Ansel Adams, Photographer (1958) narrated by Beaumont Newhall The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2026-09-28 | Ansel Adams, Photographer (1958) narrated by Beaumont Newhall
The British Abroad by Peter Dench The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2015-02-28 | Peter Dench is raising funds for his photobook project The British Abroad; the merry antics of the [young] British abroad photographed in all its glorious splendour and excess. To help: kickstarter.com/projects/1042194258/the-british-abroad-hardback-photo-book This project will only be funded if at least £6,000 is pledged by Sat, Apr 4 2015 7:00 PM EST.From Peter: Hello! I'm Peter Dench, an award-winning British photojournalist with over 15-years experience. I've had the privilege to travel extensively across the globe on assignment for magazines including The New Yorker; TIME; Sunday Times; Telegraph; Weekend Guardian; GQ and STERN.Since 2012 I’ve, been documenting the British party phenomenon across some of Europe's best beach destinations: Ibiza, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Majorca and Croatia. My pictures reveal a colourful, wild and uniquely British world, and I’m now looking for funding to turn them into a hardback photo book. This will be a follow up to my book A&E: Alcohol & England, published last year by Bluecoat Press.THE BRITISH ABROAD: The world of the clubbing holiday is a place of extremes, and one of the greatest is alcohol. Britons regularly top the league of drunken holiday hooligans. And no wonder.On arrival holidaymakers are met by party promoters selling tickets for everything the Brit abroad has come to expect; foam parties, boat parties, water parties, luminous paint parties and the holiday staple, the organised party bar crawl. Party Hard in Ayia Napa, offer a bar crawl every Tuesday that includes five bars, drinking games, free shots and free club entry. The Party Crew’s, Let’s Go F**king Mental bar crawl in Sunny Beach, is three times a week. Tourists can expect a welcome cocktail, five free shots, a visit to four popular party bars and two free entrances to clubs. The average age of the 110,000 Club 18-30 customers who go abroad every year is 19. Partygoers must be ready to embrace the lows along with the highs.On the main strip in Ayia Napa, I met 19 year-old Calum, a plumber from Scotland, being jovially pushed along by friends in a wheelchair. Calum slipped on the floor where he was staying and fell through a patio door and off a first floor balcony, severing the tendons in both of his legs. Not everyone I’ve been photographing is on holiday. In Magaluf, I accompanied 32 year-old Security Officer, George, on the stretch of beach he patrols alone for nine hours, seven days a week, five months a year. During the night, armed with only a baton and five years experience, he had to disperse a rowdy crowd of around 20 youths trying to launch pedalos into the sea. A previous night, a tourist he interrupted being intimate with a young woman, stabbed him in his stab vest.With the reportage I now have, I’m ready to publish a book that will allow others to step inside this world and see what goes on when the British land on foreign soil.http://www.peterdench.comBio: Achievements include a World Press Photo Award in the People in the News Stories Category for the reportage, Drinking of England and participation in the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass.Football’s Hidden Story, a FIFA sponsored project comprising 26 stories across 20 different countries documenting the positive impact that football has had at grass root level on individuals and communities across the planet, received six global accolades.Exhibitions include: LoveUK, Cardiff, Wales; The British Abroad, Photoreporter festival, France; England Uncensored, Visa pour l’Image festival of photojournalism, France and the Periscopio festival, Spain.In 2012 I joined the core group of fully represented photographers at Getty Images Reportage.I've made written contributions to The New Yorker and Telegraph magazine: Hungry Eye, the world’s first photography and film making journal publishes "the often laugh-out-loud" Dench Diary in each issue.Solo books published include, A&E: Alcohol & England and England Uncensored, which was a Pictures of the Year International photography book award finalist. In 2013, the United Nations of Photography published the collected Dench Diaries as a limited edition pulp-paperback.In 2012 I cofounded White Cloth Gallery UK, a photography + film, studio & events space in the heart of Leeds city centre and operated as Co Creative Director until October 2014, sourcing, curating and promoting exhibitions.
Whats Going On: America 1969-1974 by Ken Light The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2015-02-23 | Ken Light is raising funds for his photobook that portrays America during the era of campus unrest, Vietnam & Nixon and beckons memories of our hope & anger. To help: kickstarter.com/projects/1445706189/whats-going-on-america-1969-1974 This project will only be funded if at least $30,000 is pledged by Wed, Mar 18 2015 1:02 PM EST.From Ken: This book tells our story – it shows how I saw America and the actions of my generation through the lens of a 35mm camera from 1969-1974, and gives us some insight and understanding into the most important era of modern American history.It was the time of Woodstock, the rise of the Women’s Liberation movement, campus unrest, SDS, The Moratorium, Give Peace A Chance, Richard Nixon being elected for a second term and then resigning from the Presidency, the killings at Kent State University, flag wavers, Hippies, the War in Vietnam ending, the POW’s returned. The full effects of the music and the Cultural Revolution were upon America. When you look back it’s amazing to think that the year-end close of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, was 800, the average cost of new house $15,550.00 and the average Income per year was $8,550.00 with the average monthly rent $135.00. New cars were $3,270.00, but the Toyota Corona was $1,950.00 and yes; gas was 29 cents per Gallon.Baby Boomers had dreams and maybe our dream was naïve. A lot of us believed you could live your life and build the world around two basic precepts: love and peace. We believed we were the generation that would do away with war. We would do away with greed, and in its place we’d create a world that would revolve around compassion and camaraderie, personal and political liberation.The social and political movements of the Boomer generation did eventually change America, but we left an unfinished agenda of social and economic rights for the subsequent generations to take up. It seemed like the Occupy movement might be the Boomers’ opportunity to move forward the agendas that were left unfinished. It’s fascinating to see the similarities that this movement had to the movements in the sixties: the protesters’ passion; the mass marches in the streets, the street theater; the anger with the status quo; the young vibrant energy that says, We can change the world; alternative publications; and free-form posters. It all feels so familiar. Even the tear gassing and mass arrests look like they did in the old days.I have selected approximately 125 photographs from my early work shot during this period that illustrate a wide range of America. It includes traveling with President Nixon, campus riots, Appalachia, working class communities, Nixon’s inauguration, the Vietnam Moratorium, the Panthers and Black Pride, High School, John Lennon and major political candidates. It forms an impression of this period that seems to resound with those who have viewed the work, both for boomers and also those who have heard stories or only read about this moment in time. It might be that you’ll see yourself in these images. Perhaps you’ll glimpse your parents.These photos show an America that was, at times, unjust and an America with dreams and promise. But more importantly, it is an America we should not forget. It was a time when there was much promise, when change seemed possible, and when young people could dream of a better world. My journey as a photographer started in 1969 when I was 18 years old and I have continued to make photographs and publish books, some of which are rewards you can have for supporting this new book project.
My Favourite Colour Was Yellow by Kirsty Mackay The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2015-02-05 | Kirsty Mackay is raising funds for her photobook My Favourite Colour Was Yellow. This project will only be funded if at least £12,000 is pledged by Sat, Feb 28 2015 2:32 AM EST. To help: kickstarter.com/projects/1960930891/my-favourite-colour-was-yellow“My Favourite Colour Was Yellow” is a limited edition high quality documentary photo book recording ‘the age of pink’. Pink has become synonymous with femininity to the extent that it is easy to take it for granted, but It hasn't always been this way. In the 19th century boys were traditionally dressed in pink. This latest phenomenon has evolved in line with consumerism since the 1980’s. It will be self published in an edition of 500, in English consisting of an essay, quotes and 70 colour photographs. Due to be published in June 2015, when backers will receive their preordered copies. There will then be an official book launch at Photo Book Bristol, an international photo book festival, Bristol 12th-14th June. A London book launch is scheduled over the summer (dates to be confirmed).Photographer Kirsty Mackay set out to photograph girls with their pink possessions as a way to understand how this one colour has become dominant. Working over a five year period, making portraits of the girls in their bedrooms and on the High St, combined with research; Kirsty has created a document of this time for girls growing up in the UK.After a period of documenting Kirsty began to probe deeper and the title of the book “My Favourite Colour Was Yellow” reflects the theme at the heart of the book - a lack of choice. Kirsty offers us a sensitive and intimate glimpse into the lives of these girls own private worlds.The book is being designed by photo book designer Victoria Forrest. Victoria has worked with internationally acclaimed photographers Martin Parr, Paul Graham, Elliot Erwitt and Tim Hetherington.It features an essay by Jo B. Paoletti, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland. She is the author of ‘Pink and Blue : Telling the Boys from the Girls in America. The essay traces the origins of the colour pink and its use in children's clothing over the past century. Jo’s writing lends an historical and cultural context to the images in the book.'My Favourite Colour Was Yellow' is a Made in Bristol photo book. It is a direct consequence of the thriving photo book scene in Bristol, UK. From the influence of photographer and self publisher Martin Parr, the support & encouragement of Rudi Thoemmes, founder of Photo Book Bristol and RRB photo books and the talks and workshops organised by IC Visual Labs; a hub for the photo book has grown. Born in Glasgow, Kirsty Mackay studied photography before moving to New York and then London to work as a photographer’s assistant. She has assisted world class photographers - Nick Knight, Anton Corbijn, Herb Ritts and Albert Watson. As Kirsty Mackay’s focus changed to concentrate on her own work, she went on to study an MA in Documentary photography at the renowned school of photography in Newport, Wales. Her work has been exhibited in 2 solo shows, and as part of Diffusion International Photography Festival. In 2014 she cofounded Photo Bristol, a network connecting Bristol based photographers and photo organisations, campaigning for a dedicated photography exhibition space in Bristol.
Occupied Pleasures a Photo Book by Tanya Habjouqa The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2015-01-28 | Occupied Pleasures is a testimony to Palestinian resilience as they pursue simple pleasures in the face of an endless occupation. Tanya Habjouqa is raising funds for the project. To help: kickstarter.com/projects/2066133663/occupied-pleasures-a-photo-book-by-tanya-habjouqa This project will only be funded if at least $21,150 is pledged by Wed, Feb 25 2015 2:13 PM EST.Occupied Pleasures explores how people live through the daily absurdities in the face of an endless occupation. Such ability to find pleasure highlights humanity, and such pleasures are also a form of creative resistance.Occupied Pleasures has been widely exhibited and published, winning a World Press Photo award in 2014. We want to take Occupied Pleasures to another level. To create a beautiful hard cover book infused with new photographs and the powerful poetry of Najwan Darwish.By backing this book you can be part of sharing this small offering of peace and joy in a part of the world overwhelmed with stories of conflict and violence.The hardcover book will measure 20 x 30 cm. and contain, an introduction, 60 to 70 color photographs, mixed with original poetry and proverbs.Renowned Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish will enrich Occupied Pleasures with his original poems, some inspired by the photographs. Nothing More to Lose by Najwan DarwishLay your head on my chest: I’m listening to the dirtI’m listening to the grassAs it splits through my skin….We lost our heads in loveAnd we have nothing more to loseDr. Laleh Kahili, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of London will add her eloquent voice in an introductory essay reflecting on the context of the images. From her introduction:"We also need imagery that captures the poetry of everyday life, and not only the prose of strife. We need the fleeting wash of pleasure to color our memories in the interstices of devastation ruination and grief. We need to remember the laughter too, the exhilaration of evanescent triumphs, fugitive joys. We need to remember people embodied in their flesh and not just reflected through the lens of news, or prejudice, or stereotype."Occupied Pleasures is a testament to hope, dignity and laughter, celebrating life in the face of the modern world's longest occupation.A portion of proceeds from the sale of the book will go to Farashe Yoga Center http://farasheyoga.org . Farashe Yoga’s network of teachers are reaching communities throughout the West Bank, teaching a wide range of women and men, including children, high school students, elderly, cancer survivors, diabetes patients, pregnant women, and school teachers, in villages and refugee camps.Born in Jordan in 1975, Tanya Habjouqa was educated in the United States and received her masters in Global Media and Middle East Politics from the University of London SOAS.Habjouqa’s photographs focus on gender, social, and human rights issues in the Middle East. She approaches her subjects with sensitivity but also with an eye for the absurd. In 2014 she won a World Press Award for her series Occupied Pleasures in which she documents many of the ludicrous moments of everyday life that the 47-year occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem has created.She is a founding member of Rawiya, a collective of female photographers from across the Middle East. Habjouqa has recently shown her work at important venues including the New Museum, New York, New York, the Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris, France, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark. Her series "Women of Gaza" is in the permanent collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Art.Habjouqa mentors emerging photographers from the Greater Middle East and guest lectures at universities world wide. A recipient of the Magnum Foundation 2013 Emergency Fund and her journalistic work has taken her to the front lines in in Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and Gaza. She was also a finalist for the 2014 FotoEvidence Book Award.* * * * FotoEvidence is a publishing house for documentary photographers whose work focuses on social justice and human rights. FotoEvidence publishes hard copy and digital photo books.Each year an international jury selects one photographer to receive the FotoEvidence Book Award for a project that demonstrates courage and commitment in the pursuit of social justice. The work is published as a book.Svetlana Bachevanova Publisher FotoEvidence
Schools for the Colored by Wendel White The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2014-12-18 | Schools for the Colored is an extension of the ideas that formed the project Small Towns, Black Lives, in that; it is a continuation of my journey through the African American landscape. I began making photographs of historically African American school buildings during the very first weeks of the Small Towns, Black Lives project more than twenty years ago. In Schools for the Colored I began to pay attention to the many structures and sites (also making photographs of places where segregated schools once stood) that operated as segregated schools. These photographs depict the buildings and landscapes that were associated with the system of racially segregated schools established at the southern boundaries of the northern United States. This area, sometimes referred to as “Up-South,” encompasses the northern “free” states that bordered the slave states. Schools for the Colored is the representation the duality of racial distinction within American culture. The “veil” (the digital imaging technique of obscuring the landscape surrounding the schools) is a representation of DuBois’ concept, informing the visual narrative in these photographs. Some of the images depict sites where the original structure is no longer present. As a placeholder, I have inserted silhouettes of the original building or what I imagine of the appearance of the original building. The architecture and geography of America’s educational apartheid, in the form of a system of “colored schools,” within the landscape of southern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois is the central concern of this project. http://wendelwhite.comWendel A. White was born in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. He was awarded a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York and an MFA in photography from the University of Texas at Austin. White taught photography at the School of Visual Arts, NY; The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, NY; the International Center for Photography, NY; Rochester Institute of Technology; and is currently Distinguished Professor of Art at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Histories Tales from the 70s by Henry Horenstein The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2014-11-21 | Henry Horenstein is raising funds for Henry Horenstein, HISTORIES: TALES FROM THE 70's, a photobook. on Kickstarter. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by Sun, Dec 14 2014. To help: kickstarter.com/projects/117860506/henry-horenstein-histories-tales-from-the-70s-a-boFrom Henry: I’m Henry Horenstein, a Boston-based photographer who grew up in New Bedford, MA. I began college at the University of Chicago in the late 60s, but later transferred to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to study photography. Today I teach at RISD, and have been taking photos, publishing books, and teaching for the last four decades. Yikes! The book I’m asking you to help fund is called HISTORIES: TALES FROM THE 70s. It will showcase some of my favorite work taken from 1970-79. I originally studied history at the University of Chicago, but was drawn to photography because it was more fun and interesting to interact with real subjects out in the world, than to sit in a library studying the past. Despite changing majors (and schools), in some ways my focus did not change at all. Rather than an historian with written/typed notes, I became an historian with a camera. My teacher Harry Callahan at RISD encouraged me to “shoot what you love.” So I did.HISTORIES: TALES FROM THE 70s will chronicle a time when I was photographing almost everything I could find. Anything that smacked of history, especially cultures that might disappear or change, was fair game: stock car racing, horse racing, boxing, old rural routes through Rhode Island and Massachusetts, country and blues musicians in Nashville and elsewhere, and my close family and friends were just a few of my subjects.This Kickstarter project aims to fund the first in a series of books, all called HISTORIES, that will contain images through all the decades that I have been making work. Some of this work has been published in individual books over the years, but there are so many other photographs that have never been seen before. These are the pictures that I want to include in HISTORIES: TALES FROM THE 70s. The images show a cross-section of America at the time: big cars, plaid pants, long hair, and all. I hope that this will serve as a chronicle of the past – a snapshot of the time and people who were not famous or rich but were a fundamental part of the culture of the 70s. The two videos included, some photographs below, and these websites highlight much of my 70s work: RACING DAYS, the people and places of thoroughbred horse racing. http://www.racingdaysbook.comHONKY TONK, country music musicians, fans, and venues. http://www.honkytonkbook.comCLOSE RELATIONS, family and friends from the 70s. http://www.closerelationsbook.comSPEEDWAY72, portraits and cars of stock-car racing in 1972. http://www.speedway72.com
