Mike waiting for me to finish this post..the boy wants to hit the road!!!!!!
i must check out of my Iowa motel right now….heading for Chicago or somewhere near Chicago…i was reading comments, looking at links and made the comment below….i decided this might make a good post , so here it is: HELLO ALL….VERY IMPORTANT!!! do any of you ever go look at the links posted by forum readers under "student work/workshops"??? there are a lot of photographers here who never write, but who do for those of you who have posted links, please be assured that I DO my only problem with some of your links posted is that there is no maybe what i should do is look at all links and then post the names yes, yes, i am very busy shooting…and i hope all of you are as only a very small percentage of what is going on in my head ends up I KNOW WHO IS DOING WHAT…but, if you think i have missed something of yours , please tell me so…. i cannot review every link nor edit all of you…but, i will see in the next month or so i want to have a very clear head about all right now, i am waiting for assignments to be finished from i will clear a space under Emerging Photographers on this site to it is basically from these assignments that the EPF jury will choose please do not think of this EPF as a contest….a contest is a one time award for a good picture or essay..goodbye… do you not think i am still tracking very carefully the China essay of Sean Gallagher, last year’s recipient of the EPF??? our forum and EPF is about LONG TERM development and yes, we are traveling together into totally new territory…the "old your ideas, thoughts and most importantly YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS have a peace, david p.s. i am still reading and responding to comments under the previous post "how the west was won"
have some very interesting work…right now there are about 175
links…please check them out…
LOOK….it is from this "pool" of work, as well as photographers on
assignment here, that i am looking for photographers to fund with the
Emerging Photographer Fund this fall….
contact information for some of you…i cannot review the work of all
of you, but when i see someone with very interesting work, i would like
to make contact…
of photographers with whom i would either like to see more or make
contact…make sense??? just as an example, i randomly clicked on the
link of Sofia Quintas and saw some Polaroids of hers that were very
very interesting and nothing like the work she had submitted for the
EPF last fall..but, i have no way to contact her…
well..but, i do pay attention to what is happening here … because i
am doing my own work it does mean there are "lapses" in my posting
here, but this forum has taken on a life of its own, and i do not
intend to let it slide away…..
in print on this forum, but do not for a nanosecond think that i am not
aware of your work…
your work and remember your work and "bookmark" your work.. i want to
make sure that all of the best will have a very fair and equal chance
at being considered for my jury this fall…
of the amazing work that is being produced by readers of this
forum…there is a lot going on and it is sometimes difficult for all
of us to keep up..but, i intend to keep up….and i will…
Bob,Cristina, Marcin, Erica, Jonathan, Kyunghee Lee, Audrey,Panos,
Sébastian, Eric, David M, and Patricia… as far as i know, i think
only James is finished…this is right off the top of my head, so
please correct me if i am wrong or have missed someone who is shooting
right now on assignment…
publish your essays when they are complete…and , of course, i am
ready to make new assignments when appropriate…
photographers for funding this fall….a photographer who posts a link
under "student work/workshops" will also be totally eligible, but
naturally photographers who are developing here before my "eyes" are
just going to have a better chance i think…
RELATIONSHIP…think of this more like a relationship with a
traditional print magazine where photographers present their work and
editors decide "who will do what" based on the work and the editor’s
judgment on who is capable of completing any particular
essay…subjective yes, but it will all happen right in front of you as
it has in the past..
territories" are either gone or going away….fast…so, what have we
got to lose??? nothing that i can see…
place right here…A HOME….there are no "bosses"…this is just me
driving down the highway, taking my own pictures , looking at yours,
and having a jolly good time doing both….
hi hi.
earthquakes, return of panos.. equipment probs and some superb work – it’s all been happening here, no?
i’ve begun to tear my hair out over editing down my music work.. the idea is for a book.. confidence is waning, my eyes are getting tired and i’m starting to think it’s not worth a book.
in any case.
i have started a blog to communicate what i am up to..
