Extreme Weather Ukraine Eastern Europe February 5, 2012
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Ukraine, Weather Photos , add a commentIn Ukraine, thirty-eight more fatalities were reported from frostbite and hypothermia on Friday, raising the nation’s death toll to 101. Emergency officials have said many of the victims were homeless.
Mykola Blyznyuk of the Health Ministry told the Kiev Post newspaper that many of the victims of hypothermia had broken their legs in falls and spent a long time on the ground in freezing temperatures while waiting for help to arrive.
Of the Ukrainians who have died since the cold weather hit Jan. 27, 64 were found frozen on the streets, 11 died in hospitals and 26 in their homes, emergency officials said.
It was so cold there, that some 1,500 swans, sea gulls and ducks froze to the ice in a small harbor near Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odessa, forcing emergency workers to use ships to break up the surface and free the birds, officials said.
The weeklong cold snap — Eastern Europe’s worst in decades — is causing power outages, frozen water pipes and the widespread closure of schools, nurseries, airports and bus routes.
- A view of the frozen River Dnieper in an air temperature around minus 4 Fahrenheit in snow covered central Kiev, on Feb. 3 Photo Gleb Garanich / Reuters
An elderly woman is wrapped in thick winter clothes as she tries to sell cigarettes to passers-by in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 3. Sergey Dolzhenko / EPA
- A man walks in the center of Kiev where temperatures dropped to minus 20 Celsius on February 1, 2012. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)
- An Orthodox Christian cathedral stands amid a winter landscape in Kiev on January 30, 2012. (Efrem Lukatsky/Associated Press)
- A homeless man drinks tea in a shelter in Donetsk, Ukraine on February 2, 2012. (Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Getty Images
- A woman looks out a bus in Bucharest on February 2, 2012. (Vadim Ghirda/Associated Press)
Bill Cunningham February 4, 2012
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Bill Cunningham, Street Fashion , add a commentA sweet award winning film film about The New York Times street/fashion photographer Bill Cunningham. Saw this on David Dare Parker’s blog. A reminder of all the reasons why street photography remains magic realism for all of us.
Magnum Emergency Fund Announcement February 2, 2012
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- Scholarship winner Arthur Bondar Aleksandr lives close to the fence of the exclusion zone, in Gornostaypol village in Ukraine. He went into the zone for hunting, fishing, and picking mushrooms.
The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund has made an exclusive announcement to LightBox disclosing the winners of its 2012 grants. The fund, which began in 2009, awards the annual prize to photographers from around the world who use their cameras to shed light on underserved issues and communities.
This year’s winners are:
Evgenia Arbugaeva for Tiksi, the Far North
Rena Effendi for Capturing Coptic Life: Egypt’s Sectarian Struggle
Eric Gottesman for Baalu Girma
Sebastian Liste for The Brazilian Far West
Benjamin Lowy for iLibya: Libya’s Growing Pains
Justin Maxon for Murder That Goes Unsolved and Unheard
Donald Weber for War is Good*
Paolo Woods for Poor Rich
The eight grantees were selected from a field of nearly 100 photographers nominated by ten professionals (including, in the past, TIME’s own director of photography, Kira Pollack). The winners will receive, along with funding, editorial guidance and research support to continue their work, which explores such diverse topics as peasant works in China and violence in the Pennsylvania projects.
The Emergency Fund, which was founded to counteract the shrinking of opportunities for long-form, socially-conscious photographic storytellers, is now in its third year of granting prizes. The program continues to grow, says Emma Raynes, the Emergency Fund’s program director. “We’ve been able to put more energy into helping photographers put depth into their work,” she says. Increased integration of social media has also made a difference; the Emergency Fund had already used Kickstarter to add to its power to help photographers, but the organization has expanded its presence on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.
