position:photographer

Life on a deadly border, photos from Texas and Mexico
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/05/15/photos-from-the-deadly-texas-mexico-border/6132

Photographer Eric Thayer traveled to Brooks County, Texas and Reynosa, Mexico to investigate the rising rates of immigrant deaths along the border there, spending time at a migrant’s hostel in Mexico and with U.S. Border Patrol in Brooks County.

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The unidentified graves of people whose remains were found in the desert are seen in Falfurrias, Texas April 1, 2013. Brooks County has become an epicentre for illegal immigrant deaths in Texas. In 2012, sheriff’s deputies found 129 bodies there, six times the number recorded in 2010. Most of those who died succumbed to the punishing heat and rough terrain that comprise the ranch lands of south Texas. Many migrants spend a few days in a “stash house”, such as the Casa del Migrante, in Reynosa, Mexico, and many are ignorant of the treacherous journey ahead. Picture taken April 1, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Thayer
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent walks past a rescue beacon near Falfurrias, Texas March 29, 2013. Brooks County has become an epicentre for illegal immigrant deaths in Texas. In 2012, sheriff’s deputies found 129 bodies there, six times the number recorded in 2010. Most of those who died succumbed to the punishing heat and rough terrain that comprise the ranch lands of south Texas. Many migrants spend a few days in a “stash house”, such as the Casa del Migrante, in Reynosa, Mexico, and many are ignorant of the treacherous journey ahead. Picture taken March 29, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Thayer
#photographie #frontières

• Taslima Akhter | Activist & photographer
http://www.taslimaakhter.com
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En faisant une recherche sur internet à partir de cette image on s’aperçoit qu’elle est en train de devenir une icône et il y a de quoi.

This photo taken by Bangladeshi photographer Taslima Akhter of the garment factory collapse in Dhaka on April 25 is what photojournalism is all about. In one image the photographer has captured the human toll of rapacious corporate greed seen in the last embrace of those who perished. These people were not cared for by their employers, they were simply workers, not someone’s daughter or son, mother or father, lover or friend. They were just cheap labour exploited by corporations and by their own government. Taslima said, “As a witness to this cruelty, I feel the urge to share this pain with everyone. That’s why I want this photo to be seen”.

Taslima Akhter se définit comme activiste et photographe
Sont blog :
http://taslimaakhter.blogspot.fr
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#photographie #Bangladesh

The real life models on Behance
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-real-life-models/8519303
La photographe hongroise Flora Borsi recrée des portraits d’après des peintures :)

Nowadays almost every photographer use graphics software to complete the picture, like many painters used ‘original version’ in the past.

Some artists use pure imagination to paint their artworks, others may prefer to create art by using a real life model as reference for the anatomy.

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#photographie #art

A year in the life of That Tree, a photo a day by Mark Hirsch
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/05/08/that-tree-a-photo-a-day-by-mark-hirsch/6021

Using only his iPhone, photographer Mark Hirsch spent a year documenting an ancient Bur Oak Tree and posting a photo a day on Facebook.
There is a tree that stands alone among the cornfields- about 5 miles south of Platteville, Wisconsin in the southwest corner of the state. Photographer Mark Hirsch drove by it almost every day for 19 years and never once stopped to take a picture. Then one day, he did.

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Day 209, October 18, 2012. An ear of corn missed by the combine lays in a harvested cornfield with That Tree looming on the horizon.
#photographie #arbre

To conquer her land

As a photographer my work currently focuses on projects in my own country that explores the role of marginalized rural women in India in armed conflict and in spaces that are mostly male dominated and their struggles and triumphs within them.

The border between India and Pakistan is like its own world. Since partition this border has seen war, smuggling - people, arms, drugs, firing, jingoistic parades, killing, suicide bombing, fireworks, lonely tears and little moments of glory.

In September 2009, India’s first women soldiers were deployed at the India-Pakistan border from Punjab to near the first line of control in Kashmir. I followed these women, from different parts of the country, castes, and backgrounds, cutting across gender and religion during their last days at home to the barracks, through training camp to active duty.

Stationed on a critical border, they try to come to terms with their new responsibilities while patrolling barren lands. This transformation is intense; it is impossible to recreate or restore what they’ve left behind. Theirs is a country so vast that all lines seem to disappear, yet contains a deathly silence so white, haunting, and exact that it can create peace even in a land on the brink of war.