http://1997to2008.blogspot.com/
there are a handful of photos up there.. more words and thought right now.
they are in no particular order and certainly not a final edit.
just a bunch of photos.. some good ones i hope.
in the main edit not yet on the blog, i have cut the photos scanned (prob 1/3rd of the total number i have taken) cut down to about 300 photos.. i’m going to get that down to 100 and then upload them to the blog.
i’ve been looking through a good few thousand to get to the 300 now on my computer and once my negs are shipped over i will have many thousands more to look through.. scan and edit. so.. lots of photographs and i know some of my fav’s are yet to be looked at again.
the ones online right now are in colour although i have begun to edit in B&W since looking at so many colours was starting to fry my brain. they are not necessarily the best i have so far.. just a fairly random bunch picked from the editing file… to show the kind of range i have.
so..
very nervous about posting this in such good company.
hope you like some of them, in any case – love them, hate them, indifferent to them – any guidance on photos you like, advice on editing or if you just think i need to give up and open a sandwich shop.. please feel free.
strange – i have been submitting to magazines for many years.. have been published in hundreds of them.. am very thick skinned, however i’m helluva nervous about posting some here.
i’m going fishing now, to straighten out my head.. it’s been an emotional experience looking through some of the commissions.. some good times.. some bad times..
david: just curious do you know or are you familiar with the work of americas two main music-party scene photographers ?
here is the links: cobra snake and i think it’s called all tommorows parties by this dude in new york city called merlin bronques..
http://www.thecobrasnake.com/partyphotos.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_Bronques
david bowen : here is the other link >
http://www.lastnightsparty.com/
Rafal-
very nice pictures indeed.
keep it up!
robert..
yeah – people pointed me toward merlins work when he first started out.. quite like it.
will have another look
uploaded a bunch of the B&W photos as well.. i’m finding it easier to look at them that way.
again – no final edit.. still; a lot of work to do.
the reason so little of my work is scanned is beacuse 97 until about 2001 i was submitting only prints or slides to magazines..
also – the early scans are a bit rubbish.. limits of my knowledge of scanning and also the quality of the machines.. some of the b&w may look a little flat
now i really am going fishing.
robert..
yeah – people pointed me toward merlins work when he first started out.. quite like it.
will have another look
uploaded a bunch of the B&W photos as well.. i’m finding it easier to look at them that way.
again – no final edit.. still; a lot of work to do.
the reason so little of my work is scanned is beacuse 97 until about 2001 i was submitting only prints or slides to magazines..
also – the early scans are a bit rubbish.. limits of my knowledge of scanning and also the quality of the machines.. some of the b&w may look a little flat
now i really am going fishing.
robert..
yeah – people pointed me toward merlins work when he first started out.. quite like it.
will have another look
uploaded a bunch of the B&W photos as well.. i’m finding it easier to look at them that way.
again – no final edit.. still; a lot of work to do.
the reason so little of my work is scanned is beacuse 97 until about 2001 i was submitting only prints or slides to magazines..
also – the early scans are a bit rubbish.. limits of my knowledge of scanning and also the quality of the machines.. some of the b&w may look a little flat
now i really am going fishing.
robert..
yeah – people pointed me toward merlins work when he first started out.. quite like it.
will have another look
uploaded a bunch of the B&W photos as well.. i’m finding it easier to look at them that way.
again – no final edit.. still; a lot of work to do.
the reason so little of my work is scanned is beacuse 97 until about 2001 i was submitting only prints or slides to magazines..
also – the early scans are a bit rubbish.. limits of my knowledge of scanning and also the quality of the machines.. some of the b&w may look a little flat
now i really am going fishing.
robert..
yeah – people pointed me toward merlins work when he first started out.. quite like it.
will have another look
uploaded a bunch of the B&W photos as well.. i’m finding it easier to look at them that way.
again – no final edit.. still; a lot of work to do.
