Magnum Press Prints July 1, 2010
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- Photo Copyright David Hurn Magnum
One of the most important photojournalism archives in history, the Magnum Photo Agency’s press prints collection, has been sold to Michael Dell of Dell computers. Specifically, to Dell’s private investment firm, MSD Capital LP.
The collection will be housed by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin.
“Right place, right time, right people.” That’s how Eli Reed, Magnum photographer and photojournalism professor at the school, summed up the deal. “It was a long time coming; it didn’t just happen quickly,” he said.
In keeping with Magnum’s cooperative policies, the deal ensures the photographers still retain total ownership of their works. Only the prints used by Magnum through 2003 for publication were sold, not the rights to the images themselves.
Though the price remains undisclosed, the collection of photographs had been insured for a value of $100 million. Industry insider Paul Melcher speculated the price at around $30 million.
The press prints collection comprises of over 185,000 images by over 100 renowned photographers, including seminal talent such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Ernst Haas and Eve Arnold. Magnum was established in 1947 to wrest control from publishers back into the hands of the photographers by allowing shooters to keep the rights to their images. In so doing, Magnum pioneered a new business model for photojournalism.
Trent Parke March 17, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Foto Freo, Fremantle Arts Centre, Magnum, Photojournalism , add a commentTrent Parke gave an inspired talk at Fremantle Arts Centre last night detailing his history from his cadetship at the Newcastle Herald to a move to Sydney where he covered Australian cricket for News Limited for over five years. Questioning his lifestyle at the paper he bought a Leica and was introduced to Rodinal and a high contrast and personal way of processing and printing his images. His mother’s death from asthma turned him into a questioning sentient being who makes a point of never wasting a moment in life. His mistake of putting a battery incorrectly into his Nikonos and developing the underexposed film for an inordinately long time led to a two year brush with the the sea that led to the The Seventh Wave and further experiments with chance and experiment and serendipity and contrast and technique.
His Eugene Smith award helped fund the rest of his and Narelle Autio’s trip around Australia that became Minutes to Midnight. What he wanted to do with Minutes to Midnight was to do something really personal and connect his work to Narelle Autio’s and his shared family experiences and the changes happening in Australia and internationally. His feelings and emotions on the trip impose themselves on the landscape and influence his photography and apocalyptic vision. Photography for Trent Parke is about magic and illusion and a love of life and the story that is being told.
Rebirth was the next stage of his journey, and his son’s birth was an important part of his exhibition at ACP. His photos always have a fictional element that is a part of something bigger. Working wih Alisdair Foster from ACP has been an important part of the journey and Trent Parke’s search and journey toward a personal vision.
Pushing boundaries constantly is important for Trent and he switched to medium format and colour and a Mamiya rangefinder from the Leica and worked in a documentary sense as a street photographer again. His photos were now about time and life and became the next phase in his work.
A move back to Adelaide led to an exploration of family and suburbia from a personal point of view and exhibitions and a new body of work.
His new photography Black Rose has returned to black and white and medium and large format and he is exploring new directions and questioning past and present, the future, chance and fate and is a journey back to his sense of childhood. It is a circular return to an understanding of what is important for him in an Australia that is his source of inspiration and reward.
Trent Parke was raised in Newcastle, New South Wales. Using his mother’s Pentax Spotmatic and the family laundry as a darkroom, he began taking pictures when he was around 12 years old. Today, Parke, the only Australian photographer to be represented by Magnum Photos, works primarily as a street photographer. In 2003, with wife and fellow photographer Narelle Autio, Parke drove almost 90,000 km around Australia. Minutes to Midnight, the collection of photographs from this journey, offers an occasionally disturbing portrait of twenty-first century Australia, from the desiccated outback to the chaotic, melancholic vitality of life in remote Aboriginal towns. For this project Parke was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. Parke won World Press Photo Awards in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005, and in 2006 was granted the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award. He was selected to be part of the World Press Photo Masterclass in 1999. Parke has published two books, Dream/Life in 1999, and The Seventh Wave with Narelle Autio in 2000. His work has been exhibited widely. In 2006 the National Gallery of Australia acquired Parke’s entire Minutes to Midnight exhibition.
