to pose between meetings, receptions and attendance at the 63rd session of the General Assembly” Photographers - Ben Baker : website Monday 29 September 2008 Awards, Grants, and Competitions - BJP International Photography Award : The deadline for entry to both competitions is 2pm, Thursday 02 October 2008. “BJP is calling for entries to its fourth International Photography Awards – a juried competition with a total prize fund worth more than £13,000 ($25,000/€16,500). This year you have TWO chances to win a Canon EOS 5D camera kit – each worth £3250 – because we’ve added a new single-image category. Anyone of any country or any age can enter. We don’t dictate a theme. We just want to see your most compelling work. Entry is £20 (or $40 or €27) for the series category, and £5 (or $10 or €7) per single image.”  Features and Photo Essays - Michael Robinson Chavez: Georgia Crisis as war brews over South Ossetia (33 stills) (LA Times: August 2008) Blogs - Unseen Iraq : Andrea Bruce of Washington Post “Lit only by the moon, its windows blacked out, a small U.S. military outpost in southern Baghdad looks abandoned. Hulking armored vehicles, still hot from a recent mission, rest on imported gravel. Bats flutter and fall like a sudden twitch in the placid night sky. For a moment, light hits a wall of sandbags. A door opens, held by a soldier dressed in shorts. He leads the way through the building to a room smelling of microwave popcorn and locker-room sweat. The scene looks like a basement keg party, with its fluorescent lights and worn furniture. Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division sit in rows before the television, on any chair they can find. The soldier is greeted with a warning smack on the legs. No one stands in front of the game. Alabama vs. Arkansas. Out of respect, most soldiers are quiet, while others lean forward to hear the football cheers and announcers — the sounds of autumn back home. It’s the first quarter, and Alabama is ahead 14-0.”…. Saturday 27 September 2008 Features and Photo Essays - Alex Majoli: Russia Makes Itself at Home (18 stills) (Newsweek: September 2008) Features and Photo Essays - Eugene Richards: Shocking Therapy (12 stills) (Newsweek: September 2008) Photos from the new Richards book A Procession of Them, out on October 1. Features and Photo Essays - Guy Martin: Cossacks in Russia’s South (Foto8 Story of the Week: September 25, 2008) “Guy Martin visited the predominantly Cossack regions of southern Russia where boys and girls are recruited into nationalistic training camps and taught martial arts to encourage patriotism and try to sustain a sense of their traditional role as the tough defenders of Russia’s border regions. “(NB: This story was produced in 2006, before the recent troubles in the area.) “ Features and Photo Essays - Stuart Franklin: Fragile Planet (TIME: September 25, 2008) “The face of Europe has undergone a metamorphosis, due to changes in its climate, geological activity and as a result of the transformations that have been brought about by humans. ” Friday 26 September 2008 (multi)Media - Kobre Guide :”our online guide to the Web’s best video and multimedia journalism — or, as we call it, the Web’s most moving stories. This project is an antidote to comprehensive Web video portals, such as YouTube and MetaCafe… We’re focusing instead on handpicked, high-quality documentary-style journalism that is being produced primarily by major media outlets — and frustratingly difficult for consumers to find…” Features and Photo Essays - Platon: Service (18 photos) (New Yorker: September 29, 2008)  “This summer, the photographer Platon took pictures of hundreds of men and women who volunteered to serve in the military and were sent to Iraq or Afghanistan. He followed them on their journey through training and deployment, after demobilization and in hospitals, to compile a portrait of the dedication of the armed services today. Sergeant Tim Johannsen, who lost both legs when he drove over an I.E.D. on his second tour of duty in Iraq, made a point of buying an Army T-shirt to wear in his photograph. Of his sacrifice, he said, “It’s just part of the job. You know what you signed up for.” Sergeant Matthis Chiroux, a military reporter who has become a vocal opponent of the Iraq war, says that he and others like him “take our activism as a continuation of our oath of service.” Like many who enlist, Johannsen and Chiroux come from military families. Sergeant John McKay, a marine whose uncle and grandfather were marines, and whose three-year-old son posed in uniform at the wedding of a cousin, also a marine, said, “He’s just waiting till he’s eighteen.” He went on, “I’m