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Tuesday 18 November 2008
I’m heading down to London again next Wednesday for the Guardian Student Media Conference, after which I’m planning to visit the World Press Photo 2008 exhibition at Royal Festival Hall. I was kinda thinking of heading back to Swansea early, but will now have to consider staying later I think. The below Frontline Club talk looks pretty interesting, and I’ve never been to any of their events before.
Events and Festivals - Frontline Club : HIV / AIDS Season - In the picture with Gideon Mendel - Looking AIDS in the Face : Wednesday 26th November : 7.30pm : £10.00 : Followed by Q&A : “Gideon Mendel is an award winning photographer and has been documenting the impact of HIV/Aids in Africa for more than 12 years, working in 10 different countries to show the many ways the disease has devastated the lives of millions of ordinary people. Tonight, for one night only, he will present his work and discuss his findings. Gideon has worked on in-depth photo projects for many global publications, most notably for the Guardian and in conjunction with the HIV/Aids Alliance. Born in Johannesburg, Gideon Mendel began working as a photographer in 1983 and has since become one of the world’s leading contemporary photojournalists. He was recognised as a key photographer of change and conflict in South Africa in the lead up to Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. In 2003 Gideon released the book: A Broken Landscape, HIV and Aids in Africa and his work was exhibited widely. He is represented by Corbis.”
Monday 17 November 2008
(Andrea Bruce/The Washington Post)
Blogs - Andrea Bruce - Unseen Iraq: Partying the Night Away in Baghdad (Washington Post: November 17, 2008) “…Hidden away in the basement of the Sheraton Hotel, this “singing party” brings to mind a 1920s speak-easy. It is a party no one talks about but everyone knows about. Such affairs were common in the days of Saddam Hussein and resumed in Baghdad about four months ago, with certain adjustments for the war that intervened. For one thing, partygoers at the Sheraton can’t leave the hotel compound until 5 a.m., when curfew ends….”
Features and Photo Essays - New Yorker: Tea and Wallaby (audio slideshow 7:44) (New Yorker: November 24, 2008 issue) “Photojournalists talk about memorable on-the-job meals.” Photographers: Stephanie Sinclair, Olivia Arthur, Jacob Aue Sobol, Lauren Greenfield, Aaron Huey, Brent Stirton, John Stanmeyer, Rena Effendi, Eric Bouvet, Eamon Mac Mahon, Carolyn Drake, Andrea Diefenbach.
When José, a business magnate in his 30s, hops into his Ferrari, his bodyguards hustle into a black sports utility vehicle with their weapons at the ready, tailing their fast-moving boss. (Photo: Janet Jarman)
Features and Photo Essays - Janet Jarman: Guarding Mexico’s Elite (NYT: November, 16, 2008) “Wealthy Mexicans have long hired bodyguards, but experts say the numbers of those seeking protection have jumped since President Felipe Calderón challenged the country’s drug cartels, bringing unprecedented levels of related violence into the major cities.”
Photographers - Janet Jarman : website
Interviews and Talks -Roger Tooth (Head of Photography, Guardian) comments on the World Press Photo 2008 exhibition (video 3:19) (Guardian: November 17, 2008) ‘“Some striking photos and a worthy winner to this year’s World Press Photo competition, but where’s the joy asks Guardian head of photography Roger Tooth”
Interviews and Talks - Finbarr O’Reilly talk at Ryerson University (video) (Ryerson University webcast: 2006)
Videos- Greg Kelly: Beyond Words : Photographers of War (CBC: 2006) NB: Not a direct link. Click: ‘Judge’s Choice’ on the bottom left-hand corner.
Sunday 16 November 2008
(Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos)
Features and Photo Essays - Paolo Pellegrin: U.S. Election Night - Obama Rally in Grant Park, Chicago (29 images) (Magnum: November 2008)
Features and Photo Essays - Christian Hansen: Failed Elevators, Frustrated Citizens (audio slideshow 2:04) (NYT: November 15, 2008) “The elevators in an East Harlem housing project break down with such frequency that the lives of tenants have been changed, sometimes profoundly.”
February 5, 2008.
At a hotel in Chicago, Obama works on the speech he will give after accepting the Democratic nomination. (Photograph: Callie Shell / Aurora for TIME)
Features and Photo Essays - Callie Shell: Barack Obama: The Best TIME Photographs (TIME: November 14, 2008) “A commemorative volume tracks the President-elect’s path to the White House. TIME Photographer Callie Shell has been with him every step of the way.”
Alec Soth has really reinvigorated the Magnum blog:
Blogs - Alec Soth: ‘Wear Good Shoes: Advice to Young Photographers’ (Magnum blog: November 15, 2008) “Today I’m in San Francisco giving a lecture to the Society for Photographic Education. After presenting my pictures and the story of how I became a photographer, I’ll likely be asked if I have any advice for young photographers. Instead of giving just my two cents, I thought it would be cool if I could also offer some advice from my fellow photographers at Magnum. I emailed my colleagues and received 35 different responses.” Download and print the full article as a PDF.
Features and Photo Essays - Johan Spanner (photos) Lydia Polgreen (narration): The Spoils: A Scramble for Tin in Congo (audio slideshow 2:15) (NYT: November 15, 2008)
Photographers - Gemma Thorpe : website : “Gemma is a British freelance documentary and reportage photographer based in Beijing. She specialises in social and environmental issues and aims to demonstrate alternative perspectives to those usually found in Western media.”
Saturday 15 November 2008
Interviews and Talks - CPN : In front of the Lens : MaryAnn Colon on how to best approach picture editors; the director of VII, Stephen Mayes, gives his thoughts on the rise of digital technology and how imagery is being used in a more dynamic way online; Volker Lensch, the photo editor at Stern, on how photographers should prepare to sell stories to print publications and how to deliver a strong assignment. Also Brent Stirton and a couple others (CPN: November 2008)
Friday 14 November 2008
I’m glad the World Press Photo found a venue in London:
Museums, Galleries, and Exhibitions - World Press Photo 2008 exhibition : Royal Festival Hall : 13 November - 8 December : 10.00 - 22.30 daily : Tube: Waterloo
Campaigns - MSF: Condition Critical (link to the trailer) : “Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run, fleeing a war that rages in eastern Congo, in the provinces of North and South Kivu. They are frightened. Many are sick or wounded. Others have been harassed or raped, or have had everything they own stolen. The people of the Kivus are in a critical condition. The destiny of everyone in this region is shaped by the war. The story of their struggle to survive needs to be told. Starting November 20, 2008, MSF will help the people of the Kivus speak out through this web site.”
