Don McCullin: The Impossible Peace: State Library of NSW September 27, 2014
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Uncategorized , comments closedFloor talk by Curator of the exhibition and co-founder of Contact Press Images, Robert Pledge.
Saturday September 27
14.00 – 15.00
Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Street Building
State Library of NSW
Don McCullin – The Impossible Peace: From War Photographs to Landscapes, 1958 – 2011
Reportage is proud to present the incredible retrospective of acclaimed photographer Don McCullin, A Contact Press Images Touring Exhibition produced in association with the State Library of New South Wales, set to open to the public tomorrow September 27, 2014.
Don’t forget to attend the floor talk by Curator of the exhibition and co-founder of Contact Press Images, Robert Pledge.
Saturday September 27
14.00 – 15.00
Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Street Building
State Library of NSW
A very special keynote lecture where Pledge will discuss Don McCullin’s fascinating body of work and his internationally recognised exhibition.
$15/ $10 (Friends/ Concession)
Tickets are available via the events page:
Don McCullin Exhibition Floor Talk Event with Curator Robert Pledge
https://www.facebook.com/events/1500323320210577/
Separatists discussing the Malaysian plane crash after being hit by separatist rocket fire July 18, 2014
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SPASIBO David Monteleone June 15, 2014
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Uncategorized , comments closedCurated by: Manik Katyal
”Chechnya has won, Russia has won”. Perhaps the losers are the many Chechens who chose to go into exile as a matter of honour. Those who stayed have returned to a normal life and can satisfy their basic needs after several decades of hardship. Such a “normal” life, however, requires them to make major compromises and often hold their tongues.
Today Chechnya is an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation, subdued and pacified by force after centuries of rebellion against Moscow. Putin protégé president Ramzan Kadyrov holds absolute power and has almost limitless support from Moscow.
Davide Monteleone is well acquainted with the complex, tormented life of ordinary Chechens. He has crisscrossed the country, stopping in cities and villages, mountains and forests. This book contains neither majestic city or countryscapes nor blood- spattered depictions of violence. Monteleone rather shows us the otherwise invisible: the stifling atmosphere, the pregnant helplessness and fear, the young women resigned to their fate, and the elderly, whose traditional authority has diminished in the face of Kadyrov’s brutes.
But Monteleone’s photographs also depict hope. Chechens are a mountain people who have endured wars and other atrocities for centuries, including the collective deportation to the arid Kazakh steppes and to Siberia under Stalin in 1944. They know how to resist, and they know when to wait. Strong by nature, they are able to laugh even amidst adversity, and they sustain a birthrate that repopulates the land and replaces the dead. They know perfectly well that this dictatorial regime will fall sooner or later, as it has in other Muslim countries.«Galia Ackerman
“Thank you Ramzan, thank you Russia” for everything. “Spasibo”
Documentary about Chechnya today, winner of the 4th Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award
Edited by Nathalie Gallon, Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award
Texts by Gala Ackermann, Masha Gessen
Hardcover, 24 x 28 cm
164 pages and 16 pages booklet 86 duotone ills.
English / French
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
ISBN 978-3-86828-466-9
- See more at: http://www.emahomagazine.com/2014/06/davide-monteleone-spasibo/#sthash.OU6pTl4m.dpuf
Just Bad Rhetoric: Alexander J Motyl: WORLD AFFAIRS JOURNAL June 4, 2014
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The blog that Alexander J Motyl writes for the World Affairs Journal is not always balanced. But at times it is savagely accurate. The quote below is a precious moment from a blog that expresses a number of equally precious statements. There is no attempt to cushion his words of criticism of the hypocritical game that Vladimir Putin is playing in Ukraine.
“Just what makes you think that a career in the KGB qualifies you to speak authoritatively about anything—and, especially, about constitutions, democracy, and legitimacy? Indeed, former members of criminal organizations might be better advised to keep mum about the very things they spent their entire careers trying to destroy.”
Here is another one: “ stop lecturing Ukraine about constitutions, democracy, legitimacy, and stability. Indeed, stop lecturing us about anything. Except, perhaps, on the mechanics of mendacity, death, destruction, and destabilization.
For the full article check out the link below;
The ironies inherent in the article are as amusing as the photo above.
The Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Documentary Prize April 21, 2014
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From the series City Under One Roof
© Jen Kinney, winner of the 2013 edition
The Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor documentary prize, organised by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, was first launched to encourage collaboration between a photographer and a writer in the tradition of Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor who worked together on the seminal work American Exodus. Last year, however, the prize was relaunched to allow solo photographers and artists to apply to the grant.
The $10,000 cash prize serves to support “documentary artists – working alone or in teams – who are involved in extended, ongoing fieldwork projects that rely on and exploit, in intriguing and effective ways, the interplay of words and images in the creation and presentation of their work.”
The changes were introduced after the Center for Documentary Studies launched its Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University, which brings together two forms of artistic activity: “the documentary approach and experimental production in analog, digital and computational media,” says Duke University.
There are no restrictions regarding age, nationality, or subject matter. The deadline for entries is 07 May, with the winner announced in September.
Who pays Photographers? November 13, 2013
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A contribution to the issue from Tumblr.
http://whopaysphotogs.tumblr.com/
Andrew Quilty in New York for Time January 30, 2013
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Uncategorized , comments closedThe New York Photo Festival is proud yet humbled to present an open call for submissions to benefit artists directly affected by Superstorm Sandy:
Nice to see Andrew Quilty, Oculi for Time working in New York.
Here are a couple of his images for the competition,
Photo Andrew Quilty Oculi for Time
All photographers––professional, student, amateur, beginner, camera-phone users, hobbyists, and civilians––are welcome to submit their photographs of this cataclysmic event––the superstorm’s wrath, the incredible devastation, the struggle to restore and rebuild––as well as analogous instances elsewhere in this age of imperious weather and its contemporary causes.
CLICK HERE for details on how to submit to Devastation, Document, Drive.
(Submission deadline: January 31, 2013)
Prix Pictet November 16, 2009
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Prix Pictet announced yesterday that the winner of this year’s photography prize for environmental sustainability goes to British based Israeli photographer Nadav Kander, whose project Yangtze, The Long River Series documents the changing landscape along China’s Yangtze River.
Chongqing IV (Sunday Picnic) Photo Nadav Kander
The Prix Pictet Vision
Food riots. Loss of forest cover. Desertification. The ecosystems we depend on appear to face resource demands already beyond their capacity. As governments try urgently to stimulate growth, a central question remains. Can the earth’s complex living systems sustain the future consumption patterns of another three billion people in the world’s population by 2050?
Or are we making the transition, as the Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen has suggested, to a point where the face of the earth – its soil, its waters, its groves, its hollows – is no longer natural, but bears the terminal scars of man’s intervention.
Impurity, excess, contamination, absence, control: these were the aspects of sustainability on the theme of Water covered by photographers nominated for last year’s Prix Pictet. This year the theme is Earth.
Sponsored by the Geneva private bank Pictet & Cie, the Prix Pictet is the world’s first prize dedicated to photography and sustainability. It has a unique mandate – to use the power of photography to communicate crucial messages to a global audience; and it has a unique goal – art of the highest order, applied to the immense social and environmental threats of the new millennium.
Kofi Annan is the Prix Pictet’s Honorary President and ‘Earth’ is the publication that documents this year’s artists work on sustainability,
