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.
Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter February 18, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Aftermath, Australian photographers , add a commentJusticeWA has brought the motivational speaker Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, former middleweight boxer and a contender for that title to Perth for a Gala Fundraiser at the Sheraton on Saturday the 20th February 2010 for the organisation.
Rubin Carter was born May 6, 1937, in Clifton, New Jersey. In 1966, at the height of his boxing career, Carter was wrongly convicted—twice—of a triple murder and imprisoned for nearly two decades. During the mid-1970s, his case became a cause celébrè for a number of civil rights leaders, politicians, and entertainers. Bob Dylan wrote a song about tthe Hurricane. He was ultimately exonerated, in 1985, after a United States district court judge declared the convictions to be based on racial prejudice. He now works in the Innocence business. JusticeWA has the declared mission of working with people wrongfully accused by the justice system.
The JusticeWA site: www.justicewa.com
- Rubin ‘Hurricane” Carter addresses the media at Perth Domestic Airport Photo Bohdan Warchomij
- Rubin ‘Hurricane” Carter addresses the media scrum at Perth Domestic Airport Photo Bohdan Warchomij
Snow Motion February 18, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Finland, Metaphor , add a comment
- Images from Finland Copyright Elina Moriya
Elina Moriya is the daughter of a Finnish mother and a Japanese father whose work from Kinshasa, Congo I first came across in Lunatic Magazine.
(Lunatic Magazine was created in 2007 by Karl Blanchet, photographer and member of the collective Luna (www.lunaphotos.com) and is co-managed by Eric Hilaire, picture Editor).
She has been kind enough to submit new documentary / fine art images from her recent trip to Finland.
It’s been a record breaking winter in many parts of Europe causing trouble, chaos and death.
She writes from London: “despite of all this, I wanted to record the beauty of snow, its different textures and to freeze the moment and the mood of “life in snow motion”.
Represented in the US by
Wonderful Machine
http://www.wonderfulmachine.com/country/england/photographer/elina-moriya
and with her images distributed by
Lensmodern
www.lensmodern.com/
Elina Moriya’s work crosses both documentary and conceptual art photography areas.
www.emoriya.com
Perth Centre for Photography February 10, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, PCP , add a commentPCP is opening 2010 with two new exhibitions:
Christophe Canato “Ragamuffins” in Gallery One and Flavia Schuster “Stray Dogs and other Omens” in Gallery Two.
Christophe Canato
gallery one – 18 February, 6pm – 14 March, 4pm
Perth is the most isolated metropolis in the world. In the current context of globalisation, this Western Australian capital bears resemblence to our European Materialist societies. This urban environment has inspired photographer, Christophe Canato, to create a series of photographs entitled Ragamuffins.
Ragamuffins is a series of abandoned couches and armchairs throughout the streets of Perth and its surrounding suburbs. The census of objects of near human resemblance is based on the communal theme which focuseson consumer habits and human behaviours in our materialistic society.
From the frills of a flowery patterned grandmother chair to the cracks in a red-leather couch or the missing spring of a bargain recliner, the members of our community have left their mark on Christophe Canato’s photographs. These photographs also carry the stigma of our social classes, from the lowest to the highest, the industrious to the indolent, the blossoming to the withering.
Please visit http://www.christophecanato.com for more information about the artist
Flavia Schuster Stray Dogs and other Omens
gallery two – 18th Feburary, 6pm – 14th March, 4pm
Stray Dogs and Other Omens presents excerpts from Someone will say yes – a book Flavia edited in 2009. The book is a collection of photographs taken in South America, South East Asia, India, Latin America, Australia and Europe along with a selection of emails sent from those trips to family, friends and lovers from 2001 to 2009.
“What compels me to stop in the street and photograph strangers is pure impulse: A craving for the other person to notice me as much as I noticed them, and always to see how they mutate when they realise they are in frame. I make sure that my face is never hidden behind the camera when I photograph them. I hide it while composing the shot, then raise my face and look at them for a few seconds before I click. Those seconds create an awkward tension – giving the person time to rethink his or her persona, repose the pose. It is their choice to interact with me or with my camera. What interests me is the level of intimacy that can be created in any context, public or private, be it a silent flirt that mostly lasts seconds, or on occasion is built to friendships that last a lifetime”. Flavia Schuster
Please visit http://www.flaviaschuster.com for more information about the artist.