CHE IN CONGO by Jan-Joseph Stok + Ben Crowe (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2014-10-10 | Che in Congo is a photographic and documentary film odyssey, a creative and journalistic experiment, an exploration into the history and legacy of revolutionary violence. On the 50th Anniversary of of Che Guevara’s secret mission to Congo photographer Jan-Joseph Stok and filmmaker Ben Crowe will follow in Che’s footsteps to the land of the spirits, where every dream has its shadow. This project will only be funded if at least €18,000 is pledged by Nov 4 2014 6:59 PM EDT. To help: kickstarter.com/projects/1948277923/che-in-congoFrom Jan-Joseph and Ben: On the eve of the 50th Anniversary of Che Guevara’s secret mission to Congo we will follow Che’s footsteps to Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo.CHE IN CONGO is a unique approach to understanding Congo's past, present and future by award-winning photojournalist Jan-Joseph Stok and Palme D'Or nominated filmmaker Ben Crowe. Through photography and film we will explore this unrevealed chapter of Che Guevara's life. How do Che's ideals of liberty, equality, justice and self determination resonate with Congolese people today? On our journey we will document the issues faced by the people of Congo and hear about their dreams for a better future.Because of the nature of this project - experimental and personal - it makes it hard to finance in a conventional way. Journalistic assignments demand a certain way of working and certain kinds of images. This project will have its own independent character and needs to be free in its approach in order to be successful. We will be giving voice to people we meet on the road and in villages. We'll be off the beaten path embracing the randomness of encounters.The creative nature of this project and the difficult conditions of working in Congo mean that we need to break the project into two steps. The first step is this Kickstarter funded trip planned for late 2014. In 2015 we aim to make a second field trip funded by other sources like grants.The money that we raise will go to funding:Material for a PHOTOBOOK PROJECT AND EXHIBITION based on work in Tanzania and DR Congo. Jan-Joseph will focus on documenting the different aspects of Che's mission and the lives and stories of the people we encounter, capturing the feeling and essence of the places where Che Guevara and his men lived and fought. He will use different photographic techniques to express the journey - reportage, strong portraits and landscape photography (panorama/360degrees photography) - revealing the past and present and how the two are intertwined.A series of SHORT EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY FILMS for multimedia, art gallery and international film festivals. This will be a moment for creative filmmaking and experimentation to find different filmic responses - aesthetic, political and ethical - to the journey and stories we uncover. The video materials will also form part of a wider feature-length documentary film planned for 2015 which we hope to fund from other sources. The Kickstarter campaign will be at the vanguard of this journey! Over the course of the project, we will be working closely with Teun van der Heijden (www.heijdenskarwei.com ), Photobook Maker, who is also part of our team, and who will be involved throughout.In 1965, at the height of Cold War, Che Guevara left Cuba on a secret journey to Eastern Congo. His mission was to support the Congolese revolutionary insurgency against imperialist forces.What became known as the Simba rebellion pitched a dozen Congolese politicians and commanders including latter day President Laurent Kabila against the Congolese army led by Joseph Mobutu, white mercenaries and CIA trained anti-Castro Cubans. With a few hundred Cuban and Congolese fighters, Che and his men fought for six months in the forests and hills of South Kivu and Katanga province. The mission was a disaster. encircled by enemy forces, Che and his men evaded capture in an ignoble escape across Lake Tanganyika. Just a few days later, Mobutu deposed the President of Congo in a coup d’etat and made himself ruler of the newly named Zaire: a tyrant of the people for the next thirty years. Two years later, Che was killed during a similar doomed mission in Bolivia. His ‘revolutionary heroism’ and sacrifice – both celebrated and despised in equal measure – laid the foundation for the global icon of revolution we know today.See Kickstarter and main site for more info: http://www.cheincongo.com
NEWSPACE Curatorial Program by Newspace Center for Photography (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2014-09-14 | Newspace needs to hire a professional curator to grow its Exhibition and Lecture Program and enrich this Portland, Oregon based organization. This project will only be funded if at least $25,000 is pledged by Fri, Oct 10 2014 3:00 PM EDT. To help: kickstarter.com/projects/376884822/newspace-curatorial-programNewspace Center for Photography is is an educational and cultural nonprofit that is dedicated to promoting photographic education and appreciation to the public as well as providing a space and building a community where photo enthusiasts can learn, create, discuss and show their work.Since its founding in 2002, Newspace has served the greater Portland community through three programs – exhibitions and corresponding lectures, educational courses, and photographic facilities, reaching more than 12,000 individuals through annual attendance and more than 36,000 in annual web traffic. In 2011 Newspace completed an expansion that more than doubled the size of its gallery. It has become clear that the next step in the organization’s evolution is to hire a professional curator to focus on the Exhibition and Lecture Program. Doing so would improve programming, as well as community outreach and access.To complete this project, Newspace is asking for your support, which will go towards: carrying out a national search, employing a professional curator for two years beginning in November 2014, producing educational and outreach materials such as wall text, brochures, etc. and paying speaker fees for visiting lecturers.Newspace is seeking a trained curator with a masters degree or PhD in art history or curatorial studies. These credentials indicate that this person has the training and expertise to provide an understanding of the full history of photography while having a finger on the pulse of contemporary photographic practice.Your contribution will go towards hiring costs (job posting fees, candidate travel for interviews), wages and earnings taxes, educational and outreach materials (wall panels, brochures, other publications), and guest lecturers' fees, which are necessary to get the program off the ground. Of course, the campaign goal also includes the expenses associated with reward fulfillment and credit card processing fees. In addition to this Kickstarter Campaign, Newspace is actively fundraising from local and national funders to leverage support from multiple sources for this project. Your contribution will not only go directly towards hiring a curator, but will also help us to raise funds from other sources.By increasing Newspace’s reach through an expanded exhibitions and lecture program, we can create a long-term, sustainable Curatorial Program by diversifying and expanding our funding capabilities. Adding a curator to the Newspace staff will raise the organization's profile, increase awareness of Newspace's dynamic programming in the region and beyond, and create exhibition and lecture opportunities that attract local and national funders into the future.Up until now, we have executed our exhibition and lecture program through the collaborative efforts of our Gallery and Founding Director, Chris Bennett, and Executive Director Tricia Hoffman. This October, Chris will conclude his tenure in order to pursue his teaching and photographic career full-time. This transition is a key opportunity for Newspace to transform its exhibition and lecture programming by hiring a curator who is specifically trained in the history and development of the medium.See the Kickstarter page for rewards and more information.
Summer Weather by Michael Jang The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2014-07-22 | "In 1983, a local TV station held a contest for anyone who wanted a chance at reporting the weather. My role was to take head shots of contestants after each screen test. Five winners were chosen out of nearly one hundred applicants. The pictures were never used, but I developed the negatives anyway (without proofing them). These images had been lost until recently and I am seeing them for the very first time." -Michael Janghttp://owlandtiger.com/books/summer-weatherMichael Jang is an established photographer who has always had an eye for recognizing and capturing the defining moments of his generation. Well known for his commercial photography and portraiture of notable figures from the 70s and 80s, such as William Burroughs, Alice Walker, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra and many others, Jang's work is recently resurfacing in a new light. The SF MOMA has recently acquired several of his early prints from the series "The Jangs", in which he tells the story of his Asian family trying to assimilate into the suburban American mainstream of the '70s. Although he has been described as a social realist, or influenced by Robert Frank, Jang admits that he isn't always thinking about documenting the historical significance of his subjects while he is shooting. It is only after the passing of time that he is able to look back at his photographs from the 70s and 80s and see their humor and significance within their social and historical context. Consciously or not, Jang has an uncanny intuition for recognizing, and capturing particular everyday moments that will go on to become artful allegories of a particular point in time. The fact that his photos are taken unassumingly, and are not tainted by the ego or bias of an artist with a grandiose agenda, allows images to speak for themselves with the candid truthfulness, accuracy, and vivacity that is characteristic of his work.To see more of Michael's work, visit his website at: http://michaeljang.com and follow him on Instagram at http://instagram.com/michaeljangsf...This video is part of the DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/DEVELOPPhoto and is featured here with permission from and in collaboration with its creator. DEVELOP Tube is an educational resource which features interviews, profiles, lectures & films about photojournalism, fine art photography & documentary photography.
Destino by Michelle Frankfurter: A Photo Book About Destiny (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2014-06-01 | Destino tells the story of Central American migrants on the arduous trek across Mexico in pursuit of the American Dream. This project will only be funded if at least $18,500 is pledged by Fri, Jun 27 2014 10:44 AM EDT. To help: kickstarter.com/projects/2066133663/destino-by-michelle-frankfurter-a-photo-book-aboutDestino, meaning "destination" or "destiny" in Spanish, tells the story of undocumented Central American migrants and the perilous journey by freight train across Mexico, as they attempt to enter the United States in pursuit of a better life.In Destino I seek to capture the experience of people who struggle to control their own destiny when confronted by extreme circumstances. Destino is both a social commentary on one of the biggest global issues of our times and an epic adventure tale. It conveys the experience of a generation of exiles, driven by poverty and the dysfunction of failed states, traveling across a landscape that has become increasingly dangerous, heading towards a precarious future as a last resort.The unprecedented wave of Central American migration began a full century after Mexican immigration to the US, the consequence of bloody civil wars, US cold war intervention and crippling international trade policies. Such conflicts left a legacy of drug and gang related violence, rampant domestic abuse, and unrelenting poverty. Despite an economic downturn, anti-immigrant sentiment, and a stalled immigration reform bill, Central American migration is on the rise. Destino addresses the root causes behind this wave of human migration. Lacking representation, undocumented immigrants make convenient scapegoats during a period of economic uncertainty. My aim in Destino is to take the viewer beyond what is expected and humanize the real-life individuals behind the polarizing political debate, to draw attention to the underlying causes behind this migration. I want the viewer to see and feel the humanity of these people who seek no more than the security and prosperity that they imagine we live with in the United States.Destino will be published in a hard cover edition of 500, in a square format, 9.5" x 9.5" with 80 black and white images and an introductory text.The book will be printed using a four color process on a Heildelberg press at Ofset Yapimavi in Istanbul.The work was created with a medium format Bronica 6x6 camera and black & white film.Please join me and FotoEvidence in publishing Destino. Your backing will produce a beautiful and powerful photo book that documents the struggles of Central American migrants on a journey in search of their destiny.
Photographic Memory by Kris Graves The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2014-05-26 | Three artists (Luke Abiol, Jason Hanasik & MaryLynne Wrye) are asking the question: What can the "photograph" capture? his project will only be funded if at least $18,000 is pledged by Fri, Jun 20 2014 5:00 PM EDT. To help: kickstarter.com/projects/krisgraves/photographic-memoryLuke Abiol, Jason Hanasik, and MaryLynne Wrye have produced three very distinct projects which intersect with this question and the notion of the document in unexpected and surprising ways. +Kris Graves Projects is delighted to be able to bring their projects to the world via thoughtfully designed (by Daniel Salemi) and beautifully executed monographs. These monographs and prints are the perfect addition to your art collection.Luke Abiol's project Winter's Berlin, is a series of large format photographs made over a period of seven years while living in Germany. These photographs look into the history that saturates Berlin's structures and streets. Abiol is particularly interested in the layers of the city that - when peeled away - introduce the viewer to countless traces of Berlin's inhabitants. Stories are derived from space and histories are formed.Luke Abiol was born in San Francisco, came of age in New York, started a family in Berlin and now finds himself back in San Francisco. Luke observes the traces that industry, war, nature and time have left upon our urban spaces--then leaves his own traces to be read by others.This monograph will be edited by publisher Sergio A. Fernandez of Iris Editions, Ltd.Jason Hanasik's project, I slowly watched him disappear, is the first part of Hanasik's opus on the complicated space of military masculinity. This first part focuses on the fantasy of the military body/masculinity seen through the eyes of Sharrod, a NJROTC recruit attending a high school in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Shot over the course of four years, Hanasik's project examines the concerns of Sharrod as he navigates his freshman to senior year under the watchful (and sculpting) eye of the military machine.Jason's book will also include an essay by Aaron Belkin. Belkin is a scholar, author, activist and dancer. He has written and edited more than twenty five scholarly articles, chapters and books, the most recent of which is a study of contradictions in American warrior masculinity and the ways in which smoothing over those contradictions makes U.S. empire seem unproblematic.Jason Hanasik has an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BFA Summa Cum Laude from the State University of New York at Purchase. Hanasik's work has been shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize and the Smithsonian's Outwin Boochever Portrait Prize. He was one of the 2011 Magenta Foundation US Winners and he has exhibited his work at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, as well as widely across the United States.The creative act of the explorer involves recognition, seeing via what we have already seen. Poet Denise Levertov says organic poetry, "is a method of apperception, i.e., of recognizing what we perceive.... Such a poetry is exploratory."MaryLynne Wrye's Journey is the poetic and photographic document of a trip that became a journey, both into memory and into mystery. This is an allegory for every journey, a practice of recognition, but also a witness to the transformation that must result. Every explorer must return changed.MaryLynne Wrye was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and resides in New York. She earned her MFA from University College London. Wrye was awarded the Patty Smith Poetry Prize from Stanford University upon graduating with a BA in English Literature and Poetry.Gravelle and I have produced two successful campaigns in consecutive years. We are confident with our timeframe and will be able to deliver on schedule. All prints will be made and signed by the artists in advance, and the books will be signed as soon as we receive shipment. Thank you for your time.
Danube Revisited The Inge Morath Truck Project The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2014-05-17 | Danube Revisited: The Inge Morath Truck Project is a photographic road trip and traveling exhibition. Nine female photographers will convert a truck into a mobile gallery and drive it along the length of the Danube River through Central and Eastern Europe. The exhibition will feature the work of renowned Magnum photographer Inge Morath, who photographed life along the Daunbe before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain. This project will only be funded if at least $50,000 is pledged by Sun, Jun 8 2014 1:29 PM EDT. To help: kickstarter.com/projects/308721393/danube-revisited-the-inge-morath-truck-projectWHO WE ARE: Olivia Arthur, Lurdes R. Basolí, Kathryn Cook, Mimi Chakarova, Jessica Dimmock, Claudia Guadarrama, Claire Martin, Emily Schiffer and Ami Vitale. The participating photographers are all recipients of the Inge Morath Award, a grant given annually by the members of Magnum Photos. These nine young women will retrace Morath's journey along the Danube, producing new work, and promoting dialouge about documentary photography through night projections, artist talks, photography forums, and cultural exchange with institutions. With the river as a collective subject, these young photographers hope to connect with the region that meant so much to Inge Morath.Our core motivation is to support the under-represented female voice in documentary photography, and to promote the kind of long-term, sustained international projects to which they have devoted their careers. We have created a project that is for women, by women, and in the legacy of a pioneering woman. In line with this vision, Danube Revisited is offering female photographers in the Danube region special mentoring, exhibition and publishing opportunities as a part of the project.The project will culminate in a book and traveling exhibition, produced by Fotohof Gallery, Austria, which pairs Morath's Danube work with new images created on the Danube River tour by the award winners and local women.The Inge Morath Truck Project is a collaboration between the nine award-winning photographers and: Fotohof Gallery, Salzburg, which facilitated Inge Morath's journey along the Danube, The Inge Morath Foundation, New York. It also has established support from the Magnum Foundation, The Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) and Spedition Ebeling Truck Company.
