Tag Archives: Documentary
No Worries: Martin Parr – FotoFreo 2012
FotoFreo 2012 Photographic Project: Magnum photographer Martin Parr was brought to Western Australia by FotoFreo Festival Director Bob Hewitt to photograph three major port cities, Fremantle, Broome and Port Hedland. I went along to document the Broome and Port Hedland legs of the project.
Links:
Our Ports of Call – The West Australian
ProPhoto Article by Alison Stieven-Taylor
Heroes & Mentors: Don McCullin and Eugene Richards
A conversation between Don McCullin and Eugene Richards for PDN:
Heroes & Mentors: Don McCullin and Eugene Richards for PDN
Links:
Eugene Richards
Don McCullin – Contact Press Images
Imperial War Museum North presents the largest ever UK exhibition about the life and work of Don McCullin, one of the worlds most acclaimed photographers.
TAKE Issue One – Preview
The Clubs – Brisbane Powerhouse
An exhibition on Fremantle’s Workers and Social Clubs (originally commissioned by FotoFreo) at the Brisbane Powerhousebetween Monday 7th of July and Sunday August 11th, 2011
Mary Ellen Mark on Street Photography
Expanding the Circle: The Engaged Photographer
Opening photograph: © Eric Gottesman
Photographer Susan Meiselas discusses ‘documentary photography’s potential to connect and move audiences by “expanding the circle of knowledge” about human rights and social justice issues’.
Links:
Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project
Expanding the Circle – Open Society Foundations
Moving Walls – Open Society Foundations
Contacts – Henri Cartier-Bresson
Contact sheets are a visual diary, a unique look into the photographer’s thought process.
Henri Cartier-Bresson from the Arte Video series: Contacts.
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The Future of Documentary Photography
Recently Photoshelter sponsored a panel discussion on the future of documentary photography, produced by the photographers of Luceo Images in conjunction with their Altered States gallery exhibition. The panel included photojournalist James Estrin of the New York Times LENS Blog, TIME Magazine Deputy Photo Editor Paul Moakley, director of CLAMPART Brian Paul Clamp, and Bess Greenberg of 25CPW.
Agent Orange 2010
Ben Tre Provence ©David Dare Parker
It was moving to watch the affection between Pham Minh Trieu and his daughter, Pham Thi Ngoc Minh. This quietly spoken man had been in the Army from 1950 – 1975 and was a medic during the War. He remembers hiding in underground tunnels during US Air Force bombing raids. He was based in Bà Rịa, Vũng Tàu Province, when dioxin was dropped on the area, and has strong memories of leaves falling off plants, trees dying and eating fruit from dioxin-affected regrowth. Returning to Ben Tre Provence he married and had a daughter. He blames her defects on dioxin poisoning, a direct result of his exposure during the War.
Workshops and Masterclasses in 2011 and 2012
Details here soon, Workshops and Masterclasses in Western Australia, Bali and East Timor.
Machete, East Timor 1999 ©David Dare Parker
Balazs Gardi’s – Facing Water Crisis
On those rare occasions I get to catch up with Balazs for a coffee and a chat, I always leave the conversation inspired. He is out-spoken, passionate, and dedicated.
Facing Water Crisis – Rio Favelas from Balazs Gardi on Vimeo.
Balazs Gardi’s Facing Water Crisis Project.
RESTREPO – A film by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington
RESTREPO is a must see feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. Once you’ve seen the film, check out ‘War’ by Sebastian Junger and ‘Infidel’ by Tim Hetherington.
Also of interest is Tim Hetherington’s Sleeping Soldiers and Diary (2010)
Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
Stunning colour photographs taken during America’s Depression by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information.
Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Chicago, Illinois, April 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Links:
Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943: Plog Photos – The Denver Post
The Color of Memory: by Paul Hendrickson
Prints and photographs reading room: The Library of Congress
Vivian Maier – street photographer and nanny
Colleague Mark Roy shared this Chicago Tonight story on street photographer Vivian Maier with me on Facebook. A revealing piece on the discovery of this enigmatic woman and remarkable photographer.
Links:
Vivian Maier – Her Discovered Works
Vivian Maier – Website
Kathmandu Masterclass July 11-16 2011
Multimedia guru Ed Giles, Contact Press Images Robert Pledge and myself, helped run a successful workshop put on by Masterclass veterans and renowned photojournalists Jack Picone and Stephen Dupont during the Reportage Festival in Sydney, November, 2010. Join Jack and Steve at the Kathmandu/Nepal Masterclass July 11-16 2011.
On a street corner Kathmandu, Nepal. ©Jack Picone
