All Blog Posts Tagged 'photography' (6)

Death of Photojournalism (Revisited) Ten Years Later

Alrighty, if this is REALLY the case: http://bit.ly/19ZhjB then what are the options for our survival?

Added by Seth Butler on July 20, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

Working on Tina

I started my Column "Portraits from Tina" about a year ago in a local Mexican newspaper. It was supposed to be a simple text from a woman in her twenties writing about the the world she lives in. The tricky part was writing in English about Mexican matters such as the civil resistance, worries and hopes in this country, fashion, economy, boy problems, poverty, corruption, sexism etc. Things that in my head are much better described in my mother tongue.

I came up with the idea of… Continue

Added by Bilhá Calderón on May 26, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Youth Eco Photojournalists

"Because village people do not like owls, they kill them and stake them to cast away the bad spirits." Youth photographer Istvan Kerekes took this photo in western Transylvania in the village of Luncavija, Romania. It is one of a dozen taken to make a visual representation of the most austere environmental problems on the Balkans through the eyes of young people. The calendar project, titled The Earth From Below, was an International Youth Photo… Continue

Added by Jeanette McDermott on January 5, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Something to Think About

The Sumatran tiger will sound its last call unless the trade in its body parts is stopped and its habitat saved. Humans have brought this species to the brink of extinction, with only 350-400 estimated left in the wild. The few remaining wild tigers are increasingly being encroached upon by human settlements and poached by Asians for their teeth, bones, claws, skins, whiskers and other body parts. Wildlife conservation organizations are trying… Continue

Added by Jeanette McDermott on October 28, 2008 at 7:55pm — No Comments

Calling All Eco Photojournalists!

Visit Eco Paparazzi

If you love Mother Earth and care about her health, and want to share your photos of the beautiful and the shocking, come to ecopaparazzi. Our aim is to take action through pictures – show the world what is happening where we live and use these photos to build change. I also formed a new group here at Wired Journalists called Wired for Earth. Let's work together… Continue

Added by Jeanette McDermott on October 27, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Gerda Taro - the first female war photograher

Here's a recording of a talk at the Frontline Club in London last night about the work of the first female war photographer Gerda Taro. Irme Schaber, Taro’s biographer and curator of the current exhibition at the Barbican presents and talks about a wide selection of Taro’s work. She was killed at the age of just 27. Hope you find it interesting… Continue

Added by Graham Holliday on October 18, 2008 at 5:00am — No Comments