Amelia and the Animals: Photographs by Robin Schwartz (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2014-05-05 | "A photobook of Robin Schwartz's ongoing series with her daughter Amelia." This project will be funded on Sat, May 31 2014 3:40 PM EDT. To help: kickstarter.com/projects/aperturefoundation/amelia-and-the-animals-photographs-by-robin-schwarSince she was Amelia was years old, she has been her mother's muse and the subject of her photographs. Her mother, the photographer Robin Schwartz, has been working for twelve years on this ongoing collaborative series, dedicated to documenting her and Amelia's adventures among the animals. As Amelia has gotten older, she's become a more active participant. "She didn't realize how unusual her encounters were until everyone started to tell her how lucky she was to meet so many animals," says Robin. Amelia now contributes ideas for their shoots, and the images have become more experimental through their mother-daughter collaboration.The resulting photographs are more than documents of Amelia and her rapport with animals. They offer a meditation on the nature of interspecies communication and serve as evidence of a shared mother-daughter journey into invented worlds, of fables they enact together.If this Kickstarter campaign is successful, in fall 2014 the New York-based photography publisher Aperture Foundation will publish the photobook Amelia and the Animals, including new photographs from Robin's ongoing series with Amelia. Aperture is a non-profit organization that relies on contributions from supporting individuals, companies, and foundations, and on sales of photographers' limited-edition prints, to help make and publish photobooks—works of art in their own right that inspire the reader and promote awareness of photographers.
Film & Photo for All: One Year of Programs at the Bronx Documentary Center (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2014-03-11 | The Bronx Documentary Center is raising funds to help in their photography exhibitions and film screening programming. To receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 4/15/14 To help: kickstarter.com/projects/1667757478/film-and-photo-for-all-one-year-of-programs-at-theFrom BDC: Located in the heart of the South Bronx, the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) is an accessible, community-oriented gallery for documentary film, photography and photojournalism. In an age where newspapers are cutting staff and magazines are closing, the BDC provides a much needed public space in which to interact with journalism and photography--live and in person.Founded in 2011 in a formerly abandoned building, the BDC is a unique and exciting crossroads where local students, artists, activists and neighbors mix with leading photographers, journalists and filmmakers. As one neighbor told us, "We bring the world to the Bronx and the Bronx to the world." Join us in creating quality programs for all ages.The next year of programs includes:Thought-provoking exhibitions including Stephanie Sinclair's Too Young to Wed; Benedict J. Fernandez's historic work on the American civil rights movement; work by emerging Mexican photographers; and Carlos Javier Ortiz's project on gun violence, We All We Got; 30 film screenings and post-film panel discussions; A repeat of our summer outdoor movie screening in local housing projects; The continuation of our pilot after-school photography program with Bronx youth.We believe in the documentary tradition and in the power of photography and film to help build community, expose injustices and create positive social change. The BDC has become a much needed and much loved meeting place for local and international photographers, writers, and filmmakers seeking to learn, grow, and share their ideas. In the words of a Bronx participant in our free Friday night photo class: "Since coming to the BDC my life has changed for the better--and I am so grateful that it has."Bronx Documentary Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Join us!
Ken Regans Rock & Roll Life The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2014-01-13 | You're on the road with the Rolling Stones. Don't drink the punch, unless you want to fly. See one of the last interviews with the great photographer Ken Regan. Edited by John Prete. Voiced by Craig Sechler. Produced by Stephen Menick....This video is part of the DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/DEVELOPPhoto and is featured here with permission from and in collaboration with its creator. DEVELOP Tube is an educational resource which features interviews, profiles, lectures & films about photojournalism, fine art photography & documentary photography.Bio: As a three-time Emmy-nominated Writer-Producer-Director based in Washington DC, Stephen Menick has the pleasure of teaching the art of the branding video through the Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) graduate program at West Virginia University.His documentary on the Japanese American experience during World War Two, originally produced for PBS, accompanied the Smithsonian-sponsored 2013 touring exhibit of the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Japanese American veterans, and has been screened at the Chicago History Museum and the Holocaust Museum Houston.Another documentary, on the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., originally produced for PBS, opened the pre-dedication ceremony of the King Memorial on the National Mall in 2011.Here's his Vimeo page: http://vimeo.com/menicktvArticles in Creative COW Magazine:http://library.creativecow.net/menick_stephen/King-Kong_Wheres-the-story/1http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/america-is-the-movie-wwii-exclusion-zone-internment-campshttp://magazine.creativecow.net/article/line-of-sighthttp://magazine.creativecow.net/article/plan-it-like-a-bank-heist
Robert Frank and The Americans The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2014-01-13 | It was called "The Americans," and 50 years ago, America hated it. DP: Scott Bartlett. Editor: Bill Creed. Narrator: Steve Mencher. Produced by Stephen Menick for the PBS Show My Generation....This video is part of the DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/DEVELOPPhoto and is featured here with permission from and in collaboration with its creator. DEVELOP Tube is an educational resource which features interviews, profiles, lectures & films about photojournalism, fine art photography & documentary photography.Bio: As a three-time Emmy-nominated Writer-Producer-Director based in Washington DC, Stephen Menick has the pleasure of teaching the art of the branding video through the Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) graduate program at West Virginia University.His documentary on the Japanese American experience during World War Two, originally produced for PBS, accompanied the Smithsonian-sponsored 2013 touring exhibit of the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Japanese American veterans, and has been screened at the Chicago History Museum and the Holocaust Museum Houston.Another documentary, on the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., originally produced for PBS, opened the pre-dedication ceremony of the King Memorial on the National Mall in 2011.Here's his Vimeo page: http://vimeo.com/menicktvArticles in Creative COW Magazine:http://library.creativecow.net/menick_stephen/King-Kong_Wheres-the-story/1http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/america-is-the-movie-wwii-exclusion-zone-internment-campshttp://magazine.creativecow.net/article/line-of-sighthttp://magazine.creativecow.net/article/plan-it-like-a-bank-heist
Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink by Bill Yates The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2014-01-09 | From Bill Yates: "Now and again you happen upon something that just leaves you stunned in utter amazement and has a major impact on your work. Such was the case 40 years ago, and such is the case today, as I have recently unboxed these images and scanned all 800 negatives, reliving 7 incredible months of shooting. The Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink series was shot from the fall of 1972 through the spring of '73 in rural, southern Hillsborough County (Tampa, FL). A portfolio of images from the series was a winner of the PhotoLucida "Critical Mass Top 50" for 2013. Friend, photographer/filmmaker Clif Brewer saw the work, and asked to shoot this short video. Many thanks!"PhotoLucida Critical Mass 2013 "Top 50 Winner" - http://photolucida.org/cm_winners.php?aID=5476&CMYear=2013&event_id=16http://billyatesphotographer.comhttp://downsouthernroads.comFilmmaker:http://clifbrewer.com...This video is part of the DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel which can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/DEVELOPPhoto. DEVELOP Tube is an educational resource which features interviews, profiles, lectures & films about photojournalism, fine art photography & documentary photography.
Marginal Trades by Supranav Dash The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-12-15 | Trades and professional practices have always been intertwined with the Caste System in India. Each caste and its sub-sets would stereotype an individual and dictate their occupational practice. Since the early 1800's, people were not allowed to deviate from their fixed professions or they would be outlawed by society, which at the time, social morals reflected ignorance and strong attachment to orthodox beliefs. The tradition of professions and trades being passed down the line from father to son, continued for generations until the very moment when globalization and rapid socio-economic change resulted in the problem of enculturation and automation. At that point, many of the age-old practices faded out, while others are currently on their way to extinction.The modern Indian generation refuses to carry on with their ancestral professions and trades; they have become more daring and switch to the more lucrative business possibilities. The abandonment of traditional practices also result from insufficient incomes, a desire to escape the caste stereotypes, the constant neglect of the privileged classes of the society they serve, and a government that was not open to social reforms.The Marginal Tradesmen were photographed in Kolkata (previously Calcutta), India, between 2011-2013, which was the capital of British Colonial India and also the commercial hub of the Indian sub-continent. Global trends are constantly changing, therefore, in these increasingly frantic modern times; it is very easy to forget our past, culture and traditions. I am not opposed to modernization, but at the same time, I would want to slow things down and force one's self to recognize and remember the beauty of these analog practices, within the realm of our digital age. As a photographer, I want to use my craft to pay respect to these tradesmen and bring them to light.Directed and Filmed by: Supranav DashEdited by: Steven Shilling IIhttp://supranavdash.comhttp://lightbox.time.com/2013/08/20/indias-disappearing-trades-portraits-by-supranav-dash-2/#1Supranav Dash was born and brought up in Kolkata, India. He has a BFA in Photography (Honors) from the School of Visual Arts, NYC. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn. His areas of interest are Fine Art and Social Documentary....This video is part of the DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel and is featured here with permission from and in collaboration with its creator. DEVELOP Tube is an educational resource which features interviews, profiles, lectures & films about photojournalism, fine art photography & documentary photography.
We All We Got by Carlos Javier Ortiz (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-12-07 | Carlos Javier Ortiz is raising funds for his photography project which chronicles youth violence in the US. This project will only be funded if at least $10,000 is pledged by 1/18/14. To help: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1457784394/we-all-we-gotSince 2006, photographer Carlos Javier Ortiz has committed himself to documenting the depredations of youth violence in Chicago and other U.S. cities in his project, "Too Young To Die." Seven years after he first began his undertaking, the project's denouement, a book titled We All We Got ... , will finally collect in one place photographs, essays, and interviews humanizing the victims, survivors, perpetrators, friends and family of those irrevocably affected by the scourge of youth violence.In 2011, Carlos Javier launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to help finance the first phase of the project. The funds, together with other grants, propelled the project forward and sustained its momentum, opening many doors. Since then, his photographs have been exhibited in universities, museums, community spaces and in various Chicago high schools. He has also donated prints to many anti-violence/youth development nonprofits with which he works closely, as well as students and educators seeking to better understand the problem at hand.With your help, We All We Got ... will allow these stories to transcend the electronic confines of the Web and become a tangible, lasting artifact, one that will help spur a broader conversation on a difficult but pressing topic. Moreover, Carlos Javier hopes that the book will inspire similar projects in other cities and cultivate understanding and sympathy along the way. The photographic exhibition from this project will continue to travel throughout the United States and around the world.Bio: Carlos Javier Ortiz was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Chicago. Since studying photography at Columbia College Chicago, he has focused on documenting vulnerable, disadvantaged communities across the United States, Mexico and Guatemala. His projects have been supported by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation, the Open Society Institute, the Chicago Community Trust, Individual Artists Program, and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Carlos Javier's photographs have been displayed in galleries and museums around the world. His work is currently in collections at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York. His work has been published in Ebony Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, GEO, among other international print, broadcast and online media.
Afghanistan: Between Life & War by Paula Bronstein (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-10-29 | Afghanistan: "Between Life & War" is a book project by Paula Bronstein (Getty Images) featuring the award-winning photojournalist's coverage of Afghanistan starting from late 2001, continuing for well over a decade. For info on the Kickstarter campaign that runs through December 7, 2013: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulaphoto/afghanistan-between-life-and-warWhile embedded with U.S forces on occasion, the book project exclusively draws on work from Paula's independent photography of the war torn country. It focuses on how Afghan people conducted their lives against the backdrop of an unceasing violent war and a brutal Taliban insurgency. These images tell heart warming and heart breaking stories of extreme poverty, human rights abuses against women, lack of healthcare, education, employment, of love and compassion, and the vulnerability of mankind. As a female working in a conservative Islamic country, Paula's perspective gives the viewer a more intimate look at the plight of Afghan women, following their personal life struggles.http://www.paulaphoto.comhttp://www.reportagebygettyimages.com/paula-bronsteintwitter.com/paulaphotoPaula Bronstein's many nominations and awards span decades and represent only a small space in what is simply a lifetime of phenomenal frontline news and documentary photography across the globe. She sits alongside the most important photographers of our modern time, as a multiple nominee and award winner of international contests including The Pulitzer and The National Press Photographer's Association. She has judged the most important international photography contests such as The World Press Photo Award, and Pictures of The Year International, exhibited extensively, and given interviews herself for the media in the US, Australia, and across Asia. Bronstein's work reflects a dedicated humanitarian and visual war correspondent finding visual moments nobody else would dare look for, as she brings a voice to those who have none. She continues to photograph presidents and kings, natural disasters, political turmoil and conflict, and always the most impoverished and vulnerable people on this earth, from Mongolia to Afghanistan and Africa...Her images are found in almost every international news publication and magazine....This video is part of the DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel and is featured here with permission from and in collaboration with its creator. DEVELOP Tube is an educational resource which features interviews, profiles, lectures & films about photojournalism, fine art photography & documentary photography.
Toishan, China: Another Home 8,000 Miles Away by Alan Chin (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-09-21 | Alan is raising funds to return to Toishan, China, to document his family's story and the larger narrative of Chinese immigration. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded by 10/28/13 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alanschin/toishan-china-another-home-8000-miles-awayFrom Alan: I need your support to return to Toishan, China, and complete my photographic and historical documentary project tying together my family history and the larger story of the Chinese-American diaspora and emigration abroad.Over the next several years, I will spend six to twelve months in China, photographing and interviewing Toishanese families, many with similar stories to my own.This Kickstarter funding will pay for travel, lodging, and then editing and printing of the images. The final product will be a book and related slideshow/exhibition that I will present both to Chinese-American audiences -- so that we know our own history more -- and in larger contexts so that our story can become more widely shared.Although I was born in the United States, Toishan is my ancestral home. I speak a local dialect of Cantonese that is incomprehensible to the rest of China.Toishan is a county of a million people in Guangdong Province in southern China. I have been photographing there on and off since 1989. It looks at first glance like many other areas: a few gleaming buildings and factories, multi-lane divided highways, McDonald's, new cars and well-dressed pedestrians. It seems to exemplify wealth and economic growth.Behind this facade is Toishan's peculiar history. Until the 1960s, two-thirds of all overseas Chinese, like my family, originated from this one small region. It was poor and over-populated during the 19th century and very close to Guangzhou, where the foreign powers first penetrated China. Thus it was a fertile recruiting ground for the "coolies" who built the American transcontinental railroad, and for the generations who emigrated to become restaurant workers and laundrymen.My paternal great uncle, Sing Chin, left our village of Gongmei in 1927, traveling first to Cuba and then the United States. My father, Fow Sang Chin, followed in 1951. He would not see my mother for 19 years. They worked in family-run laundries in the Bronx and Queens, and I grew up in that now-vanished world of the old sojourners' Chinatown.Those were tumultuous years in China, with the Second World War and civil war between Communists and Nationalists. Contact with the motherland was almost completely severed during the Cold War and the chaos of Mao's Cultural Revolution.The lives of the Chinese in the diaspora diverged radically from those of our relatives back home. Politically and culturally, mainland China disintegrated and rebuilt itself in paroxysms of murderous totalitarianism and then unabashed capitalist reform.Many ordinary social services like schools and hospitals survive only on donations from overseas. State funding has withered. The health system once provided basic, if primitive, care to all. It is now accessible only to those who can pay. Villages have lost their populations as residents seek better opportunities elsewhere.My last remaining close relative in Toishan was a great aunt who died several years ago, not long after I saw her. My father's house and the house in which my mother was born now sit empty, their former inhabitants scattered across the United States, Malaysia and Canada.But when I walk through the rice fields and the paved roads that now lead to Gongmei, villagers recognize me and accept me as a native son — albeit one who is overheard speaking in English on a mobile phone and seems to spend an inordinate amount of time taking photographs. After all, I keep returning. And my name and family's names are on the donors' plaque of the recently built community center.The more time I spend there, the more it begins to feel like some kind of home, illusory as that might seem. Despite the persistent poverty and the vast chasm between Gongmei and my life in New York, I can foresee a time when Toishan might become like Tuscany, a picturesque region rich in history and architectural heritage, a vacation getaway. For now, though, it is still part of the forgotten rural China, engulfed in a crisis that is quiet but sustained.Alan Chin was born and raised in New York City's Chinatown. Since 1996, he has worked in China, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Central Asia, Egypt and Tunisia. Domestically, Alan followed the historic trail of the civil rights movement, documented the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and covered the 2008 presidential campaign. He is a contributing photographer to The New York Times, Next City, and BagNewsNotes, an editor and photographer at Newsmotion, and member of Facing Change: Documenting America (FCDA).http://facingchange.orghttp://alanschin.com
Burma in Transition by Geoffrey Hiller (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-09-18 | Geoffrey Hiller is raising funds for his photobook documenting life inside Burma from 1987 through the recent historic transition. To receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 10/10/13 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/834882042/burma-in-transitionThe photographer: I grew up in New York, and it's on crowded city streets where I feel at home, watching lives play out, in places like Brazil, Bangladesh, and Burma. Photography is the best way to find the pulse of a place, to explore, to reflect, to understand who we are. My work has been published in magazines including Geo, the New York Times, Newsweek, and others all over the world.Five years ago I created Verve Photo, a blog which showcases powerful work by international documentary photographers. Besides shooting and editing, in recent years I have been teaching photography and digital media as a Fulbright scholar in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Pakistan.The Burma Project: The country that has drawn me back most often is Burma, one of the world's poorest and most isolated places. I first went in 1987 on the one-week visa. After a frenetic trip, it wasn't so much the monks and pagodas that haunted me, but the faces of the Burmese, painted in white, often smiling. I wanted to find out more about who they really were, plagued by a corrupt government and international sanctions. Despite a travel boycott, I decided to return in 2000. The military now called the country 'Myanmar' and was no less repressive but allowed me to stay longer and travel more freely. The result was the multimedia web site Burma: Grace Under Pressure, which won awards and was seen by millions.Fast forward to 2011, when the US Embassy hired me to teach photojournalists in Yangon. I got on the plane that May with a tourist visa, worried that my name might be on a blacklist at customs. I did not know that the dictatorship was beginning to relax censorship and free political prisoners. There was still not one picture of 'The Lady', anywhere, and no one talked about her. By early 2012, all that had changed. It was amazing to witness one of the first rallies where Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party were allowed to appear in public. The Irrawaddy News and Foreign Policy Magazine published my stories of events in Burma. Some of the photographs were chosen for exhibit by Fotofest Cincinnati in their Reporting Back 2012 event.I returned yet again in 2013. My camera focused on capturing daily life, from the cramped streets of the colonial capital of Yangon, to dusty markets in Mandalay, to Muslims in Meikhtila, and river life in Pathein.The book: Everybody asks, where can I buy the book? Now the time is right to share these images, as Burma is poised for big changes, and politicians, businesses and NGO's from around the world begin to stream into the country. The face of Yangon has already changed, with new building construction and imported cars. What is unique about this country is how the repressive military dictatorship after 50 years has itself initiated this historic opening, allowing unheard of political and cultural freedom. The real question is how this will play out in the lives of the Burmese people.I am asking for your help to self-publish a book. As some of you know, with changes in digital technology the publishing industry is going through a transformation, and publishers are reluctant to print books by even the most accomplished photographers.A professional team is in place. Editors/designers Natasha Chandani and Lana Cavar have begun working with me to produce a high-quality 192-page book of color photographs in a 7 x 9 1/2 inch format.Essays by prominent Burmese writer Dr. Ma Thida, a human rights activist and herself a former political prisoner, and also journalist Francis Wade will accompany the images to explain the context in Burma today. The book will be in print by April 2014.Among the rewards are limited edition prints and a signed copy of the book.Bio: The photography of Geoffrey Hiller has been published in magazines in the USA, Europe, and Japan including Geo, Newsweek, Mother Jones and the New York Times Magazine. He has completed dozens of photo essays in Asia, Latin America, Europe and West Africa and was on the staff of the Brazilian edition of National Geographic for two years. His award-winning multimedia projects about Vietnam, Eastern Europe, Ghana, Burma, and Brazil have earned recognition from Apple Computer, The Christian Science Monitor and USA Today. He has received grants from the Paul Allen Foundation, the California Arts Council, Regional Arts and Culture Council in Portland, Oregon, among others. Hiller was a Fulbright Scholar in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2008-2009. Most recently he has been teaching photojournalism in India, Burma, Cambodia and Pakistan. Hiller is the creator and editor of Verve Photo: The New Breed of Documentary Photographers. His home is in Portland, Oregon.