More women in India are in the armed forces than ever before. Yet most of them are painfully alone. Military culture, which can be intimidating, has not been particularly tailor-made for women. The Indian woman in the forces is not only battling against the enemy, but also against a largely patriarchal society. Most of the women I photographed joined the forces to fight their present state of affairs as well as to find an escape from their dire rural livelihood. For these women, putting on a uniform was like coming out of their own skin. They saw it as a way of gaining some form of independence.

In “To Conquer Her Land,” over the last 3 years I am trying to humanize these complex yet intricate issues of poverty, conflict, psychological warfare, caste, youth, gender, love, peace, the concept of home, an undefined idea of patriotism, strength of mind, and a level of stress previously unknown to them. Finally to be able to create an unflinching account of how these women come face to face with the truth of conflict and the realities of living the life of a young good soldier.

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#photographie #photo #India #frontière #Pakistan #genre #femmes #armée #conflit #patriotisme #nationalisme #soldat

Living peripheria

http://www.fotovisura.com/user/aleolivares/viewfullpage/living-periferia

How many times can a person face death in their lives? Sense it. Feel it. Smell it. Maybe one? Two? Four? The people captured in Living Periferia live with it every day of their lives. The violence, the drugs, the weapons, the lost bullets which take dozens of lives every year... The fights, the battles with the police. Some barely escape. Others fall in the street law and to save them from oblivion their friends and family draw enormous pictures of them in the walls of the shantytown. It’s a posthumous tribute to their courage, their way to remember them as local heroes.

This work dives in a forgotten world, where many times not even mail mans are alowed in. It’s a world wich goes beyond poverty. Wide ghettos in the further corners of Santiago where the State has managed for years to dump what they would rather not see. What investments must never see. What rich people should better keep ignoring.

Chile is now one of the richest countries un South America. The government celebrates the 4,4% economical growth in the last year and everyone claps when they say the international crisis hasn’t reached yet. But no one looks at this face of Chile when they receive the applauses. Derelict that generates more derelict. Violence that generates more violence. The toughest and more efficient school of crime. A society inside the society which their own codes and mechanics that result inconceivable for the rest of the world. The order inside the chaos where only the one who yells louder; the one who hits harder or the one who shoots faster can emerge. Or survive.

This photos are a personal puzzle about fragmented social representations. The foreign eyes of someone that, of alla the gpoing round, ended up been a local. But which look reflects the beauty of an ugly and shocking world to the eyes of whom look from across the street.

When I was a kid i use to live in those places, at the outskirts, but now it’s completely different, more guns, more violence,more poverty.At first i was interested to come back here,to see with my own eyes, how my childhood neighborhood and friendas has change, to be with them and to listen their stories.

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#photo #photographie #périphérie #Chili

Global corporations and the Bangladesh building collapse - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/08/pers-m08.html

Global corporations and the Bangladesh building collapse
8 May 2013

Two weeks after the Rana Plaza building collapse, global retail giants that source their garments in Bangladesh such as Walmart, Primark, Benetton and others are engaged in a cynical public relations exercise to distance themselves from the tragedy and preserve their image and their profits.
The WSWS needs your support!

As of yesterday, the official death toll had reached 705, with hundreds more injured, making the collapse the worst industrial disaster in country’s history and one of the worst ever in the world. Rana Plaza is typical of the thousands of shoddily built, unsafe sweatshops in Bangladesh employing workers at $38 a month to churn out orders for some of the world’s largest corporations.

#sweatshops #bangladesh

Les images et ce qui n’est pas arrivé – The New Inquiry
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/pics-and-it-didnt-happen

Pour Nathan Jurgenson, la tension entre l’expérience que nous avons et celle qui se déroule via Facebook atteint un point de rupture. Et ce point de rupture, c’est SnapChat, l’application de #photographie éphémère. Sur SnapChat les images sont éphémères et en refusant la prise en charge permanente de l’image, Snapchat propose un changement radical, celle de la photographie temporaire. Les médias sociaux ont conduit la tension entre l’expérience pour soi et l’expérience à des fins de documentation à (...)

• “My Moscow” by photographer Igor Moukhin
http://rbth.ru/multimedia/pictures/2013/04/19/my_moscow_by_photographer_igor_moukhin_25217.html
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#Photographie #Moscou #Russie

Kitai Kazuo, A Photographer Who Chooses a Side | LPV Magazine
http://lpvmagazine.com/2013/04/kitai-kazuo-a-photographer-who-chooses-a-side

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After the student protests in Tokyo, starting in 1969 Kitai began spending time in farming village of Sanrizuka, on top of which the Japanese government intended to construct Narita International Airport. As he did at Nihon University, Kitai spent months living alongside the farmers who fought against a forcible eviction from their land.

