Tag Archives: storytelling

Lori Nix + Kathleen Gerber

The Photographer Who Captures Tiny Post-Apocalyptic Worlds

From Petapixel on the work of Lori Nix + Kathleen Gerber (Nix+Gerber).

“Since 2005, Nix has been working on an project titled “The City,” which shows various scenes from a post-apocalyptic world... Pretty much everything in each scene is created by the two artists, and each scene takes about 7 months to create and shoot, from start to finish.”

Excerpts from their project The City

The Drawing Room created a 8-minute mini-documentary about the work of photographer Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber, a duo now known as Nix+Gerber.

Lori Nix website

Walid Raad

Unreliable Informants: A Walid Raad Primer [Hyperallergic]

A survey exhibition dedicated the work of Walid Raad, at the Museum of Modern Art, Oct 12, 2015-Jan 16 2016

Walid Raad was born in Lebanon in 1967, eight years before that country was rent by civil war. In a precursor to the ongoing bloodshed in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the conflict dragged on for fifteen years, claiming more than 100,000 lives and creating a million refugees.

… Raad has taken up the tradition of artist-as-trickster — a role carried into modern art though the Dadaist antics of Marcel Duchamp’s transgender alter-ego, Rrose Sélavy — while reaching even farther back to the artist-as-historian-cum-fabulist. Some works trip you up and others leave you out in the cold. [ read more ]

 

The Best of Photojournalism – September 2014 – LightBox

The Best of Photojournalism – September 2014 -TIME LightBox

TIME Lightbox has amassed an interesting selection of recent photographs and fantastic group of recent articles looking at recent events in Ferguson, MO, Iraq, and Gaza, as well as  the Ebola outbreak and more – LINK

photo by Scott Olson

An Inside View of Arab Photography – Samer Mohdad

more from the Lens Blog:

An Inside View of Arab Photography.

Samer Mohdad was a 10-year-old boy living in the mountain village of his Druse ancestors when Lebanon’s civil war broke out in 1975. His life changed overnight: His childhood playmates were now his sworn enemies. The traumatic experience of the war, which lasted until 1990, stayed with him and, Mr. Mohdad believes, eventually led him to photography.

LaToya Ruby Frazier


Born by a River,
Watching the Change.

Great piece on LaToya Ruby Frazier in the NY Times Lens Blog about her ongoing work in her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania.

 

The project’s title was inspired by Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” an epochal civil-rights-era song in which the protagonist, “born by the river” in a time of rampant segregation and racism, imagines a better and more just world. Glimmers of optimism and self-possession shine through the gloom of Ms. Frazier’s pictures — from the splendor of her deceased grandmother’s doll collection to the determination on her young cousin’s face — rescuing her subjects from the visual stereotypes of black poverty.

Another great article on the project in Art Voices

Visit LaToya Ruby Frazier’s website to see more of her work.

Signs of the Times – Andres Serrano

Interesting project by Andres Serrano:

“Sign of the Times was conceived in early October when I started to see what I perceived as a greater number of homeless people in New York City. As a native New Yorker, it surprised me because I had never seen so many people begging and sleeping on the streets. It occurred to me to start buying the signs that the homeless use to ask for money…”
[read more about project]

Daniel Morel

I grew up in this neighborhood everybody knew me, you know. They didn’t even see me. I just keep on working… I was not trying to get something special  …I was not looking for good photos, I was just shooting. >>>

Daniel Morel speaking about photographing in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake in a video of his photographs  on TIME magazine website. I highly recommending watching. LINK TO VIDEO

Following is a collection of the some of the many articles written about the important Daniel Morel copyright case against Agence France Presse and Getty Images.

©Daniel Morel One of the eight images by Daniel Morel of the aftermath of the January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake that was distributed by AFP and Getty Images. – See more at: PDN online

Morel v. AFP Copyright Verdict: Defense Strategy to Devalue Photos and Vilify Photographer Backfires
November 26, 2013 by David Walker, PDN

Photographer Daniel Morel says his decisive victory in court last week against Agence France Presse (AFP) and Getty images was not only vindication for him, but a victory for all photographers trying to eke out a living in the digital age.

A federal jury awarded Morel $1.2 million in damages after determining that both agencies willfully infringed his copyrights in 2010 by distributing eight of his exclusive news images of the Haiti earthquake without permission.

“I hope the internet is going to be a little safer now for all artists, all photographers,” he told PDN the day after the jury reached its verdict. more >>

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New York Times Lens Blog article by James Estrin

Peta Pixel by DL Cade

Link to several articles at the British Journal of Photography

Editorial Photographers of UK and Ireland

Daniel Morel vs. Agence France Presse and Getty Images Facebook Page

Daniel Morel website 

Online Storytelling: matrilineage.net

Great project I came across today.

matrilineage by Rebecca Mushtare

from Rebecca Mushtare’s website:
Matrilineage is an archive of stories about technology. Each story reflects on a technological development that has been life-changing, a technological dependency/necessity, or an object of personal meaning.

Four generations of women in my family share their stories on Matrilineage.net. Scan their QR codes to directly access their stories. In addition, scanning the “You” code will take you to a form to contribute to the archive.