DISKO by Andrew Miksys (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-07-10 | Andrew Miksys is raising funds for his photobook DISKO which chronicles Lithuanian village discos. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 8/6/13. To help: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1377950527/disko-photographs-of-lithuanian-village-discosFrom Andrew: For almost 10 years, I spent many weekends photographing in village discos in Lithuania. Most of these discos are located in Soviet era culture houses. Sometimes I would rummage around the back rooms and find broken Lenin paintings, Soviet movie posters, gas masks and other remnants of the Soviet Union. I was quite fascinated by all this debris of a dead empire. It seemed like a perfect backdrop to make a series of photographs about young people in Lithuania, a crumbling past and the uncertain future of a new generation together in one room. The people I photographed were often puzzled about my presence in their local discos. Why would someone travel all the way from the USA to photograph them? I'm an American-Lithuanian, but my broken, heavily accented Lithuanian certainly gave me away. In truth, it was probably my outsider status that made me less threatening and kept me safe. The local disco is where you go to get drunk, make out, dance and sometimes fight. I ignored the repeated warnings from friends not to travel to these places alone. My anxiety was often quite intense when I got in my car and left the familiar lights of Vilnius searching for discos on mostly empty back roads. I never knew what I was going to find, but the prospect of discovering a disco somewhere in the dark with colored lights pouring out the windows and pulsating music pushed me forward. Village discos are less popular these days. Lithuanian youth are moving to cities or leaving for Western Europe and America as fast as they can. But it's my guess this doesn't signal the end of village discos. The summer solstice or Joninės (St. John the Baptist Day) is one of the more important holidays in Lithuania. Despite being named in honor of a Christian saint, this holiday has very pagan roots. And Lithuania, with its distinction as the last country in Europe to give up paganism and accept Christianity, enthusiastically celebrates the solstice by heading to the countryside. It's one time during the year when villages seem more populated than cities. Andrei Tarkovsky has an amazing scene in his film Andrei Rublev showing medieval pagans celebrating the solstice. Naked villagers run around in the forest dancing, jumping over fires and having sex in the bushes. While it's assumed that discos are a product of urban culture, it seems to me that these pagan traditions from the forest could have been the first discos. And maybe dancing in the forest never really goes out of style. After all, the full moon and stars make a pretty awesome disco ball.Bio: Andrew Miksys' photography has been shown internationally including exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre, De Appel Contemporary Arts Centre (Amsterdam) and Fotohof (Salzburg). In 2002 he was selected by Photo District News (PDN) as one of the "top 30 emerging photographers to watch" and in 2006 he was featured in Slate magazine as Slate's "Artist of the Month". In 2007 he published, BAXT, a book of photographs from his series about the Lithuanian Roma (Gypsy) community. Poet and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu wrote the introduction to BAXT. Miksys has also been the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation (2000), Fulbright (1998 and 2002), the Aaron Siskind Foundation (2009) and Light Work (2011). His photography has been featured in several magazines including The New Yorker, Harper's and Esquire Russia, and The Stranger. He currently divides his time between Vilnius, Lithuania and Seattle.The book: Self-published by Andrew Miksys - 100 pages / hardcover / 45 color photographs / 10 x 12 inches / Layout and Design by Claudia Ott and Andrew Miksys / Publication date: October 1, 2013 / 1000 copies / 50 Limited Edition copies with signed print and box DISKO will also include a text by Lithuanian writer and historian, Laimonas Briedis. Briedis was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, but has lived in Vancouver for the last 20 years. This experience has given him the unique ability to see Lithuania from both the inside and out. His recent book, Vilnius City of Strangers has been hailed as the most provocative and important books about Vilnius.I am working with Claudia Ott on the layout and design for DISKO. She has made some great books including some of my favorite photography books by Michael Schmidt and Bernard Fuchs.
Upstate Girls by Brenda Ann Kenneally (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-07-09 | Brenda Kenneally is raising funds for her photography project Upstate Girls - a multiplatform documentary which chronicles the lives of a group of families in Troy, NY over 9 years. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 7/24/13. To help: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744892122/upstate-girlsI'm Brenda Ann Kenneally, for the past nine years I've been working in Troy, NY documenting the lives of the women that live on a single block there. My mission is to share with audiences what I have learned about the culture of class separation in the United States and the evolution of social policies that have shaped it.According to the 2010 census approximately 20% of the households in Troy are headed by single females. The jobs that these women have evolved from the factory work of the industrial revolution that earned Troy its name Collar City to the post industrial service sector jobs like Dunkin' Donuts, McDonalds, and other big box food chains that are now cemented in the American landscape. What has remained constant is that the women I have grown to know in Troy now as the collar laundresses in the 1900's have drawn on their maternal skills to power them through long days at work and huge family demands when they return home. The Upstate Girls Project is not only a document of the America that we all share with these women, but more importantly a story of the emotional connections that are universal to being human. The quest for love, beauty and belonging is the lifeline that accompanies these women through long bleak grey winters, jail visits to sons and fathers of their children, and long hours at often monotonous jobs. For many of us a successful life is acquiring the emotional fortitude to get from one safe space to the next. The love of a good dog, sparkly underwear from wal-mart, spongebob, coffee, cigarettes, kids and sex...lots of sex are oasis's in the post industrial state of Troy. I understand this because it's the world I grew up in. I have been working closely with the students at the Rochester Institute of Technology and The Visual Studies Workshop to create a multi-layered online documentary of my work. Together we've been going through hundreds of hours of video, thousands of photographs historical documents and ephemera to bring this project to life. I want to be able to create a platform for deep exploration of these complex issues. My dream is to have an interactive web documentary that can be used by others who share my love of discovering their fellows through storytelling, researchers and social workers, and most of all will be friendly to young people from cultures similar to community that I have been working in in Troy. You will be able to discover the lives of the women I've come to know through videos, photographs, letters, historical documents and scrapbooks on your own time and tie the pieces of their stories together in your own way.A workshop component of this show began the participatory scrapbook project and a further collaboration with The Rennselaer County Historical Society to include images, letters and ephemera from their collect to situate the contempory documentary work with in the frame work of Troy's rich industrial history. Kickstarter funds will be essential in producing a cohesive interactive vehicle for all the facets of this project.The second phase of this work will be to open the database of information I have gathered over the past 9 years to those people who can activate change. It is my hope that this project will reach beyond the traditional audience of documentary photography and news and support research and change.I'm reaching out to you with the hopes that your generosity can help spread this project to your community. I've also asked some of my colleagues who I admire and are photographing women in beautiful and diverse ways to contribute to an amazing portfolio that weave their work together with some of my favorite iconic images of women by women from the Library of Congress Collection. These photographers include Julianna Beasley, Samantha Box, Maisie Crow, Andrea Morales, Emily Schiffer and Zoe Strauss. This portfolio is a limited edition collection of incredible contemporary work.Upstate Girls is an enormous project, which is why I need your help. Your donations will help access the resources needed to bring it to it's full potential. The students at both RIT and VSW have been hard at work since November 2012 organizing and pre-editing this massive amount of material. We are now at the stage where the students and the project would benefit greatly from collaboration with professional web designers, web programmers, and video editors. These resources take a lot of time and money and without it the project can never be finished.
WALLONWALL by Kai Wiedenhöfer (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-06-25 | Kai Wiedenhöfer is raising funds for WALLONWALL, a photo exhibition on the Berlin Wall. To receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 7/2/13. To help: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/701554058/wallonwall-a-photo-exhibition-on-the-berlin-wall From Kai: I'm a photographer based in Berlin and for the past seven years I have been photographing walls that separate people around the world.I'm now in the process of publishing a book of the pictures from this long term project (titled 'Confrontier'), and my dream is to realize an exhibition of these photographs on one of the most dramatic landmarks of the city I live in: the Berlin Wall.The concept of the WALLONWALL exhibition is to show the contemporary issues of separation walls erected all over the world on the physical remains of the most famous fallen wall. Peace begins where walls fall, not where they are erected.If we reach our target, we will be printing 36 pictures from the project in extra large format (9x3 meters - i.e. 29x10 feet), and we'll be mounting them on one side of one of the longest stretches of the Wall still standing along the river Spree in Berlin.The exhibition will cover more than 1100 square meters and will create a striking visual experience for the visitors that come to see the Wall every day.The exhibition will be open for two months, in July and August 2013, and will be open for free to everybody 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is expected that more than 200.000 people will visit that stretch of the Berlin Wall in the central months of the summer.Our target amount will cover our expenses for the materials, the printing and the mounting of the pictures.Since you are probably wondering: we have already all the necessary permits from the relevant authorities in Berlin for the mounting of the pictures on the side of the Wall facing the river Spree. The mounting will be executed by professionals that will ensure the best result.We also have already realized a successful test last November: a test print was mounted and removed after 20 days with no remains on the wall.Since 2006 I've photographed eight border and separation walls: Baghdad (700 km)South-Korea | North-Korea (248 km) Cyprus | Greenline (180 km) USA | Mexico (3141 km)Ceuta and Melilla, Spain | Marocco (8+13 km)Israel | Palestinian Territories (703 km)Belfast | Peace Lines (15 km) The Iron Curtain | former German - German border (1378 km)You could find more informations on the project website: http://wallonwall.org Kai Wiedenhöfer, born in Germany in 1966, received an MA in photography and editorial design from the Folkwang School in Essen and studied Arabic in Damascus, Syria. Since 1989 the focus of his work has mainly been the Middle East. He has received numerous awards, as the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Alexia Grant for World Peace and Cultural Understanding, World Press Photo Awards, the Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography and lately the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award. He has published three books with Steidl "Perfect Peace" (2002) , "Wall" (2007) and "The Book of Destruction" (2010) which was exhibited as a solo exhibition in the Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.Neil Burgess is an agent and editor who has worked with top photographers worldwide for 30 years. The director of Magnum Photos London and New York, he started nbpictures in London in 2003 combining interests in art commerce and journalism, and representing Sebastiao Salgado and Annie Leibovitz.
VJ Day 1945: The Bravest Generation Celebrates WWIIs End (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-06-17 | From Richard: My Dad (USN) shot this beautiful color Kodachrome 16mm film footage before, during and after VJ Day, August 14, 1945, in Hawaii.My Dad's rude introduction to WWII took place on the morning of December 7, 1941 when, eight minutes before enemy bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor, he was literally bombed out of his bunk at Oahu's Kaneohe Naval Air Station by Japanese fighter planes.Following the passing of my Mom and Dad I came into possession of this spectacular 1945 film footage of VJ Day celebrations in Honolulu. Coincidentally the global economy tanked the same year. My initial efforts at conserving the footage and the producing my intended documentary of VJ Day and its consequences, "The Bravest Generation" were impeded by the scarcity of funding. Efforts at winning financial backing from traditional sources like institutions and corporate entities to pursue preservation and documentary production were negatively influenced by overall economic conditions.But with the advent of Kickstarter, an entirely democratic method emerged independent of previous, difficult-to-access avenues allowing hundreds of people like me to bring their creative dream projects to reality.An initial digital scan on the footage was performed in 2009, and the result can be seen here in the trailer. Since then, film scanning technology has advanced exponentially, as has also the software technology for the masking/removing of dirt, scratches and other flaws on the film without altering or degrading the original images.No commercial color movie film medium other than Kodachrome has survived deterioration for three quarters of a century. My footage, save for easily-remedied color fading and color shift (the trailer has been color corrected using 2009 technology), is virtually unchanged after 68 years. Germany's Agfachrome movie film from the 1930s −1940s, for example, was inferior to Kodachrome from the get-go, with present-day surviving Agfa motion picture and photographic color slide film from that era having shifted dramatically in overall color tint toward green. Even Adolph Hitler turned his back on Agfachrome, preferring instead Kodak's products to document his rule. Today's surviving Nazi-era color films were virtually all shot on Kodak's Kodachrome film.Properly stored Kodachrome, like the footage my Dad shot, has survived amazingly well, but it is ultimately beginning to show its age. Common Kodachrome problems due to the passage of time and less-than-ideal storage conditions are often seen as a shift in overall color toward red, and the crackling of the emulsion in a spider-web-like pattern similar to that seen in the glazes on antique pottery, which dulls the overall moving image and allows mildew and emulsion loss to take hold.Before natural conditions caused by time's passing can diminish this unique record of the euphoria of VJ Day and the wrapping-up of the military's wartime role, this footage deserves and requires the best quality digital scanning, dirt & scratch removal, and color balancing to return it as close to possible to its original 1945 state.About Richard: Previously a photographer for the LA Times Sunday Magazine, and contributor as photographer and writer to Los Angeles Magazine, I segued into guidebook publishing in 1992 sponsored by the Eastman Kodak Co. and Budget Rent A Car: American Airlines named my resulting "Driving & Discovering Oahu" (currently 4.7 stars on Amazon) as Best Hawaii Guidebook at its Hawaii Travel Journalism Awards. In 1992 my first photography show utilizing the gum bichromate process took place at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2010 my short film The Bravest Generation seen here won runner-up at the Los Angeles International Film Festival. I have published two novels of a planned trilogy about the immigrant experience in Buffalo's irish 1st Ward, entitled "The First Ward."
