New Orleans Through the Eyes of Mario Tama August 29, 2010
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- Photo Credit Mario Tama / Getty Images
Five years after the disaster and debacle of Katrina’s impact on New Orleans Mario Tama from Getty Images has published a moving book of his involvement in that tragedy. Called “Coming Back” the profits of sales from the book will be going into the New Schools for New Orleans program and that alone is worth supporting this publishing effort. My awareness of his work has come though an Australian compatriot Daniel Berehuliak who is working tirelessly in the floodwaters of Pakistan for Getty Images and himself producing amazing work. Getty Images’ Reportage portfolio continues to impress. Mario Tama’s work on New Orleans After Katrina is a monumental piece of publishing.
Southern Literary Review of “Coming Back”
http://southernlitreview.com/tag/coming-back-new-orleans-resurgent
PBS News Hour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/weather/july-dec10/photoessay_08-23.html
- Mario Tama Coming Back New Orleans Resurgent
IRIS AWARD WINNER CLAIRE MARTIN August 29, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : IRIS Award, PCP , add a commentCongratulations on winning Perth Centre for Photography’s Iris Award 2010 due to Claire Martin who began her career by pursuing a degree in Social Work. She changed her focus to Photography when she realised that change can also be effected through this medium. Her ongoing documentation of marginalised communities within prosperous nations has recently won her the Magnum Foundation Inge Morath award for Female Photographers under 30 years of age. Since beginning her career pursuing personal projects in 2007 Claire has gained praise for her unique style with support from Getty images as an Emerging Talent in Reportage in 2009 as well as a major exhibition during Foto Freo 2010. She has recently joined the renowned Australian Documentary Photo Collective “Oculi” and her work is distributed through Agency VU in Europe and Redux in the USA. Claire lives in Perth Western Australia where she works as a freelance photographer and socially concerned documentary artist.
The commendation prize went to Narelle Conwell and the student prize went to Joseph Landro.
- Claire Martin IRIS AWARD Winner 2010 “Tony”
- Narelle Conwell IRIS Commendation Prize Winner
- Solidarity Joseph Landro IRIS Award Student Winner
Sony World Photography Awards August 29, 2010
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- Images Copyright Tommaso Ausili
The Sony World Photography Awards are up for grabs again. Browsing through the images on a beautifully designed website I came across some familiar names as well as some beautiful images from unestablished photographers. Worth browsing, and worth entering. 2010 winners included noted photographers Walter Astrada and Paolo Pellegrin and Tommaso Ausili for his Slaughterhouse series. Ausili said in collecting his prize in April that the images had made him feel guilty but that the win had vindicated the assignment. These awards are a platform for professional and amateur and student photographers.
Registration and Entries: http://www.worldphoto.org/
The 12 professional winners spanned categories as diverse as fashion, architecture, current affairs and sport and were revealed alongside the Sony World Photography Awards Amateur Photographer of the Year as part of the World Photography Festival.
Chosen by the 2010 Honorary Judging Committee, comprising 12 World Photographic Academy members, the professional category winners are:
Photojournalism and Documentary:
- Walter Astrada (Argentina) for Current Affairs
- Scott Barbour (New Zealand) for Sport
- Tommaso Ausili (Italy) for Contemporary Issues
- Paolo Pellegrin (Italy) for Arts and Entertainment
Commercial:
- Martin Brent (United Kingdom) for Advertising
- David Handley (United Kingdom) for Fashion
- Mohammad Golchin (Iran) for Music
Fine Art:
- Philipp Lohöefener (Germany)for Architecture
- Tommaso Bonaventura (Italy) for Portraiture
- Renhui Zhao (Singapore) for Conceptual and Constructed
- Pere Pascual (Spain) for Natural History
- Peter Franck (Germany) for Landscape
On behalf of the Honorary Judging Committee Aidan Sullivan commented, “It has been an honour to be part of the judging of this years awards. Being able to view the remarkable work and spend time with such eminent colleagues was a real delight. The judging process was one of both pleasure, in seeing such a high calibre of work, and of pain in that the standard made reaching our decisions difficult and I would like to congratulate all of the winners across all of the categories.”
The prestigious L’Iris d’Or/Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year award was awarded to Tommaso Ausili. The Italian photographer’s evocative series of photographs in the Cotemporary Issues category, entitled The Hidden Death, is an insightful depiction of an assembly line at an abattoir. Ausili was awarded a $25,000 cash prize plus Sony digital SLR camera equipment and he joins previous L’Iris d’Or winners David Zimmerman and Vanessa Winship as a member of the World Photographic Academy.
Tommaso Ausili said at the ceremony: “I’m very glad to receive this award. Since I started this series on the death of animals, I have felt an enormous sense of guilt, and this prize goes some way to repay that debt. Thanks to the Sony World Photography Awards for honouring my work with this prize.”
