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
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
New Photo Books New Marketing Solutions July 8, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Documentary, Photojournalism , add a comment
- Stanley Greene
Stanley Greene’s biography Black Passport and George Georgiou’s Fault Lines Turkey/East/West are both excellent new books from photojournalists with international reputations. They have both used video in interesting ways to market still photography to a wider audience. The immediacy and power of the Black Passport flv on You Tube in particular has a huge sensory impact and is an innovative multimedia technical achievement.
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Images from Fault Lines: George Georgiou
- Photo Copyright George Georgiou
- Photo Copyright George Georgiou
Thomas Haugersveen signed to VU July 8, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Documentary, Edith Cowan University, Norwegian Photographers, Photojournalism , add a commentA Norwegian photographer born in 1980, Thomas Haugersveen took up photography during his studies at the University of Perth in Australia. He graduated from Edith Cowan University in 2005. He worked for a time at Perth’s Sunday Times newspaper where I first met him.
For his first project, he examined the AIDS epidemic in Saharan Africa, resulting in his « A brave new world » exhibition, which was presented at the « 46664 Mandela » concert in Tromsø, Norway.
Thomas Haugersveen has worked on stories as different as the homeless of Saint Petersburg, the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, coal pollution in China, Georgian refugees, and most recently, handicapped children in Vietnam.
In 2010, he was named a recipients of the « Norwegian Picture of the Year » award for a report on Georgian looters. His work on young Indian body-builders was recognized with an honor from the PGB Award.
With a unique visual style and signature story telling approach Thomas Haugersveen is a unique voice in photojournalism.
- Indian Wrestlers Photo Copyright Thomas Haugersveen
Claire Martin wins Inge Morath Award July 5, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Documentary, Edith Cowan University, Foto Freo, Photojournalism , add a commentPhotographing marginalised communities has paid off for Perth’s Claire Martin. Her striking photos from the series ‘Slab City’ in the Colorado Desert, California and from ‘The Downtown East Side’ in Vancouver Canada have combined to win her The Inge Morath Award for a female photographer under 30 from the prestigious Magnum Photo Cooperative. Coming on top of last years win in the Sony World Photography Up and Coming Portrait Photographer of the Year Awards and also being chosen as an ‘emerging talent’ by Reportage for Getty Images it is obvious that Claire Martin is striking chords with her photographs and touching us all. Her photos of ‘Slab City’ in the Moore’s Building for Foto Freo were powerful and quite unforgettable.
Claire Martin has recently joined Oculi and is available for assignments.
- Photograph of Tony copyright by Claire Martin
Workshops June 20, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Degree South, Documentary, Photojournalism , add a commentOne of the highlights of PMA in Melbourne was the bootcamp lecture by Stephen Dupont and the legendary Tim Page on the last day of the event. Promoting their personal work and the collective Degree South that they are part of both photographers gave insights and advice into their art and practice to a packed lecture theatre.
- Stephen Dupont and Tim Page photo Bohdan Warchomij
Stephen Dupont announced three Photography workshops with Jack Picone. the first being an Angkor and Siem Reap workshop from June 25-30, 2010 with special Guest Tutor Tim Page. The second workshop from November 15-20th 2010 is part of Reportage in Sydney, and Tim Page is again a guest tutor. The third workshop is in Kathmandu from December 6-13, 2010.
More information on the photographer’s websites:
Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography June 20, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Awards, Degree South, Documentary, Publishing, Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography , add a commentGardner Photography Fellow, 2010
Following an international search, the Gardner Fellowship committee awarded the Fellowship to Stephen Dupont, a prize-winning Australian photographer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, and Rolling Stone, among other publications. Dupont will be working on a project entitled Guns and Arrows: The Detribalization of Papua New Guinea.
Over the past six years, Dupont has traveled to Papua New Guinea, photographically documenting its changing face and the powerful impact of globalization on the fabric of its traditional Melanesian society. Guns and Arrows, the proposed project, will continue this work. From the recasting of tribal society into an urban proletariat and the effects of violence and lawlessness in Port Moresby to the westernization of traditional society in the Highlands, it will be an in-depth study of cultural erosion as well as a celebration of an ancient people. He plans to use 35mm, 6×6, panoramic, and Polaroid formats for documentary street photography, landscapes, and portraiture; weaving single images, contact sheets, composites, and video grabs into multiple forms: a traditional exhibition at the Peabody Museum, a book with the Peabody Museum Press, and an interactive web presentation.