- Trent Parke talk at Fremantle Arts Centre Photo Bohdan Warchomij
Bruno Barbey March 16, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : ACMP, Foto Freo, Kulcha, Magnum , add a commentLast night at Kulcha in Fremantle ACMP hosted Bruno Barbey, a Frenchman born in Morocco and a long time member of Magnum. He studied photography and graphic arts at the École des Arts et Métiers in Vevey, Switzerland. Between 1961 and 1964 he photographed the Italians, treating them as protagonists of a small ‘theatrical world’, with the aim of capturing the spirit of a nation. During the 1960s, he was commissioned by Éditions Rencontre in Lausanne to report from European and African countries. He also contributed regularly to Vogue. Barbey began his relationship with Magnum Photos in 1964, becoming a full member in 1968, the year he documented the political unrest and student riots in Paris. A decade later, between 1979 and 1981, he photographed Poland at a turning point in its history, publishing his work in the widely acclaimed book Poland. He served as Magnum vice president for Europe in 1978 and 1979 and as President of Magnum International from 1992 – 1995. Over four decades Barbey has journeyed across five continents and into numerous military conflicts. Although he rejects the label of ‘war photographer’, he has covered civil wars in Nigeria, Vietnam, the Middle East, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Northern Ireland, Iraq and Kuwait. His work has appeared in most of the world’s major magazines. Barbey is known particularly for his free and harmonious use of colour. He has frequently worked in Morocco, the country of his childhood. In 1999 the Petit Palais, Paris, organized a large exhibition of photographs that Barbey had taken in Morocco during the previous three decades. He has received many awards for his work, including the French National Order of Merit; his photographs have been exhibited internationally and are in numerous museum collections.”
Bruno Barbey showed his images and talked about his experiences in photography and the way that the industry has changed and his excitement about working and printing digitally. After a short question and answer session the photographers retired to Little Creatures where Trent Park and Chien-Chi Chang and Bruno Barbey mixed with students from Europe and Australia who they are working with in the Magnum Workshops.
Images from the Magnum Workshops will be projected on Friday night at the Foto Freo opening at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
- Bruno Barbey at Kulcha in Fremantle for Foto Freo and ACMP photo Bohdan Warchomij
Bruno Barbey Magnum Photographer March 9, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : ACMP, Foto Freo, Magnum , add a commentACMP presents an evening with Magnum Photographer Bruno Barbey at Kulcha 13 first floor South Terrace in Fremantle.
The evening, a projection of Bruno Barbey’s images and a discussion with the photographer is on Monday 15th March and runs from 6.30 pm to 8.30pm. Cost of the evening is $20 for non members of ACMP and $15 for members of ACMP.
Bar drinks are cash only.
Photo Credit Bruno Barbey Magnum
Magnum Scholarship Winners February 18, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Foto Freo, Magnum, Photojournalism , add a commentMagnum Photos Workshop Fremantle Scholarship Winners
FotoFreo 2010: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography has revealed the winners of the 3 scholarships to the Magnum Workshops Fremantle offered by FotoFreo with the support of the Department of Culture and the Arts. 45 applications were received for the 3 places.
The winners are (in alphabetical order):
Claire Martin, Talhy Stotzer & Richard Wainwright.
The winners will be offered full-fee places on the Magnum Workshops Fremantle to document local interest stories about Fremantle and the surrounding area and apply this to their individual photographic style. The workshop will culminate in a projection of participant work at the Fremantle Arts Centre as part of the festival opening night celebration on 19 March, and the production of 8”x10” group books provided by creative publishing and marketing platform, Blurb Books.
Claire Martin The Downtown East Side
Claire Martin
Claire Martin’s submission for the scholarship was on poverty and addiction in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side.
