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June 28, 2008
A new website, The Raw File, founded by photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally, a photojournalist focused in urban stories, and by multimedia producer Laura Lo Forti.
The Raw File is a digital multimedia show aimed to host stories that are not sponsored by commercially media. It is a way to give, to expand the forum, for causes that are deserving but don't make the cut for the limitations of commercial publications.
Initially the content focuses on the continuation of Brenda's work that was published in the book "Money Power Respect: Pictures of my Neighborhood" that can also be seen online at her website. They will be accepting contributions from interested photojournalists in the future (information to contribute).
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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June 27, 2008
"That's one of the problems about taking pictures, some people think when they are taking pictures ... the shouldn't think, thinking is bad for taking pictures. Thinking is good for conceptualizing. Taking pictures has to do with seeing things, being surprised, being interested, it is not about thinking, it is about discovering." - Eliott Erwitt at Pix Channel Interviews.
From A Photo Editor I found the reference to Pix Channel. I don't intend to repeat much here, but this site contains so many wonderful video interviews with so many important photographers that I though it is worthwhile to pass it along in case you don't know about it.
The interviews are conducted by Randi Lynn Beach, a photographer who has spent the last 15 years working in editorial, non-profit, and corporate photography, with work published in many editorial publications. She is the person behind the interviews with the well-known photographers at Pix Channel.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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June 24, 2008
Purpose
What a wonderful discovery. Paul Demare, shared with me the link to Purpose, a great online photo-magazine. Check out the most recent issue here, and you will understand why I am both glad to learn about it and surprised that I did not discovered it until now. Purpose is published/edited in France but with text both in French and English so that it covers a large audience of readers.
"The margin is what holds together the pages of a notebook." Jean-Luc Godard gave this response when he was called a marginal artist. The most pioneering artistic movements are indeed found at the margin, where they guarantee the vitality of creation against the stagnation of the academy. The artist who holds himself apart from dominant trends shines light on other possible paths; he invites us to be part of the invention, deconstruction and reconstruction of the world." - Purpose
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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May 22, 2008
© Masaru Goto
Andrew Gray has just started a new curated online gallery, named GlobalCompasion.com (or See the World) with the purpose to display portfolios of photographers whose work describe cultures around the world. The project looks very interesting and even when it has just started, the high quality of the first portfolio and the purpose of the project make it a site to follow in the future.
So far there is only one photographer, photojournalist/humanitarian photographer Masaru Goto. The portfolio he displays at GlobalCompasion.com is entitled "NIHONJIN, BURAKUMIN: Portraits of Japan’s outcast people".
The Burakumin are a nearly invisible (yet identifiable) group of Japanese people. They are the remnant of a caste system that formally passed away long ago. Their ancestors were the untouchables. Despite being racially and ethnically Japanese through and through, the Burakumin still face discrimination and struggle together under the weight of their shared history.
If you are interested in submitting a portfolio you will find the information here. I look forward to seeing GlobalCompasion grow and becoming another online display for excellent photographic work.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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January 5, 2008
Moganshan Lu, Putuo District, Shanghai, 2004.
© Sze Tsung Leong
Sze Tsung Leong, is an American photographer located in New York City, but his origins trace to China. This is the land that has inspired his work in the excellent series "History Images" that covers "overviews" of cities, "demolitions" of buildings, "construction sites" where new buildings are being raised, the "buildings" themselves that constitute the core elements of cities, "streets" with details of elements that constructs life blood in the streets, "interiors" of demolished buildings and "figures" as the human elements that shine on the vast landscape of the city.
Photographed with a large-format view camera these images contain a puzzling amount of detail that serves well to portray the immense scale of the urban change that conceal the history of individual persons lost within the large magnitude of urban structures.
Xiangluying Fourth Lane, Chun Shu, Xuanwu District, Beijing, 2004.
© Sze Tsung Leong
No question that the images have exceptional aesthetics, but what I found most powerful in this series is the relationship of the different elements that constitute the urban landscape. The vast structures and rapidly changing cities in China serve well to the purpose of presenting the urban landscape as an evolving "organism" that both writes and erases our life and history in the urban environment. These images present both the dissolution of past and the hope of a brighter future in China.
The photographs in History Images are of histories, in the form of cities in China, either being destroyed or created at this juncture in time. They are of past histories, in the form of traditional buildings and neighborhoods, urban fabrics, and natural landscapes, in the process of being erased. They are of the absence of histories, in the form of construction sites, built upon an erasure of the past so complete that one would never know a past had ever existed. And they are of the anticipation of future histories, yet to unfold, in the form of newly built cities - [from History Images by Sze Tsung Leong]
Xi’erqi III, Haidian District, Beijing, 2002.
© Sze Tsung Leong
A very interesting interview with Sze Tsung Leong was published online over at Guernica Magazine. If you get to visit his website, don't miss the other projects, "Cities" and "Horizons" are both quite impressive.
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 2002.
© Sze Tsung Leong
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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January 1, 2008
Photo LA [Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA] runs from January 11th [Friday] to January 13th [Sunday].
I will be attending the fair, probably only Saturday 12th. If you will be attending and would like to meet, please let me know by e-mail.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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June 9, 2007
© TED
From TED, one of the most incredible technologies I have seen in a long time: Seadragon. It will certainly change the way we interact with digital visual information and will have large impact in the use of photography. The video talk by the author of this software, Blaise Aguera y Arcas -now at Microsoft- is here. If you are using a windows computer you may try Photosynth online with demos of spacial environments using this code.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas created Seadragon (acquired by Microsoft in 2006), the visualization technology that gives Photosynth its amazingly smooth digital rendering and zoom capabilities. Photosynth itself is a vastly powerful piece of software capable of taking a wide variety of images, analyzing them for similarities, and grafting them together into an interactive three-dimensional space. This seamless patchwork of images can be viewed via multiple angles and magnifications, allowing us to look around corners or "fly" in for a (much) closer look. Simply put, it could utterly transform the way we experience digital images.- from TED
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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May 25, 2007
The second issue of AlmanacMagazine.com has been posted. You will find interesting work and audio recordings. More to come in a monthly basis.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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May 13, 2007
© Mike Brodle
Sorry for the hiatus in posting ... went for vacation to Mexico and had a great time.
Back in town, I leave you with the work of an incredible artist, Mike Brodle ("The Polaroid Kid"). He is also the master mind of PLRDS.COM. An interview to know more about Mike can be found at the Fecalface site.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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May 4, 2007
by Allen Frame
It is captivating to see images that reveal the extraordinary out of ordinary subjects. When the "extraordinary" is everyday's life, it becomes increasingly challenging to cross the fine line between an ordinary snapshot and an extraordinary image. This is why I admire the photographers who have the ability to do art out everyday's life.
So I was glad to receive a note from Andy Adams informing that his fantastic site, Flak Photo , will be displaying a series titled "Regarding Intimacy". The series explores "the dynamics between families, couples, friends, neighbors and the environment to investigate relationships in traditional intimate interactions".
Flak Photo will display one image each day from May 1st to May 11th. The series are exhibited through May12th at Hunter College in New York City.
The participating photographers include extraordinary artists that are truly worth to explore beyond the single image that will be part of this series. Here you have the names and links to their work. If you got the time, it is really worth to spare a visit to their online galleries.
Allen Frame, Dona Schwartz, Carrie Mae Weems, John Milisenda, Bob Shamis, Larry Sultan, Keisha Scarville, Todd Deutsch and Oz Lubling.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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