#photo

.:Middle East Online::Overwhelming chaos at Tunis airport ahead of Salafist sheikh arrival:.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=57918

Overwhelming chaos at Tunis airport ahead of Salafist sheikh arrival

Imed ben Salah, also known as Abou Abdallah Ettounsi, was arrested on March 21 and ordered out of Egypt, according to local press reports, for organising the falsification of documents to help jihadists travel to combat zones.

Les femme ouvrières de la seconde guerre mondiale
Des #photos en couleur des ouvières !
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http://www.modebulb.com/les-femme-ouvrieres-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondial

La gestion des #déchets, un défi pour la #Chine - Déchets - Environnement - écologie et environnement
http://www.novethic.fr/novethic/ecologie,environnement,dechets,,139459.jsp

Dans les milieux écologistes et dans certains médias, on l’appelle « le 7e périphérique ». Très imagée, l’expression décrit la ceinture de décharges qui entoure la capitale chinoise, déjà cerclée par six périphériques. C’est là que Wang Jiuliang s’est immergé pendant 3 ans pour réaliser un #documentaire intitulé Pékin assiégée par les déchets (Bejing Besieged by waste )Le film lui a demandé un long travail d’investigation, car la majorité des déchèteries, illégales, n’étaient par définition pas référencées. « Souvent, je suivais les camions sur mon scooter jusqu’aux décharges. Parfois, j’en repérais d’abord sur Google Earth et allais ensuite vérifier sur place », raconte-t-il. Au final, il en recensera plus de 500, « et ce ne sont que les plus grandes. On estime qu’il y en a plus de 1000 », précise-t-il.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW2nGf1hQyU

PHOTOJOURNALISMLINKS

http://lightbox.time.com/2013/03/25/pjl-march-2013

#photographie #photojournalisme #ressources #mensuel

Photographer Collection: William Hacker’s Portraits
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/03/19/photographer-william-hackers-portraits

Photographer William Hacker started taking pictures at age 21. Originally from Leslie, Missouri, Hacker now lives in Brooklyn, New York and works primarily with black and white analogue film.

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Portrait of my father and our dog, Spike. After nearly 100 years of vacancy, my father restored the 19th century log cabin I have called home my entire life. 2012 photo William Hacker
#photographie #portraits

• The Decline of Analog Photography Seen Through Pictures
http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/03/the-decline-of-analog-photography-seen-through-pictures

The decline of analog photography is an undeniable topic these days. Luckily, Canadian photographer Robert Burley has taken action to capture some of the last remaining spaces that represent yesterday’s photography. The Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the End of the Analog Era is his new book published by Princeton Architectural Press that chronicles the places and events that signify this transition.

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#photographie #argentique #kodak

One photographer’s journey inside #Iran - The Big Picture - Boston.com
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/03/one_photographers_journey_insi.html

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New Zealand photographer, Amos Chapple, made three visits to the Islamic Republic of Iran between December 2011 and January 2013. Chapple “was amazed by the difference in western perceptions of the country and what I saw on the ground…” He goes on to say that every traveller he met inside Iran had the same sense of surprise.

#photo

Photos of Children From Around the World With Their Most Prized Possessions | Feature Shoot
http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/03/photos-of-children-from-around-the-world-with-their-most-prized-posses

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Shot over a period of 18 months, Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s project Toy Stories compiles photos of children from around the world with their prized possesions—their toys. Galimberti explores the universality of being a kid amidst the diversity of the countless corners of the world; saying, “at their age, they are pretty all much the same; they just want to play.”

But it’s how they play that seemed to differ from country to country. Galimberti found that children in richer countries were more possessive with their toys and that it took time before they allowed him to play with them (which is what he would do pre-shoot before arranging the toys), whereas in poorer countries he found it much easier to quickly interact, even if there were just two or three toys between them.

