By Jooney Woodward - Museum of Modern Art in Wales
Woodward was a student at Newport University, Wales. She shows through her photography a vision that the world is on your door step. Such as in this photograph at first I found it not to be very interesting but after a while I began to notice things that were not quit right, a displacement.
For instance the washing line almost on the horizon line just enhances the rule of thirds or the sky being a black/ blue colour as if a big storm is coming it's the anticipation, the waiting thats unnerving.
By Nick Ut - 1972 photo Associated press.
Nick Ut's image of children running followed by American troops on the road from Trang Bang near Saigon after Napalm attack during the Vietnam war. This image marks a particular period and has come to represent more than what we can see in the image. It marks a shift towards complexity, an overabundance of images, a cynical and skeptical attitude to politics and how this is represented in the news and ideas about bias. It marks a period of protest and revolution and signposts the end of the Cold War and the start of the so called 'war on terror'. At the time it raised issues about frontal nudity, Nick Ut won the Pulitzer prize 1973.
By Jeff Widener - 1989 'Tank Man' Associated press.
By Lyle Owerko's photo graced the cover of Time magazine's Sept. 11, 2001.
On Sept. 11, 2001, photographer Lyle Owerko's camera bag sat beside his door, still packed with multiple cameras and lenses from a trip to Africa. Jet-lagged, he was sitting in his apartment in New York's Tribeca neighbourhood when the attack on the World Trade Center began.
"I heard the first plane crash.... It sounded so close," Owerko said. The 43-year-old photographer, born in Calgary, raced onto the street and began shooting. The pictures he took were from a street-level viewpoint, bringing an immediacy and intimacy to the horror of the scene.
A 400-millimetre telephoto lens he didn't normally carry but had taken to Africa allowed him to capture the image that would become the unforgettable cover of Time magazine's 9/11 special issue.
Owerko's cover shot and subsequent shots from 9/11 and the days that followed won critical acclaim throughout the news and photography worlds. The Time cover was listed as one of the top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Despite the praise — including recognition from U.S. presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton — Owerko remains uneasy with the image.
"When that second plane hit, I knew that the world changed. You could just feel it. I just knew that the camera I was holding in my hand contained lightning in a bottle."
"That 9/11 cover is just hard to wrap your hands around. And it's even something hard to be proud of. It's merely a spectacular witness image... it's not an image that's the best use of my imagination," he said.
Owerko's photos from 9/11 and the days following have been compiled into a book titled And No Birds Sang.
Owerko has gone on to produce critically acclaimed documentary and fine art photography, returning numerous times to Africa to document the Samburu people of Northern Kenya and the tribe's struggle to retain its traditional way of life.
"I don't want to put myself into tragic and disruptive atmospheres every day in my line of work. I want to celebrate the human condition," Owerko said.
"That image," referring to the Time magazine cover, "won't benefit my career. Not until I've put another decade under my belt in this industry. It's a footnote, but not a summary."http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/911/story/2011/08/22/f-photos-911-lyle-owerko.html
Documentary photography goes hand in hand with news events. However, nowadays with the advent of cameras in mobile phones news is almost instant, sometimes its the only way news can be shown. A good example of this is Cairo Egypt 2011 where social networks and photography where used to demonstrate protests.