Raynes says that this year’s winners tended to step away from traditional documentary and photojournalism styles and put a new emphasis on creative visual language. Benjamin Lowy, for example, made use of the Hipstamatic iPhone app in his photographs of Libya. “We wanted to invest in projects that were incredibly ambitious,” says Raynes.
In addition to funding the work of established photojournalists, the Magnum Emergency Fund awards scholarships to emerging photographers from nonwestern countries, for them to attend a 5-week summer program about documenting human-rights issues.
The 2012 Human Rights Fellows are:
Poulomi Basu, 29, of India
Arthur Bondar, 28, of Ukraine
Liu Jie, 30, of China
Pooyan Tabatabaei, 28, of Iran
And for all its support of photographers, the Emergency Fund aims to do more than help them do their work. The Foundation wants “to reach beyond the photography community into communities that are concerned about the issues,” says Raynes. “The main goal of our program is to get the work seen.”
Patrick Brown Endangered Species Emphas.is February 1, 2012
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Almost as great a task, however, has been trying to sell his project, “Trading in Extinction,” to book publishers on four continents. Many turned him down because of what they perceived as unpalatable subject matter. Others just demanded he pay for the privilege of being published.
“One publisher didn’t even want to see the work,” he said. “He just wanted to know if I had $30,000. I didn’t have it, because I spent my entire life savings producing this body of work.”’
The experience left him frustrated and demoralized — but still determined.
His luck changed when Emphas.is, the photography crowd-sourcing Web site, invited him to participate in its book publishing venture which began Monday. The photographers Peter Dench and William Daniels are also featured.
The founders of Emphas.is Publishing — Karim Ben Khelifa, Tina Ahrens, Walter Tjantele and Fanuel Dewever — are trying to fill a void for photographers trying to publish documentary and photojournalism projects.
“The publishing world today is not really sympathetic to photojournalists and probably with good reason,” Mr. Ben Khelifa said. “I think publishers do what they can, but photojournalism is a small niche. And that makes it hard for them to get the return.”” words by James Estrin
Patrick Brown/Panos Pictures A large bull elephant in Chitwan National Park with its leg chained. The 50-year-old animal was restrained after having killed five mahouts (handlers) in its lifetime.
The goal of Emphas.is Publishing is to help photographers produce books affordably while retaining full editorial and design control. Emphas.is will assist in financing, printing, shipping, warehousing, distribution and promotion.
All production costs will be raised in advance by pre-selling 100 limited-edition signed volumes, packaged with an archival photographic print, for $100. Larger prints and other services, like workshops, may also be used to defray production costs. Printed in Italy, a typical press run would be 1,000 copies. The remaining 900 books will also be pre-sold or made available through bookstores, social networks and the Emphas.is Web site.
Mr. Brown, who is represented by Panos Pictures and won a World Press Award in 2004, does not see himself as an animal activist. He wears leather shoes and enjoys a good steak. But the story of the exotic animal trade was not being told when he started a decade ago. The profits were enormous — for the smugglers, not for him — with rhinoceros horns selling for more per ounce than gold.
If enough people pre-order Mr. Brown’s book, he will have completed what he set out to do 10 years ago: expose the devastating effects of the trade on endangered animal species. Much more attention has been paid to the issue since he started, and he said he hopes that as enforcement increases, smugglers will look elsewhere.
“A smuggler is a smuggler,” Mr. Brown said. “He doesn’t care whether it’s half a tiger, guns or heroin. At the end of the day, it’s all about making a profit.”
Syria Protests February 1, 2012
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- Syria Protests
Syria’s people continue to protest. Time has posted a chronology of images from the ongoing protests against President Bashar al-Assad by the Syrian people and the Syrian Free Army.
Syrian troops have crushed pockets of resistance on the outskirts of Damascus hours before key UN talks.
Soldiers early on Tuesday moved into the two remaining towns still in rebel hands, activists said.
“Intense shooting was heard in Zamalka and Arbeen as the tanks advanced,” the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, citing its network of sources on the ground. Regime forces made sweeping arrests in the nearby town of Rankous, activists said.
