Friday Round Up - 5 February, 2016

This week on Friday Round Up - the first of Alison Stieven-Taylor's monthly features on photojournalism for L'Oeil de la Photographie, 2016 Persephone Miel fellowship, panel discussion in New York on the roots of photojournalism, Head On Photo Awards open for entries, an environmental photo essay by Nima Taradji and links for some interesting weekend reading.

Editorial:

Photojournalism Now 

L'Oeil de la Photographie 

"There is no argument that photojournalism is in a state of transition, but what that means for the industry is open for discussion. Some view what’s happening as a crisis, and others as an opportunity for reinvention.  While there is an increasing number of photographers entering the field, there are less paid jobs and almost daily we hear stories of more newspapers and publications reducing their photography departments. But is the mainstream media critical to the photojournalist’s capacity to develop a reputation that delivers an audience and may affect change?"...to read the full story click here.  

The idea with these articles is to invite comment and expand the conversation so please get in touch if you feel you have something to contribute.

Fellowship:

Pulitzer Center On Crisis Reporting

The Persephone Miel fellowship honours the memory of the former Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting’s senior advisor of Internews, Persephone Miel who passed away in 2010 after a long battle with cancer. Persephone's legacy is to help media professionals outside the U.S. report on their home countries and bring their work to a broader international audience.

Over the past five years Persephone Miel fellows have reported from Africa, India, Pakistan, Russia, the Philippines and the Persian Gulf. Click here to find out how to apply. Deadline 1st March.

Talk: New York
PM New York Daily and the roots of photojournalism 

Bernie Aumuller

A panel discussion on PM New York Daily and the roots of photojournalism will be held this Saturday. Panelists are Brian Wallis, Curator of the Walther Collection and former Chief Curator of the ICP; Paul Milkman, scholar and author of PM: A New Deal in Journalism 1940-1948; Jason Hill, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the University of Delaware and author of the forthcoming book Artist as Reporter: Weegee, Ad Reinhardt and the PM News Picture; and Laetitia Barrere, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The panel will be moderated by our Curatorial Director Anais Feyeux.

3-5pm Saturday 6th February
Steven Kasher Gallery
515 West 26th Street New York
Seats are limited

Prizes:

Head On Photo Awards

$50,000 in prizes across four categories - portrait, landscape, mobile and student. Entries close 28 February. Winning entries and finalists will be exhibited during the 2016 Head On Photo Festival 29 April to 22 May Click here for details. 

Photo Essay:
Nima Taradji - Shishmaref

Iranian photographer Nima Taradji’s photo essay on Shishmaref a remote village 30 miles south of the Arctic circle addresses the affects of climate change on the village’s 600 inhabitants. Native Eskimos have lived here for generations, but the island is sinking and they need to find somewhere else to live. To see more of his work click here. 

Reading:

Check out these articles

From Nieman Lab

The New York Times is unearthing unpublished photos from its archives for Black History Month

Jeff Bezos on The Washington Post’s digital strategy, the future of print, and sending Trump to space

News is a product: A new report outlines best practices for news product managers

The Life and Death of Magazines from Evan Ratliff

This week on Friday Round Up Foam Magazine announces 2015 Talents, Katie Orlinsky's Alaska, James Hosking's Beautiful by Night, Alexia Sinclair's masterclass series, Colour My World panel discussion at the National Gallery, Rosemary Laing at AGNSW and a Q&A with LA Times photojournalist Michael Robinson Chavez.

FOAM Talents 2015
Annually Foam Magazine seeks to identify talented photo media artists under the age of 35. Watch the video to see this year's selected photographers.

Katie Orlinsky - Alaska


I’ve written about American photographer Katie Orlinsky a few times as her work continues to engage me. In a recent series she shot in Alaska the impact of climate change on the environment is dramatic - she was on assignment to photograph the seal hunting season, but the seals had already migrated because the water had become too warm and the ice had melted weeks earlier than usual. In these diptychs that feature on National Geographic's Proof blog you can see how the environment has changed in the space of 6 weeks. 