the reason so little of my work is scanned is beacuse 97 until about 2001 i was submitting only prints or slides to magazines..
also – the early scans are a bit rubbish.. limits of my knowledge of scanning and also the quality of the machines.. some of the b&w may look a little flat
now i really am going fishing.
robert..
yeah – people pointed me toward merlins work when he first started out.. quite like it.
will have another look
uploaded a bunch of the B&W photos as well.. i’m finding it easier to look at them that way.
again – no final edit.. still; a lot of work to do.
the reason so little of my work is scanned is beacuse 97 until about 2001 i was submitting only prints or slides to magazines..
also – the early scans are a bit rubbish.. limits of my knowledge of scanning and also the quality of the machines.. some of the b&w may look a little flat
now i really am going fishing.
robert..
yeah – people pointed me toward merlins work when he first started out.. quite like it.
will have another look
uploaded a bunch of the B&W photos as well.. i’m finding it easier to look at them that way.
again – no final edit.. still; a lot of work to do.
the reason so little of my work is scanned is beacuse 97 until about 2001 i was submitting only prints or slides to magazines..
also – the early scans are a bit rubbish.. limits of my knowledge of scanning and also the quality of the machines.. some of the b&w may look a little flat
now i really am going fishing.
robert..
yeah – people pointed me toward merlins work when he first started out.. quite like it.
will have another look
uploaded a bunch of the B&W photos as well.. i’m finding it easier to look at them that way.
again – no final edit.. still; a lot of work to do.
the reason so little of my work is scanned is beacuse 97 until about 2001 i was submitting only prints or slides to magazines..
also – the early scans are a bit rubbish.. limits of my knowledge of scanning and also the quality of the machines.. some of the b&w may look a little flat
now i really am going fishing.
robert..
yeah – people pointed me toward merlins work when he first started out.. quite like it.
will have another look
uploaded a bunch of the B&W photos as well.. i’m finding it easier to look at them that way.
again – no final edit.. still; a lot of work to do.
the reason so little of my work is scanned is beacuse 97 until about 2001 i was submitting only prints or slides to magazines..
also – the early scans are a bit rubbish.. limits of my knowledge of scanning and also the quality of the machines.. some of the b&w may look a little flat
now i really am going fishing.
sorry all – noticed i have uploaded 120 phots to the blog..
more than intended.. apologies if you get bored.
dx
sorry all – noticed i have uploaded 120 phots to the blog..
more than intended.. apologies if you get bored.
dx
sorry all – noticed i have uploaded 120 phots to the blog..
more than intended.. apologies if you get bored.
dx
sorry all – noticed i have uploaded 120 phots to the blog..
more than intended.. apologies if you get bored.
dx
sorry all – noticed i have uploaded 120 phots to the blog..
more than intended.. apologies if you get bored.
dx
sorry all – noticed i have uploaded 120 phots to the blog..
more than intended.. apologies if you get bored.
dx
sorry all – noticed i have uploaded 120 phots to the blog..
more than intended.. apologies if you get bored.
dx
sorry all – noticed i have uploaded 120 phots to the blog..
more than intended.. apologies if you get bored.
dx
sorry all – noticed i have uploaded 120 phots to the blog..
more than intended.. apologies if you get bored.
dx
OVERWHELMED DAVID:
(ok, this same comment has been kept on hold, probably due to the fact that it contained too many links… I was just pointing out my preferred pictures but I think it is not so necessary, so this is the linkless version)
the blog presentation is definitely a good approach: even if there are more than one hundred photos, it’s easy to scroll through them and catch the “big picture” they all together compose. You show what’s in and what’s around dance events and many images are great*. Pheraps the only missing piece of information is about how huge crowds can gather together: I mean that most of your pictures just show small groups and also the tents shots give a limited idea of the CROWD. I really can imagine that edit this work is a giant task, but for sure it worths it!
ciao
abele
good point abele.. many thanks
i have been trying to look for photos that give a feeling of things.. you’re right though.
