Tag: documentary

  • Alec Soth

    Alec Soth website You Tube videos – many! Alec Soth (born 1969, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) is an American photographer, notable for “large-scale American projects” featuring the midwestern United States. His photography has a cinematic feel with elements of folklore that hint at a story behind the image.  His work tends to focus on the “off-beat,…

  • Marcus Bleasdale

    Marcus Bleasdale (born 1968) is a photojournalist, born in the UK to an Irish family. He spent over eight years covering the brutal conflict within the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and has worked in many other places. Much of his work is linked to fundraising for aid and human rights agencies and…

  • Jacob Aue Sobol

    Jacob is a member of Magnum Photos. Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, Rita Castelotte Gallery in Madrid and RTR Gallery in Paris also represent him. Jacob was born in Denmark, in 1976 and grew up in Brøndby Strand in the suburbs south of Copenhagen. He lived as an exchange student in Strathroy, Canada from…

  • Dana Lixenberg

    My work is partly about the inevitable downside and consequences of capitalism which can result in a sense of alienation…actually I am part of it, and even people I photograph are part of this system and keep it going. I think [capitalism] has become a given because you can see how former and current communist countries…

  • Martin Parr

    Martin Parr (born 1952) trained in photography at Manchester Polytechnic. Described in the past as Margaret Thatcher’s favourite  photographer, Parr caused a stir when he tried to join Magnum Photos. The issue was one of integrity. Photographers within Magnum’s ranks guarded their territory jealously and felt that the work that Parr offered was voyeuristic, titillating and meaningless. Parr…

  • Sara Pickering

    Sarah Pickering  has photographed training grounds for the fire and police service. http://www.sarahpickering.co.uk/Works/Pulic-Order/workpg-01.html In Public Order (2005), she photographed the £55 million facility in Kent that is used by the police for firearms and riot training. Her images contain no people – though the police service who supported her work wanted her to photograph action she felt…

  • Joel Meyerowitz

    Google Images for Aftermath Reflections on Ground Zero : BBC Documentary Compare with the way another photographer – a policeman John Bott whose health was seriously damaged by the photography work he did. Unlike Meyerowitz he did not profit from the photos he took. Discussion Exercise 3.3 ‘Late Photography Biography Wikipedia Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6,…

  • Photography, memory and place

    “… in Photography, I can never deny that the thing has been there. There is a superimposition here: of reality and of the past. And since this constraint exists only for Photography, we must consider it, by reduction, as the very essence, the noeme of Photography.” (Barthes 1982,p.76) Photographic images affect the way we remember…

  • Sebastião Salgado

    Sebastião Salgado (born 1944) was educated as an economist and produced his first book in 1973 about the poor of Latin America. Other Americas was in the true tradition of documentary. In one interview he commented, “It’s not my intention to give people guilty consciences, just to make them think.” Subsequent books, including Workers: An…