Something I found via Jenn Ackerman’s blog:
(multi)Media - Multimedia Muse : “We’re impudent, we’re plugged-in, and we’re staying anonymous. We’re three photographers who believe in creating a greater corporate news demand for online photojournalism. Currently, news sites often give lousy play to multimedia projects. Lousy play means fewer web clicks. And fewer clicks means that these projects aren’t earning their web hosts the kind of revenue that they could. We created MultimediaMuse to try and turn things around: to help give our industry’s Final Cut creations the display, and their web hosts the clicks, they deserve.”
Awards, Grants, and Competitions - VICE Magazine CTRL.ALT.SHIFT Competition : “VICE Magazine and CTRL.ALT.SHIFT have teamed up with Nan Goldin to launch a competition. They are eager to find images that cleverly combine gender, power and poverty. If you think you have what it takes to produce a striking image that touches on these subjects, then get going by uploading your images to their website before the 24th of November. Runners up will receive a photography pack whilst the final winner, chosen by Nan Goldin, will receive £1000 plus a new digital camera.” (from FOTO8) Deadline November 24, 2008
I wonder if I should look into to the below company to make Photojournalism Links a bit more pleasing to the eye.
Equipment, Printing, and Self-Promotion - Graph Paper Press : “Graph Paper Press peddles minimalistic and modular designs that can transform your blog from a tubular list of posts into an aesthetically-pleasing news magazine or portfolio Web site.”
I only recently bumped into this interview…
Interviews and Talks - James Nachtwey on his book ‘Inferno’ (text) (Salon: April 10, 2000)
Thursday 13 November 2008
Features and Photo Essays - Stefano Serra: Water Shortage in the West Bank (25 stills) (Foto8 Story of the Week: November 12, 2008)
Photographers - Stefano Serra : website
Features and Photo Essays - Jehad Nga: Somalia: The Face of Modern Piracy (TIME: November 13, 2008) “Photographer Jehad Nga gets a rare glimpse of the men who plunder the shipping lanes off the east coast of Africa”
Features and Photo Essays - Marcus Bleasdale: Hutu Tutsi Never Again? (VII: November 2008) “Fourteen years after the Rwandan genocide, Hutus and Tustsi ethnic tension overflows in neighboring Congo. 250,000 people have been displaced over the past weeks and Hutu militia, government soldiers and Tutsi warlords battle against each other in the hills of Kivu province. The international community watches silently. A shaky ceasefire between the Congolese army and Nkunda’s troops fell apart in late August and skirmishes between them have continued. “
Features and Photo Essays - Thomas Dworzak: Georgia On His Mind (Magnum in Motion: November 2008)
Features and Photo Essays - Gilless Peress: The Red and The Blue (Magnum in Motion: November 2008)
Wednesday 12 November 2008
Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Fresh MILK : information available also on LS. Deadline 31 December 2008
News - 2008 Frontline Club Award : “Yuri Kozyrev wins the Frontline Club Award for his exceptional coverage of the Iraq war. His photographic essay starting from March 2003 covers the lives and stories of the people in and around Baghdad during the US-led attack. Almost six years after the war began, the mission there is far from accomplished. Yuri Kozyrev has been on the ground almost continually for the entire length of this conflict, and has given the world a comprehensive, unique, and honest portrait of the people that it has involved. ” Links to his photo essays can be found here (NOOR gallery) and here (TIME magazine gallery). Also, the Dispatches magazine has some of Kozyrev’s Iraq work up here.
Features and Photo Essays - NYT (various photographers): Dogs Serving Veterans (NYT: November, 2008) “America’s VetDogs, part of the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, provides disabled veterans with service dogs. “
Tuesday 11 November 2008
Photographers - David Burnett : website : blog
Remembrance poppies are attached to a battle-scarred tree in what the British called ‘Sanctuary Wood’, part of Hill 62 on the Ypres-Salient. (Photograph by Stefan Boness)
Features and Photo Essays - Stefan Boness: Landscapes of the ‘Great War’ (TIME: November 10, 2008) “During World War I, hundreds of thousands of Allied and German soldiers died in battlefields around Ypres, Belgium. Ninety years on, the scars of war are still visible. Photographs by Stefan Boness from the book, Flanders Fields.”
(multi)Media - On the Road Media : “On The Road Media is a multimedia production and storytelling team founded by Reporter/Producer Laura Lo Forti and Photojournalist Justin Mott in 2007. Using still photography, HD Video, professional audio, and the power of the written word, On The Road Media specializes in documentary storytelling in a variety of genres. In addition to conceptualizing and producing their own stories, On The Road Media also accepts commissioned projects (NGO’s, Private Corporations, etc) and editorial assignments from publications and photo-agencies for the web. On The Road Media independently distributes their editorial work along with distributing internationally through World Picture News.”
Monday 10 November 2008
Once a hunting lodge for Afghanistan’s last king, a small stone castle has been home for a year to an American cavalry troop, an Afghan infantry company, a Navy corpsman and two American marines. The base, near Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, is intended to draw Taliban attacks away from more populated regions. (Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - Tyler Hicks: A Military Outpost in Afghanistan (15 stills) (NYT: November 10, 2008)
I visited London only briefly last week and I didn’t have the time to hit the Barbican for the Robert Capa exhibition, but I’m hoping to fix the matter the next time I head to the city.
Museums, Galleries, and Exhibitions - BBC: This is War (audio slideshow 2:30) (BBC online) “A new exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London provides a chance to see the work of photographer Robert Capa, once described as the greatest war photographer in the world. Three boxes of his work containing over 3,500 negatives previously thought to have been lost were recently unearthed, and here Cynthia Young, the curator of these pictures at the International Center of Photography in New York, speaks about these and some of his more famous pictures.” Photographed, recorded and produced by Phil Coomes and Caroline Briggs
(multi)Media - November 2008 issue of the Digital Journalist now available online.
Sunday 9 November 2008
AIDS campaigner Joan Koisianga demonstrates how to put on a condom to the pupils of Iikidinga Secondary School near Arusha, Tanzania. (Photographs By Tom Stoddart / Getty Reportage)
Features and Photo Essays - Tom Stoddart: Lest We Forget: Africa’s AIDS Crisis (14 stills) (TIME: November 9, 2008) “In sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS kills 6,500 every day, leaving millions of children orphaned. A new exhibition looks at this often forgotten tragedy. Lest We Forget, an exhibition by Tom Stoddart can be viewed at Leicester Cathedral, U.K., throughout November.”