A Photographic Memory by Rachel Elizabeth Seed (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-06-04 | Rachel Elizabeth Seed is raising funds for A Photographic Memory, a personal documentary film about a daughter's search for the mother she never knew through their shared love of photography, through Wednesday Jul 3. To help: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1774742582/a-photographic-memoryFrom Rachel: This project began when I uncovered some boxes of short films at my dad's house about the photographic icons Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Cornell Capa, Lisette Model, W. Eugene Smith, William Albert Allard, Don McCullin, and others. My mother, Sheila Turner-Seed had directed and edited the films in the early '70s. Since she died so long ago, I thought maybe I could learn more about her life if I retraced their origins.I discovered that her raw interviews had been sitting like a time capsule at the International Center of Photography since 1979 when my dad sent them there for safekeeping. This led me to start A Photographic Memory, a film celebrating my mother's life and work, as well as ICP founder Cornell Capa's vision for photography.In A Photographic Memory, I go on a journey to learn -- through our shared profession -- about the mother I never knew but whom I so desperately need to know. My mother, Sheila, was an ambitious New York and London-based writer, editor and producer who died suddenly in 1979. I was 18 months old and she had completed, a few years earlier, a series of award-winning film programs about influential photographers that were co-produced by International Center of Photography founder Cornell Capa and Scholastic. After revisiting these photographers in New York, France and England or, if deceased, their closest associations, I am blending my mother's 1970s interviews with my own footage, creating a posthumous mother-daughter collaboration that connects me to my mother while re-examining the course of the careers of some of the most influential photographers in the history of the medium.http://rachelseed.comfacebook.com/apmfilmLondon-born, Brooklyn-based photographer / filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed uses both mediums to explore socioanthropological topics in contemporary culture.***************The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel is an educational resource which features interviews, multimedia, lectures & films in photojournalism, documentary & fine art photography. Watch DEVELOP Tube on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/channels/developphoto and on YouTube: http://youtube.com/user/DEVELOPPhoto
Through Our Eyes: Photojournalism for Women Around the World (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-05-17 | Global Press Institute is raising funds to bring photojournalism training and cameras to their award-winning women reporters in 25 countries throughout the developing world. To receive contributions the project must be funded in full by 6/29/13 To help: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1477211729/through-our-eyes-photojournalism-for-women-aroundGlobal Press Institute (GPI) uses journalism as a development tool to educate, employ and empower women, who become professional local reporters producing ethical, authentic news coverage that elevates global awareness and ignites social change.Over the last 7 years we have trained and employed 133 women across 26 developing countries to be ethical, investigative, award-winning journalists. In 2013 we are providing additional photojournalism training to ensure that every GPI reporter can make powerful images to accompany her world-changing journalism. At GPI, we believe that in the hands of women, journalism and photojournalism can elevate global awareness and spur local change on a variety of issues. "Through Our Eyes" is a photojournalism project that will showcase powerful images in 2 dynamic ways -- a full color news photography book and a portrait exhibition to be showcased in 3 cities.The project will celebrate the power of images taken by local women journalists. The photography book, written by GPI founder Cristi Hegranes and photographer Paige Stoyer, will feature photography by and about the women journalists of GPI around the world. The portrait exhibit will feature the faces of the journalists of GPI. The portrait exhibition will be shown in San Francisco, Portland in New York in 2014. All portraits will be taken by other professional women photographers who provided photojournalism training to GPI reporters in 2013. First, we teamed up with brilliant, professional photojournalists around the globe to bring new cameras to 10 GPI News Desks this year. The photojournalists will host an intensive 2-day photojournalism training in each location in order to enable GPI reporters to elevate the quality of images they take to pair with their award-winning news coverage. Then, for the next 12 months we will gather the best and most powerful images captured by GPI reporters in the course of their reporting. These high-impact photographs will address local social justice and human rights issues as well as showcase the beauty and development occurring in their communities. The images will fill the pages of the first ever GPI photography book "Through our Eyes" -- a full color, 7x7 collection of global images. After the training, the trainers will take portraits of the GPI reporters to be included in the "Through Our Eyes" gallery tour and photography book. The portraits will represent the diverse locations where GPI operates -- Haiti, Zambia, Kashmir, Cameroon and Sri Lanka to name a few! These images will powerfully represent the brave, bold women of GPI who have dedicated themselves to the craft of journalism in order to bring positive change to our world. Supporting this project means supporting the creation of two pieces of art -- the book and portrait exhibit -- that will celebrate the women journalists and photojournalists of GPI who use journalism as a development tool to ignite social change!GPI has had an enormous impact on the world -- training journalists, elevating global awareness on critical issues, and igniting social change. More than 25% of GPI stories in the last two years have catalyzed direct action, sparking social protest, provoking international attention to issues first covered by GPI, and even changing laws in two countries.For example, in 2011, when the Parliament of Nepal passed a new anti-discrimination law about inter-caste marriages, a member of the Prime Minister's legal team credited GPI Senior Reporter Tara Bhattarai with forcing the issue into the national conversation.GPI's 2012 reporter survey demonstrated the impact that GPI has on the lives of the women in the program: 100% reported having a greater sense of basic journalism principles and journalistic ethics after GPI training, while 79% said they can now use a computer more efficiently. Additionally, 100% reported having a greater understanding of journalistic ethics after GPI training.http://www.globalpressinstitute.org
Love and Rage by Tracie Williams (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-05-07 | Tracie Williams is raising funds for her photography book that offers a glimpse into a year of her life documenting the Occupy Wall Street movement. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 5/29/13. To help: http://tinyurl.com/LOVE-RAGE From Tracie: To fully understand something you have to live it and breathe it. I guess you could say I have been in the trenches for the past year, physically battered and mentally bruised. I've seen things and met people that have altered my way of thinking and opened my mind exponentially. I've smashed a few flashes, been run over by fleeing mobs, struck by police batons, slept on cardboard to diffuse the cold concrete, surfed couches, rode on day long over-packed bus journeys, marched through torrential rains and sweltering temperatures, and even found myself arrested.Living an activist, transient life I emotionally, physically, and financially invested a solid year documenting Occupy Wall Street daily - leading up the one-year anniversary on September 17, 2012. Love and Rage chronicles this unique period of US history; from protests and civil disobedience to the more personal moments, conversations, and comradery that erupted in communities across the country.On September 17, 2011 Occupy Wall Street emerged as a new kind of people-powered social movement revolving around social and economic injustice. The initial home of OWS was Zucotti park (renamed Liberty Square) -- a 24-hour privately owned public space in the heart of the financial district in Lower Manhattan. Occupy Wall Street transformed this space into a radical platform where ideas could be freely exchanged.The encampment offered a new form of protest by emulating an idealistic community based on mutual aid; fully equipped with a kitchen, a library (with over 5000 books), a medic tent, and a media outpost. The idea was to create a non-hierarchal, transparent, accountable community that made decisions utilizing the tools of direct democracy. People who had never previously engaged in activism found themselves holding signs on their lunch breaks, participating in General Assemblies and carrying out civil political conversation with those on the opposite side of the political spectrum.This new form of protest spread throughout 1500 cities worldwide. Although all the encampments were destroyed, protests and grass roots organizing continued on local, national and global levels. Occupy Wall Street's current focus is directed towards relief efforts for communities affected by Hurricane Sandy -- in New Jersey and New York - with an emphasis on both immediate needs and long-term strategies for community development.Occupy Wall Street is an ever changing evolving social movement. A network has been created - connecting every day people with long term activists - united the by the ideology that greed has manipulated every aspect of our society. Healthcare, education, war, the environment, employment, housing, and the banking industry are a few examples of where profit has taken the center stage to people, and now people are finally taking a stand. See the website for more details about rewards and the project.Bio: I am a street and social documentary photographer currently based in New York City. Over the past year, I have been working on a long-term documentary project on Occupy Wall Street titled "Love and Rage." Prior to braving the streets of the big apple, I lived overseas for 10 years. I called Melbourne, Australia home for 8 years and spent the latter 2 volunteering and freelancing for humanitarian NGO's in Laos. During my time there I worked on a personal photo project titled "Broken Bodies. Broken Hearts." (which began in 2007) documenting the impact of the CIA led Secret War waged on Laos. Despite the war ending over 30 years ago, the unexploded bombs that litter the landscape still continue to kill and maim approximately 300 people annually.
Black Tsunami: Japan 2011 by James Whitlow Delano/FotoEvidence (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-04-17 | James Whitlow Delano & FotoEvidence are raising funds through Kickstarter for the photobook 'Black Tsunami' which documents the devastation of the 2011 Tohoku tsunami. To receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 5/15/13: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2066133663/black-tsunami-japan-2011From James: "We started north from Tokyo at three in the morning, in a rented mini-van loaded with jerry cans of extra fuel, drinking water and food, all of which would be in short supply. We crossed to the Sea of Japan coast of Honshu because of rumors about an imminent nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.There would be an explosion at Fukushima Daiichi later that day which would deposit a massive amount of nuclear fallout on the ground, creating a nuclear no-man's land, but we were unaware of the severity of the situation on the other side of the island, as we were focused on getting over to Iwate Prefecture safely. By the next morning rain had turned to snow. In the center of the island gasoline was being rationed and lines of cars stretched for kilometers. Supply lines in Japan for everything, including food and bottled water, were already breaking down. In fact, we had to abandon the mini-van and hire a taxi that used propane for the lack of gasoline. The snow intensified in the tsunami zone. I wanted to climb right out of the taxi window, so intense was the desire to record the unthinkable. Still, we had little notion that life in Japan would never be the same again."James Whitlow Delano, an American photojournalist who has lived in Japan for 20 years, captured conditions immediately following the Tohoku tsunami and has been back several times to record the eerie emptiness of the contaminated no-entry zone and the conditions facing displaced people.FotoEvidence is partnering with James to produce a hard copy book of his work, "Black Tsunami: Japan 2011," a beautiful but haunting portrait of the devastation left by the great tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people and caused the nuclear meltdown that has permanently displaced tens of thousands. James' images of farms and villages in the exclusion zone show an uninhabited landscape where ancestral graves lie in neglect, where pets and livestock have been left to perish, and massive mountains of contaminated debris have become permanent features of the landscape. He takes us to the shelters where displaced families huddle around heaters for warmth and struggle with understanding their uncertain future."Black Tsunami: Japan 2011" will be an important book because the Tohoku tsunami and subsequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have had a profound effect on the Japanese psyche. James' work reveals a deep appreciation for the beauty of Japan and profound compassion for those whose lives have been devastated by both the tsunami and the nuclear meltdown it provoked. The book is designed by Mark Weinberg, whose recent work for FotoEvidence was recognized as one of the best books for 2011 by Photo Eye.The hard cover, black and white book will be printed using a four color process at Ofset Yapimev in Istanbul.The iPad version of "Black Tsunami: Japan 2011" (FotoEvidence) took the bronze medal in the digital book category at PX3 in 2012.The afterword in the book is written by Bill Emmott, former editor of of The Economist, the world's leading weekly on international current affairs, now an independent writer and consultant on international affairs, who writes regular columns for The Times in Britain and La Stampa in Italy. "This book is dedicated to the people whose lives were lost, or continue to be disrupted because of the Black Tsunami. This natural event created a cleavage in Japanese history and in my life here in Japan. It has truly been a "Year Zero". To stand on solid ground and look up to third floor windows or higher impaled by trees, has forever cemented my sense of humility and awe for the forces of nature. A lot of people, young and old, weak and strong, needlessly lost their lives that day. I think about them, especially when walking through the cities where they once lived along one of the most beautiful coastlines on the planet."http://jameswhitlowdelano.comhttp://fotoevidence.com
the dark light of this nothing by Erica McDonald The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-04-04 | The dark light of this nothing: The title of this body comes from the words of the philosopher Derrida that reflect on the experience of the loss of the Other, or the absence of "what I myself am not"."Upon the death of the other we are given to memory, and thus to interiorization, since the other, outside us, is now nothing. And with the dark light of this nothing, we learn that the other resists the closure of our interiorizing memory."Though the Park Slope area of Brooklyn, New York is no stranger to change, the long term residents who have sustained the neighborhood for generations are now in an increasing minority. The "old guard" is losing their sense of community. A new, affluent population, drawn by Park Slope's popularity as one of America's ten best neighborhoods, is swiftly overshadowing the working class. This piece is meant as a tribute to the neighborhood's long term residents.You can see the still photo essay here as well as a few pages for the maquette: http://www.ericamcdonaldphoto.com/#/new-york-city/the-dark-light-of-this-nothing/dl_joe_webPhotography and audio by Erica McDonald: http://www.ericamcdonaldphoto.comMultimedia by DEVELOP Photo: http://vimeo.com/developphotoThe DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel is an educational resource which features interviews, profiles, lectures and films about photojournalism, fine art and documentary photography. Find us on Vimeo too.
A global photographic journey to inspire change by Michael Hall (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-04-03 | Michael Hall is raising funds through 4/30/13 for his photography project to document Australia's role in climate change. To help: http://www.pozible.com/project/14480From Michael: May through to July 2013 I will be undertaking a journey around Australia to photograph Australia's role in climate change. The reason for this undertaking is the urgent need for a compelling and thorough visual documentation of Australia's roll in what I believe to be the most important issue humanity faces today. This documentation is of critical importance as until now there has been very little effort to visually document our changing climate. In other words -- there is an astonishing lack of visual material which we can use to draw attention to how and why our climate is changing.I need your financial support, how ever large or small to kick this dream into reality. Your contribution will help me to do what I do best; to visually communicate my passion for change. An exhibition will come of this work and it will help further my ongoing project to inspire others. Why Australia: This project is more relevant now that it has ever been. While Australia has taken steps to address climate change through the introduction of a carbon price and renewable energy investment, all the hype around cost of living, threats of repeal and the supposed lack of global action is muddying the waters and creating uncertainty. We need to remind people of the challenge we're facing and the need, regardless of political persuasion, to take meaningful action to reduce our pollution. While climate change can often feel like a distant threat, the recent extremes have starkly shown us what's in store. This body of work will help make the impacts of climate change tangible and locally relevant, and equally, show that the solutions already exist. We're on the precipice of a global low-carbon revolution, and Australia must play its part. My hope is that this project will help people see that strong action on climate change is both urgent and rewarding and that a healthier, more prosperous, low-carbon future is worth fighting for.About me: For the past six years I've been committed to documenting the causes, the effects and the solutions of climate change throughout the world. I'm using this body of work to help engage and inspire others toward a more sustainable future. I had a major career shift and a change of priorities in 2007 when my world was turned upside down following a run in with a semi trailer. Yes, you read that correctly; I was run over by a semi trailer while cycling! This near death experience and my journey of recovery helped provide me with the resolve and determination to use my skills, talent and energy to focus on what I consider one of the greatest challenges the human race faces today; climate change. This commitment has taken me to the Arctic, North Africa, Borneo, Eastern Europe, the United States and more recently China. I've given presentations to many and held exhibitions. At times I've come close to being arrested photographing some challenging subject matter. My work has received endorsements from The UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, Professor Tim Flannery and Emeritus Professor Dexter Dunphy. Recently the Climate Institute in Australia has awarded me their creative Fellowship. I'm doing what in my heart I feel I was always destined to do; my life's purpose is being realized and is well underway. However I have much more I need to concentrate my efforts on; I have more to shoot, I have books to publish, exhibitions to do, more speaking engagements to implement, more than half my catalogue of images shot to date remain unreleased. All these tasks, plans, dreams, remain unfinished due to financial constraints. Up until now my project has been almost entirely self funded. Pozible could be a way of making my dream for change sustainable.Bio: Michael has been a practicing professional photographer for over 25 years. Throughout that time, he has built a considerable reputation in Australia and Internationally as both a fine art and commercial photographer. He was selected as Photographer of the Year in 2006 by the Federation of European Photographers, and in 2009 was a Hasselblad Masters finalist. Michael's fine art work focuses specifically on exploring human impact upon the environment. For the past six years he has committed his time and energy to a self commissioned photographic project, a project that engages with compelling and often confronting issues that ultimately affect us all. He is currently undertaking an extensive project to document the causes and effects of our changing climate throughout the world to improve ecological awareness. This body of work has received endorsements from The UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, Professor Tim Flannery & Emeritus Professor Dexter Dunphy. He is currently a Creative Fellow of The Climate Institute in Australia. He resides in Sydney with his wife and three children.
