The Cover Stories: a Foto8 exhibition at agnes b.

Written by admin 10 Apr 2008 Blogs

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Foto8 is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition at the agnes b. store in London's Covent Garden. The collection, which will be on display from 14 April - 14 May comprises of three significant cover stories from past issues of 8 magazine and features the work of acclaimed photojournalists: Justin Jin, Paolo Pellegrin and Olivier Pin-Fat.

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35-36 Floral Street, London, WC2

Open: 10am - 6pm.

 

 

Photographing Dying: Walter Schels and Beata Lakotta

Written by Leo Hsu 09 Apr 2008 Blogs


Walter Schels' portraits of hospice residents just before and after dying are on display at the Wellcome Trust. 
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Judah Passow Gallery Talk

Written by admin 08 Apr 2008 Blogs

Judah Passow will be giving a talk about his current exhibition Shattered Dreams at HOST Gallery this week.

10 April - 6.30pm Tickets £5 (£4 Foto8 members)



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Where there's Muck...

Written by Guy Lane 03 Apr 2008 Blogs

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The veneration of the photobook as objet d’art continues apace. Next week Christie’s New York will present what is claimed to be one of the finest collections of photographic literature - valued at around $2m - ever to be offered at auction.

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What is their ground is his figure: Eric Gottesman on collaboration

Written by Leo Hsu 02 Apr 2008 Blogs

One day, I saw a dream in which Mami, Mami’s friends and my sisters and my brother were sitting together and suddenly a fire has begun burning the house and we ran out.
Collaborative photographic projects are very different from "conventional" documentary work.  Eric Gottesman has provided a statement about his photographic collaborations; the issues raised will be of interest to anyone who works in or with documentary photography.
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Oh Carla

Written by Jon 28 Mar 2008 Blogs


A photo handed out, presumably for good PR by Christies this week shows a nude Carla Bruni by photographer Michel Comte from 1993. In England the newspapers all took the opportunity, as we do, to publish it. But why?
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Photojournalism: Living with Questions and Tensions

Written by David Campbell 27 Mar 2008 Blogs

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Adam 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.
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Foto8 2008 Reader Survey - 5 copies of Forsaken to give away.

Written by admin 27 Mar 2008 Blogs

Cass Business School in London are conducting a business study for Foto8. Please take 2 minutes to answer 10 survey questions now and let us to hear your views.

A signed copy of Lana Slezic's book Forsaken worth £20 will be sent to the first five names picked at random from all participants. Take part in the survey before 11th April to be eligible.

(About Forsaken: Lana's award winning photography from Afghanistan looks into the role and plight of women against the backdrop of the war on terror and the country’s attempt to liberalise its politics. View this book in our shop)

Complete the survey and enter the draw.


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Five Years of the Iraq War

Written by Leo Hsu 26 Mar 2008 Blogs

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.
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Tod Papageorge - Passing through London

Written by Guy Lane 26 Mar 2008 Blogs

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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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