Features and Photo Essays - Jacopo Quaranta: Naomi (18 stills) (Foto8 Story of the Week: November 5, 2008)
Mr. Torres walks with a cane and speaks slurred but comprehensible Spanish. After he awoke from his coma, his father said, “We cried with surprise. We cried with joy. You could have paddled away on our tears. Then, after that, he improved every day. He didn’t take baby steps. He jumped. He leaped.” (Photo: Josh Haner/The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - Josh Haner: A Life Rescued (12 stills) (NYT: November 9, 2008) “Antonio Torres, 19, outside his family’s home in Gila Bend, Ariz. Mr. Torres, a farmworker and legal immigrant, suffered catastrophic injuries in a car crash in June and was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Phoenix. He had no insurance and did not qualify for Medicaid. So, less than two weeks after the accident, the hospital sent Mr. Torres, who was comatose, to Mexico. Five days later, his parents found a California hospital to accept him and brought him back into the United States. He arrived from Mexico in septic shock but survived — and thrived.”
Features and Photo Essays - Gerald Holubowicz: Yes We Did, Harlem Celebrates Obama Victory (multimedia 3:28) (photographer’s blog)
Photographers - Benjamin Thomas : website
(multi)Media - SocialDocumentary : “Create and explore photo documentary websites investigating critical issues facing our world today.”
Blogs - James Danziger : The Year in Pictures : “James Danziger has been involved in photography for a long time. His blog “The Year in Pictures” is a record of photographs (and a few other things) that have captured his attention.”
Blogs - Michael George : Inceptive Notions : “Michael George is a photography and imaging major at the Tisch School of the Arts within New York University.”
Workshops - Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2009 : Registration now open. DATES: 26 July - 1 August 2009 LOCATION: Manali, Manali-Kulu Valleys, Himachal Pradesh, Indian Himalaya. “Created to provide training, education and networking to emerging photographers and students who normally would not be able to afford workshops, Foundry is a grassroots workshop series held in inspiring and photographically challenging global locations. Foundry 2009 will be held in Manali, India during the week of July 26 - August 1. Tuition is $900 US and $450 for South Asian students.”
Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Alexandra Boulat Scholarship : “To honor the memory of Alexandra Boulat, who taught at TPW in these last years, TPW has created a special scholarship. This will consist in the possibility to attend a workshop in Tuscany for free (included room and board - not including travel expenses) and work under the guidance of master photographers. It will be offered to a young photojournalist, male or female, under 35 year old. To apply for this scholarship send a CD to: TPW, P.O.Box 931, Bologna Centrale , 40124 Bologna, Italy. Please, send only regular mail, not express courier because the P.O. Box does not accept it. Within April 30th 2009, with 1 to 3 photojournalistic projects, each of 15 to 25 images (size 100 dpi, long size 1200), your personal data, cv, explanatory note for the projects and captions.TPW will make a first selection of best works and made the final selection with VII.” NB: Not to be confused with the Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Grant. Deadline: April 31, 2009.
Saturday 8 November 2008
Videos - In Harm’s Way - War Photographers Zoriah and Alissa Everett (YouTube) The film has created a lot of discussion at Lightstalkers.
Interviews and Talks - Ashley Gilbertson and Campbell Robertson in conversation with New York Times’ Baghdad Correspondent Stephen Farrell (article and video 7:43) (NYT Baghdad Bureau Blog: November 6, 2008) “Ashley Gilbertson is a freelance photographer who has worked in Iraq since 2002, largely on assignment for The New York Times. Last year, he published his first book, “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War. Campbell Robertson is a culture reporter for The New York Times. He will return to Iraq later this month.”
Friday 7 November 2008
Blogs - Simon Roberts: Underwhelmed by Parr (Simon Roberts : We English: November 3, 2008)
Thursday 6 November 2008
Events and Festivals - Angkor Photography Festival : Siem Reap, Cambodia : 23 - 28 November 2008 : “The Angkor Photography Festival was created in 2005 and this year, for the fourth time, the temples of Angkor will become a hub that will draw both famous and passionate photographers from around the world. This year the festival will showcase outdoor projections celebrating regional and international photographers in different locations in Siem Reap. The strong educational goals of the Angkor Photography Festival set it apart from other photography events. Photographers Antoine d’Agata, Vincent Soyez, Laurent Zylbermann, Jean Chun, David Hogsholt and Patrick de Noirmont will tutor free workshops for emerging Asian photographers and the festival will also present outreach programs for vulnerable people. Gary Knight and Philip Blenkinsop will also present results of workshops. www.photographyforchange.net”
Interviews and Talks - ‘Christopher Anderson on objectivity’ (video 5:51) (Magnum blog: November 1, 2008)
If you go to powerHouse Books’ site, you can see an NBC News piece (2:01) where Scout Tufankjian talks about photographing the Obama campaign. For 23 months(!).
Books - Scout Tufankjian: Yes We Can (powerHouse Books 2008) Hardcover, 8.375 X 11 inches, 192 pages, 250 full color photographs. ISBN: 978-1-57687-504-9. Out on December 8.
The following Peress’ piece is both scary and hilarious. You’ll know what I mean once you watch it.
Features and Photo Essays - Gilles Peress: Scarecrow (multimedia (9:19) (Magnum InSight America: November 2, 2008)
Features and Photo Essays - Mario Tama: Election 2008 in the Heart of the Civil Rights Struggle (TIME: November 6, 2008) “Photographer Mario Tama visits Selma and Birmingham as the nation elects its first black president”
Duncan McCormack III preparing for a dove hunting trip in Ahome, Mexico. The location is considered to contain some of the most bountiful bird grounds in the world, but is also home to violent drug gangs. (Photo: Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - Andriana Zehbrauskas: Pushing the Limit (NYT: November 6, 2008)
Features and Photo Essays - Magnum (various photographers): Election Night (Magnum InSight America: November 5, 2008)
Features and Photo Essays - Magnum (various photographers): Crime and Punishment (MiM): November 2008) “November 06, 2008 - Elkie Lee Taylor, 47, convicted in the robbery and murder of 64-year-old Otis Flake in Fort Worth, will be executed by lethal injection.In November 2008, six men are scheduled for execution in the state of Texas. Among 195 countries in the world, 137 have abolished capital punishment according to Amnesty International. How much longer will The United States continue to execute prisoners?”