Read the story and see more images on National Geographic Proof

Photo Essay: 
James Hosking - Beautiful by Night


Gustavo/Donna

Gustavo/Donna 

Beautiful by Night is both a documentary film and a series of stills that capture three of San Francisco’s veteran drag queens as they make ready for their performances including intimate at home moments rarely seen. It's a poignant story, told with compassion and honesty. Worth taking a look at the documentary here. 

Frank/Olivia

Frank/Olivia - I’m a man in a dress and I’m not afraid to show that

Masterclass - Alexia Sinclair 
Discover how Alexia Sinclair digitally mastered the final artwork for Into the Gloaming. Alexia has produced an online masterclass comprising 7 downloadable videos giving you a chance to learn from one of the most exciting, and exacting, photo media artists in the world.

 
(C) Alexia Sinclair

Panel Discussion

Colour My World

(C) Robyn Stacey

The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra is hosting a panel discussion with Micky Allan, Janina Green, Ruth Maddison and Robyn Stacey as part of the Colour My World exhibition. Moderated by the show’s curators Shaune Lakin and Anne O’Hehir this is a great opportunity to talk with these artists on the ways that ‘art photography’, feminism and photography’s materiality converged during the 1970s and ‘80s.

25th July, 10.30-11.30am FREE

Exhibition: Sydney

Rosemary Laing - transportation

Continuing this year’s focus on photography at the Art Gallery of NSW is Rosemary Laing’s exhibition ‘transportation’ featuring works from her brownwork (above) and greenwork (below) series. 

All images (C) Rosemary Laing

Until 20 September
Photography Gallery
AGNSW
Art Gallery Road
The Domain Sydney 

Q&A with Michael Robinson Chavez

Michael Robinson Chavez is a photojournalist with the Los Angeles Times. He was recently awarded the Robert F Kennedy Award for Journalism for his series on the California drought. He was in Australia for Head On Photo Festival in May with his exhibition The Driest Seasons: California’s Dust Bowl. He spoke with Alison Stieven-Taylor about the evolution of this story into a five-part series, which ran on the front page of the LA Times...(click on the Q&A tab at the top of the blog to read the interview and see more pictures). 

Friday Round Up - 10th October, 2014

This week on Friday Round Up - Q & A with National Geographic's Chris Rainier, exhibitions at LE BAL and Ballarat, more Tim Page unpublished photographs and WorkshopX in Thailand and India. Plus Getty Images and iStock launch a new photography competition to #RePicture the world.

Picture of the Week:
35,000 Walrus' on an Alaskan Beach 

What's wrong with this picture? These walrus' should have been lying on sea ice as they usually do, only the ice has melted.

(C) Corey Accardo/AP

What their habitat should look like - from USFWS Alaska Flickr  

Q&A:
National Geographic’s Chris Rainier talks about his life-long commitment to record indigenous cultures

(C) Chris Rainier

"I have dedicated my life to what is a race against time to photograph cultures from our past that live in the present and to document them for future generations," says Chris Rainier. "These photographs are ‘postcards to the future’ of what we are losing today"... (to read the full story click on the Q&A tab at the top of this blog)

Workshops:

WorkshopX – Bangkok and Kolkata

Polish documentary photographers Aleksander Bochenek and Grzegorz Ostrega have teamed up with Australian photographer Nick McGrath to run a series of intensive workshops – November in Bangkok and December in Kolkata – under the WorkshopX banner.

Bochenek and Ostrega initially formed WorkshopX in order to run a series of photo-editing classes for photographers. The concept has now expanded into workshops, meetings, documentary films screenings and exhibitions and McGrath, who is a photojournalist and photo-editor based in Bangkok, has come in as a workshop leader also.

McGrath says the upcoming workshops offer an intimate learning experience and the three workshop leaders will be supported by three local photographers “to help our participants with fixing, translating, general problem solving on the ground and making sure that each participant gets the necessary support during the workshop”.