Government forces on Monday regained control of most of the capital’s eastern suburbs after dissident soldiers captured the territory last week.
Monday’s death toll rose to 100 people, making it one of the bloodiest days since the uprising began in March, according to activists.
The bloodshed has increased as western and Arab countries step up pressure on President Bashar Assad’s ally Russia to overcome its opposition to a draft resolution.
The draft resolution demands that Assad halt the crackdown and implement an Arab peace plan that calls for him to hand over power to his vice president and allow creation of a unity government to pave the way for elections.
If Assad fails to comply within 15 days, the council would consider “further measures,” a reference to a possible move to impose economic or other sanctions.
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2061413_2333495,00.html
Australia Day Photos Perth Bohdan Warchomij January 26, 2012
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T & G publishes Lewis Morley’s I to Eye January 26, 2012
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Lewis Morley: I to EYE
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket: 400 pages with over 270 duotone and colour plate
240mm wide x 286mm deep / 10 x 11 in.
ISBN: 9780977579082 (13) 0977579085 (10)
The definitive retrospective on one of the 20th century’s outstanding Photographers
In a career that has spanned some 50 years, Lewis Morley has worked with equal ease in theatre, fashion, portraiture, magazine photography and documentary reportage. His body of work, particularly his portraits of key figures of 1960s London, is highly recognised, and with his famous photo of Christine Keeler naked upon a chair, Morley produced an image that is probably one of the most memorable, and most copied, of any photographs of any time.
Born in Hong Kong in 1925 to a Chinese mother and English father, Morley spent much of the war in a Japanese internment camp, before being repatriated to England.
His early photographic work included magazine assignments for Tatler before devoting himself to theatre photography and studio portraits from a studio above Peter Cook’s nightclub The Establishment. Through Cook he help shape Beyond the Fringe and contributed photographs to Private Eye.
In addition to the Keeler portrait, Morley photographed many of the most famous faces of the Sixties, including Salvador Dali, Somerset Maugham, Joe Orton, Andre Previn, David Frost, Dudley Moore, Tom Jones, Clint Eastwood, Judi Dench, Peter O’Toole, Charlotte Rampling, Susannah York, Michael Caine, Barry Humphries, and celebrity couples including John Cleese and Connie Booth, David Bailey and Catherine Deneuve.
Morley and his family emigrated to Australia in 1971 and he worked extensively in colour for the first time in Pol, Woman’s Day and the design magazine Belle. He continued his work in portraiture with studies of Australian celebrities such as Peter Carey, Brett Whiteley, and the young Nicole Kidman. This book includes several hundred photographs, many published for the first time.
Budapest Protest Photos Robert McPherson/Metaphor Images January 23, 2012
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Photojournalism, Robert McPherson , add a commentRobert McPherson/Metaphor Images is in Budapest for Norway’s Aftenposten covering a story on pro government demonstrations. Tens of thousands of Hungarians joined a protest to support Prime Minister Viktor Orban as the European Union pressed the country’s government to change laws that have blocked talks on an international bailout.
- Robert McPherson Photo: Demonstrators in Budapest
Demonstrators marched through the center of Budapest to parliament yesterday in an event organized by a group including Zsolt Bayer, a journalist with Magyar Hirlap newspaper and a founding member of Orban’s Fidesz party. The Interior Ministry said almost 400,000 people attended, while news website Index estimated the turnout at more than 100,000.
“We say yes to Europe but no to what Europe is doing to Hungary and the Hungarian government,” Bayer said in a video message posted on the Internet before the rally. Organizers marching at the front of the crowd carried a banner saying “We won’t become a colony,” a slogan Bayer repeated outside Hungary’s neo-gothic parliament.