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog is really worth its name. Check out this entry about the President-elect.
Features and Photo Essays - ‘The next President of the United States’ (35 stills) (Boston Globe: Big Picture: November 5, 2008)
Now that the presidential election is finally over, we can again start paying a little more attention to what’s happening elsewhere in the world.
Congo.
Features and Photo Essays - ‘Conflict in Congo, Refugees on the Move’ (Boston Globe: Big Picture: November 3, 2008)
Iraq.
Every six months, detainees are given an opportunity to have their case evaluated by a board of three American military officers; a lieutenent colonel, a captain, and a sergeant. (Photo: Yuri Kozyrev)
Features and Photo Essays - Yuri Kozyrev: Prison Life Inside Baghdad’s Camp Cropper (14 stills) (TIME: November 5, 2008) ”Photographer Yuri Kozyrev gets a rare glimpse into a crowded Iraqi detention center.”
Hi Sarah. Bye Sarah.
(Photo: Christopher Morris / VII for TIME)
Features and Photo Essays - TIME (Christopher Morris / VII and Danny Wilcox Frazier / Redux): John McCain’s Campaign Farewell (12 stills) (TIME: November 5, 2008) “The GOP nominee concedes defeat at a somber gathering at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona”
OK, a bit more Obama. Then I’m gonna ban all O-features for a while, before this blog turns into Obama Links.
I must admit I got a bit teary-eyed watching Obama last night. Not quite sure whether it was his oration or just seeing all those other teary-eyed people on TV.
On Nov. 4, Mr. Obama and his family at Grant Park. “It’s been a long time coming,” he told the crowd, “but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.” Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times
Features and Photo Essays - NYT (various photographers): How Obama Won (22 stills) (NYT: November 5, 2008)
The election was a great journey, but the real one is no doubt just about to start. Let’s hope W. won’t get down to anything too nasty during the last days of his reign.
Features and Photo Essays - TIME (various photographers): Obama’s Victory Speech in Chicago (21 stills) (TIME: November 4, 2008)
I’ve really enjoyed Magnum’s Insight - America project. Here’s a feature by Paolo Pellegrin . This is from Slate.
On the eve of an election in the midst of an economic downturn, Magnum presents recent work by Paolo Pellegrin, who entered the belly of the beast on Wall Street in conjunction with the InSight America documentary project. NEW YORK CITY—Wall Street, 2008. © Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Photos
Features and Photo Essays - Paolo Pellegrin: Wall Street Blues (17 stills) (Slate: November 3, 2008)
SHARTLESVILLE, Pa.—The “Roadside America” tourist attraction, Oct. 24, 2008.
© Thomas Dworzak / Magnum Photos
Features and Photo Essays - Thomas Dworzak: Election Road Trip (13 images) (Slate: November 4, 2008)
Tuesday 4 November 2008
It’s gonna be an exciting night….
Mr. Biden spoke at a rally in Zanesville, Ohio, one of at least four appearances on Monday. A week ago, two or three events a day was the norm for each of the vice-presidential candidates. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - Ozier Muhammad: Stretch Run: Senator Joseph Biden (NYT: November 3, 2008)
As the campaign reached the final days, Gov. Sarah Palin hit the trail — and several states — to make the case for the McCain-Palin ticket. Left, Ms. Palin’s husband, Todd, watched her speak in Raleigh, N.C. on Saturday. (Photo: Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - Todd Heisler: Stretch Run: Gov. Sarah Palin (NYT: November 3, 2008)
Monday 3 November 2008
Senator Barack Obama boarded his campaign plane in Jacksonville, Fla. (Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - NYT: Election Eve : Democrats (By Damon Winter, Ozier Muhammad, and Doug Mills) / Republicans (By Todd Heisler and Stephen Crowley) (NYT: November 3, 2008)
Features and Photo Essays - James Estrin: The Educator Crusader (NYT: November 3, 2008) “Eva S. Moskowitz is the chief executive of Harlem Success Academy, a chain of four charter schools started in 2006. A former university professor and City Council member who is passionate about education, she has drawn notice for her demanding and still political style of running the schools.”
Not a pretty picture in Congo. Hopefully, the situation down there will be paid a little more attention after Tuesday. Seriously doubt it, though.
Congolese vented their outrage at the failure of the United Nations peacekeeping force to stop the rebel advance. (Photo: Karel Prinsloo/Associated Press)
Features and Photo Essays - NYT (various photographers): Congo on the Brink (11 stills) (NYT: November 2, 2008)
Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Luis Valtuena International Humanitarian Photography Award : Deadline 5 November 2008
Articles - Jim Johnson: The Psychology of Compassion (Politicstheoryphotography blog: 11 October 2007)
Sunday 2 November 2008
I was listening to the below Jehad Nga conversation on my iPod during my morning run. Worth checking out. I think I have to play it another time myself to see the photos as well.
Interviews and Talks - Jehad Nga : In the Picture with Jehad Nga. Somalia Through the Lens (video 61 min) (Frontline Club events video: September 5, 2008) “Jehad Nga is one of the most talented emerging photographers on the international scene and for the last three years has worked intensely in and around Mogadishu. For one night only he will present a selection of images from his portfolio and talk about operating as a photographer in one of the world’s most dangerous environments”
Saturday 1 November 2008
I’m very much looking forward to having the election over and done with, so I can have my life back. Feels like all I’ve been doing this year has been to follow the elections.
NBC cameraman John Kooistra sleeps on the campaigns airplane, Straight Talk Air, in front of full figure cutouts of John McCain and Sarah Palin. The likenesses act as surrogates due to the lack of press access to the candidates. The curtain between the front and rear the planes two sections for McCain and staff, and press, respectively remains closed most of the time. (Photo: Lauren Greenfield)
Features and Photo Essays - Lauren Greenfield: McCain 2008 Campaign (VII: October 2008) Photographed for the New York Times Magazine.
Features and Photo Essays - Christopher Morris: John McCain’s Final Push (TIME: October 30, 2008) “TIME Photographer Christopher Morris joins the GOP candidate in the last days of his campaign”
Features and Photo Essays - Callie Shell: Barack Obama Hits the Homestretch (TIME: October 30, 2008) ”TIME photographer Callie Shell travels with the Democratic nominee in the campaign’s final days”
I wonder if the US and its allies are still in Afghanistan in four years’ time. 