Above (C) Nick McGrath

Plus there are some fantastic names as guest tutors – in Bangkok multi-award winning photojournalists Jack Picone, Nic Dunlop and Thai photographer Piyavit Thongsa-Ard will work with workshop participants.

(C) Jack Picone

(C) Jack Picone


(C) Nic Dunlop

(C) Nic Dunlop


(C) Piyavit Thongsa-Ard

(C) Piyavit Thongsa-Ard

In Kolkata, Italian photojournalist and documentary photographer Alex Masi, who was the winner of the 2012 FotoEvidence Book Award for his amazing work "Bhopal Second Disaster," is the guest tutor. The addition of these special guests means all participants have the opportunity for one-on-one discussions with some of the world’s most experienced documentary photographers.


(C) Alex Masi

(C) Alex Masi

It’s an exciting line up and if documentary photography is your thing, then these two workshops are really worth considering, not only for the opportunity to improve your visual storytelling and editing skills, but to also pick the brains of some truly erudite photojournalists.

Details:
Bangkok
Date: 16 – 22 November 2014
Deadline for applications: 2 Nov 2014

Kolkata
Date: 6 – 12 December 2014

Deadline for applications: 10 Nov 2014

Workshops are limited to 10 participants only.

Exhibitions:

Paris
Group Show - LE BAL

(C) Antoine d’Agata

In this group show five photographers - Sophie Calle, Julien Magre, Stéphane Couturier, Alain Bublex and Antoine d’Agata – were invited by LE BAL to explore the concept of the road. “Anonymous and yet so familiar, the highway became their creative land, their intimate playground. For all of them…an invitation to find themselves, to get lost... s’il y a lieu.” 

(C) Julien Magre

(C) Sophie Calle

(C) Alain Bublex

LE BAL is a brilliant space - gallery, cafe and bookshop. I visited LE BAL last year to see Mark Cohen's Dark Knees exhibition. If you're lucky enough to be in Paris, put LE BAL on your list.

Until 26 October
LE BAL
6 Impasse de la Défense
75018 Paris

Exhibitions: Ballarat

Robert Imhoff: Retrospective

A Life in Grain and Pixels

With a career that spans five decades, Australian photographer Robert Imhoff has many stories that point to his ingenuity and knowing when to make the most of a situation. Even as a child he was always looking for an opportunity. At the Melbourne Olympic Games village in 1956 a 7-year-old Rob slid between the legs of the adults and under a barricade to take a snapshot of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, with his Kodak Brownie E-box camera (above). This photograph features alongside numerous images taken over his career in the retrospective exhibition and book, Imhoff: A Life of Grain and Pixels.

The boldness that led to his photograph of the Prince, combined with a well developed sense of timing, and the ability to make his subjects relax, are hallmarks of Rob’s long career that has spanned continents and seen him photograph many Australian icons. Such is his portfolio, in both photography and film - he’s directed more than 300 productions - that Rob is considered one of the elder statesmen of commercial photography in Australia.

One of the first portraits Imhoff took in 1969 - Sydney Charles Bromley

All images (C) Robert Imhoff

Opens tomorrow.

Imhoff: A Life of Grain and Pixels

BallaratArt Gallery

40 Lydiard Street North,

Ballarat

11 October to 7 December

Competition:

Getty launches #RePicture Competition


Launched at Cannes Lions this year, Getty's #RePicture is about challenging the stereotypical imagery that is used to illustrate particular concepts, customs, cultures and people. Now the #RePicture competition invites photographers - amateurs and pros - to break free from these stereotypes and #RePicture the world.

Competition closes 20 November, 2014.  Visit the website here for all the details.

Tim Page Unseen
Continuing Photojournalism Now's exclusive series of unpublished photographs from legendary photojournalist Tim Page, this week features the last installation of Page's Sri Lanka images - click on the tab at the top of the blog to see more images.