Bangladesh in the Piazza May 7, 2010
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Bangladesh in the Piazza
John Pilger January 19, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Education, John Pilger, New Media, Photojournalism, Publishing , add a commentTHE MEDIA AND PROPAGANDA
Nigel Dolan from UWA Extension Service was instrumental in attracting John Pilger, Journalist, Author and Film-maker to a lecture at the Social Sciences Theatre University of West Australia on the 12th January 2010 to talk and answer questions on the subject of “The Media and Propaganda”. Interestingly main stream media were conspicuous by their absence. John Pilger, who was the winner of the Sydney Peace Prize in 2009 answered questions from the floor. The theatre was packed.
‘It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere
messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the
message and myths that surround it’ – John Pilger. In this question
and answer session John examined the role and power of the
media and its responsibilities in a world of seemingly endless crises,
growing instability and inequality.
- John Pilger Photograph Bohdan Warchomij
John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, is one of only two journalists to have twice won British journalism’s top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US. In a New Statesman survey of the 50 heroes of our time, Pilger came fourth behind Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. “John Pilger,” wrote Harold Pinter, “unearths, with steely attention facts, the filthy truth. I salute him.”
Photojournalist Students to Bangladesh January 17, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Bangladesh, Edith Cowan University, Education, Photo Media, Photography Festivals, Photojournalism , add a commentBangladesh photography has been in the news recently. The growth of Chobi Mela, a festival of photography in Asia, images of work from Bangladeshi photographers in Andy Levin’s 100 Eyes Magazine, the winning portfolio Living Stone by Bangladeshi photographer Khaled Hasan that was announced as the Centre For Documentary Photography Award Winner have opened up our eyes to the talent and potential within Bangladesh.
The growing connection between the Edith Cowan University Photomedia Faculty and Pathshala, the South East Institute of Photography is an important link between Austalian and Bangladeshi tertiary institutions and exemplifies the growth of photography in both countries.
Following the success of the initial first link project between the Edith Cowan University Photomedia Faculty and the Pathshala: South East Asian Institute of Photography for the 2008 Summer School, this year, fourteen top ranking ECU Photomedia students are going to Dhaka in Bangladesh from 7 January to 8 February. The ECU students will attend classes and conduct in-field work in collaboration with Pathshala students. New York based Picture Editor Tina Ahrens will supervise the first week of learning before students are sent out to cover their individual projects. The project culminates with an exhibition at the Drik Gallery in Dhaka and there will be another in Perth in April at Spectrum Gallery. At this stage it looks that the focus topic will be the rivers of Bangladesh.
- Lecturers Duncan Barnes and Norm Leslie with students heading to Daka, Bangladesh
Tina Ahrens
Born in Germany. Studied film and photography at London Guildhall University in London, UK. Organised “snap ’n roll” photo exhibition in Cape Town, South Africa, and curated parts of the “Portrait Africa” exhibition at Haus der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany. Worked as a photo editor for GEO magazine in Hamburg since 2000. Travelled extensively in Asia and parts of Africa. She now lives in NYC, working as a photo editor at GEO’s New York office. She is a member of the photography board of the National Geographic AllRoads program.
Was guest photo editor for the new issue of OJO DE PEZ #8 “The fall of nature” (published in October 2006).
www.ojodepez.org
War is only Half the Story:The Aftermath Project December 27, 2009
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- Published September 2009: “War is Only Half the Story, Vol Two” features the work of 2008 grant winner Kathryn Cook (”Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide”) as well as special first finalist Natela Grigalashvili and finalists Tinka Dietz, Christine Fenzl and Pep Bonet.
I first met Sara Terry at Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan, France in 2006 where she was promoting The Aftermath Project to photojournalists whose cachet was the war machine in action. She set up the Aftermath Project out of the exasperation she felt after the Bosnian crisis as that country tried to move beyond the “shadow of war”. Her aim was to start a new media dialogue about war which could lead to conflict prevention instead of conflict resolution.
I applied for the Aftermath Project Grant hoping to cover the resettlement issues of the Crimean Tartars who had been expelled from their homelands in Ukraine by Josef Stalin for “collaboration” post World War Two. Needless to say I didn’t get to the final selection process but on Christmas Eve I was delighted to buy War is only Half the Story Volume 1 from The Aftermath Project/ Aperture. The book had made it to the shelves of my favourite book store Planet Books in Mt Lawley, Perth, West Australia. The first two grant winners were Jim Goldberg, an authentic innovator in the documentary field for his work The New Europeans, and Wolf Boewig, a photographer who had covered the Sierra Leone conflict.
The other photographers represented in this book are Andrew Stanbridge (post war reconstruction in Laos), Asim Rafiqui (Haiti’s ongoing political violence), and Paula Luttringer ( a survey of sites in Argentina where the abduction of women and their children was part of the process of violence).
- War Is Only Half The Story: The Aftermath Project, Volume 1
Mus Mus December 13, 2009
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Education, Publications, Publishing , add a commentMus Mus is a digital salon and collaboration that explores photography in a deeply philosophical way:
“mus-mus is a collaborative photography space that yokes ideas and images together in an experimental and playful way that seems most appropriate for an internet based salon of an increasingly post-consumer world. In keeping with this ethic we prefer a mildly anonymous position and ‘authorlessness’. Keeping mouths shut about who we are, we hope you will better know the pictures, projects and ideas.”
It incudes two important essays, one by Darius Himes and one by Ulrich Baer, that travel from the invention of photography through to the digital revolution, which is changing our perception of the world as we travel.