This is Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, a place notorious for it’s residents who live below the povertyline in a city twice voted “the worlds most liveable” by the Economist Magazine. Statistics for the suburb include an AIDS rate estimated at 30% and the leading cause of death as overdose. Addiction is the core problem causing women to sell sex in order to meet subsistence needs such as food and shelter. Living conditions are sub-standard with the norm consisting of small single room accommodations that are ridden with bed bugs and multi resistant staphylococcus. The media regularly makes rounds on the Downtown East side but it only serves to stigmatise the people. It is easy to forget that this is a real suburb home to real people who are suffering devastating loss of health and quality of life due to addiction.
Claire Martin
Claire Martin began her career by pursuing a degree in Social Work, however, she changed her focus to Photography when she realized that change can also be effected through this medium. Her work on poverty and addiction in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side has been recognized by the IPA, winning Claire a nomination for Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year. A single image from the series also won the title of Up and Coming Portrait Photographer at the Sony World Photography Awards. Her most recent project “Slab City” documents the lives of a community of Squatters in the California desert. For this Claire was recognized as representing “woman and poverty” in a competition juried by Nan Goldin and Vice Magazine is exhibiting as Australia’s emerging female photojournalist at Foto Freo Festival 2010. Claire has recently joined the Getty Images “Emerging Talent” for Reportage and has relocated to Perth, Western Australia where she has begun a career as a freelance photographer.
Claire Martin
See more of Claire Martin’s work here.
Claire’s exhibition Slab City will be shown at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery as part of FotoFreo 2010.
Talhy Stotzer Tearing Down Old Kashgar
Talhy Stotzer A Uyghur man employed
by the government to demolish traditional
homes in a $440 million project.
Talhy Stotzer’s submission for the scholarship was a documentation of life in Kashgar, Xinjiang province in Chiina during the recent period of rapid change and population uprooting.
The labyrinth of tightly interlocking alleyways in Kashgar’s old city are essential to the livelihood of the close knit community and traditional culture of numerous Uyghurs. Kashgar is an ancient city in China’s far west Xinjiang province. It is the cultural capital of the Uyghurs – a Muslim Turkic-speaking minority. This traditional oasis city, situated at the end of the Silk Road, has attracted merchants and travelers for centuries. As with the rest of China, however, Kashgar is rapidly changing. The demolition of the old town, still inhabited by tens of thousands of Uyghurs, is a tangible example of this transformation. The ethnic riots between the Han majority and Uyghur minority in the
Talhy Stotzer Many parts of Kashgar already look like any
modern Chinese city with large open roads, neon lights
and Chinese emblems. Kashgar hosts one of the largest
statues of Mao ZeDong (background); it is a local joke
that he stands with his back to the old town pointing
in the direction of the new developments.
provincial capital of Urumchi last July have only served to increase the speed with which the old city is being demolished. City officials say 85 percent of the old city, which in some parts has stood for more than 2000 years, will be demolished in the next five years and more than 200, 000 Uyghurs will be re-located. While authorities claim the relocation of the old town’s former inhabitants to modern, generic apartment blocks on the outskirts of town is for local safety against potential earthquakes, others believe the project is more about Han Chinese control and national security. These photographs document Kashgar during this time of rapid change and population uprooting. They show fragments of traditional life that persist in spite of the surrounding demolition. They also show aspects of a changing Chinese modern city. Taken over two extended visits to Kashgar last year, these ten images related to the old city are part of an ongoing project – a trilogy that focuses on different facets of life in the city, namely the Uyghur tradition in the old city, the Han Chinese quarters, and Uyghur youth culture.
Talhy Stotzer is a Western Australian freelance documentary photographer currently based in Perth. In 2009, Talhy spent a year in China where she was accepted to take part in an international photo-journalism Master’s program at the Dalian Institute of Image Art. As the recipient of a grant from Arts WA in 2005, Talhy has documented daily life in the Vezo fishing village of Andrevo in Madagascar. The project culminated in a solo exhibition at the Fremantle Arts Centre in Perth and raised money for the construction of a medical centre in the village. She has also exhibited in numerous group shows at the Perth Centre of Photography and Hudson Gallery. Additionally she has had stories published in several newspapers, including The West Australian and Japan’s Asahi Newspapers. In 2007, Talhy also worked as a writer and photographer for the Broome Advertiser and the Broome Happenings – a weekly newspaper and a bi-monthly lifestyle magazine in Australia’s north-west. She is currently completing a postgraduate degree in documentary photography at Edith Cowan University.