Egypt protests: Three killed in 'day of revolt'
Jon Leyne says the anger of protesters took police by surprise (The mobile phone footage in this video was sent to the BBC by members of the public)At least three people are reported to have been killed during a day of rare anti-government protests in Egypt.In Cairo, where the biggest rallies were held, state TV said a policeman had died in clashes. Two protesters died in Suez, doctors there said.Thousands joined the protests after an internet campaign inspired by the uprising in Tunisia.In central Cairo, police starting using tear gas early on Wednesday in an attempt to disperse the crowds.Thousands of demonstrators remained in the city centre around Tahrir Square late into the night, vowing to camp out overnight.There were appeals on Facebook for food and blankets for those staying put.But police moved in at 0100 local time (2300 GMT Tuesday), using tear gas and driving protesters into nearby streets, with reports that some people were beaten by police.As dawn neared, Tahrir Square was reported to be empty of demonstrators, with cleaners removing rocks and litter as police looked on.Twitter blocked
Activists had called for a "day of revolt" in a web message. Protests are uncommon in Egypt, which President Hosni Mubarak has ruled since 1981, tolerating little dissent.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said her administration supported "the fundamental right of expression and assembly" and urged all parties "to exercise restraint".She added that Washington believed the Egyptian government was "stable" and "looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people".The events in Cairo were co-ordinated on aFacebook page - tens of thousands of supporters clicked on the page to say they would take part.The microblogging website, Twitter, has confirmed that its website has been blocked in Egypt.Twitter said it believed the open exchange of information and views was a benefit to societies and helped government better connect with their people.The Swedish-based website Bambuser, which streams video from mobile phones, said it had been blocked in Egypt. On its blog, it accused Egyptian officials of trying to control the news agenda.The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo said rallies had been held in several parts of the capital, and the turnout had been more than the organisers could have hoped.Police were taken aback by the anger of the crowd and let protesters make their way to the parliament building, he says.There police regrouped in full riot gear with tear gas and water cannon and temporarily drove the crowd back. However, protesters threw stones and stood their ground, pushing the police back until they were on the run.Protests also broke out in other areas, including the eastern city of Ismailiya and the northern port city of Alexandria.In Alexandria, witnesses said thousands joined the protests, some chanting: "Revolution, revolution, like a volcano, against Mubarak the coward."
'Nothing to fear'
In Cairo's Tahrir Square, demonstrators attacked a police water cannon vehicle, opening the driver's door and ordering the man out of the vehicle.Officers beat back protesters with batons as they tried to break the police cordons to join the main demonstration.Cairo resident Abd-Allah told the BBC that by Tuesday night some protesters were saying they wouldn't give up until President Mubarak had gone."People are behaving as if they are ready to die," he said."The atmosphere is very tense, it feels like a revolution. I see people who are determined, people who have nothing to lose, people who want a better future."Reports said protesters had earlier gathered outside the Supreme Court holding large signs that read: "Tunisia is the solution."A poster of Hosni Mubarak was defaced by protesters in Alexandria
Some chants referred to Mr Mubarak's son Gamal, who some analysts believe is being groomed as his father's successor. "Gamal, tell your father Egyptians hate you," they shouted.The organisers rallied support saying the protest would focus on torture, poverty, corruption and unemployment, calling it "the beginning of the end".Disillusioned
Weeks of unrest in Tunisia eventually toppled President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali earlier this month.Egypt has many of the same social and political problems that brought about the unrest in Tunisia - rising food prices, high unemployment and anger at official corruption.However, the population of Egypt has a much lower level of education than Tunisia. Illiteracy is high and internet penetration is low.There are deep frustrations in Egyptian society, our Cairo correspondent says, yet Egyptians are almost as disillusioned with the opposition as they are with the government; even the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned Islamist movement, seems rudderless.While one opposition leader, Mohamed ElBaradei, called on Egyptians to take part in these protests, the Muslim Brotherhood has been more ambivalent.Our correspondent adds that Egypt is widely seen to have lost power, status and prestige in the three decades of President Mubarak's rule.
How the photographer operate?
Does our influence change the subject? - embedded in the subject like war photography joining a team to go behinde the scenes. Eventually the subject like an army begin to act naturally around the photographer.
News distributers still buy from photography agencies
By Sophie Calle - 1986, Hotel room 46
Sophie Calle worked in a hotel as a cleaner so that she could take photographs of the rooms she would clean. She did this to show stories of the human condition the state people leave the rooms in or how clean the rooms are it's all about showing habits. I believe this was done with the purpose of drawing attention to the human condition.
By Hans Aarsmann - 1995
New typographies
Uses of landscape, is this aesthetic?
I don't believe so, although by taking a photo of this I have begun to notice the different blocks of colour and the shapes. To me it just looks cold and emotionless, like a waste land.
By Martin Parr - Parr was commissioned by CCCB in Barcelona to document the ever increasing tourist industry in this city
Martin Parr is a chronicler of our age. In the face of the constantly growing flood of images released by the media, his photographs offer us the opportunity to see the world from his unique perspective.