- Andaman Devil Photo Flavia Schuster
- Ragamuffin No 03 Photo Christophe Canato
The Photographers’ Giving Back Award February 3, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Competitions, Photojournalism , add a commentThe Photographers Giving Back Photo Award was founded in Sweden in 2008.
- Walter Astrada Winner 2009 CONGO
Jonas Lemberg, a news photographer since 1991, started out with a wish to make a change and make the world a better place to live. Now, several years later, he has founded an organization that wants to give something back; to the photographers who work hard covering events showing injustice around the world, and also to the people depicted in the photographs.
For questions regarding the Photographers Giving Back project, contact:
Managing Director of The PGB Photo Award
Jonas Lemberg
Tel. +46 (0) 70 7334600
The purpose of this event is to enhance journalistic photography and to strengthen the position for the professional photographer. It is also intended to inspire young and new photographers and get more people interested in photography.
Compete for cash prizes and the honorable bronze statues. Professional as well as amateur photographers worldwide are welcome to participate in The PGB Photo Award.
Participating pictures must have been taken during the year 2009. They do not need to have been published.
For each submitted picture there is an entry fee of US$10.
CATEGORIES FOR THE 2010 CONTEST
You may enter as many single pictures and picture stories as you like in each category. You may also submit the same picture to several categories. The jury has the right to move a picture from one category to another. They may also award a single picture selected out of a picture story.
1. PICTURE OF THE YEAR Singles category
You cannot sign up for the Picture of the Year category. Qualification is automatic when you enter the contest The Photo Award. The jury will select one picture from all submitted entries.
The Award carries a cash prize of $10.000 USD and a bronze statue.
2. SPOT NEWS PICTURE OF THE YEAR Singles category
The category Spot News Picture – refers to a single image of an unscheduled event where no advance planning is possible. The image should not be staged or arranged.
The Award carries a cash prize for the 1:st prize winner of $1.000 USD and a bronze statue. 2nd and 3d prize winners will receive the honorable bronze statue.
3. GENERAL NEWS PICTURE OF THE YEAR Singles category
The category General News Picture – refers to a single image of an event that is planned or organized. The Award carries a cash prize for the 1:st prize winner of $1.000 USD and a bronze statue. 2nd and 3d prize winners will receive the honorable bronze statue.
4. FEATURE PICTURE OF THE YEAR Singles category
Feature Picture – refers to a picture without news character. It can show an everyday situation or be arranged. It can be taken in a home setting or at work. The Award carries a cash prize for the 1:st prize winner of $1.000 USD and a bronze statue. 2nd and 3d prize winners will receive the honorable bronze statue.
5. PICTURE STORY OF THE YEAR Picture story category
The category Picture Story – The story should contain at least three pictures in each picture story. There is no maximum limit for the picture story. The picture story has to be taken during the year of 2009. No pictures taken before 2009 are allowed in the picture story. The Award carries a cash prize for the 1:st prize winner of $1.000 USD and a bronze statue. 2nd and 3d prize winners will receive the honorable bronze statue.
6. PORTRAIT OF THE YEAR Singles category
A portrait picture refers to a picture of one or more people. The picture can be close-up, half or whole figure and with or without surroundings. The Award carries a cash prize for the 1:st prize winner of $1.000 USD and a bronze statue. 2nd and 3d prize winners will receive the honorable bronze statue.
7. SPORTS ACTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR Singles category
The category Sports Action Picture of the Year refers to a picture taken at a sports event at the venue where the competition is held. The picture cannot be arranged and the photographer cannot have influenced the situation. The Award carries a cash prize for the 1:st prize winner of $1.000 USD and a bronze statue. 2nd and 3d prize winners will receive the honorable bronze statue.
8. SPORTS FEATURE PICTURE OF THE YEAR Singles category
The category Sports Feature Picture refers to a sports picture taken outside of a sport venue and outside of the exact moment of competition. The picture may be arranged. The Award carries a cash prize for the 1:st prize winner of $1.000 USD and a bronze statue. 2nd and 3d prize winners will receive the honorable bronze statue.
