no magnum office planned for seoul, but i will be there in august i think to shoot youth culture….

i will keep all of you informed, of course, about our magnum efforts to reach out to emerging photographers…

rushing to plane….

david

One of my favorite photographer:

http://www.wojtekwieteska.com.pl/index.php?lang=eng

and his best photo:

http://www.wojtekwieteska.com.pl/index.php?m=a&m1=03&fotod=22&lang=eng

Martin

You mentioned you were listening to Leonard Cohen.. Do you find you get inspired by music? When you talk about authorship, I find that the musicians I like often have strong authorship too.

I often listen to Leonard Cohen, Natalie Merchant, Pete Townshend (from The Who), Suzanne Vega etc. All have individual styles, are deeply thoughtful and don’t bend their musical principles. I see plenty of similarities with photography.

I follow Pete Townshend’s Blog & just read a section about not buckling down to producer’s (editors!!) & commercialism! If you swap the words music with photography it could have been your very own blog!! You might have to hit him up about breach of copyright!! :-)

I’m going fulltime freelance PJ in july so am about to jump off the cliff. Scary, but exciting too. But as you said to me “I’m trying to minimalise as much as possible”!
Re; relationships. I’ve found that if you’re committed to your work, your other half just about treats your work as “the other woman”!!! Or is that just my experience???

Thanks for the effort you put in here It’s really appreciated.

Cheers for now. Ross

Also curious about the educational training from Magnum. When are you opening up a Magnum office in seoul?;)

well, maybe you can just do harley bikers period…does it really matter if they are official “hells angels”???

i had already forgotten about that one negative scenario…every once in a while i get a student like that…whereas i have no patience with computers like you do, i do try to max out my patience with students…however, i have asked for a student to drop the class..but, this only has happened maybe twice when i can see that a student will actually interfere with the education of the others…if the student is only painful for me, as in this case, i try to ride it out…and, in the end, this worked out just fine….

abrazos to all…david

You know, I try to be patience and calm in nervous situation, so is my natural state.

It was a pleasure to help in any way and hope to see us soon.

I talked to Hell Angels president here in Spain, and they are note very enthusiastic with the idea of the pics and not even with a book, they say they have to ask for permission to hell angels wolrdwide, so I expect not very much succed in that. ButI´m perseverant so I´ll keep pushing them.

I´ll send you some pics when they let me do it, hehehe.

I´ll give hughs and kisses in your place to everybody.

Take care

M.

yes, i have worried about stray darts, but so far so good….

joachim’s picture is reminiscent of sam’s photograph of more than 30 years ago i think…good observation…

the pictures on the wall are actually for the working book layout…some of which were in the magazine…i always tack pics up on the wall to see how they sequence and see how they look over time…i have my coffee and move things around a bit and play…then i get sick of all of them!!!!

david

i am pleased you are here….it gives me a chance to thank you so so much for your expertise in valencia…we could not have done that show without you!!! you stayed calm when the rest of us were in “panic mode”..when computer stuff goes crazy, i go crazy..but, you have the right demeanor to troubleshoot and make it all work out…

and i truly love your “hell’s angels” work..stick with it and you will have a book…

hola to my valencia friends please…

abrazos, david

pretty cool bar sign..just don’t play the darts drunk or you might puncture your neon..

i see you stuck up the prints from your natgeo assignment..I really liked that article, both for your images and for James’s writing as well. Joachim Ladefoged’s work was great also in that issue. The shot of the fisherman in a cloud of mist reaching back with the bait fish reminds me of another fisherman photograph from Sam Abell.

Anyway happy chillin…

Here in Valencia the bet is double the heartbeat of anyone now, so time to spare is priceless.

And I’m agree with you, one of the best things of NY is the view from your roof, is like living in a frame where everything stay out of the record,

Hope everything will go better and better.

M.

of course, i love “the drifters”….”up on the roof” appropriate for last night….”save the last dance for me” my favorite….

david