The isolated outpost imposed an unforgiving condition: anyone injured would have to wait for an evacuation. It was up to the team of medics to keep Jamaludin alive. Left, Sgt. Zackary Filip called for help. “They need to call a medevac,” he said. “They need to call it now. Urgent.” (Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - Tyler Hicks: A Frantic Hour With the Wounded (NYT: November 1, 2008) “On an October morning, the Taliban began firing mortars at Combat Outpost Lowell, a remote base in Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan. Explosive mortars blasted shrapnel deep into two Afghan men.”
Friday 31 October 2008
Workshops - Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2009 : “Created to provide training, education and networking to emerging photographers and students who normally would not be able to afford workshops, Foundry is a grassroots workshop series held in inspiring and photographically challenging global locations. Foundry 2009 will be held in Manali, India during the week of July 26 - August 1.” I went to the first one held in Mexico City and I had the best time. Cannot recommend enough. Will head to India as well, if I can. 
Boosaaso’s fishing port. (Photo: Jehad Nga for The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - Jehad Nga: The Pirates of Somalia (NYT: October 31, 2008) “Boosaaso may be one of the most dangerous towns in Somalia, but it is also one of the most prosperous. One line of work — piracy — seems to be benefiting quite openly from all the lawlessness and desperation in the country. “ 
A girl goes to fetch water for her mother in Daadab. (Photograph: Marcus Bleasdale)
Features and Photo Essays - Marcus Bleasdale: Somalia Exodus (VII: October 2008) “Somalis have been fleeing from fighting and insecurity for the past 20 years. Most have ended up at the Dadaab refugee camp across the Kenyan border, which is now the largest in the world with an official 215,000 registered refugees or an unofficial 250,000. Recent arrivals recount rape, summary executions and indiscriminate bombing in Somalia. ”
Features and Photo Essays - Damon Winter (covering Obama) and Stephen Crowley (covering McCain): Obama and McCain Make Their Cases in The South (NYT: October 31, 2008)
Features and Photo Essays - Walter Astrada: War and Displacement on Congo (TIME: October 30, 2008) NB. Only 13 of the 16 photos are by Astrada but I marked this as his feature anyway. The series of 16 images include one photo by Roberto Schmidt, one by Karel Prinsloo, and one simply marked ‘Reuters’.
Thursday 30 October 2008
I would kinda like to think the house in this photo is McCain’s eighth (or is it ninth? tenth?), the one where he’ll hide after next Tuesday:
Inez, Kentucky Site where LBJ launched the “war on poverty,” April 23, 2008. (Photo: Christopher Morris / VII)
Features and Photo Essays - Christopher Morris: John McCain’s Long Distance Campaign (TIME: October 30, 2008) “TIME photographer Christopher Morris has covered the GOP nominee since the beginning”
Hope this does not come across as some kind of sick reference to a great tragedy, but this Callie Shell photograph from Obama bus, made me think of Paul Fusco’s images of people saluting RFK’s funeral train: 
St. Louis, Missouri View from the campaign bus, October 18, 2008. (Photo: Callie Shell)
Features and Photo Essays - Callie Shell: What Obama Saw (TIME: October 30, 2008) “TIME photographer Callie Shell shows what the Democratic campaign looked like from the candidate’s point of view”
I am really looking forward to catching Jacob Aue Sobol’s speech next week at BJP’s Vision ‘08 conference in London:
Books - Jacob Aue Sobol: I, Tokyo (Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing: 2008) Aue Sobol’s books at Magnum Store.
There’s a fascinating discussion going on at Magnum Blog about JM Colberg’s blog piece (see yesterday’s updates) regarding the visual language of photojournalism and he has written another blog entry to clarify some of his points:
Blogs - JM Colberg : Conscientious : Some more thoughts on the visual language of photojournalism (JM Colberg - Conscientious: October 29, 2008) More related discussion:
Blogs - Jim Johnson : Notes on Politics, Theory, and Photography: James Nachtwey & the Campaign Against XDRTB ~ Caught in the Conventions of Photojournalism (politicstheoryphotography blog: October 29, 2008)
I felt a little stab in the heart watching the below video. You probably don’t have to wonder why:
Videos - ‘Angola’ :”A spoof movie trailer dedicated to the ubiquitous photographic cliché of placing a subject’s face at the bottom of the frame and showing only the eyes. (YouTube video)
Reminder:
Jobs - Lauren Greenfield studio seeks photo assistant: “Lauren Greenfield seeks LA-based photo assistant/archive manager. Assistant provides creative, lighting, and logistical support for photo/ film work. Must have professional photo assistant experience, knowledge of lighting and digital equipment (Canon), strong interpersonal skills and journalistic interest. E-mail resume, cover letter and references to info@laurengreenfield.com. Salary TBN, and health benefits.”
Wednesday 29 October 2008
Photos of unidentified murder victims flash in front of family members gathered at the Baghdad morgue. (Andrea Bruce/The Washington Post)
Blogs - Andrea Bruce : Unseen Iraq: A Grim Ritual at the Baghdad Morgue (WP: October 26, 2008)
Features and Photo Essays - Andrea Bruce: Searches Filled with Sorrow (WP: October 2008) ”Families missing loved ones look over images of unidentified murder victims at the Baghdad morgue.”
Features and Photo Essays - NYT (Narration: Paul Vitello; Photos:Nicole Bengiveno, Gabriele Stabile, Ruby Washington): Two Paths Toward Death, One Voice of Comfort (audio slideshow 3:39) (NYT: October 28, 2008) Hospice Chaplains Take Up Bedside Counseling By Paul Vitello : ”Some of the hospice patients talk about their impending deaths, or about God. Most just talk about what people always talk about — unfinished business and unanswered questions: regrets over firing an employee 50 years ago; the pet no one has yet promised to adopt; feeling sick to death of being sick yet not ready to die.”
Three new Magnum in Motion multimedia essays:
Features and Photo Essays - Bruce Gilden: Foreclosures (MiM: October 2008)
Features and Photo Essays - Alessandra Sanguinetti: Los Angeles (MiM: October 2008)
Features and Photo Essays - Patrick Zachmann: Un Jour, La Nuit (MiM: October 2008)
And now to something completely different…
Take a look at Nachtwey’s XDR-TB slideshow again and then read this: JM Colberg: Some thoughts on the visual language of photojournalism (JM Colberg : Conscientious blog: October 28, 2008) Agree? Disagree? For further discussion, see this Magnum Blog entry.