i’ll spend some time looking for photos that show the enormity of some of the events.
i’d like to have photos from all distances..
really, really going fishing now. mackerel dinner is what i’m hoping for.
good point abele.. many thanks
i have been trying to look for photos that give a feeling of things.. you’re right though.
i’ll spend some time looking for photos that show the enormity of some of the events.
i’d like to have photos from all distances..
really, really going fishing now. mackerel dinner is what i’m hoping for.
good point abele.. many thanks
i have been trying to look for photos that give a feeling of things.. you’re right though.
i’ll spend some time looking for photos that show the enormity of some of the events.
i’d like to have photos from all distances..
really, really going fishing now. mackerel dinner is what i’m hoping for.
good point abele.. many thanks
i have been trying to look for photos that give a feeling of things.. you’re right though.
i’ll spend some time looking for photos that show the enormity of some of the events.
i’d like to have photos from all distances..
really, really going fishing now. mackerel dinner is what i’m hoping for.
good point abele.. many thanks
i have been trying to look for photos that give a feeling of things.. you’re right though.
i’ll spend some time looking for photos that show the enormity of some of the events.
i’d like to have photos from all distances..
really, really going fishing now. mackerel dinner is what i’m hoping for.
good point abele.. many thanks
i have been trying to look for photos that give a feeling of things.. you’re right though.
i’ll spend some time looking for photos that show the enormity of some of the events.
i’d like to have photos from all distances..
really, really going fishing now. mackerel dinner is what i’m hoping for.
good point abele.. many thanks
i have been trying to look for photos that give a feeling of things.. you’re right though.
i’ll spend some time looking for photos that show the enormity of some of the events.
i’d like to have photos from all distances..
really, really going fishing now. mackerel dinner is what i’m hoping for.
good point abele.. many thanks
i have been trying to look for photos that give a feeling of things.. you’re right though.
i’ll spend some time looking for photos that show the enormity of some of the events.
i’d like to have photos from all distances..
really, really going fishing now. mackerel dinner is what i’m hoping for.
good point abele.. many thanks
i have been trying to look for photos that give a feeling of things.. you’re right though.
i’ll spend some time looking for photos that show the enormity of some of the events.
i’d like to have photos from all distances..
really, really going fishing now. mackerel dinner is what i’m hoping for.
RAFAL:
the Family Ties is magnificent…i’ve always loved it…it reminds me of an Ozu film, especially when the camera (you) are low to the floor (which in Korean/Japanese homes is the norm)…there really are some magnificent pictures in that set…it is a stronger, much stronger, juxtaposition with HSH, then the park/Han river…because all 3 elements of family life (HSW, Family Ties and Stills) are covered: intimacy (HSW), family (Family Ties), the quotidien (stills)…actually, i see these as 1 series, and i very quickly randomly jumped among all 3 to see if it made visual sense..which it does, for me…i too spend much of my time photographing people i know (especially my family) and believe, generally, that that kind of connection pays off (regardless of stile): call it perpinquity…while i also like much of the photos in the Park series (as pics) and a few from Han, it doesnt have the same emotional heft and visual connection…and i dont just think that’s cause you are photographing your family vs. non-family…it’s because the family stuff COMPELLS you, hurts you, enamours you…the other stuff, is just (as you said) “photography” ;)…you have always been a photographer drawn/obsessed with geometry, with lots of thought gone into the mise-en-scene of your pics, the frame work is a major emphasis in your pics (especially especially your early around-seoul stuff), and in the family stuff (all 3 sets) this works for me, cause the “construction” of your images do not mar but enhance the emotional impact of the narrative…it just makes it more powerful…that’s the trick with pics made as “construction”: look through the view finder, shift the camera to make a good composition, click, etc…instead of reacting to something seen…
im with david: the family stuff is what really really blooms…not because it’s about your family, but because those pics transcend YOUR family, and speak about MY/OUR family life too…
its just stellar stuff…
running
b
Hey HERVE: Little time right now but wanted to say thanks for your input. Please don’t think i’m asking anyone to pick my portfolio, i’m just looking for opinions. Personally I am leaning towards the TB/HIV story and the Macau piece. Just feel the TB/HIV story is visually the strongest out of the more literal essays and the Macau piece offers more personal vision and would add some variety. Cheers for your kind words. James
ANDREW B: The Macau piece was shot on and off over 5-6 days I think. Not sure if you mean how many images total or how many in my first edit? I think I pulled around 50-60 for the first loose edit.