Talhy Stotzer Girl grips widow frame in the old city.
Over the next five years, more than 200,000 people
will be uprooted.
See more of Talhyl Stotzer’s work here.
Richard Wainwright Mongolia – Surviving Winter
Richard Wainwright’s submission explored the lives of street children struggling to survive the bitter winter in Ulaan Baatar,
Mongolia, one of the poorest countries in the world.
Under the streets of Ulaan Baatar, the coldest capital city in the world, many children struggle to survive the bitter winter where temperatures reach -40c. Mongolia is one of the world’s poorest countries, with a third of the population living in poverty. With rapidly rising unemployment and alcholism affecting over 14% of men, tensions at home have caused many children to run away to escape violence or because their parents can no longer care for them.
Their daily lives revolve around seeking food and warmth. To survive they have to look in rubbish bins for empty bottles and anything else they can sell. Despite the harsh living conditions they haven’t started drinking the cheap vodka many street children succumb to.
Richard Wainwright Munkhbat & Altangeret check out a rubbish
shed. By collecting used bottles and anything else sellable
they are able to buy just enough food for the day
Forced into this situation by divorced and deceased parents, they still hope and strive for a better future but with little government help and an unsympathetic public their future is precarious.
Richard is an award winning photojournalist who has recently relocated to Perth, Western Australia to take up a freelance career. Since gaining a degree in Documentary Photography at The University of Wales, Newport he has been reporting on news and humanitarian issues around the world. He was a senior staff photographer with the Jersey Evening Post for 8 years as well as working closely with aid agencies on assignment documenting their activities, writing stories and producing multimedia packages. Assignments include reporting the impact on gold miners in Congo DRC, documenting the lives of former child soldiers in Liberia, the effects of the tsunami in Aceh and self assigned news stories on the Presidential elections in Afghanistan and Yasser Arafat’s funeral in Ramallah. He has also been filing news pictures for Corbis picture agency out of their Paris office since 2003. His work has been widely published including Newsweek, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Telegraph and has been commissioned by Cafod, Rotary international and Amnesty International. He is currently starting a long term project on borders and barriers.
Richard Wainwright Munkhbat & Altangeret get some
sleep on top of the water pipes. Despite the freezing
temperatures outside, the manholes can become
unbearably hot inside. The favoured position is just
above the entrance allowing cool air to drift in.
See more of Richard Wainwright’s work here.
Richard is exhibiting this work as part of the FotoFreo 2010 Fringe Festival at HQ Gallery in Leederville.
- Richard Wainwright Munkhbat (15) and Altangeret (15) have lived down this manhole in Unur district of Ulaan Baatar for over 3 years.
Magnum Workshop Foto Freo January 28, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Foto Freo, Magnum, Workshops , add a commentMagnum Workshop Fremantle
The Magnum Workshop Fremantle is a five day intensive, practice oriented workshop that seeks to provide personal photographic growth in an intimate but intensive environment. The Workshops will be led by three experienced Magnum photographers; Trent Parke, David Alan Harvey and Chien-Chi Chang, each with a distinctive visual style and approach to photography. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to shoot, polish and publish their work under the guidance of these experienced photographers and to build a new body of work under the direction of knowledgeable practitioners.
- Photo Copyright Trent Parke MAGNUM
The Magnum Workshop Fremantle is a headlining event of FotoFreo 2010: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography, Australia’s leading biennial photography festival. Established since 2002, FotoFreo is a month long celebration of photography showcasing the work of internationally renowned and emerging photographers, generating awareness, inciting discussion and creating a forum for the exploration of ideas and issues relating to the practice and art of photography.
The workshops will be held at the Fremantle Arts Centre, a vibrant organisation in the centre of Fremantle which runs exhibitions, workshops, residencies and events. It is housed in an attractive heritage building with extensive gardens and is the perfect venue for workshops.