Tuesday 28 October 2008 
An American soldier near an Iraqi Amy base in western Mosul. (Photo: Joao Silva for The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - Joao Silva: Escalating Conflict in Mosul (NYT: October 28, 2008) “The American military is increasingly concerned that Mosul, a northern city in Iraq where insurgents remain strong, could degenerate into a larger battleground.”
Monday 27 October 2008
Agencies, Collectives, and Stock - Bombay Flying Club : Two Danish photojournalists, Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov.
Blogs - Bombay Flying Club
Features and Photo Essays - Poul Madsen / Bombay Flying Club: Bucharest Below Ground. Web documentary project about street children and drug addicts in Bucharest, Romania. It follows the stories of three Romanians – an NGO worker, a homeless man and his family and a homeless young man – through photographs, interviews and film.
Photographers - Poul Madsen : website
Sam, 15 “I want to see drastic change from the Bush Administration in terms of foreign policy and especially the environment.” (Photo: Morgan Hagar)
The empty parking lot at the General Motors plant in Janesville, Wis. On Oct. 13, G.M. announced that it was closing the plant, which just a year ago was churning out 20,000 Suburbans, Yukons and Tahoes each month. (Photo: Peter Wynn Thompson for The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - Peter Wynn Thompson: Saying Goodbye to the S.U.V. (NYT: October 26, 2008) “For years, General Motors lived off its full-size sport utility vehicles, reaping large profits on stellar sales results. Now, however, the era of the big S.U.V. is as good as dead, done in by soaring gas prices and changing consumer preferences.”
Photographers - Stephen Ferry : website
News - Alex Rivera, Photojournalist of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 95 (NYT: October 26, 2008)
Interesting visual take on the presidential election by New York Times’ Damon Winter:
Features and Photo Essays - Damon Winter: Political Landscape (audio slideshow) (NYT: October 26, 2008)
Features and Photo Essays - Todd Heisler: Main Streets in New York (13 stills) (NYT: October 26, 2008) “There are Main Streets in the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, on Staten Island and even (technically) in Manhattan.”
I’m not particularly interested in fashion, but I recently bumped into these two magnificent fashion show features by my two faves Christopher Anderson and Paolo Pellegrin: 
(Photograph: Christopher Anderson)
Features and Photo Essays - Christopher Anderson: Sideshows (The New York Magazine : Look: May 6, 2008) “Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson captures the weeks’ gorgeous moments—peripheral, otherworldly, iconic.” 
(Photograph: Paolo Pellegrin)
Features and Photo Essays - Paolo Pellegrin: From Every Angle (The New York Magazine : Look: November 26, 2007) “Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin captures the beauty, chaos, and drama of the runways.” 
(Photograph: Jean Chung for the International Herald Tribune)
Features and Photo Essays - Jean Chung: A Champion Korean Boxer (NYT: October 26, 2008) “For South Koreans, boxing is mainly a sport of the past, a metaphor for what the country was in the 1970s and ’80s before its economy jumped to 13th largest in the world. Now, a girl whose family fled North Korea is breathing just a hint of new life into the sport by winning a world championship at age 17. “
Saturday 26 October 2008 
Men and women dressed in traditional South Ossetian clothing waited to greet Mayor Yuri Luzhkov of Moscow earlier this month, on his first visit to the separatist enclave. (Photo: James Hill for The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - James Hill: Russia’s Mayor (NYT: October 24, 2008) “South Ossetian separatists hail Mr. Luzhkov as a liberator, and he is so popular that a street was named after him in Tskhinvali, the capital.”
Features and Photo Essays - Nicole Bengiveno: Coffee Generation (NYT: October 24, 2008) “Despite economic troubles, New Yorkers are fast discovering an aromatic world beyond diner coffee and even beyond Starbucks. Eight years ago, when Ken Nye opened the first Ninth Street Espresso store in an out-of-the-way section of Alphabet City, he knew he was facing tough times.”
(multi)Media - Dispatches 2/2008 is out. This time the magazine is tackling Iraq.
Features and Photo Essays - Yuri Kozyrev: Beyond Iraq (Dispatches: 2/08)
Features and Photo Essays - John Moore: Detained (Dispatches 2/08)
News - Latest Canon Professional Network Newsletter available online.
Awards, Grants, and Competitions - World Press Photo jury announced (CPN: October 2008)
Friday 24 October 2008
(multi)Media / Blogs - Lens Culture : website : blog
Features and Photo Essays - The New York Times : Photographers’ Journal: Updates from the Campaign Trail (NYT: October 24, 2008) Weekly updates from Stephen Crowley, Richard Perry, Doug Mills, Ozier Muhammad, and Damon Winter.
Blogs - Kenneth Jarecke
Features and Photo Essays - Ben Edwards: Democratic Vistas (Foto8 Story of the Week: October 23, 2008) “America was buzzing, it was 1990 and Bush senior, then President of the USA was going to give an address to the nation that night at 9pm. Everybody knew he was going to announce the first assault on Iraq. Armed with Leicas I trundled down to a bar on the west side of lower Manhattan to meet a friend. At 9pm Bush was on the screen. The cacophony of noise in the bar stopped; somebody pulled the plug on the jukebox. The only sound was Bush senior announcing the inevitable. War.” 
Manuel Meza, an American citizen, had lunch with his wife, Margarita. The Mezas have been married for six years, but Mrs. Meza was deported and now drives three hours to visit her husband at the fence. “It’s strange,” he said, “but our love is stronger than the fence.” (Photo: Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - Sandy Huffaker: Friendships at the Border (NYT: October 22, 2008) ”In a sign of changing times, new border fencing that the Department of Homeland Security is counting on to help curtail illegal crossings and attacks on Border Patrol agents will slice through the park, limiting access to the monument and fence-side socializing.”
Photographers - Sandy Huffaker : website 
Jewish settlers near the tomb. (Photograph: Rina Castelnuovo for the New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - Rina Castelnuovo: Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank (11 stills) (NYT: October 24, 2008) “Situated in the heart of a Palestinian district on the West Bank is Joseph’s Tomb, a tiny half-derelict compound that many Jews believe is the final burial place of the son of Jacob, the biblical patriarch. “
Photographers - Jehad Nga : website
(Photograph: Callie Shell)
Features and Photo Essays - Callie Shell (photos) Joe Klein (report): Barack Obama : The TIME Interview (audio slideshow 3:36) (TIME: October 23, 2008) “Behind the scenes photographs by Callie Shell / Aurora for TIME”
Blogs - Daylight Magazine New multimedia from MediaStorm: 
Features and Photo Essays - Jonathan Torgovnik: Intended Consequences (multimedia) (MediaStorm: October 2008) ”An estimated 20,000 children were born from rapes committed during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Intended Consequences chronicles the lives of these women. Their narratives are embodied in portrait photographs, interviews and oral reflections about the daily challenges they face today.”