Testify: A Visual Love Letter to Appalachia by Roger May (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-04-02 | Testify is a visual love letter to Appalachia, a rediscovery of home and place presented in a limited edition photobook. Roger May is raising funds for this project through Kickstarter through 5/1/13: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/walkyourcamera/testify-a-visual-love-letter-to-appalachia From Roger: Over the course of the last six years and dozens of trips to Appalachia, I've been making photographs. The work is complete and I plan to create a limited-edition photobook of this project, but I need your help to make this goal a reality. Testify is a visual love letter to Appalachia, the land of my blood. This is my testimony of how I came to see the importance of home and my connection to place. After moving away as a teenager, I've struggled to return, to latch on to something from my memory. These images are a vignette into my working through the problem of the construction of memory versus reality. My work embraces the raw beauty of the mountains while keeping at arms length the stereotypical images that have tried to define Appalachia for decades.I am both an insider and an outsider and I maintain a safe distance through my photography. I'm inviting you into the intimacy of family, of sacred space. Testify is my bearing witness of this personal journey, to seek answers from my ancestral home.My grandfather told me that I have two ears and one mouth, which means that I should listen twice as often as I speak. With these photographs, I've tried to do just that. These images arise out of pride of where I am from and where I am of, and an enduring love for Appalachia.About the book: Testify, a fine press photography book project will be designed and produced by Horse & Buggy Press in collaboration with photographer Roger May who has been making photographs in and around his homeplace of West Virginia and Kentucky over the last six years. The project will result in a pair of 36 page books, each with heavyweight archival paper and printed on an Indigo press in full color, hand-printed letterpress covers, and a binding hand-sewn with linen thread. The books will be presented together with a wrap around letterpress printed bellyband. Additionally, a 5 x 7 print will accompany the books, and each of these limited edition copies will numbered and signed by the artist.The book will open with an introduction by Appalachian author Silas House, director of the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, and author of five novels including The Coal Tattoo and Eli the Good.The funds from this campaign will be used for art direction, design, typesetting, production coordination, paper, printing, and binding for 150 books. However, the more money we raise, the more books we can produce. The books will be available for purchase from the artist at http://rogermayphotography.com and through Horse & Buggy Press.praise: A prodigal son returns to his boyhood home in West Virginia and begins a process of discovery. What has he missed while away? What does he see from this "not from around here" perspective? Testify, Roger May's photographic journey, will resonate with those of us who have never left our home places and serve as a powerful reminder of why we return. Rob Amberg, photographerOver the last few years, I've come to appreciate the beauty and strength of Roger's quiet, understated photos. Their power has its roots in his love for the people and landscapes of Appalachia and his deep understanding of the region's history. John Edwin Mason, University of VirginiaIt was such a pleasure to work side-by-side with Roger in McDowell County, West Virginia. His approach to 'making' photographs and sensitivity to folk shows how deeply passionate he is about the region we call home and its culture and heritage. His work has the power to carry a witness into a place, where mood and feeling seem suspended in time. Elaine McMillion, director of HollowTestify is a measured and honest documentation of Appalachia. His photographs tell a story in which family, industry, memory, erasure, and loss play equal parts. Jeff Rich, photographerBio: Roger May (b. 1975) is an Appalachian American photographer currently living in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was born in the Tug River Valley, located on the West Virginia and Kentucky state line, in the heart of Hatfield and McCoy country. He served in the U.S. Army for seven years. He is currently enrolled in the Certificate in Documentary Arts program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, where he has also worked as a part time instructor.************Testify is a featured video on DEVELOP Tube. The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel is an educational resource which features interviews, profiles, lectures and films about photojournalism, fine art and documentary photography. Find us on Vimeo too: vimeo.com/channels/developphoto
Immersion Project by Robbie Cooper (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-03-12 | Robbie Cooper is raising funds for his Immersion Project. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 3/3/13. To help: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robbiecooper/immersion-projectFrom Robbie: Since 2008 I've been working on a project called "Immersion", where we record people through-the-screen as they respond to media such as video games, TV shows, children's cartoons, movies, porn, horror, music videos, sports, comedy; all the various types of media that we receive and interact with through screens.The aim is to build up a portrait series that begins with babies and ends with the very old, taking in every type of media content along the way. Screen time takes up an increasingly large part of our lives: babies being born right now arrive in a landscape where computers, smartphones, the internet, and social media already exist, while the oldest generation alive today can remember a time before TV was a fixture of our living rooms. Immersion is intended to be a complex portrait with depth and scale, light and dark, rather than a campaign or simplistic message. It will include as many age groups, ethnic groups and media types as we can accommodate. It's shot on a Red camera and the end product is hybrid- video as well as still images that are lifted from the footage. So far we've got an age range going from babies to the middle aged and have shot in the US and Europe.With this Kickstarter we're looking to fund a campaign designed to engage us, the audience, in capturing and sharing images and video of our interaction with screens, as well as to produce a book and exhibitions.The project hub will consist of a temporary web portal that will give password protected access to the project management site, to project backers. The public side of the site will enable anyone to share automatically-collected images of themselves, using their webcams. A prompting system will playfully structure and guide more active participation in the project, inviting participants to create "calls" for content, or "respond" by sharing content that they have created. A social media aggregator will collect additional image and video submissions using Twitter hashtags; and a collection of visualizations of submitted content will enable editing and tagging by the community. Participants will be able to upload still or video content from their computers, as responses to calls.All these functions will be housed in a single website optimized for both traditional and mobile web browsers. The public side of the site will function for the duration of the campaign, at the end of which it will turn into an archive. The project management side of the site will exist for much longer.Content produced and curated by the community over the course of the campaign will find its way into three kinds of end products, detailed below:1. Installation videos, interactive exhibits, and grids of framed images.2. A book.3. A documentary.Over the course of the last few years, I've become very interested in the potential of large scale collaboration. Since the subject matter of this project is such an overwhelmingly widespread phenomenon, it seems like an ideal place to experiment in this area. So I've made the decision to throw the project open to anyone who'd like to participate. In order to facilitate the broadest possible range of collaboration, I've joined forces with Jeff Watson. Jeff is the Creative Director of the media making game "Reality Ends Here", which recently won the Impact award at Indiecade. He's designed a website, which will allow all you lovely people to record yourselves using your webcams, or to submit material from iPhones, digital cameras or other devices.By creating "calls" the community will be able to create calls for content that others respond to. In this way anyone will be able to significantly change or add to the subject matter covered by the project- the creators of successful "calls" will be credited as editors on the project. Robbie and his team will become responders to calls themselves.Content generated by the community, that has been released by the author/s and accepted into the project, will be individually credited to the people who created it and will become part of the book, exhibitions etc, existing in it's own section. By creating this collaborative and slightly competitive environment, we're hoping to create a way for anyone to meaningfully contribute to the project. It would be very interesting if this part of the project becomes the dominant or more significant part of the book and/or exhibitions.So far the project has been exhibited at the National Media Museum in the UK, CCC Strozzina in Florence, Maison D'Ailleurs in Switzerland, Kunstlerhaus in Vienna and Museum der Moderne in Salzburg. Installations include series of still images lifted from footage and video installations.The book is being published by Dewi Lewis publishing.
Photography Workshop in New York 2013 The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-03-02 | This year's workshops are being taught by Maggie Steber & Erica McDonald, Donald Weber, and Stefano De Luigi & Ippolito Simion.http://photoworkshopnewyork.comThe fourth edition of Photography Workshop in New York will be held in July 2013:"The Documentary Journey" with Erica McDonald & Maggie Steber, from July 1 to July 7 2013."New York E-motion" with Stefano De Luigi & Ippolito Simion, from July 8 to July 14 2013."A-Z of Photography" with Donald Weber, from July 15 to July 21 2013.
10x10 American Photobooks (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-03-02 | 10x10 American Photobooks seeks funding for its publication. This campaign will receive all of the funds contributed by Wed 03 April, 2013: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/10x10-american-photobooks--1210x10 is going to Tokyo in 2013! 10x10 is taking 100 contemporary American photobooks to Tokyo this year and we need to create a catalogue. We're looking for backers to help fund the publication production -- an experimental and creative project in its own right. What's 10x10 American Photobooks? Ten specialists from the photobook community are each selecting 10 contemporary American photobooks they consider to be influential. These 100 books will be displayed in the 10x10 American Photobooks exhibit at the Tokyo Institute of Photography for a 4-week run in September 2013. The 10x10 project makes photobooks accessible to the international bibliographic community and builds upon the success of the first 10x10 event, which exhibited Japanese post-war photobooks in NYC in 2012.Can't get to Tokyo? You don't have to! That's why we're producing a catalogue in collaboration with bookdummypress. The publication is a way for you to experience the entire 10x10 project, even if you can't jet over to Tokyo to see it. The stylish and inventive Japanese manga design-inspired edition will be released with the opening of the September 2013 Tokyo reading room. The bilingual Japanese-English publication will present illustrated selection lists from all the specialists, along with essays (not previously published) on American photobook culture by noted artists, writers, publishers, curators and bibliophiles. The 10x10 American Photobooks catalogue will provide the full 10x10 experience. Support our publication, and spread the photobook love to all our community!Here are the specialists selecting the books for the reading room:1. Shannon Michael Cane / Printed Matter2. Lindsey Castillo, Rebecca O'Keefe, and Grant Willing / The Camera Club of New York3. Bruno Ceschel / Self Publish Be Happy4. Christina Labey / Conveyor Arts5. Larissa LeClair / Indie Photobook Library6. Leigh Ledare / Photographer7. Harper Levine and John Gossage / Harper's Books and Loosestrife Editions8. David Senior / Museum of Modern Art Library Bibliographer9. David Solo / Photobook Collector10. Alec Soth and Brad Zellar / Little Brown MushroomThe 10x10 American Photobooks Team: Matthew Carson , Ihiro Hayami, Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich (co-organizers)Shiori Kawasaki and Victor Sira (Publishers and book designers / bookdummypress)Mathieu Asselin and Jeff Gutterman(Multimedia, technical and editorial support)The project is sponsored by the International Center of Photography Library, the Tokyo Institute of Photography, and the Photobook Facebook Group.
The Attendants by Myrto Papadopoulos (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-02-27 | Myrto Papadopoulos is raising funds for her photography project. To receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by April 8, 2013. To help: http://www.emphas.is/web/guest/discoverprojects?projectID=804From Myrto: The last two years I have been exploring the world of the Sex industry through my lens. The reason, which made me launch this study, was the immediate increase of porn films in Greece in 2009 at the beginning of the financial crisis. My curiosity to understand this phenomenon, led me to explore the world of the sex industry and take it even further by entering the world of prostitution.Prostitution in Greece is only legal in licensed brothels, where sex workers are required to get regular health checks. Most of the 15,000 prostitutes in Greece work illegally and have caused a sharp rise of Sexually transmitted diseases.Many people are involved in the sex industry, some by choice but others by force. Greece continues to be on the primary gateways for illegal immigrants to enter the European Union and is described as a key entry point for people smuggling networks. One report suggests up to 90% of victims trafficked into the European member states will end up in the sex industry.Having said all this what is the difference between prostitution and trafficking? The primary distinction made between sex trafficking and prostitution in relevant literature is that sex trafficking is involuntary while prostitution is voluntary. However, the reality is very different and not so straightforward. Greece has thorough and commendable law regarding the issue of human trafficking and prostitution. However the awareness of such legislation by officials (migration officers and prosecutors) and law enforcement is minimal due to the lack of training and education regarding this legislation and provisions. Therefore, often there is no understanding of how to handle a situation but also who may be an actual victim. This, as a general result, can raise a social ignorance upon the issues of prostitution and trafficking.Furthermore, why have the Sexually transmitted diseases have increased? Is it due to the lack of awareness on this issue? According to the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of Aids in Greece has gone up 60 percent since 2010. These questions and issues have enforced me to delve in even more today and start a new exploration on the lives of women prostitutes.Through this project, my aim is to present by photographing and filming the world of prostitution and trafficking in Greece. Raise peoples awareness and point out the health issues that have arisen from the increase of the sexually transmitted diseases.At the beginning my natural necessity was to enter the world of the sex industry and talk to the women that are involved in it. It has taken me a really long time and effort to reach out to some of these women, to gain their trust and get finally the access today to document their lives. Also my intensive research (I.e. approaching NGO's, doctors and expertise from the ministry of foreign affairs) has helped me to understand more the issues and the difference between prostitution and trafficing.Throughout the year I will be working voluntarily with the "Salvation Army" in Greece, in order to provide support to these women. I will also be teaching photography lessons in one of the new "safe houses" that will be opening in Athens, within the next year. Your support will enable me not only to continue this project but mostly it will help me gain more insight into the understanding of how and why prostitution is constantly evolving. My deep personal interest in these women, make me want to record their struggle but also their strive in search of a better life. It is also one of my fondest heart's desires, to be able to share with these women my experiences through photography, because I believe photography can be an effective tool of building self-esteem. The financial support will provide me the time and tools that I need to be able to accomplish and document this very difficult topic.Bio: I was born in Athens in 1978 and I finished my studies in 2003 after completing a five-year Fine Arts degree, majored in painting and photography. In 2006, I applied for the photojournalism degree at the ICP in NY, where I was granted a scholarship. I have taken part in several exhibitions, including the Mois off de la photo 08 in Paris, the PHOTOQUAI 2em biennal du monde 09 at the Museé Quai Branly in Paris the New York photo Festival 09, the Biennale of young artists of Europe XIV bjcem 09, the LOOK3 Between Festival 2010 in the US, the DUMBO Arts Festival 2011 in NY, the Athens Photo Festival 2011, 2012 and more. I have worked with TIME Magazine, GEO Magazine, Le Monde, Neue Zuger Zeitung, Corriere della sera, DAS Magazine, EL Mundo, La Stampa, Vision Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, K magazine among others. I am represented by Redux Pictures in NY.
