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Written by Guy Lane
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28 Oct 2008
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“The guard removed the electric truncheon from its socket and started poking me with his new toy. My entire body convulsed because of the repeated shocks. Then, screaming lewdly, he thrust the truncheon inside my mouth, retracted it and then forced it inside again. …I remember vividly how the electric shocks made my body vibrate. The current had me in its grip, like a violent fit of ague. I passed out, only to wake up in a pool of urine and vomit. I had no idea as to how long I had been lying there. My mouth was swollen and I could hardly move my jaw. With great effort did I manage to spit something out. It was three of my teeth.”
Testimony by Debra Long, Malin Rosen & Joakim Eneroth, reviewed by Guy Lane.
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Written by Micaela Giffney
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28 Oct 2008
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The Screening was an evening comprising the work of 21 photojournalists selected by a jury to present recent projects and images. The images of each photographer were set at seven second intervals to music. Curiously, it was the music that came to define the photographer’s work: the correct music selection – which may have been overlooked by some – was integral to the final impression. The purpose of the accompaniment was of course to create atmosphere for the images and help convey the story, but it begs the question: what song was playing in the photographer’s mind when taking the shot – if any at all?
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Written by Micaela Giffney
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28 Oct 2008
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Some years ago the Sydney Morning Herald ran an article on the seven most distrusted professions according to public perception. Included in that list was journalism. Whilst waiting for the Reportage seminar to start, a thought occurred to me: where does photojournalism sit within public scrutiny? And, more importantly, how do photojournalists perceive themselves and their peers? It is known that in this digital age, photo-manipulation is a common practice; thus at the first of two seminar sessions, Dr Ian Jackson, Mike Bowers and Ben Bohane sat to discuss photojournalism and photo-manipulation in conflict.
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Written by Caroline Niemant
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26 Oct 2008
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Initiated by two dynamic photography lovers: Femke Lutgerik, an independent curator, and photographer Rob Hornstra, FOTODOK is the Netherlands's third photography festival to take place in the city of Utrecht along with Noorderlicht and Breda.
Before getting a permanent location, FOTODOK launched "Hit The Road", a festival combining three exhibitions, a series of lectures and an educational programme (September 12 – October 26 2008) which intends to be an "international space dedicated to documentary photography". Caroline Niémant reports...
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Written by Max Houghton
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22 Oct 2008
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Philip Jones Griffiths
at Pallant House
For the casual visitor to Pallant House, Chichester, it may be difficult to work out why a small but disturbing photographic exhibition is occupying the room between reception and the library. The Bexhill show, in a similarly box-like room, at least has a large information panel and related reading matter immediately available.
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Written by Max Houghton
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22 Oct 2008
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The Incommensurable Banner
This was one show for which I didn’t haul out the notebook. With Thomas Hirschhorn’s The Incommensurable Banner, all you can do is look… and definitely not linger. To borrow legendary broadcaster Ed Morrow’s phrase when he entered the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald after liberation: "for most of it I have no words".
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Written by Max Houghton
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21 Oct 2008
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Iraq Through the Lens of Vietnam Exhibition The Biennial’s keynote show is not one to visit if you have five minutes to spare....
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Written by Guy Lane
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17 Oct 2008
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Three exhibitions at the Barbican Gallery suggest that war, and related imagery, remain high on the curatorial agenda.
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Written by admin
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16 Oct 2008
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 The second installment of Foto8 and LIDF's season of film nights will take place on Thursday 30 October, at HOST Gallery in London, with a screening of American Psyche by Paul van der Boom followed by a panel discussion.
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Written by Micaela Giffney
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15 Oct 2008
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 In the first of our blogs from the 9th annual Reportage Festival in Sydney, Micaela Giffney reports from the opening of Giorgia Fiorio's Human Figure exhibition, on at The Australian Centre of Photography.
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