Photographers - Jonathan Torgovnik : website 
India. Mumbai. 2006. A girl walks along a water pipe in the Industrial Area of Dharavi. Although it functions as a throroughfare through this area of the slum, the water in the pipes is headed for the more affluent southern areas of the city. Dharavi is one of Mumbai’s biggest and longest standing slums. Home to somewhere between 600 000 and one million people, it is a beehive of recycling and manufacturing industries. However, Dharavi sits on prime real estate right in the heart of the booming megapolis, and is in close vicinity to the new Bandra-Kurla Complex, a new financial hub. Dharavi is now scheduled for redevelopment, meaning everything in the slum, for good and bad, is set to be demolished. © Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos
Blogs - Jonas Bendiksen: The Places We Live (Magnum blog: October 23, 2008) “In 2005, I started work on The Places We Live, a project about urban poverty and slums. For three years, I visited dozens of families in four slums around the world. “
Features and Photo Essays - Jonas Bendiksen The Place We Live : Bendiksen’s latest project is out both as a book and a website.
I don’t usually post any travel or lifestyle features /photo essays, but saw this Adriana Zehbrauskas one on NYT Times site last night, and gonna add it, just because she’s such a cool lady. 
(Photo: Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - Adriana Zehbrauskas: Casa de los Colores (NYT: October 23, 2008) La Cieneguita, Mexico. ”Mr. McLauchlin is an American assemblage artist who makes furniture, decorative objects and jewelry. “The house is really a showroom. Just about everything is for sale,” he says.”
Wednesday 22 October 2008
Events and Festivals - Documentary : The Future of Contemporary Photography: The New York Photo Festival 2008. “This exciting new documentary short, The Future of Contemporary Photography, provides a dynamic look into the New York Photo Festival 2008 (NYPH08), and premieres at PDN Photo Plus Expo on Thursday, October 23, 2008. The film explores the curatorial insights of four leading photo editors, the festival’s founders, and the many cutting-edge artists who shared their work. The film asks curators, artists, and viewers to make their own aesthetic judgments on the state of modern photographic image making.” Screening: Thursday, October 23 at 1:00pm, Friday, October 24 at 11:00am and 2:00pm, Saturday, October 25 at 10:20am and 2:40pm. @ Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York. Related: 3D Coverage of the NYPH. NYPH on Flickr.
(Photograph: Adam Ferguson)
Features and Photo Essays - Adam Ferguson: Training Afghanistan’s Police Force (audio slideshow 2:31) (TIME: October 22, 2008) “In Afghanistan’s Ferah province, the nation’s police trains with US military to make Afghanistan a safer place — both for civilians and officers”
Photographers - Adam Ferguson : website
Features and Photo Essays - Andrea Bruce: Unseen Iraq: from Fishing to Ferrying (7 stills) (WP: October 2008) “Many fishermen in Baghdad’s Tigris River area are out of work as fish stocks dwindle, and have taken to ferrying people across the water to make money.” Bruce’s blog entry related to the story. 
(Photograph: Jocelyn Bain Hogg)
Features and Photo Essays - Jocelyn Bain Hogg: British Youth (VII Network: 2008) “With the news of rising knife and gun crime, urban gangs, teenage killings, suicides and binge drinking rife in the British media, this body of work, photographed throughout the summer of 2008, attempts to define the real experiences of British Youth today. Across the country from Renfrewshire to Cornwall, under 24-year-olds were photographed and documented on tape in their own words. Youth-led events such as the London Mela, The Notting Hill Carnival, Cambridge University May Week and Varsity Polo intersperse the individual portraits, and an essay on the British on holiday on the Greek island of Zante (Zakynthos) completes the overall picture.” From her website: “Commissioned by Sky News Online, Jocelyn spent the Summer months photographing and recording many aspects of Britain’s youth.” The same story with annoying interactive graphics on Sky News site.
Photographers - Jocelyn Bain Hogg : website
Mohammad Raheem and his daughter Teba were wounded in fighting outside their home four years ago. (Photo: Max Becherer/Polaris, for The New York Times)
Blogs - Max Becherer: The Gap: Haifa Street 2004 and 2008 (NYT Baghdad Bureau: October 21, 2008)
Events and Festivals - Brighton Photo Biennial 2008 : the festival on YouTube
Blogs - Reuters Photo Blog . The latest post is by Jim Bourg regarding his photograph of John McCain taken in the last of the three debates between the 2008 US presidential nominees. 
(Photo: Jim Bourg / Reuters)
Equipment, Printing, and Self-Promotion - Paper and Inks (UK) : They sell loads of different kinds of photo papers meant for digital printing.
Monday 20 October 2008
I want to predict some World Press Photo prizes for Platon for his series on the U.S. military published in the New Yorker last month. And who says photography can no longer have an influence. I got goose bumps yesterday watching Colin Powell on Meet the Press refer to the photograph below as he explained his decision to back Obama for the next U.S. President:
Elsheba Khan at the grave of her son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. (Photo: Platon)
Blogs - PDN Pulse : Colin Powell Cites Platon Photo in Obama Endorsement (October 19, 2008) ”President Bush’s former Secretary of State Colin Powell was moved to endorse Barack Obama in part by a photo he saw in a magazine.” 
Photo: Scott Dalton for The New York Times
Features and Photo Essays - Scott Dalton: A Whimsical Riff on the Bookmobile (NYT: October 19, 2008) ” Luis Soriano, of La Gloria, Colombia, created the “Biblioburro” in the belief that the act of taking books to people who do not have them can somehow improve this impoverished region.” 
St. Paul, MN, 2008 © Alec Soth/Magnum Photos
Blogs - Alec Soth : If I was a president, I’d have a kick-ass blog (Magnum blog : October 19, 2008) Soth is on a mission to revive the Magnum blog and asks readers to write how to make it better. He’s referencing Christopher Anderson’s blog entry from earlier this year, which got a really fascinating discussion going between him and some of the readers. 