#photo

• As a fallen apartment building
http://www.domusweb.it/en/photo-essays/as-a-fallen-apartment-building
Un article de Francesca Cirilli que j’avais rencontré à la fin d el’année dernière sur le Wagenburg de Lohmuhle
http://www.weck.info/2013/02/11/wagenburg-lohmuhle

As a fallen apartment building—
Photographer Francesca Cirilli surveys the Kreuzberg Wagenplatz community, an informal settlement that claims the possibility and the will to live in public space, arranging it according to inhabitants’ needs. A photo-essay from Berlin by Francesca Cirilli

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#Wagenburg #Berlin #Lohmuhle #photographie

• Who Pays Photographers ?
http://whopaysphotogs.tumblr.com

Daily Mail (UK) Spec usage : £40 per pic

Institute Magazine (Fashion magazine, USA) The magazine runs on submission fees. At first glance it looks like any other publication, however you would be wrong. If you’d like to see your images in the Institute Magazine you have to pay £90 for them to feature them online only. Copyright exclusive to magazine.

Gazeta Wyborcza (Newspaper, Poland)
26$/day for full-time work, 19$/day for cooperator with own business, plus 1-3/month additional orders = 47$ each.
Total loss of copyright. Expenses not covered.
1km = 0,275$ only outside the workplace
In 2012 we lost joint-copyrights in agency and earnings fell by 40%
Payment one month following submission of invoice

#photographie #presse

• Akos Major Photographic Works
http://akosmajor.prosite.com
Born in 1974, Hungarian photographer. Graduated in 2001 from Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design (MOME) in Budapest, Hungary with a degree of Visual Communications. After working for ten years in an Ad-Agency, left the industry in 2010 to work as a freelance designer. Akos is currently living in Vienna, Austria.
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#photographie

China: Portrait of a People
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/03/china-portrait-of-a-people/100467
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Young kung fu student at Shaolin Temple, Henan. (© Tom Carter)
#chine #photographie

Cartographie et publicité

Vu dans le magazine « Focus » en Allemand dans mon vol au retour de Berlin, cette intéressante utilisation de la carte pour une pub..

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/uebq57ofnsz205f/erfolg%20grenzen.jpg?m

Je suppose que la traduction est "Avec nous, le succès n’a pas de limite [ou frontières car en norvégien, « grense » veut aussi dire « limite ou frontière »]

J’aime pas la pub pour les banques, et la pub en général mais là c’est pas mal trouvé : presque une oeuvre d’art...

• Catherin Colaw
http://www.ignant.de/2013/01/08/catherin-colaw

These images by photographer Catherin Colaw are an exploration of sexuality and nakedness, vulnerability and separateness. A women’s identity is sacred and yet it is often stripped down and defined by her bare body. In this series, nudity is no longer about sexuality, but about vulnerability. Each image is a self-portrait and a meditative practice. They are performances that require a challenging stillness and trust. The dismemberment of the nude women’s body becomes a simultaneously beautiful and oppressive dialogue between the landscape and the female form.

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#photographie #nu

What Charlotte Free Got Wrong In Her Defense Of Terry Richardson
http://www.refinery29.com/2013/02/43356/charlotte-free-terry-richardson-sexual-harassment

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We like Charlotte Free. We like her hair, her face, her style, the brands she represents, and her fun, unapologetic personality. But we don’t like what she said on Tumblr in a since-deleted comment regarding the various sexual harassment allegations against Terry Richardson (as reported on The Fashion Spot):

“Terry likes to do sexy stuff, that’s his shit. If you don’t wanna be part of it, make it clear in the beginning. Don’t willingly blow the man and get all mad and ashamed later…I hate when girls say ’but he asked me to.’ You should have said no then, stupid bitch! There’s plenty of other girls waiting in line, so he’s not forcing you to do shit. When you make a choice you have to live with it — unless someone got you fucked up against your will.”

After deleting the post, Free wrote, “I don’t even believe the accusations against terry…. And if they are true, I still stand by what I said. I shouldn’t have used such offensive language...I’m sick of people making stuff up about him, and even if it was true, I still have Terry’s back no matter what.” It’s a very strong defense of someone who, in all fairness, has been accused repeatedly, but never convicted or even successfully sued.

But, here’s the thing. What we find troubling about Free’s comments isn’t her ride-or-die support of Richardson. Rather, we’re confused and disappointed about her victim shaming and her note that, “There’s plenty of other girls waiting in line, so he’s not forcing you.” Taken generally, it’s a comment on the entire modeling profession, one that seems to suggest that if you don’t accept an uncomfortably sexualized working condition someone eventually will and, perhaps should, replace you. It’s the way these things work, both with Richardson and others, the logic goes. Deal with it or find another job.

#mode #mannequinat #Terry_Richardson