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Opinion, commentary and observations on what's happening in contemporary photography right now.

Articles and blogs by our own writers: Leo Hsu , Guy Lane and the Foto8 staff, plus independent contributor articles exclusive to Foto8.

Foto8 reports from the New York Photo Festival, and PhotoEspana... Read more here.



Photojournalism: Living with Questions and Tensions
Written by David Campbell   
28 Mar 2008
world_press_photo_of_the_year_1997.jpgAdam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s essay on the WPP jury process ( "Unconcerned but not Indifferent” - see Foto8 07 Mar 08 ) is a provocative insight to a previously little-understood process, and is laced with important observations on the function and status of photojournalism.
 
Five Years of the Iraq War
Written by Leo   
27 Mar 2008
A masked Iraqi National Guardsman blindfolds a detainee suspected of having links with foreign militants, Basra, Photo by Atef Hassan/ Reuters A look at the Reuters multimedia presentation Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War, and journalists' perspectives on reporting in Iraq.
 
Tod Papageorge - Passing through London
Written by Guy Lane   
27 Mar 2008
© Tod Papageorge Addressing an audience at the Victoria and Albert museum recently, Tod Papageorge recalled the moment in 1962 when he decided to become a photographer. He was studying poetry at the University of New Hampshire when he came across two pictures from what he described as “a totally radical body of photographic work, one of the great artistic achievements of the twentieth century – that includes all media”

 

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Photojournalism's Moral Soul: Philip Jones Griffiths
Written by Jon   
19 Mar 2008

Philp Jones Griffiths Philip Jones Griffiths,
born Rhuddlan, Wales, 18 February 1936
died 18 March 2008.






"Philip enriched all our lives with his courage, his empathy, his passion, his wit and his wisdom; and for many he gave to photojournalism its moral soul. He died as he wanted so passionately that we should live — in peace."

Magnum President Stuart Franklin,  Associated Press, 19 March 2008

 
Concealment and Compulsions, from Storyville to Essex
Written by Leo   
19 Mar 2008

3-19-08_concealment-smiley.jpg


What is preserved in a photo that has been defaced, and what is really being said when you paste a smiley over a kid's face in their school picture?

 
A Golden Age of Publishing
Written by Lauren Heinz   
17 Mar 2008
Picture Post Everyone is familiar with the notion that the internet is rapidly taking over, invading every aspect of our lives, drastically changing how we interact with others and define ourselves. We are taunted with the prediction that in the near future our lives will be played out primarily on a cyber platform. But does this dismiss a longing for the physical? And what about our relationship with print culture? Do we not still want to own and covet beautifully created objects that hark back to the so-called “golden age” of publishing?
 
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