With Election Day just over two weeks away, Senator Barack Obama campaigned on Sunday in Fayetteville, N.C. (Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - Damon Winter: Obama Plays Offense as McCain Defends Turf (NYT: October 20, 2008)
Features and Photo Essays - Astrid Schulz: Qalqiya Zoo, Palestine (14 stills) (Foto8 Story of the Week: October 15, 2008) “Qalqilya, a former market town with a population of more than 45,000 is located in the northwest of the West Bank near the border with Israel. It is almost completely encircled by the eight metre high barrier wall that separates farmers from their land, families from each other and visitors from the town’s attraction – a small animal park. The animal park opened in 1986 and is now the only municipal zoo in either the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. The zoo’s director, Dr Sami Khader, has struggled to keep it functioning, and its animals alive, during the region’s troubled past few years.”
Photographers - Astrid Schulz : website
Photographers - Ramin Talaie : website : blog
Agencies, Collectives, and Stock - Document Iran : “Document Iran Images provides the latest news, features and stock images from Iran and about Iran.”
Sunday 19 October 2008 
A number of United States soldiers from the Sixth Squadron, Fourth Cavalry, left Combat Outpost Lowell near Kamu to replace soldiers at a hillside “overwatch” position. (Photograph: Tyler Hicks)
Features and Photo Essays - Tyler Hicks: A U.S. Outpost Fire (NYT: October 18, 2008) “Since the start of the war in Afghanistan in 2001, the northern part of the border with Pakistan has been a particular focus of concern for American forces. The borderline there is essentially a legal fiction, an imaginary line that separates people with the same ethnicity and history, drawn across hundreds of miles of terrain so rugged it is impossible to fence off or even fully patrol. “ 
(Photograph: Bryan Denton)
Features and Photo Essays - Bryan Denton: Rising Sectarian Violence in Tripoli (NYT: October 16, 2008) “The crumbling streets of Lebanon’s ancient northern city of Tripoli are starting to resemble a battleground. A string of bombings over the past two months has left at least 20 people dead and scores wounded.”
Features and Photo Essays - Carolyn Drake: Cotton Farmers in Tajikistan (NYT: October 15, 2008) “Cotton is king in Tajikistan, at least as far as the government is concerned. In fact, say agricultural experts, the regal metaphor is apt: the system is close to feudal. Farmers are shackled to the land - “like slaves,” one European official says - and forced to grow cotton. “
Saturday 18 October 2008
(multi)Media - New issue of 8 Magazine is out.
Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Guardian Student Media Awards 2008 : Student Photographer of the Year : shortlist : Simon Miller (University of Central Lancashire) James Robertson (University of Edinburgh) Michael Carroll (London College of Communication) Tom David King (LCC) Adam Patterson (LCC
Photographers - Michael Carroll : website
Interviews and Talks - Canon Professional Network : In Front of the Lens : “Canon talks on film to some of the leading figures in photography including the photographers whose work was exhibited at the 2008 and 2007 Visa pour l’Image festivals of photojournalism in Perpignan, France. Here they reveal their roles in photography, the stories behind their images and their main inspirations. “ MaryAnne Colon ( chair of the World Press Photo 2009 jury), Hady Sy, Dirck Halstead, Jonas Bendiksen (on his work in Mumbai), Jane-Evelyn Atwood, John Stanmeyer (on his work on Malaria).
Friday 17 October 2008 
(Photograph: Kevin Moloney)
Features and Photo Essays - Kevin Moloney: Preserving a Dying Language (audio slideshow 1:44) NYT: October 15, 2008)
Photographers - Kevin Moloney : website
Awards, Grants, and Competitions - Magenta Flash Forward 2009 : “The Magenta Foundation is pleased to announce year five of its Emerging Photographers exchange. With every year our artists exchange program grows and gets stronger. This is an open call for submissions: All photographers in Canada, the US and the UK under the age of 34 may submit; there is a small administration fee . Payments may be made via Pay Pal on our web site.” Submissions open on Thu, Oct 16, 2008. Deadline December 31.
Thursday 16 October 2008
(multi)Media - Out of Focus - The site is in Swedish, but there’s some good photo stories.
(multi)Media - The Raw File : “The Raw File was created to produce and distribute socially reflective media that will provoke discussion. It is our hope that these conversations will intersect the lines of race and class, private and professional. “
(multi)Media - Lunatic Magazine : “Creative contemporary photojournalism”
Wednesday 15 October 2008
I added the link to the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism 2008 talks (Hannover, Germany, June 2008) the other day, and having just watched Kratochvil’s lecture video, I really recommend checking it out. It is a proper treat. I saw Kratochvil speak at the first European VII Seminar last year in London,but the schedule there was pretty tight and some of the VII members spoke quite briefly. Kratochvil’s Hannover lecture is a lot more comprehensive presentation of his career. 
Interviews and Talks - Antonin Kratochvil at Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism 2008 (June 18, 2008. Hannover, Germany) Some recent work by him: In God’s Country (Dispatches March 2008) I wonder when the new issue of Dispatches is coming out. I thought the magazine was supposed to be a quarterly.
Videos - Christopher Morris: The Dear Leader (Dispatches 2008) Morris’ excellent short film about President Bush.
Also, do have a look at this:
(multi)Media - InSight America (Magnum Photos) : “InSight America is an innovative documentary project that aims to explore these questions on the eve of one of the most important elections in American history. Calling on the talents of some of the world’s most respected photojournalists, using the Web to update their observations daily, InSight America is a collage of personal investigations and reflections that attempts to capture the things preoccupying Americans during the weeks leading to Election Day.”
Photographers - Andrew McConnell : website
Photographers - Maciej Dakowicz : website
A worker arrives for the morning shift. (Photograph: Andrew McConnell)
Features and Photo Essays - Andrew McConnell: The Terrible Beauty of the Salt Mine (TIME: October 14, 2008) “A lake in Uganda offers local residents a chance for good money, at considerable cost to their health”
Cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov, left, and Col. Mike Fincke of the Air Force, who is a NASA astronaut, put on water-cooled suits. The suits are used under Orlan spacesuits, which are used in space walks. (Photo: James Hill for the New York Times)
Features and Photo Essays - James Hill: Life at Star City (NYT: October 14, 2008) “The United States and Russia work together at Star City, the training ground for cosmonauts that now hosts American astronauts and spacefarers from around the world who ride aboard the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station.”