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...
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Written by Jon
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17 Mar 2008 |
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"In March 2003 Western coalition forces started an illegal war of occupation, which has caused havoc and destruction for over half a million people around the world. Torture is now admitted as a means of obtaining information in Western Democracies. Communities once living and sharing together now massacre each other. The doomsday clock has moved forward from seven minutes to five. We were waiting for the barbarians, but they were already within the gates; they wear the masks of democracy. The world is now a worse place."
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Written by Guy Lane
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14 Mar 2008 |
 In 1971 Daniel Meadows, a photography student at Manchester Art
College, formulated a plan to compile what he termed “a photographic
cross section of the English people” by traversing the country in a
double-decker bus made over into a studio. It was a plan long on
ambition and short on practicalities. And shorter still on funding.
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Written by Leo
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07 Mar 2008 |
 This year's World Press photo awards included five picture story winners who used repetition for effect. These awards suggest ways in which the lines defining photojournalism are being redrawn.
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Written by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
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05 Mar 2008 |
Photographer Oliver Chanarin, and by association his creative partner Adam Broomberg, were in the thick of the action in Amsterdam as the jury pored over thousands of images to award the prizes in the 2007 World Press Photo Contest.
Amidst rumors of all night sessions and heated discussions on the role, limits and meaning of photography, they reveal here for the first time the workings of
the jury and the fundamental issues debated in that room. This is their assessment of "the vital signs of a photographic genre in crisis".
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Written by Guy
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05 Mar 2008 |
While Philip-Lorca diCorcia was photographing passers-by on New York’s
Times Square he reckons he exposed some three or four thousand
frames…of which a mere seventeen subsequently saw publication in the
series Heads. Control, restraint and a punitively exacting editing
process have, hitherto, appeared integral to his work.
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Written by jon
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01 Mar 2008 |
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To get the ball rolling for March Foto8 readers are invited to name the photograph or photographer they feel has had the most influence on them. Post your answers along with a link to the photograph or the photographer's site (where available) in the comments thread for this topic.
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