scared for him, but if he wants to do it I’ll support him.”” Events and Festivals - Brighton Photo Biennial 2008. October 3 - November 16, 2008. “Entitled Memory of Fire: the War of Images and Images of War, Brighton Photo Biennial 2008 will explore photographic images of war, their making, use and circulation, and their currency in contemporary society. The provocative writer and critic Julian Stallabrass will curate ten exhibitions presenting photography, film and online material produced and circulated in time of war, and analyse how images have been shaped by the changing social and political conditions from the Vietnam era to the present. The exhibitions will include images produced by photojournalists, artists and non-professionals. Through these images, Brighton Photo Biennial 2008 will look at the conditions of conflict, power and displacement and the radically different perspectives of the opposing sides of various conflicts. It will also explore the collective and individual memory of such images, their forgetting and revision, and their rebirth at times of crisis and war.” Thursday 25 September 2008 Features and Photo Essays - Max Becherer: Iraqi Citizen Simmer in Face of Change (NYT: September 23, 2008) “In Baghdad’s Adhamiya neighborhood, the Awakening Council, the citizen patrol that has been paid by the Americans to fight the insurgency, has become increasingly unpredictable and difficult to control. On Oct. 1, 54,000 Awakening members in an around Baghdad, including those in Adhamiya, will be shifted to the payroll of the Iraqi government.” Wednesday 24 September 2008 Features and Photo Essays - Alixanda Fazzina: The Perils of Childbirth in Afghanistan (TIME: September 18, 2008) “Photographer Alixandra Fazzina visits remote Badakhshan, home to the highest maternal mortality rate in the world” Features and Photo Essays - Anna Kari (photos) Vivianne Walt (narration) : Death and Life in Sierra Leone (audio slideshow 2mins) (TIME: September 19, 2008) Features and Photo Essays - Franco Pagetti: Ramadan with Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal (TIME: September 23, 2008) “TIME photographer Franco Pagetti visits the Saudi billionaire as he greets supplicants at his lavish desert camp outside Riyadh” Monday 22 September 2008 Awards, Grants, and Competitions - The Luis Valtuena 12th International Humanitarian Photography Award. Deadline: November 5, 2008. Blogs - Rachel Hulin of Photoshelter blog fame, has her own blog now that the Photoshelter blog is defunct. Workshops - Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2009 details announced Blogs - Vincent Laforet on the 5D mkII  Sunday 21 September 2008 Features and Photo Essays - Andrea Bruce: Daughters of Iraq (WP: September 2008) Features and Photo Essays - Shawn Baldwin: Living in the Edge of a Cliff (NYT: September 19, 2008) “A huge piece of a cliff broke off on Sept. 6, crushing the poor people living below in Manshayet Nasser, a sprawling neighborhood in Cairo. So far, 101 bodies have been recovered.” Features and Photo Essays - Moises Saman: Looming Food Crisis in Afghanistan (NYT: September 19, 2008) “A harsh winter and a summer drought damaged the harvest this year, leaving central and northern Afghanistan facing a food shortage this winter.”  Interviews and Talks - Getty Podcasts (featured photographers include: Paula Bronstein, Spencer Platt, Brett Stirton…)

Sichuan, 6 meses después del terremoto Time Online ha publicado un interesante reportaje fotográfico sobre las zonas que se vieron afectadas por el terremoto de mayo en Sichuan. A cada fotografía le acompaña una pequeña historia. He seleccionado dos: Muchos como él Zhang Kangqi, un oficial de Beichuan de 36 años que perdió a su mujer y su hija en el terremoto, vive ahora en su oficina y trabaja siete días a la semana. Dado que todo lo que poseían quedó sepultado en Beichuan, la única imagen que tiene Zhang de su familia es un retrato a lápiz, realizado por un estudiante de arte a partir de las fotos de identificación de la mujer e hija de Zhang. Al menos una quinta parte de los oficiales de Beichuan perdieron a toda su familia en el terremoto. Herida abierta Los restos de Beichuan se han convertido de forma inesperada en una atracción turística. Puestecillos locales venden imágenes de los momentos posteriores al terremoto, y fotos de líderes estatales visitando a los refugiados. Más de 90 mil personas de esta zona de China perdieron la vida o están desaparecidas. -Todo el reportaje en Sichuan, 6 meses después. Por Aorijia el 27 de Noviembre, 2008, 19:10 en Terremoto en Sichuan | Di algo | Trackbacks (0) Tu nombre: Emilio: Tu web: Comment: (te quedan 1000 letras)