Brooklyn Buzz by Gaia Light and Alessandro Cosmelli The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-02-08 | Brooklyn Buzz presents an extended visual exploration of Brooklyn, New York and its inhabitants, viewed from a bus window.The project was conceived as a symbolic photographic portrait of America and the contemporary metropolis in this specific time in history, a time of crisis, transition and, transformation, and a time deeply affected by the global economic upheaval and its subsequent consequences on society, politics, and culture.Each photograph was taken from the window of a bus as it traversed the streets of Brooklyn; each image is caught in passing, a chance arrangement of figures that appears for a moment in front of the camera before the bus moves on. Brooklyn Buzz is an original and intimate portrait that aims to capture the soul and powerful energy of Brooklyn, globally considered one of the hot spot of our days, although it remains still largely unexplored and unknown beyond its borders.The choice of abandoning overall control of the image, putting ourselves at the mercy of circumstances, was inspired by Robert Frank' s Masterpiece The Americans (published in 1958) -- widely considered a mirror reflecting 1950s America through European eyes -- and by a personal desire to engage an emotionally challenging and visually striking exploration of the human and social landscape of Brooklyn, our adopted city since 2007.The windows work as filters with the outside: sometimes like enlarging lenses, amplifying and revealing unpredictable details, capturing life as it is in that precise moment, in the streets, at the bus stop, through the windows of a local deli; at other times the panes of glass work more like protective barriers that allow the gaze of the viewer to deeply penetrate peoples' lives (to accurately describe otherwise unknown, hidden, forbidden, or difficult-to-access places, faces, or circumstances), stealing emotions with the camera, capturing an expression on a face, a body on the move, or a simple gesture that photography can, in turn, render timeless and universal.http://10bphotography.com/buzzBrooklyn Buzz is a featured multimedia piece on DEVELOP Tube. DEVELOP Tube is an educational resource which features multimedia, interviews, lectures & films about photojournalism, documentary & fine art photography. On Vimeo too: http://vimeo.com/channels/developphoto
Invasion: War Diaries From Iraq by Gary Knight, Peter Maass & Tim McLaughlin (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-02-05 | Peter Maass, Gary Knight and Tim McLaughlin are raising funds for a multimedia exhibit at The Bronx Documentary Center featuring a Marine's war diary, using text, photos and video to explore the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 2/24/13. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1542788266/invasion-war-diaries-from-iraqFrom Peter: Our exhibit explores the Iraq war in an original, genre-busting way. Timed to the 10th anniversary of the invasion, the exhibit centers around large-format reprints of a searingly honest diary written by Lt. Tim McLaughlin, who was at the Pentagon on 9/11, whose battalion spearheaded the Iraq invasion, and whose American flag was placed over a famous statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square. The exhibit will include the iconic flag, which Tim kept in a safe deposit box when he returned home from Iraq. It will also feature photos of the invasion by Gary Knight and texts by Peter Maass.The diaries contain drawings, maps, pictures and descriptions of battle--not just from Iraq, but from inside the Pentagon after it was attacked. The entries are raw and brutal, though occasionally absurd and humorous; this is how war diaries have always been. As the diaries were written by hand, Tim's thoughts and deeds are not flattened by the look of an impersonal computer font. His emotions--anger, exhaustion, confusion, boredom, lust--are visible in the handwriting. A unique mix of art and text and witness, the diaries tell in a remarkable way the story of a Marine's violent and poignant journey through America in wartime. They show, without the usual filters of the media or politicians, the hard lives and difficult choices of the men and women who fight our wars.Gary and Peter were "unilateral" journalists who rented SUVs in Kuwait and drove into Iraq on the invasion's first day. They crossed paths with Tim's frontline battalion and covered its tip-of-the-spear march to Baghdad. Gary, an award-winning war photographer, is a co-founder of the VII photo agency and director of the Program for Narrative and Documentary Studies at Tufts University. Peter, author of a critically-acclaimed memoir about Bosnia's war, Love Thy Neighbor, has written on wars and war imagery for the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine and New York Review of Books.The exhibit will open at the Bronx Documentary Center in mid-March, just a few days before the invasion's 10th anniversary. We anticipate it will attract a fair amount of attention due to its timing and unique content. Ten years on, the exhibit is our attempt--Marine, photographer, writer--to ensure the Iraq war is not forgotten and that our society does not shy away from its aftermath. It will be a multimedia event at which visitors can learn, engage and reflect. The exhibit will include a large-format reprint of Tim's PTSD diagnosis from the Veteran's Administration.The Bronx Documentary Center is a wonderful non-profit funded by individual donations. We are launching this Kickstarter to pay for staffing during the exhibit, repainting gallery walls, mounting the photos and texts, designing and producing publicity material, organizing an opening reception, overhead expenses, building a website and creating interactive interviews and videos. Every penny we raise will be devoted to our exploration of what it means to fight a war and how a part of us remains in the warzone after the fighting is done.Who We AreTim McLaughlin was raised in New Hampshire and earned his B.A. from Holy Cross, majoring in Russian language and poetry. He joined the Marines after graduation and was a tank commander during the invasion of Iraq. Now a lawyer in Boston, he is the president of Shelter Legal Services, a non-profit that offers free legal advice to veterans and the homeless.Gary Knight is an award-winning photographer for Newsweek and other major publications. He is a founder of the VII photo agency and director of the Program for Narrative and Documentary Studies at Tufts University. His war photography has been published worldwide and selected for major museum exhibitions.Peter Maass is the author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, which chronicles his experiences covering the Bosnian conflict, and Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil. He has written for The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine and New York Review of Books. In 2012 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Suburbia Gone Wild by Martin Adolfsson (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-01-20 | Martin Adolfsson is raising funds for his photography project. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 2/3/13. Suburbia Gone Wild is a photo project spanning 6 years on the impact of the global economic and cultural shift that is currently reshaping our world. to help: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1818544821/suburbia-gone-wild-limited-edition-bookFrom Martin: Two years ago I did a successful Kickstarter campaign which helped me finalize my book project Suburbia gone Wild.With your help we now hope to raise enough funds to print the book in a limited edition only available to friends and followers of the project.For the past six years I've been photographing model homes built for the newly minted upper middle class in emerging economies around the world. The model home works as a 1:1 scale "no assembly required" model for the potential home buyer that is fully decorated up to and including family photos of John Kerry.The project has been described as a combination of positively amusing and awkwardly eerie, a document of a telegenic standardization that increasingly reflects the constructed world of The Truman Show.I've used model homes as a vehicle to describe the economic and cultural homogenization that is now occurring in many developing countries. The work includes every continent (except Australia) and more specifically the suburbs of Bangkok, Shanghai, Bangalore, Cairo, Moscow, Johannesburg, São Paulo and Mexico City.I feel the most salient exploration is the shift in the mindset of the residents of these new suburbs from an identity that's based on nationality to a globally marketed form of identity that unites the residents of these enclaves with each other, regardless of location, more than with their own countrymen. The foreword will be written by Joseph Grima, Editor-in-Chief at Domus. It's been nominated for several awards including Prix Pictet and the Santa Fe Prize and has been featured in PDN, MAS Context, Feature shoot, E-photoreview, BIG Report, GUP Magazine and Slightly Lucid.Bio: I'm a Swedish artist based in NYC since 2007. My work focus on social structures and behaviors. I also do commissioned portrait and travel work for clients such as Monocle, Conde Nast Traveler, New York Magazine, Fortune, Der Spiegel.
Killing the Buddha - Photo Workshop New York Exercise 2012 The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2013-01-03 | An experimental lesson during the workshop "The Documentary Essay" taught by Jason Eskenazi and Erica McDonald and held by Spazio Labo'|Center of photography as part of the project "Photography Workshop in New York" in Brooklyn, June 2012. "When you meet the Buddha on the road kill him" refers to students becoming masters. The lesson is divided into two parts. Song of the Self where the students put themselves physically in the frame and Song of the Other where the student takes themselves out out but leaves their emotional essence in objects and other people "The result of every great photo is a feeling, not a fact", Eskenazi says. Photos by Chiara Bonetti, Franco Brilli, Mary Casotti, Martino Chiti, Andrea Fabbri, Anna Gianfrate, Carlo Kemp, Maria Montalbo', Gaia Musacchio, Stefano Pavani, Alejandra Sierra. http://www.photoworkshopnewyork.comhttp://jasoneskenazi.comhttp://www.ericamcdonaldphoto.comMusic copyright: The XX
Finding Trust by Annie Musselman (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2012-12-19 | Annie Musselman is raising funds for her photography project. In order to receive contributions the project must be funded in full by 1/16/13. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1949643029/find-the-funds-for-finding-trustFrom Annie: Kehrer Verlag, an elite publishing house in Germany intends to publish Finding Trust in 2013. I am raising half of the funds needed through Kickstarter and KV will provide the rest needed to publish.Here is a little bit more about how I found Sarvey and also my artist statement below.The work I produce documents the delicate union that exists between humans and animals. It's not just the actual places where were our lives often intersect, like a park or forest, but the spaces where our emotions meet. When a creature on an examining table turns toward my camera, I see the universal reactions of pain and confusion in its eyes. The work documents the infirmed animals' recovery with a sense of wonder as they heal, hoping to return to the wild forests of the Northwest. I hope to capture the palpable emotions in my photographs because I can't help but contemplate how much we actually know about each other. Finding Trust, the photo essay, began 6 years ago at the Sarvey Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, a small sanctuary 75 miles north of Seattle, Washington where I live and work as a photographer. In 2002 when my mother passed away, I was left looking for something to hold on to, something real to photograph, and found the Sarvey Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Located in the foothills of the beautiful Cascade Mountain Range, it is a place where injured, wild creatures come to finish their journey or start a new one. It's a place where I've seen love, trust and intuition that equals that of a mother and child; a home where a few humans have come together to save the lives of many precious creatures. I believe we must take care of each other in order to survive. My goal is to present the very important relationship and obligation we have to these animals. I struggled with this project in many ways. Most importantly, I had to get the dirty work done before I could take pictures. I cleaned cages, fed and intubated animals, cut meat, gave medications, etc. Gaining the trust of the amazing people I work with took time, but eventually they saw that my love for these animals was huge...that I was one of them. I struggled with harsh fluorescent lighting, limited time for pictures during moments of crisis with the animals, constant stress from sick and dying animals, all the while looking for moments to photograph the beauty around me. It took a long time before I understood what I wanted to say with these pictures and why I was inspired there. The more I was around these animals, the more I saw their inner beauty and intelligence and the more frustrated I became by our world and how much of nature is neglected or destroyed. I believe the wild creatures among us embody the instinct and love we have lost, and with this I realized more and more the purpose of my work. I received my BFA at Principia College in 1996 after a photography apprenticeship in Marseilles, France. Finding Trust won first place in the 2006 Environmental Photography Invitational and was featured in American Photography 22 and 25. My work has been exhibited at the Seattle Public Library Downtown, The Photographic Center Northwest in "A Delicate Balance", Critical Mass 2010, The Alice Austen House Museum, NYC 2009 and at the Ansel Adams Gallery in Nappa Valley, CA. With the intention of expanding my work with animals, I visited Borneo to study and document endangered orangutans in sanctuaries, this work appeared in Newsweek Aug. 11, 2009. The outcome of this experience is the beginning of a new body of work I call For The Innocent.Bio: Annie Marie was born south of Seattle in a quiet town surrounded by deep forests and cold water. As a child, she trailed behind her father as he captured the landscape in watercolors.She majored in studio art at a small Mid western college called Principia, and spent a year studying photography in Marseilles, France.Musselman was chosen as a Critical Mass Top 50 in 2010 and was one of two photographers chosen to receive the Getty Images Grant for Good and also the Washington 4Culture grant that same year. Finding Trust has received press in several magazines including PDN ( Annie and The Wild Animals), National Geographic Magazine, Marie Claire China, American Photography 22 and 25 and won first place in Art Wolf's Environmental Photography Invitational. Finding Trust has been exhibited at the Burke Museum and PCNW in Seattle as well as the Alice Austen House, NYC, Burn Magazine, Burn-ed Garden in Texas, and the Ansel Adams Gallery in Nappa Valley. Musselman's work can be seen in Outside, National Geographic Magazine, American Photography 25, Bon Appetit, NRDC, Elle, Travel + Leisure, Mother Jones and Newsweek among others.
The Seven Cities by Matt Eich (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2012-12-11 | Matt Eich is raising funds for his photography project. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 2/9/13 http://www.emphas.is/web/guest/discoverprojects?projectID=785From Matt: The Seven Cities is an exploration of my home on the coast of Virginia and will interweave my family's narrative with that of the community while looking at the region's economic dependence on the military industrial complex.For the last seven years I have explored legacies of industry in Ohio, of segregation and racism in Mississippi and, most recently, of the military- industrial-complex in Virginia, my home state. They form three chapters under the title The Invisible Yoke, which explores the weight of our collective memory and how it continues to shape our lives as Americans.In this chapter I will ask questions about the Tidewater region of Virginia where I was raised, and now raise my own family. Though the area is made economically viable because of the military presence, my own connection is less direct. In addition to documenting my own family and daily life throughout the region, I will use this time to examine military events ranging from homecomings to departures, daily life, and more timely issues such as being gay in the military and the intersections of the Muslim and military communities. The images will be interwoven with my own family's photographs for an exhibition at The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in fall of 2013. I will use this as a springboard for discussion about our region's reliance on government military spending.The disenchantment my generation exhibits is reflective of our nation's transitional status from superpower to something less absolute. While it may be considered "anti-American" to even utter this perspective, the images will confront the notion of American superiority and shape our self-perceptions. This must be done carefully - by identifying the behavior that has led us here (pride, greed, arrogance) while looking at every person encountered with the same level of intimacy and acceptance. To do this requires a consistent voice and vision. We are Americans, after all, sharing more in common than we would like to admit.My desire to see, to know, is rooted in the knowledge that as James Elkins said, "seeing is metamorphosis" and I want to be changed. I need to understand the country that my children are growing up in and the ways that our history continues to impact us. By completing my examination of three microcosms of the American experience: industry, segregation and the military-industrial complex, I will ask the question: where does my own story fit within this ever- changing landscape? What will my children's inheritance be? How will this country remain relevant even as we fade in our global importance?I plan to disseminate the work in three tiers: the first in site-specific, community- based exhibitions, the second as a web-presence incorporating motion and sound and lastly, the books. Each chapter will be its own stand-alone book, but the three are also intertwined, and identical on the outside. This will allow for thework to live in multiple spheres, offering new entry points for a wider viewership.The impetus for creating the work at this point in time is urgent. We find ourselves at a crossroads as a nation after a bitterly divided election and my time to live in this region is limited as I plan to relocate my family within the next 12 -- 18 months after completing The Seven Cities exhibition for The Virginia MOCA in late 2013. Your support will aid in the completion of this large endeavor in such a short timeframe.By calling upon the ghosts of our past, I will create contemporary American photographs that unsentimentally reflect who we are and compile these in The Seven Cities. I plan to utilize this body of work as an opportunity to expose my vulnerability and create a document that is accessible for future generations of Americans.Matt Eich is a freelance photographer living in Norfolk, Virginia with his family while working on long-form projects about the United States. His work has been published in National Geographic, Harper's, Mother Jones, TIME and others.
The Blue Earth Book by Blue Earth Alliance (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2012-12-03 | The Blue Earth Book supports photographers working on social and environmental stories that need to be told. Blue Earth Alliance is raising funds for The Blue Earth Book on Kickstarter. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 12/28/12: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1355891173/the-blue-earth-bookBlue Earth believes visual storytelling can create positive change. We support documentary photography projects on critical environmental and social issues through fundraising support, distribution opportunities, and a collaborative community. Since 1996, we've helped close to 100 photographers tell their stories. A few of our current projects include: Energy And Ecology by Garth Lenz - Shocking images of unsustainable energy development from the Alberta Tar Sands and beyond, Niger Delta by Samuel James - A visual record of the ongoing struggle for power, land and oil in Nigeria's Niger Delta, and The People Of Clouds by Matt Black - Documenting the unraveling of one the world's oldest farming cultures in the Mixteca region of southern Mexico.Projects like these make a difference. The images are featured in magazines, museums and TED talks, on billboards, in books and the halls of Congress. But making long-term documentary projects happen is increasingly difficult. From raising funds to finding mentors and navigating the shifting media landscape, photographers need our help.The Blue Earth Book will highlight a collection of Blue Earth's most important projects, projects like Dina Kantor's Treece, Samantha Box's Invisible and John Lowenstein's Shadow Lives USA. Featured portfolios will be selected and edited by Whitney Johnson, Director of Photography at The New Yorker. We hope this will become the first edition of an annual series.Your support of this book will not only send a volume of top-tier visual storytelling to your table, it will also ensure that Blue Earth's photographers can continue to bring attention to critical environmental and social issues.Blue Earth Alliance is a 501(c)3 nonprofit (Federal EIN 91-1682270). All contributions are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Tax receipts will be provided at time of delivery. http://blueearth.orgLike all creative projects, The Blue Earth Book is a work in progress, and after funding there will always remain unforeseen challenges.At the same time, our sponsored projects have produced dozens of photography books over the years. Also, The Blue Earth Book is being prepared from our sponsored documentary projects, so we will be leveraging our pre-existing collaborative relationships with our photographers. Publication services are being provided by Gary Hawkey at iocolor in Seattle, an experienced printing firm well known for its fine art books. In addition to editing by Whitney Johnson, Director of Photography at The New Yorker, editing for the book is also being provided by Jason Houston and design assistance by Benj Drummond, both members of our Board of Directors and experienced professional photographers.Our editors have a strong vision for The Blue Earth Book. We have already been talking to photographers about how best to represent their Blue Earth projects in the book. If funded, though unforeseen issues can occur with any creative project, we have confidence in our ability to print and deliver The Blue Earth Book on schedule.A dramatic image can change our perception and alter our understanding of a subject. This idea defines the mission of Blue Earth: to raise awareness about endangered cultures, threatened environments and social concerns through photography. By supporting the power of photographic storytelling, we motivate society to make positive change.
