DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY « exposing light notes I

DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

= Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film ?

Unfortunately in the last twenty-five years we have done very little to establish and publicize guidelines, and now photojournalism is devolving into yet another medium perceived as intending to shock, titillate, sell, distort…. Adopting and enforcing such standards would also help to distinguish a serious photojournalistic image from the enormous mass of imagery that we see now on a daily basis. It is difficult to conceive of democracies surviving without credible witnesses. – After Photography | Twenty-Five Years Ago, And Now

Is photojournalism dead? Article about Perpignan festival 2009

Abdul Munem Wasif, Bangladesh | Essay : Old Dhaka => F25 AWARD

Old Dhaka-Belonging and on the short list for the Prix Pictet

Video interview with Nunem Wasif

Wen Hao Hy | China goes (Noorderlicht)

Catherine Opie (American Photographer) | Guggenheim Museum – September 26, 2008–January 7, 2009

a “kind of twisted social documentary photographer”.

Alix Dejean | N.Y. Times : In Thousands of Images, a Photographer Builds a History in Harlem

TimesOnline | Martin Parr polarises the world of photography, 20 April 2008

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“Milton and Anne expressed a strong desire that these photographs “help to feed and strengthen” the communities where the images were taken”.

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The world of the camera crusaders | TimesOnline : A festival in France pays tribute to photojournalists and the uncomfortable truths they reveal

David Bradburys follows Australian born photographer, Philip Blenkinsop, as he journeys to war torn South East Asia to cover lesser known conflicts and uprisings and shows that in the competitive and sensationalist world of photojournalism there are still those with integrity who care.

PopPhoto/State of the art | Perpignan Finale: No party, but straight talk with Brent Stirton

Eén Vandaag, 2007 | Interview with James Nachtwey – video

Over the nature of his work/job and his goal as a photographer; to make photos that create awareness, are published in mass media, become part of the process of change and that are part of people’s daily dialogue. Over the secondairy use and resonance of his pictures in books and musea.

The Independent | Photojournalism can become a form of art, 2002

Center | Project competition 2008 | Hiroshi Watanabe, Ideology in Paradise (about North Korea)

Oeil public

Documentography

Time | photo essays

Moving Walls International, A Group Photography Exhibition

FiftyCrows : Women Empowered. A collection of thirty portraits and personal stories about women in developing countries who have broken through the barriers of convention and oppression to improve their own well-being and the well-being of their communities.

The photographs and stories shed light on gender issues worldwide. Their struggles and triumphs speak to the universal themes of courage, empowerment and human rights.

International Center for Research on Women

Verve photo blog

Gertrude Blom, a journalist, social anthropologist and documentary photographer, who spent five decades documenting the Mayan cultures

GO-NO-GO – Ad van Denderen

Agence VU | stories

VII photo agency

Double Blind – Lebanon Conflict 2006