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Don’t Do It

redlightray — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:57:36 +0000

Don’t do it. There are way too many photographers. Try to draw or get politically involved in something that matters. And unless you need to make art to stay alive, you shouldn’t be making art.

- Nan Goldin

Discovered on Veronica Vierin’s page

Hope for the Kind

redlightray — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:05:19 +0000

A man as honest, sincere and well-meaning as him was not made for this world. He will be taken advantage of. You might only hope his kindness will be returned to him.

Goran Tomasevic

redlightray — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:48:20 +0000

http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2011/02/24/photographer-notebook-goran-tomasevic#a=1 ‘I never take sides’ — Goran. through all that? now that’s commitment to professionalism. Opposite approach to Tim Hetherington? It isn’t good enough anymore just to be a witness.” — Tim

‘Black market’

redlightray — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:21:22 +0000

The sale of bear paws, crocodile hearts, and other rare animal parts form the world’s third-largest illegal market. Black Market explores the human passions and ancient beliefs that drive the trade and threaten its most endangered species. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/publication/black-market

Brent Stirton

redlightray — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:29:19 +0000

Love this picture from Canon Ambassador Brent Stirton. It’s from the Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Use of flash lights to bring out the foreground works really well here but I find the use of flash jars sometimes on his other pictures because the light is a different colour / temperature to the ambient light. I wonder if he couldn’t use coloured filters on his flash guns? See what you think >> http://www.brentstirton.com/

‘Don’t wait for someone to give you the Dream Job’

redlightray — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:50:36 +0000

Here’s a video (below) of an interesting speech by Tyler Hicks, a photographer for the New York Time. For me the key point comes at 7:17 – I can think of too many people I know who are sitting waiting for the golden ticket.

He can be seen in this interesting image taken in Libya showing a group of photographers running for cover (see left) (Hicks has the big glasses on) [picture barcot media].

There’s losses and there’s losses

redlightray — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:44:56 +0000

You may never have known them personally, but the loss might still keep you thinking for ages. A retrospective of ten years of committing and radical work and one of the last films he made:

Check out any of these video interviews to get more understanding.

Tim Hetherington

redlightray — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:39:42 +0000

I was really saddened to hear of the death of the photographer and film maker Tim Hetherington, killed in action in Mistrata, Lybia. I’ve been following him since he won recognition at the World Press Photo for a series of images taken in Afghanistan. He recently co-directed the documentary – Restrepo – which follows American soldiers at a remote and terrifying base in the Korungal valley Afghanistan. I didn’t meet him in person, but even so I got an impression of a very likable, deep and radical thinker who was pushing new concepts in photojournalism and film making.

He also spent several years working in Liberia, documented in the book ‘long story bit by bit’.

Check out: liberia video | Restrepo | Tribute on Pete Muller blog

RSS Man! – a clever thing with a crap name?

redlightray — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:18:50 +0000

RSS basically goes round any websites, forums or blogs you pick out and collects any new content posted on them, bringing it all back to one place – your RSS reader (e.g. google reader, ). Any time you visit your RSS reader (I have it as my homepage so my browser opens up on it), it tells you which of the websites you are watching have new content on them.

It’s a simple idea which saves a lot of time. You could even say it’s revolutionising the way people get information on the internet – checking websites and forums endlessly just in case they’ve got any new info on them should be a thing of the past. But it remains a little surprising to me how few people are making use of it, and I wonder if it might be more readily adopted if it had a nice simple name. It is, after all, a nice simple idea.

Searching for the jagged edge in Ethiopian Art

redlightray — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:04:51 +0000

I must admit that I found it pretty difficult finding good art in Ethiopia. Not, as far as I can work out, because it doesn’t exist, but more perhaps because it’s difficult to access. Of course lots of it has simply been carried away to elsewhere in the world.
Zerihun Seyoum seems like a prolific artist who captures some of Ethiopia’s charm.

‘Ethiopian Jazz’

by Zerihun Seyoum