ASX Interview with Gregory Halpern - "On Documentary Ethics" (2013)
"Photography is a highly edited, subjective vision of the world, but the
medium presents itself—and is often misused by photographers—as a form
of objectivity. There is, of course, no way to make objective
documentary work, and any attempt to do so is flawed, misleading and
disingenuous."
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
Summary from the Flash Forward Festival, 2013
The "Instagram" panel discussion at the Flash Forward Festival was very illuminating.
A summary thought:
Photographers are no longer the sole
content providers for visual narratives but are now collaborators. Social media
(Instagram, Tumblr, Flickr, Facebook) is filling in gaps in the narratives of
many peoples in the world, giving us a more complete understanding than
existing narratives.
And links to the panel participants:
Stephen Mayes from the VII Photo Agency - @viiphoto on Instagram
Photographer and designer Steph Goralnick - @sgoralnick on Instagram
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Toward a New (Photo) Curriculum
"A crucial aspect of teaching photography now is to inform
students producing images with intention that the urgent task
of the photographic producer is to acknowledge and counter the
unending torrents of images, and to forcefully and meaningfully
respond to their own individual impulse to record, to depict,
or to render. Then, like the prehistoric cave-painters, they can
share their perceptual experiences against the limits of what’s
possible."
An interesting article by Arthur Ou in the current issue of Aperture.
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