At first glance, his photographs seem exaggerated or even grotesque. The motifs he chooses are strange, the colours are garish and the perspectives are unusual. Parr’s term for the overwhelming power of published images is “propaganda”. He counters this propaganda with his own chosen weapons: criticism, seduction and humour. As a result, his photographs are original and entertaining, accessible and understandable. But at the same time they show us in a penetrating way how we live, how we present ourselves to others, and what we value.
Leisure, consumption and communication are the concepts that this British photographer has been researching for several decades now on his worldwide travels. In the process, he examines national characteristics and international phenomena to find out how valid they are as symbols that will help future generations to understand our cultural peculiarities. Parr enables us to see things that have seemed familiar to us in a completely new way. In this way he creates his own image of society, which allows us to combine an analysis of the visible signs of globalisation with unusual visual experiences. In his photos, Parr juxtaposes specific images with universal ones without resolving the contradictions. Individual characteristics are accepted and eccentricities are treasured.
The themes Parr selects and his inimitable treatment of them set him apart as a photographer whose work involves the creation of extensive series. Part of his unusual strategy is to present and publish the same photos in the context of art photography, in exhibitions and in art books, as well as in the related fields of advertising and journalism. In this way, he transcends the traditional separation of the different types of photography. Thanks to this integrative approach, as well as his style and his choice of themes, he has long served as a model for the younger generation of photographers.Martin Parr sensitises our subconscious – and once we’ve seen his photographs, we keep on discovering these images over and over again in our daily lives and recognising ourselves within them. The humour in these photographs makes us laugh at ourselves, with a sense of recognition and release.Thomas Weski
people are sort of programmed to photograph the same things to recreate our own versions
The bottom one is my attempt at capturing John Constable's Haywain.
By Richard Billingham - 1995 photos taken of his family
By Uta Barth 2000- untitled
contemplation, meditation, light, documenting seeing
Put it in context with earlier works looked at the series of work, ground 38. About absents all the works are slightly out of focus, the camera was focused on a person then they left the frame so are no longer there and still the photo was shot.
By Chris Jordan
Documenting to change peoples minds
prolific photographer - hard to look at it appears to be a nest with plastic objects in it, but as you look you realise its a bird a young albatross that has died due to things being thrown in the sea and it has eaten them.
I suppose this image is trying to change peoples minds about what they throw away and the damage it can cause the environment.
websites - notes - lecture task
Photography Essays
Photo essays rely on the simple truth: Telling stories with pictures can be more evocative and moving than using words. A photo essay engages the viewer at a very personal level. While people can respond to written stories intellectually, photography essays often create an instant emotion within the viewer.
Photo Essay History
Telling stories through photography and photo essays is almost as old as the practice of photography itself. Photographers quickly became aware that photographs can create intense emotional responses. Many photographers used this power to create social and political photo essays, often centred around injustice or suffering. Public response to socially conscious photo essays and outcry over the images often lead to positive social changes.
A Good Photo Essay
Not every photo essay has to tell stories motivated by social consciousness. Photo essays can handle almost any subject or event, no matter how dramatic it may be the large to the small. What all good photo essays have in common is a sense of durability. Good photo essays stand the test of time, as they document the human condition.
Taking Photo Essays
Although a series of pictures that make up a photo essay can be taken in a single day, they more often are taken over a longer period of time as photographers spend more time with his or her subjects.
Photo Essay Structure
Photography essays can tell stories in a variety of ways using many different techniques. Sometimes text captions explain the pictures in a photo essay or a full-length article accompanies the pictures. Other times words are not necessary for a photo essay, as the images alone tell the story. Some photo essays follow a chronological order, showing the progress of a person or event through time. Other photography essay have no set order and, instead, are a compilation of varying images telling the story.
By Robert Frank
Robert Frank produced a photo essay in 1959 which became a published book called The Americas. To produce this work Frank went on a cross-country journey from 1954-1955, across the USA. Robert Frank teamed up with writer Jack Kerouac to produce the work showing small town USA.
Nowadays photo essays can been seen on the internet shown as slideshows. Some even have thumbnails images of the essay so that the photo essay can be viewed in any order the viewer so wishes. Having said that i still feel it is nice to have it in a book because you do not have to be near a computer to see it and no one can dictate how you look at a book or where.
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