The Workshop
Aimed at photographers with a good understanding of photographic practices, the event will lead 3 intimate groups of twelve individuals through an intensive 5 day program of shooting, daily reviews, group critiques, mentoring, editing sessions and the opportunity to learn amongst peers. Successful candidates will spend the five days alongside one selected photographer to develop visual language, photographic identity, practical, technical and conceptual skills and the expertise required to compete in a changing marketplace.
All 3 individual workshops will be held in English and each class will be assigned a teacher’s assistant who will aid both instructors and students with technical or logistical questions and to help orientate students with story ideas. Participants will be directed to document local interest stories about Perth and the surrounding area and apply this to their individual photographic style. Candidates will also be actively encouraged to engage in and attend the diverse schedule of the FotoFreo festival events (20 March – 18 April). Forming part of FotoFreo’s extensive programming, each Magnum photographer will present their work through audiovisual showings at the Notre Dame Theatrette.
The workshop will culminate in a public projection of the candidate’s work (which will form part of the official festival programming) at the Fremantle Arts Centre and the production of group books, generously provided by creative publishing platform, Blurb books.
Requirements
Participant photographers will be selected on the strength of portfolios submitted online. These portfolios should consist of 10 images and reflect the photographic interests and style of the applicant. Ideally a portfolio should include a project shot over a period of time and be edited in the form of a photo essay. A good level of photographic aptitude will be essential criteria for participation and candidates should arrive comfortable with their equipment and ready to photograph.
Selected participants should ideally arrive with at least one project idea they wish to develop during the workshop. We recommend that research be conducted before the workshop begins. This should include contact liaison, access information and even preliminary shooting. Project ideas will be discussed at the beginning of the week, and participants will be responsible for their own project coordination. All projects must be conducted within Fremantle and the surrounding area.
Due to the fast pace of the workshop, Magnum highly recommends that participants produce and edit their work digitally, using their own laptops. Individuals wishing to use film may do so, but at their own cost and during the time imposed. The workshop will recommend a lab service where possible.
Please note: Magnum Photos reserves the right to cancel or replace Magnum photographers on any workshops with less than 8 participants. Students who are accepted on a cancelled workshop will be given a either a full refund or a place with another photographer. In the event of a cancellation, students will be given at least 2 weeks advance notice.
Tuition
£800 plus VAT (does not include travel, accommodations or on the ground expenses)
All applicants must submit a £65 application fee, which will be applied to your tuition if you are accepted into the workshop. This fee will be fully refunded, minus a 5% service fee, if you are NOT accepted into the workshop.
Applications without a fee will not be processed.
Travel & Accommodation
Participants are expected to make their own arrangements regarding travel and accommodation; a list of suitable accommodation options will be provided to candidates upon notification of entry. National and international participants should make their way to Perth (airport code PER). Please ensure you have the necessary travel documents in order to attend the event. Magnum Photos and FotoFreo can provide letters of support where necessary.
Scholarships
Thanks to the generosity of scholarship funding from FotoFreo 2010 supported by the Department of Culture and the Arts, three Western Australian photographers will be given the opportunity to participate in the Magnum Workshop Fremantle for free. These placements will be allocated on the basis of technical merit, the ability to construct a narrative using images and the perceived benefit to the applicant’s career.
Please click here to apply for the scholarship placements. The scholarship application deadline is Friday 29th January at 6.00pm GMT.
Please note: If your participation is reliant on winning a scholarship place please DO NOT apply via the general application channel. If you are interested in attending the workshop regardless of scholarship allocation, please ALSO complete the general application form below.
For any questions regarding the scholarships please contact Amelia Twiss on atwiss@FotoFreo.com
Applications
Click here to sign-up until Friday 28th February at 6.00pm GMT.
Successful applicants will be informed via email by Tuesday 2nd March. Full payment should be received by Tuesday 9th March to fully confirm your participation.
For queries please contact Fiona Rogers fionar@magnumphotos.co.uk