Photographer Vitali Seitz was announced as the 2010 Sony World Amateur Photographer of the Year at the ceremony. Based in Munich, but originally from Siberia, Vitali’s image entitled Hauskonzert: Home concert was taken at an informal concert as part of a family birthday and also won the amateur Music category. In addition to his title Vitali picked up a $5,000 cash prize and Sony digital SLR camera equipment.
All the winning and shortlisted images of the 2010 awards are on display until 27 April as part of the World Photography Festival in Cannes. The images will then be showcased in the Sony World Photography Awards Global Tour exhibition which will tour around the world throughout 2010 and 2011.
The final presentation of the evening went to celebrated American photojournalist Eve Arnold. Presented the day after her 98th birthday, the Lifetime Achievement Award was collected by her grandson Michael Arnold. Eve’s 50 year career has captured some of history’s most memorable figures from Malcolm X to Marilyn Monroe and was the first female photographer to be taken on by Magnum. A retrospective of Eve’s work, curated by Zelda Cheatle, is currently on display in Cannes as part of the World Photography Festival.
Astrid Merget, Creative Director of the World Photography Organisation, said: “The quality of work submitted by this year’s professional photographers was remarkable. Narrowing down so many impressive selections to just 36 finalists was a feat worthy of a very distinguished jury like ours to undertake. We are all thrilled with the results and honoured to have such talented photographers participate in our awards programme.”
Yoshiyuki Nogami, Vice President of Digital Imaging at Sony Europe, said: “We are once again honoured to support this unique competition which celebrates the power of photography. This year’s contest has produced an inspired showcase of phenomenal photographic talent and we congratulate all these deserving winners.”
HOT SHOTS August 27, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Competitions , add a commentJust another photo competition. For an $80 entry fee entertain the possibility of winning $10000 from Hey Hot Shot, a Jen Beckman Project. She also runs 20 x 200, a successful art project. Very late notice but worth a poke.
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- Hot Shot Winners Claire Hester, Kalpesh Lathigra
Hot Shots has doubled their Grand Prize to $10,000 and extended the deadline to apply till Tuesday, August 31st at 8:00 p.m. (EDT)!
Read about the details of the deadline extension and $10,000 prize on the HHS! blog.
Since its inception in 2005, Hey, Hot Shot!, the premier international photography competition, has provided one hundred and twenty-nine photographers from all over the world with unrivaled exposure, support and recognition. This year marks the 5th anniversary of the competition and the 7th anniversary of Jen Bekman Gallery. In celebration, we are introducing even more incredible opportunities for every contender.
In addition to the hallmark awards of past competitions, this year we are offering a $5,000 $10,000 honorarium and five Curator’s Choice Awards.
Russian Colour August 26, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Documentary, Russian Photographers, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii , add a commentPhotographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
The Big Picture continues its innovative process of discovery. Many thanks to the editor for sharing these incredible images.
In the years, 1909 and 1912 photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time – when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. The subjects had to sit still while the photographer exposed the three images. This is great pre digital technology and shows great insight into the photographic process. Incredibly beautiful images plunging us all deeply into history.
- Photo Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
Adam Pretty / The Big Picture August 26, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Journalism, Publishing , add a commentOn Saturday, Singapore welcomed young athletes from around the world in a ceremony opening the inaugural Youth Olympic Games. This first ever Summer Youth Olympics, an event designed to be celebrated in the same tradition of the Olympic Games – involved competitors between 14 and 18 years of age. This year, 3,500 athletes from more than 200 countries competed in 184 events in 26 sports. The amazing Australian photographer Adam Pretty was there and the Boston Globe’s Big Picture ran a story on the event.
- Photo Copyright Adam Pretty Getty Images
Boat People Protest August 26, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Documentary , add a comment“The Boat People art gang are making a video work and we are inviting you to be involved.
Our borders remain the hot election issue, and we are becoming fools again, baying at strangers, terrified and stupid”.
Deborah Kelly, Aug 2010.
The day before the inconclusive Australian federal election, the boat-people.org and pvi collective held a protest which involved individuals in a muffled protest against the political agenda of border protection. Protestors wrapped their heads in the Australian national flag in Forest Place in Perth, Friday 20th August 2010 in a media protest.
- Muffled Protest Perth Photo Darren Smith
Chornobyl’s Black Gold August 26, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Chornobyl, Disaster, Documentary, Institute for Artist Management, Photojournalism, Ukraine , add a commentBLACK GOLD OF CHORNOBYL
Guillaume Herbaut
For someone with a profound interest in Ukrainian issues it was a revelation to come across Guillaume Herbaut’s story on the pillaging of metal from the so called Exclusion Zone of Chornobyl. The story was posted in the blog of the relatively new Institute for Artist Management and the work details the movement of radioactive metal from the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant for cash. Each week, more than two hundred tons of radioactive metal leave the exclusion zone. In the town of Chornobyl there are hotels and workers involved in the legal industry that the protection of the Zone has evolved into.
