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I Was Once In Arkansas And Saw These Amazing Photographs Or Finding Treasures In Backwaters

One word: Disfarmer Disfarmer was the name adopted by the man originally named Mike Meyers. As explained on a website that now acts as a link to his archives: …Mike expressed his discontent with his family and farming by changing his name to Disfarmer. In modern German “meier” means dairy farmer, and since he thought of himself […]

November 21, 2010 – 2:55 pm | By arafiqui | Posted in Photography | Tagged , | Comments Off on I Was Once In Arkansas And Saw These Amazing Photographs Or Finding Treasures In Backwaters

Photographing The Unseen

Trevor Paglen is a man on a mission and it is one that reminds us that what makes any work of photography relevant, interesting, important or even significant, are the ideas and intentions that inform it. Anything else is merely gazing at pretty pictures.

July 27, 2010 – 1:20 pm | By arafiqui | Posted in American And Her Wars, Essays On Embedded Photojournalism, Photography | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Photographing The Unseen

Wrapping Photographers Into The Packaging of War

They took the New York Times on a war tour. The Battle For Pakistan it was called when the magazine finally published the photographs their boys had so carefully constructed and bought back. They had all the elements that would suggest valor, fear, desperate battles, the struggle of ‘a state’ against an unseen but clearly […]

July 20, 2009 – 12:17 pm | By arafiqui | Posted in Photography | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Wrapping Photographers Into The Packaging of War