Postcards Home by Henry Jacobson (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2012-11-27 | Henry Jacobson is raising funds for his photography project through Kickstarter. To receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 12/18/12: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/henryjacobson/postcards-home?ref=85no0x From Henry: A personal journey through the life of a nomadic photographer, using mobile images as communication - these are my postcards home. Daylight Books will be publishing my first book of photographs, Postcards Home, for release in 2013. This book is the result of 3 years of personal work done mostly while living on the road, with no permanent address, shooting films around the world and all over the US. This was a period of personal upheaval, of endings and beginnings of very important relationships, of illnesses and deaths and births. But my nomadic life allowed for limited access to those I hold dear. Every image in this book was taken with an iPhone, and most were immediately sent to someone I love, or shared within my broader social network. This synergy of photography and communication, through the use of mobile technology, is changing our understanding of the medium from a frozen moment to a visual interaction between individuals. This work is the result of my attempts to connect with the people and the environments that replaced my concept of home.Photography books, along with the rest of the publishing world, have taken a big hit in recent years. Most publishers can no longer afford to fully fund a book, relying on sales to recoup their expenses - so the model has changed to share the burden and the risk between the photographer and the publisher (except in rare cases with very established artists). As a result, the artist now has to bring a substantial sum of money (substantial, at least to those of us who make our livings entirely from our work in the arts) to the table up front. In return, we receive a larger portion of the books to sell on our own, or to pre-sell as I am doing here. As difficult as it will be for me to raise the funds needed, I am thrilled to be working with Daylight. They have innovated and adapted to the new landscape in photography and are taking a risk to back and distribute my project - even though my work is not very well known. Michael Itkoff and Taj Forer - the owners of Daylight are doing amazing things in a tough environment and I'm honored to join them in publishing my first book.http://daylightbooks.org/homepagehttp://www.henryjacobsonphotography.comThe goal I have set here is about two-thirds of what I actually need to raise to get this book out. It will cover my initial fees to lock in the printer and the time slot for release. I hope to raise more than this goal, in order to cover the remainder of the printing costs for both the book and the accompanying exhibitions, not to mention the travel to China to go on press for the book printing.I have already begun lining up exhibitions to coincide with the book release next fall - so look out for shows in Los Angeles, New York, and London. There are a lot of organizational and scheduling challenges; locking in the final edit, working with Daylight's excellent designer, Ursula Damm, to finish the book, adding the text (including an afterword by the brilliant Stephen Mayes, director of VII), then going on press - which will undoubtedly present new challenges. However, all of these challenges, both financial and creative, are opportunities to learn and to develop my future work. I am excited to deal with each one as it arises.Bio: Henry Jacobson is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York and DC. He is the cinematographer, director, and producer on many documentary films, including Fambul Tok, Folk, Truth in Translation, After the War, Sound and Vision, Brawley and Fair Chase. His "fashion films" have garnered much attention, the first of which, Lost/Loved, appeared in the Fotovisura "Love and War" exhibit at the 2011 NY Photo Festival. His still photography has been published and exhibited internationally. Publications include The New York Times, Zink, Marie Claire Italy, GOOD, PDN, Visura, Hollywood Reporter, and Filler among others. Postcards Home is his first book of photographs.
Dont Breathe by Ronny Sen (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2012-11-26 | Ronny Sen is raising funds for his photography project through Emphas.is. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 1/25/13. http://www.emphas.is/web/guest/discoverprojects?projectID=774From Ronny: For millions, traveling inside unreserved general compartments in Indian trains is an inescapable Indian experience. A rapidly escalating inflation has resulted in severe hikes in fuel prices in India, compelling an increasing number of people to travel in unreserved general compartments of the Indian Railways. People traveling for long distances in these compartments have to face unbearable conditions. There are provisions for only 72 people to sit. There is no provision for sleeping. At times, more than 500 people are forced to travel on these carriages. The infrastructure on these compartments has seen no change since the British Era, unlike the other compartments like 3 Tier AC, 2 Tier AC, Sleeper and 1st Class AC. At night, the sleeping passengers resemble heaps of dead bodies in a war-zone.My work till date has concentrated on Eastern India. I plan to document train journeys on unreserved compartments across the country. New economic polices of the Government have left the Railways as the sole affordable public segment in the transport sector. The railways have started facing an unprecedented pressure after recent repeated fuel price hikes. Recently, the railway minister has been forced to resign following massive public protests. An already existing problem will be exacerbated. This project mirrors the apathy that India has historically had for the dispossessed.I started traveling in these compartments when I used to return home from my College which was 12 hours away by train, as I could not afford to buy a reserved ticket. I ended up frequenting these compartments twice or thrice a month. Having been a part of this space for more than 4 years now, I have documented this experience and photographed the journey with my fellow travellers.I plan to do a nationwide traveling exhibition in trains with poster prints of my work inside the air-conditioned and other reserved compartments of Indian Railways so that people can see the space in which other poeple travel inside the unreserved general compartments. I would like to take this project in the bigger cities like Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata where I will rent spaces to put up these prints. I will also try to engage with public spaces so that it will be visible to a larger audience including the policy makers.Bio: Ronny Sen (b. 1986) is an independent photographer based in Calcutta, India. He studied Journalism at the University of North Bengal. He was selected by the Indian Foundation of Arts to represent Indian at the World Young Artists Event in Nottingham in the year 2012.
Grandpa By An Rong Xu (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2012-11-19 | AnRong Xu is raising funds for his photography project through Kickstarter. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 12/6/12 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anrong/grandpa-by-an-rong-xuFrom An Rong: The project you are viewing is about my grandpa. My grandfather raised me until I was 8 years old, taking me to first days of school, buying me ice cream from Mr. Frosty, and letting me get lost in Chinatown. Four years ago, he was diagnosed with throat cancer. Since his diagnosis, I've been photographing him as a way to get to know him and become closer to him. This project has transformed me, allowing for my to grow as an artist, a person, and a grandson. Last April, he passed away.Recently, I learned that the work on my grandfather will be getting a solo exhibition in February 2013 at Gallery 360 in Boston. However, at the moment, I lack the funds necessary to print, frame, hang and catalog the show. That is why I am asking for your support to help make this show possible. In return, I am offering original prints from the series and my website as rewards. I want to be able to honor my grandpa with this show.Thank you for your contributions and your support. http://www.AnRongXu.comIf funded, I will be able to rent darkroom space to print, chemicals, frames, and hanging materials.I will be doing all silver gelatin prints myself.Music : Midnight by Mixed TheoryBio: Documentary Photographer and film maker from New York City's Chinatown based in New York City and Boston.
Reckoning at the Frontier by Eros Hoagland (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2012-11-15 | Eros Hoagland is raising funds for his photobook exploring the drug war in northern Mexico. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 12/7/12. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/548813049/reckoning-at-the-frontierFrom Eros: I am raising money to complete a hauntingly beautiful photo book about life along the northern borders of Mexico's drug war. I will be using kickstarter generated funds to pay for an editor, book designer and most importantly a publishing company. The state of the book publishing industry these days generally requires the artist to bring substantial funds to the table to offset costs that book publishers simply cant cover anymore. Its like medical care, I need to bring a hefty co-pay to get results. Reckoning at the Frontier is a photographic window into Mexico's struggle with organized crime along its border with the United States. Centered around two cities, Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, Reckoning takes the viewer through the harsh deserts and urban mazes of northern Mexico on both a literal and interpretive photographic journey.I began photographing along the US Mexico border in June of 2005. Over the next five years, I made over a dozen trips to northern Mexico, each fueled by an evolving sense of thematic interpretation and historical perspective. I grew with the work as the border's modern history unfolded before me. In 2010, I moved to the outskirts of Tijuana, where I live today.Seven years ago when I began, my agenda was vague. I wandered through the arid Tijuana hills photographing anything that caught my interest. A group of immigrants waiting to cross into the US, young children playing along the border fence, or an echelon of police motorcycles at a memorial service for slain officers. At that time, I had no idea that this project would be so strongly shaped by the modern Narco-wars that have been unfolding for years. I merely wanted to represent what life on the border looked and felt like. But it was impossible not to be drawn into the fray of organized crime; a phenomenon that is almost entirely misunderstood from a historical, economic and political perspective. Part journalistic reportage and part conceptual interpretation, Reckoning looks beyond the body counts and media misinformation to reveal a country at war with it's own ghosts. Thematically, I am most intrigued by the notion that the wild western frontier has changed very little from the days of Pancho Villa and the Mexican revolution. Outlaws and dirty cops still control vast swaths of Mexican territory. Powerful four-wheel drive trucks have replaced horses, and lever-action rifles have been exchanged for fully automatic assault weapons. The government and its enforcers are still murderously corrupt, and the divide between rich and poor is still ultimately negotiated from behind the barrel of a gun. I approached the subject with a cinematic eye rather than a strictly journalistic documentary style. I used a deliberately bleak color palette to accentuate the true feeling of the unforgiving desert. The terrain and the weather play into the narrative, the desert itself becomes a character.From the beginning of this project, I have always seen it as a book that would bring artistic sensibility to a subject matter that typically turns audiences away. I hope to give viewers greater perspective of a land and people that are so often vilified with extreme prejudice due to political agendas and basic misunderstanding. I was inspired to realize this project not only by previous works of journalism, but also by great works of fiction. I hope to pass on and build upon this inspiration so that others might seek out their own understanding of this pivotal point in Mexico's history.This Kickstarter campaign will raise money to help pay for the printing costs of the book. The reality of today's book publishing industry demands that the artist contribute substantial money towards printing and distribution. The photography is done, I have the material. Now comes the hard part, and I need your help!Eros Hoagland has worked as an independent photojournalist and documentary photographer since 1993. He has concentrated on the exploration of countries and peoples immersed in cycles of violence across the globe. Assignments and personal projects have taken him to El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan where he continues to work for international editorial clients. As well as documenting the political climate and social impact of conflict, Eros looks for an emotional and visceral narrative when approaching reportage projects. Themes are just as important as issues in Eros' photography. Subtleties are never overlooked as he conveys a feeling of place, character and a larger historical perspective to his viewers. Hoagland's regular clients include the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Stern, and the Times of London. http://reckoningbook.com http://eroshoagland.com
cpm-173 by Jake Price (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2012-10-23 | Photographer Jake Price is raising funds for his documentary film project through Kickstarter. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by 11/ 21/12: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/703712189/cpm-703?play=1&ref=search A Fukushima born artist journeys into Japan's nuclear winter revealing the warmth and strength of survivors coping with the fallout.The film: When the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant began to unfold Fukushima native Shimpei Takeda had been living in New York for 10 years working as a visual artist. As he began to understand what was happening to his birthplace a deeper need awoke in him which compelled him to speak beyond his personal art and address the unfolding nuclear calamity that was engulfing his home. Once in Fukushima cpm-703 provides an in-depth portrait into the lives of a population living under the constant threat of radiation.cpm-703 (documentary, expected length, 70 mins, cpm-703 is a working title) follows Takeda from New York into the heart of Fukushima's nuclear winter as he uncovers and, through an ingenious process, exposes the soil that has tainted his heritage on photosensitive paper. As he journeys into the symbolic heart of the region he connects with the land, fulfilling his deeply personal reasons for embarking on his project, Trace. Along the way he discovers a population living amidst the fallout. By following Mr. Takeda's journey cpm-703 explores the strength and love of a people who are committed to their land and will never abandon it despite the dire consequences to their lives. Shot through a humanistic lens that is both epic and intimate cpm-703 portrays the ongoing crisis at Fukushima not merely as a Japanese loss, but as a loss for our collective humanity. It is part cautionary tale about the perils of our reliance on nuclear energy and part meditation on the need to preserve our natural sanctuaries around the globe. In a time where our natural environment faces increased threats daily, Fukushima represents all of our backyards.Last August I was lucky enough to spend two weeks in Fukushima while filming the initial scenes for cpm-703. During my time there I lived in a small room on a mountain peak that overlooked the rice fields (now barren) that Fukushima is famous for. Gazing over the vista I felt a personal connection to the land owing to Japanese landscape art that has been in my life from an early age. Making a documentary with Shimpei as a main character was the perfect way to tell the narrative of what was lost to the meltdown. At first glance Shimpei's work is abstract. When he showed me what he was doing in his darkroom in New York I thought I was looking into the night sky, a portrait of our milky way. When the realization came that I was actually looking at a cameraless photograph of the soil of his ancestors I thought about all of the Japanese influences in my own life and how his art he connected me to them. Through his personal journey I have embarked on my own. This film fuses those together and introduces us to a community whit tremendous strength and heart. When I return to Japan this week I will focus again on them, sending frequent updates here. Lastly, by introducing the audience to the rich landscape of Fukushima and connecting them with a cast of characters that are so emblematic of the Tohoku region's warm spirit I hope that this film will make people think about what is environmentally precious in their own lives.The shooting of this project definitely is a challenge and not without risk. Because I am working in a location that is a nuclear fallout zone there are times when I am near very elevated levels of radiation. Shooting in such demanding situations must be swift and well thought out because lingering too long can have serious consequences. But I believe it's worth it. I don't have to live with the consequences every day. Those in Fukushima do. Through their stories I hope that we think about our own environment and make wise choices about how we want to live.Post production is always a great and costly challenge. To mitigate cost I've assembled an amazing team who believes passionately in the project and are donating some of their time to the sound and color correction. Dedication and heart have been a centerpiece of this project and that will be evident in every pristine frame. I will be distributing this film through all the traditional channels of festivals and broadcast. But, looking beyond that, I want this film to be seen by communities in rural areas. A major theme of this film is that Fukushima is all of our backyards. The film will screen across the world in people's backyards and gardens bringing communities together to think about the environment.Jake's work has taken him to Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, China, Pakistan amongst other countries where he extensively collaborated with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders.
Dancing In The Dragons Jaws : Gay San Francisco, 1985-1988 by Thomas Alleman (Archive) The DEVELOP Tube Photography Video Channel on YouTube 2012-10-19 | Thomas Alleman is raising funds for his photography project - Fifty photographs, made in San Francisco's gay community in the mid-80s, will be exhibited at SFPL's Jewett Gallery, starting Dec 1st.. In order to receive contributions, the project must be funded in full by Thursday Nov 8, 6:41pm EST. To help: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/347219997/dancing-in-the-dragons-jaws-gay-san-francisco-1985?ref=categoryFrom Thomas: I began freelancing as a photographer for San Francisco's local gay press in early 1986, shortly after the death of Rock Hudson brought overnight attention to the scope of the AIDS epidemic. Rather than stalking the stark documentary images of individual carnage that the "straight press" suddenly pursued, the publications I worked for chose to focus on the experience of the gay community at large, because their readers were already too well-aware of bedside vigils and funeral arrangements; they didn't need their "hometown" weekly to recapitulate that dreary, daily horror.I spent three years in the Castro District, in the heart of San Francisco's gay community, making photographs of parties, protests, and parades. I covered elections and sit-ins; leather festivals, seances, quilting bees and all-night disco cavalcades, one after the next. I shot black-and-white film in great bulk, and processed negatives in my kitchen sink and made prints in a darkroom on the back porch, holding back the daylight with curtains of felt and ribbons of duct tape. And then I threw those negatives into folders and drawers, wiped the slate clean, and raced away down Mission Street to deliver my pictures to editors and designers, waiting anxiously.Twenty-five years later, I've finally rehabilitated that menagerie of celluloid, which has long lived in banker's boxes and fruit cartons and moved with me from apartment to house to garage a dozen times. In early 2008 I began searching-out and organizing those rolls of film from my mid-80s sojourn in San Francisco; I started making electronic contact sheets on a flatbed scanner that summer and fall, and edited throughout the winter of 2009. That April I started scanning what I thought were the best of those pictures, and once a year since then I've revisited those contacts to cull what I might've missed the last time. Just this past June, in fact, I found three really great frames that I'd somehow overlooked on all those other editing forays.Early this year, Joan Jasper and her staff at the San Francisco Public Library's Central Branch invited me to show a large selection of those archival photographs in their flagship exhibition hall, the Jewett Gallery. It's a huge room---in excess of 1400 square feet!---and I expect to get between 50 and 55 pictures onto those walls. The sizes of my prints will range from17x22" to 40x50", with most of them being 24x32".This whole project can be viewed on my website, http://www.allemanphoto.comThe challenge before me is apparent, as is the great opportunity: this historic body of work will soon make it's debut in a room that's large enough to display it in real depth, with big, cool prints that can be really smashing and dramatic. But all that grooviness---the size and beauty of the prints, the sheer number of them, the necessity to present them in a way that befits the elegant environs---makes this undertaking a very pricey one for a single individual to mount on his own.Which is where you-all come in, of course. Printing, preparing, transporting and presenting these 50-plus big-ass prints will cost $9000. There's very little guesswork or risk involved in the prospects for this project's success; I'm not asking for you to bless a long-shot with your donations, or fund my pie-in-the-sky. Indeed, this project has nearly completed it's journey, and I'm moving full-speed-ahead with my plans for this exhibition, because the clock is ticking, for sure. But I firmly believe that my faith in the great promise of this project, and in the generosity of you Kickstarters, is well-placed, and that "Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws" will look like a million bucks when it's debut moment arrives on December First at the Jewett Gallery in San Francisco. Hope to see you there!
