Written by Michael David Murphy
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21 Jan 2010
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Blogs
Michael David Murphy looks at Haiti coverage and asks whether photojournalists would be telling different and deeper stories if organisations would pool their resources.
Invited to lead the jury for the Icelandic Press Photography prize in that country's most politically-charged year yet, Max Houghton finds scope for a more critical tradition.
A week with British Army logistics in Helmand... a serious road trip that only Afghanistan could provide. The Afghan Hound ventures into the "theatre of war", only this is not Macbeth or Hamlet, it's no longer a battle for civilisations, it's simply a war to defeat Al Qaeda and keep the streets safe in New York, Madrid and London
How a nation controls its image has a long relationship with photography. Max Houghton asks can a photo book paid for by a government ever be anything other than propaganda?
Tod Papageorge talks to Mark Durden about American Sports 1970, Garry Winogrand and the New Documents photographers, and Susan Sontag's misplaced expectations.
The good news is that From Here, the Brighton Photo Fringe show I co-curated with Chloe Hoare and Yasmina Reggad is being extended until 29 November, in its fantastic location at iCrossing in Brighton.
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