During the turmoil that followed the explosion of the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986, the authorities buried highly contaminated villages, created burial grounds for tons of radioactive metal and encircled the town of Pripyat with a metal fence to prevent looting.
The reality of the exclusion zone and its precious cargo is different. In 2007, a stock of copper and nickel tubes coming from the Buriakovka burial ground was intercepted outside the exclusion zone. The metals contamination rate was 23 times higher than the legal standards. In May 2009, ten tons of metal disappeared. The radioactivity rate was above 30 000 microRems, a thousand times higher than the authorised level. During the night of September 10th 2009, a shipping of 25 tons of untreated metal was intercepted by Ukrainian Intelligence Service. It mainly consisted of tubes found in the whereabouts of Reactor 4 and its radioactivity rate was thirteen times higher than the legal level.
According to Herbaut and Bruno Masi there were 8 million tons of metal in the exclusion zone after the explosion. Today, only two million tons remain and this stock is valued at 1 billion hryvnias (100 million euros). It travels via Eastern Ukrainian factories to Turkey and to China for the ultimate material reward.
http://stories.instituteartistmanagement.com/guillaumeherbaut-black-gold-of-chernobyl.html
- Guillaume Herbaut copyright photo of Helicopters used during the Chornobyl disaster
Tokyo Symphony August 23, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : New Media, Photojournalism, Publications, Publishing , add a commentmonographic projects developed. PARADOX’ activities include travelling exhibitions, film production, book and electronic publishing and organising workshops and symposiums.
Photo Ed van der Elsken
The installation was never finished due to his early death at age 60. It was thought that the collection of 1,600 images, which is currently stored at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, was all that remained of this ambitious project. In 2007, researcher Frank Ortmanns discovered five audiotapes belonging to the project. Fascinated by this missing piece of the puzzle, Ortmanns approached Paradox to discuss the possibility of posthumously realizing Tokyo Symphony. Taking into account Van der Elsken’s fascination with AV technology, it was concluded that a contemporary approach to this installation would be most appropriate. In other words: to make an installation as if Van der Elsken were still alive.
The immersive installation based on hundreds of unknown colour slides confronts the viewer with various traditional as well as contemporary and little known aspects of Tokyo: from demonstrations in Shibuya to weddings and memorial celebrations, from girls wrestling and karaoke in Harajuku to the Tsukiji fish market. Van der Elsken switches constantly from intimate portraits to lively street scenes. The spatial multi-screen design of the installation, which is accompanied by a soundtrack based on his original recordings, adds to the dynamic experience of the strange mixture of tradition and modernity that characterises the metropolis of Tokyo. Through the harmonic as well as disharmonic interplay of various audiovisual elements, the installation can be seen as a true modern symphony about urbanism and eastern culture – a symphony that reflects the notion of the all absorbing and omnipresent urban environment.
Ed van der Elsken´s photographs are represented worldwide in the collections of several renowned institutions including the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Chicago Art Institute, the Kawasaki Modern Art Museum, the Special Collections Department of the University Leiden and the Museum of Modern Art (New York).
Even before his 1956 breakthrough with Love on the Left Bank, Van der Elsken attracted attention in international exhibitions such as Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man (1955). Further important exhibitions followed, such as Sweet Life (Amsterdam, 1968), Masters of European Photography (London, 1973), Van der Elsken´s Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 1979), L´Amour à Saint Germain des Prés (Tokyo, 1986) and De ontdekking van Japan 1961-1988 (Amsterdam, 1988/1989). Also posthumously: Once Upon a Time (Amsterdam /Tokyo, 1991), Long Live Me! (Paris /Amsterdam /Porto /Modena /Antwerp, 1996 – 2006), and Documenta X (Kassel, 1997). His most influential photo books include Een liefdesgeschiedenis in Saint Germain des Prés(1956), Bagara (1958), Jazz (1958), Sweet Life (1966), Amsterdam! (1979), De ontdekking van Japan (1988) and Once Upon a Time (1991).
Norwegian Wedding August 23, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Norwegian Photographers, Photojournalism , add a commentRobert McPherson, a Bachelor of Communications student (honours) at Edith Cowan University in Perth between 2003 and 2007 has married Trudy Aase in Gjøvik, Norway. Current Perth lecturers in photography at the campus, among them Kevin Ballantine, Max Pam, Graham Miller and Norm Leslie will remember Robert from his time in Perth. One of his early projects on Kazakh nomads in Kyrghistan contributed towards his degree.
Currently based in Norway Robert McPherson is working as a freelance photojournalist and maintaining his long term interest in Mongolia and working on in depth photo essays. His essay on Kibera, Kenya was published recently in the online photo magazine Metaphor Online. (www.metaphoronline.com.au/mag) and in the Norwegian paper Varden as an extended essay. It has also been accepted for publication by David Alan Harvey in Burn Magazine. His work there was part of a larger assignment for a Norwegian NGO working in Africa called Women and Children Supporting International .
http://www.robert-mcpherson.com/
- Photo Bohdan Warchomij