9. SPORTS PICTURE STORY OF THE YEAR Picture story category
The category Sports Picture Story of the year refers to a picture story from the world of sports. At least three pictures have to be included in the picture story. There is no maximum limit for the picture story. The picture story has to be taken during the year of 2009. No pictures taken before 2009 are allowed in the picture story. The Award carries a cash prize for the 1:st prize winner of $1.000 USD and a bronze statue. 2nd and 3d prize winners will receive the honorable bronze statue.
10. NATURE PICTURE OF THE YEAR Singles category
The category Nature Picture refers to a picture with nature elements. A picture where animals and/or nature dominate rather than people.
The Award carries a cash prize for the 1:st prize winner of $1.000 USD and a bronze statue. 2nd and 3d prize winners will receive the honorable bronze statue.
11. NATURE PICTURE OF THE YEAR ENVIRONMENTAL Singles category
The category Nature Picture Environmental refers to a picture with nature and evironmental elements. A picture where environmental issues are in focus. The picture must consist of a caption explaining the background of the issue.
The Award carries a cash prize for the 1:st prize winner of $1.000 USD and a bronze statue. 2nd and 3d prize winners will receive the honorable bronze statue.
12. NATURE PICTURE STORY OF THE YEAR Picture story category
The category Nature Picture Story of the year refers to a picture story from the world of Nature. Could be either landscape, animal or environmental. There is no maximum limit for the picture story. The picture story has to be taken during the year of 2009. No pictures taken before 2009 are allowed in the picture story. The Award carries a cash prize for the 1:st prize winner of $1.000 USD and a bronze statue. 2nd and 3d prize winners will receive the honorable bronze statue.
PDFX12 Photo Documentary folioX12 February 3, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Publishing, Web , add a commentpdfX12 is an online, monthly free photo journal that presents and features a series of photos by various photojournalists living and working in various communities around the world.
These photos tell poignant stories about people who are facing harsh social, economic, environmental and political conditions.
Photojournalists presented here are those, with their own resources and energy, who have chosen to dedicate their life’s work to documenting certain human issues in order to bring about greater attention to harsh human conditions that many people would brush aside. It is thus very important that the voices of these photojournalists, who are living and working in communities that they are documenting, are heard through this type of online venue, which everyone can access.
Originally, we had thought of presenting this online magazine only to a Japanese audience, but now we have broadened it to a worldwide audience. The awareness of various human issues facing humanity is greatly needed in Japan, just as in other parts of the world. Published photos and text will be in English and Japanese. Presented will be high-quality photos with written stories shared by the photojournalists themselves.
what’s reminders project?
The reminders (something or someone to make one remember) project was inaugurated in 2000 as a website and series of photo exhibitions. Reminders is a name that refers simultaneously to the photographer, the subject and the people who see it.
By simply reading a paper or watching the news on TV, people can consider
what is happening elsewhere in the world as somebody else’s business. Even though problems remain unsolved, people forget about the issues very quickly. Or, if an issue does not attract attention in the first place, it is as if nothing happened at all.
The reminders project, however, aims to tell as many people as possible what really happens around the world. We show images taken by photojournalists who understand their subjects deeply and continue to cover issues through their own viewpoints. In addition to covering these stories, The Reminders Project creates slide shows, workshops and both national and international photo exhibitions.
The reminders project has no set agenda as to how and where we present the works created. We also have no requirements on photographers’ nationalities or their experience. But we have two fundamental ideas: to introduce our stories widely and to seek various viewpoints. Our ideal goal is for this project’s stories to endure through time.
PDFX12 EDITORIAL TEAM
editor in chief|designer pdf+web|project director
YUMI GOTO
g.youme@gmail.com
translators+text editors
AKENO NIWAYAMA
KAREN COATES
AKIKO HIGGINS
SACHIKO YASUDA
MAKI ABE
TEPPEI ONISHI
pdf production team
KISHIN SHIMOMOTO, MOTOE HORIKAWA, TERUMI K WRIGHT, KOICHI
