From People Of The Clouds by Matt Black
Matt Black‘s project People Of The Clouds may be one of the most intelligently thought through pieces of photographic work I have seen in a long time. I just wanted to say that simply and clearly. Details »
The Spinning Head
A Photographer Confronts His World
The Most Beautiful Girl They’ve Seen Or The Embedded Photojournalist Gets Picked Up!
Creative Common Copyright Fab34
I have argued this again and again, and have been reviled and criticized for it again and again. And yet, nothing produced by any of the many number of reporters and photojournalists who have chosen to embed with the US military in Iraq or Afghanistan has convinced me to change my mind that embedded journalism is many things but never journalism. Details »
One Person’s Nightmare Is Another Person’s Non-Violent Resistance Or Eqbal Ahmed Was Right
In the 1970s, he [Eqbal Ahmed] formulated a suggestion, an extremely brilliant one, quite in keeping with his general attitude of non-violent aggressiveness, that the PLO should try to organize a march of Palestinians towards the Israeli borders in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Inspired by the great civil rights marches of the 1960s, Eqbal urged Arafat and company to mobilize as many people as possible, walking unarmed to the border with banners saying “We want to go home.” I remember the look on their faces, when I patiently explained Eqbal’s proposal, of disbelief and mild panic, especially when I emphasized the need for peaceful means and disciplined organization.
Edward Said speaks about Eqbal Ahmed, in Eqbal Ahmed, Confronting Empire: Interviews With David Barsamian Details »
Crossing Boundaries Or Where I Realize That Some Of The Most Creative Photographers Are Not Even Photographers
The borders this book crosses again and again are also those where academic writing meets popular journalism, and political poetry encounters the work of documentary photography.
Amitava Kumar, Passport Photos
This [After The Last Sky: Palestinian Lives by Edward Said & Jean Mohr] is not a normal tandem of word and image, neither a coffee table book with a long, glorified caption nor a work of prose propped up here and there by sheaves of shiny pictures. Mr. Said writes to the photos so assiduously and with such effect as to make one powerful essay. And at times, we realize with a sobering lurch, he writes not to the pictures but from them.
Richard Ben Cramer , Acts Of Continuance, The New York Times November 9th, 1986
The Park Or How While Contemplating A Recent Assassination I Found Myself On A Ferris Wheel
The Park by Asim Rafiqui 2011 (Click on image for more)
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The Dead Can’t Dance And I Refuse To Either Or Why I Insist On Remembering While Others Insist On Drinking To Forget
We have invaded two nations because we were told that we must. Both illegally and in violation of all known international law.
We have murdered possibly over a million Afghanis and Iraqis and Pakistanis and others in the process. And continue to kill them at will in Afghanistan and Iraq. Details »
Ernesto Sabato 1911 – 2011
He was my introduction to Latin American literature. Before I came to Marquez, Bolano, Paz, Allende, Galeano, Borges, Rulfo, Carpentier, Bastos, Llosa, Fuentes and Vallejo I had come across Sabato. And it was this work - dark, nightmarish and frenzied that seduced me, and was my doorway to this amazing group of writers. Details »
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