Easter Mass, Slough
From the series The New Poland: Slough, UK
The Spinning Head
A Photographer Confronts His World
The Afghan War Now On The Menu Or What Happens If You Stick Your Head Really Far Up Your A**
MREs — Meals Ready to Eat — photos of everything on the menu for soliders from many different cultures who are all fighting in Afghanistan © Ashley Gilbertson / VII Network via Lens Culture
The embedded photojournalist is now so bored that he is photographing food. You can see the entire piece by clicking on the image above.
And this at a moment when civilians continue to die in an unjust war, an illegal war, and an absolutely unnecessary one. Things are so bad that our erstwhile puppet, a one Mr. Hamid Karzai, is complaining about it and doing it loudly. But of course, as Glenn Greenwald has pointed out, such expression of ‘freedom’ are not for the people we are apparently there to ‘free’. Details »
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 »
Into The World Of The Socially Misfit, A Moment Of Heart Pounding Excitement Arrives
On April 15th 2011, David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel The Pale King will be released.
- The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
The Sirens That Sing Our Songs For War
Once he hears to his heart’s content, sails on, a wiser man.
We know all the pains that the Greeks and Trojans once endured
on the spreading plain of Troy when the gods willed it so—
all that comes to pass on the fertile earth, we know it all!Odyssey 12.188–91
The Workshop Schedule
Sara and I went over this a few times, but we finally arrived at a proposed schedule for our workshop.
Please note in particular the dates for submissions and review of story ideas:
Preparation Work & Deadlines
- Story l/ideas must be sent to Sara and Asim by June 15th
- Story review/comments from Sara and Asim by June 30th
- Story revisions due to Sara and Asim by July 10th
- Stories approved by July 15th Details »
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