“The Digital Revolution
Fast forward 150 years. Photography has been theorized and debated within the parameters described above: as a melancholic medium that harbors news of our own mortality. But finally the history of photography is freed from the shackles of this restrictive understanding. Thanks to the digital revolution in the media, photography can finally unfold its true potential. “The digital environment allows image-makers to veer from a conventional, Newtonian view of the world to one that considers countless views,” as Fred Ritchen points out in After Photography (New York: Norton 2009, 1). The ease of digital photography allows us to invent new realities – just as previous photographers, from Marville and Atget to Cartier-Bresson invented a certain view of Paris that has stuck with us until today.”
Ulrich Baer “Paris and Photography as the Prospect of Possibility”
- In 1908, the Young Turks of the Committee of Union and Progress revolted against the despotic Sultan Abdu’l-Hamid. This brought to an end the centuries-old Ottoman Empire and paved the way for a semi-secular government based in the ancient city of Constantinople. With that singular, revolutionary act, all political and religious prisoners throughout the Empire were freed. Abdu’l-Baha Abbas, the man in a white turban pictured in the middle of this photograph, tasted freedom for the first time since childhood. He was 65 years old.
Abdu’l-Baha in Paris
Darius Himes
Oliver Cardona December 3, 2009
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Education, TAFE, exhibition , 1 comment so farRAW Central TAFE’s Photography Graduating Exhibition at the Central TAFE Art Gallery 12 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge introduced me to the work of many talented young photographers who have already stepped out and made their presence felt on the Perth stage.
Environmental Degradation – Polluted Waterways Photo Copyright Oliver Cardona
Oliver Cardona’s work (he won best portfolio at the graduation) was significant. Originally from Malta, a densely populated and highly urbanised European island he headed to West Australia with his wife Claire Falzon specifically because of its low population and relative remoteness. A committed environmentalist whose early photography stemmed from an interest in photographing wild birds (in Malta bird hunting is a traditional pastime) he travelled to spectacular places around the world and his interest shifted to the detail in the landscape and to the degradation and pollution that was the consequence of human activity. It became paramount for Oliver to document the fragility of the natural environment .
A relative newcomer to Australia he is concerned by the decline in flora and fauna species. He is disturbed by the fact that for a country with a relatively small population density, Australia has an unparalleled record of species loss. His sensitive and delicate conceptual work will contribute to an understanding of our fragile landscape and help us to preserve and reexamine our land usage.
In Oliver Cardona’s words “Photography is my language and that’s {the fragility of the natural environment} what I would like to communicate with my work.”
- Climate Change: Endless Drought Photo Copyright Oliver Cardona
TAFE Photography Graduation Show November 29, 2009
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Graduating Photography Student Show
Perth’s educational institutions continue to introduce new raw talent to the pool of photographers working in the city. The TAFE photo graduate show is one of the highlights of the graduating calendar.
Contact Amy Vinicombe:
avinicombe@hotmail.com
Central TAFE Art Gallery
12 Aberdeen Street
Northbridge
Open 2-5 December 2009
The Australian Photojournalist November 16, 2009
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Competitions, Documentary, Education, Griffith University, Photojournalism, Publications , add a commentThe Australian Photojournalist has a special subscription offer on that is great value for money. One of my favourite photography publications it continues to publish great themed essays on issues of significance to us all.
Picturing Human Rights is Now Available to Purchase Online:
Photo Lori Grinker
Lori Grinker (b. 1957) began her photographic career in 1981. Her work has earned international recognition, garnering a World Press Photo Foundation Prize, a W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund fellowship, the Ernst Hass Grant, The Santa Fe Center for Photography Project Grant, and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, among others.
The issue features the work of Robin Hammond, Joakim Eneroth, Lori Grinker, Jodi Bieber, Kate Schermerhorn, Paolo Woods, Simon Norfolk, Alvaro Hoppe and Alejandro Bustos, Donald Weber, Janet Jarman, Gilles Sabrie, Henry Fair, Julian Medina, Shiho Fukada, Angela Blakely and David Lloyd, Peter Menzel, Lauren Greenfield, Karen Robinson, and, Alfredo D’Amato
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To commemorate this historic act the Australian PhotoJournalist has dedicated an entire issue to stories documenting global human rights abuses. Entitled Picturing Human Rights, this 272-page full-colour book features 19 stories from some of the world’s leading and most dedicated journalists.
Picturing Human Rights is now available to buy online for only AUD$30 (plus p&h). We also have a SPECIAL OFFER on purchasing Picturing Human Rights AND our two previous editions. While stocks last you can buy all three issues for only AUD$50 (plus p&h).
Picturing Human Rights is a landmark edition
http://cdp.edu.au/cdp/photojournalist
The Centre for Documentary Practice (Submission)
The Centre for Documentary Practice (CDP) seeks to support an emerging documentary photographer who submits the best-judged folio that aims to Seek Justice. The prize, a Canon EOS 5D Mark II Premium Kit, is designed to contribute to the continuation of, or an extension of the submitted project synopsis. The CDP Award is free to enter and open to anyone meeting the eligibility criteria.
Theme
The folio, of up to 12 images, may be on any subject but must have the intent to be used to make a positive difference to the subject or the context in which the subject exists.
Deadline
Entries close 30 November 2009.
http://cdp.edu.au/cdp/cdp-award
2009 Edith Cowan University Photomedia Grad Show: Would You Like Fries With That? November 12, 2009
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The 2009 Edith Cowan University Photomedia Graduation was opened by Max Pam, head of department at Edith Cowan University. It was sponsored by Team Digital and PRA Imaging, who offered prizes to Sky Sobejko and Michael Godwin. A huge crowd of students and supporters turned up for the Graduation Show.
Photographer Michael Godwin
Photomedia Grad Show photo Bohdan Warchomij