Orban is trying to revive bailout negotiations with the bloc and the International Monetary Fund after discussions broke down in December over his refusal to change laws that both institutions said may weaken monetary-policy independence. Orban offered to change disputed legislation after the EU threatened a lawsuit against Hungary for encroaching on the central bank’s independence and political meddling with the judiciary and the data-protection authority.
The demonstration was the largest mass event of its kind since the collapse of communism more than 20 years ago, news website Nol.hu said.
News: Bloomberg Budapest
- Robert McPherson Photo Demonstrators in Budapest
Kodak Under Chapter 11 January 21, 2012
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Kodak , add a commentKodak and Kodachrome were synonymous metaphors for amazing technologies. Times have changed. There has been a move to digital printing, itself a dangerous area under pressure from tablets and other digital technologies. As Eastman Kodak investors bet that the 131-year-old photographic pioneer was headed for bankruptcy, the company decided Chapter 11 was the simplest way to become the leaner digital printing specialist it aspires to be.
Bankruptcy allows sales of the photography divisions and patents Chief Executive Officer Antonio Perez wants to jettison to pay off legacy employee benefits and creditors, as he focuses Kodak on faster, flexible commercial and consumer digital printers and the company’s superior ink. Its trove of 11,000 patents could fund expansion by allowing the company to sue for more licensing fees — a move it has pursued more aggressively in recent weeks.
Efforts to turn Kodak into a company that makes sophisticated printers for the publishing, packaging, and advertising businesses have burned cash. Raising funds from intellectual property stalled amid delays in a royalty battle with Apple and Research in Motion. Potential asset buyers shunned deals because of concern that sales made before a Chapter 11 filing would be scrutinized in court for signs that Kodak was fraudulently transferring assets cheaply. Now that the filing has been made, that worry is gone. As this historical Steve McCurry /Magnum photo shows Kodachrome and film cemented Kodak’s role in history. It is a sad moment for Rochester and the world that the Kodak company is in such trouble.
Art Wolfe in Australia January 16, 2012
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“Art Wolfe’s photographs are a superb evocation of some of the most breathtaking spectacles in the world.” — Sir David Attenborough
“Art has the broadest range of excellence of any nature photographer I know.” — Galen Rowell
“There’s a stunning clarity and vibrancy in Art Wolfe’s wildlife portraits, which are careful, often haunting, compositions.” — The New York Times Book Review
Over the course of his 30-year career, Art Wolfe has photographed on every continent and in numerous locations. His stunning images interpret and record the world’s fast-disappearing wildlife, landscapes and native cultures, and are a lasting inspiration to those who seek to preserve them all. His photographs are recognized throughout the world for their mastery of color, composition and perspective. His unique approach to nature photography is based on his training in the arts and his love of the environment. I recently photographed with Art in China and my observations on this amazing photographic experience are on Art’s blog: click Art Wolfe’s Blog. The article ‘Photographing China with Art Wolfe’ was published in Better Digital Camera, Australia; to read, click: Photographing China with Art Wolfe. Iconic Images International has arranged for this world-renowned photographer to visit Australia in March 2012. Following Australia he will present a series of seminars and workshops in South Africa in conjunction with Iconic Images International and C4 Images & Safaris.
In Australia, Art Wolfe will present a series of public lectures and one-day workshops in Sydney, Melbourne & Perth.
VENUES & DATES
Sydney: – Australian National Maritime Museum Theatre, 2 Murray St., Darling Harbour.
- Public Lecture on Friday 16th March 2012, 7.00 – 9.30pm
- Workshop on Saturday 17th March 2012, 9.00am – 4.30pm.
- Public Lecture on Friday 23th March 2012, 7.00 – 9.30pm.
- Workshop on Saturday 24th March 2012, 9.00am – 4.30pm.
- Public Lecture on Friday 30th March 2012, 7.00 – 9.30pm
- Workshop on Saturday 31st March 2012, 9.00am – 4.30pm.
- For prices and information visit http://denisglennon.com/art-wolfe-lectures-seminars/
