Jon Levy and Foto8 have been invited to curate one of the four main exhibitions at the New York Photo Festival. Home For Good will be on display at the Dumbo Arts Center in Brooklyn at the festival from 13 - 17 May. If you can make it to New York next week please come and see us at NYPH09.
Following the demise of the Soviet Union in the early 1990's photojournalists and documentary photographers rushed to examine what remained of the disintegrating state, producing bodies of work that were - above all else - serious. In stark contrast the work of Ukrainian Sergey Bratkov addressed the same issues, but in a willfully provocative manner marked by guile, irreverence and an anarchic black humour. Guy Lane looks at Glory Days, a retrospective collection of his photography
"Yes, the heart's still beating. We're in Denver. Are you?" As newspapers migrate online, how can they retain their credibility and legitimacy? Staff from the Rocky Mountain News have started the INDenverTimes, a local online news outlet that is not "the website of the newspaper".
I love the sound of velcro in the morning… it sounds like victory.
So how can one describe life on an embed? Well that may depend on what movies you’ve seen? Camp Airborne is like the bastard of son of ‘Generation Kill’, M*A*S*H and Private Benjamin.
"You don’t actually have to look very hard at a Joseph Beuys exhibition. You don’t look hard at Young British Artists. You don’t look at a Damien Hirst; you go in and have whatever little trivial frisson that junk generates."
Eminent art historian Michael Fried talks to Guy Lane about mediocrity, cultural disaster, and Why Photography Matters as Art As Never Before.
The War on Terror meets village council meeting: The soundtrack to any modern war has to be the awesome sub-bass whine of the Chinook Helicopter. Being the snapper on this embed I am awarded ‘best of house’ seats on our short ride into the Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Wardak Province. Trussed up like a chicken in a safety harness I am privileged to be able to hang out of the back doors with the tail gunner as we thunder across the Shomali plains of Kabul
Welcome to Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan, just over one hour’s drive from Kabul. 45 minutes on a smooth, paved road North out of Kabul, unfortunately the last two miles is rutted pathway that’s miraculously combines mud and dust in equal measures. It’s a pretty good re-creation of the Somme .
Photographer artist and keen jazz man Rod Shone pays tribute to his friend Eric Lockrane whose varied career yeilded, among other things, a rare picture of the Shah of Iran.
In 2008, The Guardian commissioned John McHugh to produce an online project called “Six months in Afghanistan.” The project was to include photography, short films, audio slideshows, and blogging. McHugh will present his work and speak to Guardian head of photography Roger Tooth at the Frontline Club on Friday April 3 at 7pm.
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