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Polaroid portrait of raskol (”criminal” in Tok Pison) Samson Maipe inside the Kips Kaboni (Red Devils) safe house in Kaugare Settlement, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 2004. Copyright Stephen Dupont. |
Stephen Dupont – first Australian to be awarded the
2010 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography
Esteemed Australian photographer, Stephen Dupont, is the first Australian to be awarded the prestigious 2010 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
A self-taught photographer, Stephen Dupont has captured photo essays from some of the world’s most dangerous regions including Afghanistan, Angola, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Congo, East Timor, Iraq, Israel, Rwanda and Somalia.
As part of the Award prize, the Fellowship funds an ‘established practitioner of the photographic arts to create and subsequently publish through the Peabody Museum a major book of photographs on the human condition anywhere in the world.’
For his project, Stephen has selected to travel to Papua New Guinea where he will spend 12 months working on Guns and Arrows: The Detribalisation of Papua New Guinea. Over the past six years, he has travelled to Papua New Guinea to photographically document its changing face and the powerful impact of globalisation on the fabric of its traditional Melanesian society.
“Guns and Arrows will be an in-depth study of cultural erosion as well as a celebration of an ancient people,” Stephen said.
As part of his project, he will also produce a major book profiling his Papua New Guinea photographs; conduct an exhibition and lecture at the Peabody Museum; as well as produce an interactive web presentation.
Stephen Dupont said he has been an advocate of FUJIFILM Professional films throughout his 21-year career, in particular FP-100C 5” x 4” instant colour film, Neopan ACROS black-and-white film and Velvia colour transparency.
FUJIFILM Australia National Manager – Professional, Kevin Cooper, said the 2010 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography is a fitting accolade for Stephen Dupont who has been recognised internationally for his outstanding photographic work that has captured the essence of so many cultures, which have often been war-torn at the time.
“He has worked in extremely high risk environments, including Afghanistan where he survived a suicide bombing,” Mr Cooper said.
Stephen Dupont has earned many other prestigious photography awards including a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation from the Overseas Press Club of America; a Bayeux War Correspondent’s Prize; plus achieved first places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Australian Walkleys and the Leica/CCP Documentary Award.
In 2007, Stephen was also awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanitarian Photography for his ongoing project in Afghanistan.
His handmade photographic artist books and portfolios are in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Australian War Memorial, The New York Public Library, Berlin and Munich National Art Libraries, Stanford University, Yale University, Boston Athanaeum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Joy of Giving Something, Inc.
East Grand Terre Island June 5, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : American Photographers, Disaster, Documentary, Photojournalism , add a commentThe tragedy of the BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to impact on the wildlife of the area.
AP Photographer Charlie Riedel’s images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island highlight a tragedy that will redefine the operational methods of oil companies working at depths beyond their technological capabilities. As hurricane season approaches Louisiana the sense of urgency escalates from politicians and BP executives. The results of their endeavours will be analysed and debated, resolved and hopefully curtailed in the light of these heartbreaking images. More images can be seen on the Big Picture.
- Photo Copyright Photographer Charlie Riedel AP
- Photo Copyright Photographer Charlie Riedel AP
Sylvain Duffard May 24, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Documentary, French Photographer, New Media , add a comment
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- Tangier Photo Copyright Sylvain Duffard
- Fez Photo Copyright Sylvain Duffard
- Agadir Photo Sylvain Duffard
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- Tangier Photo Copyright Sylvain Duffard
- Fez Photo Copyright Sylvain Duffard
- Tangier Photo Copyright Sylvain Duffard
“It always rains the same light”, written in 1965 in Agadir and borrowed from Moroccan author Mohamed Khair-Eddine,
has been conceived in 2008 in the context of three artists’ residences provided through the invitation of the French Institutes of Agadir, Fez and Tangier.