ROSS….
i am pleased to hear you will go back to Timor…this is such an important story…
now, your story really is more of a “straight” journalistic piece…and should be…it is totally about an isolated misrepresented oppressed culture…
so, in your case, you really do need some “storytelling” pictures… at least a few that really tell us what is going on…not every picture needs to tell “the whole story”, but you really need a “lead” , an “opener” as any magazine editor would say…that one shot that says it all..
i have no idea what that picture might be…i have never been to East Timor, but i do understand the general plight of the people, but do not know what might be the best situation for such a picture or pictures…but, you need it nevertheless!!!
i can just imagine being in a room full of magazine editors looking at these pictures…i can imagine what they would say…”nice pictures of people Ross, but what is the story?”..”what are you trying to tell us?”
now, yes, i am making this “conversation” up in my head and am basing these mythical comments based on having been in so many editorial conferences AND on just thinking what i would do if we suddenly had the funding to print/publish the work here..
what would you say is your “lead”??? if you were going to layout a magazine spread, and you had the editorial power to do so, what would the opening picture be??? i can see all of your pictures as “supporting pictures”, but i just cannot find an “opener”…
when you go back to Timor , please think about this…now, it is possible that the real story, the whole story, cannot be “shown”…there are some very important “stories” that just do not lend themselves to pictures….not everything that is “important” makes an essay or picture story….
i will exaggerate to make a point:
AIDS issue…CAN be shown in pictures
MELTING ICE CAP issue…CANNOT be shown in pictures (yet!)..ok, yes before and after satellite shots, but i think you know what i am saying..
i am not equating the Timor issue with a melting polar cap in terms of pictures, but i think it is difficult to show exactly why and how these people are oppressed…right now, you show us pictures of people that seem could be taken in any developing country anywhere..only with words could the situation be “explained”..and maybe that is just the way it is….and, as i said, i am just looking at this now from a magazine point of view..
so, in summary, you either have to be very very storytelling i.e. for a magazine story….OR go very very esoteric and give us an “artistic interpretation” where the pictures themselves are so strong that they “carry” the story or make us want to read the story…
your work here is good Ross…i just want to see you make it stronger and more compelling….work that cannot be denied..work that forces us into the lives of a suffering culture….
MARCIN…
i cannot open “Hometown”…am i doing something wrong??? i do not know the picture to which you refer…???????? i went to your link and see nothing….
cheers, david
DAVID BOWEN….
if there is one thing i will like about a photographer it is when the photographer is totally reflecting who “they are”..not who somebody else is, but who “they are”..
this work is quite obviously YOU….
as usual, i want to dig in there and edit…but, actually not too much in your case…this work needs to be “freestyle”..there are many ways to go with an edit of this work..
you have lots and lots of stunning imagery reflecting your clearly twisted soul (teasing)…seriously, your eye for the irony/humor of the pop culture/sex/dance scene is quite provocative…you honestly have some truly wonderful party scenes reminiscent of Larry Fink’s New York party world…some way better than his!!!
Panos, Joni Karanka, and you are working in somewhat the same world, but the three of you are quite different in approach…
Joni sees it but is “backed off”..his work is kind of like a “secret camera’ hidden somewhere…
you and Panos have a beer in one hand and a camera in the other….but Panos’ work is more tragic (yes, Greek tragedy), sometimes sad…
and you are just in there having a great time!!!
you gotta get this work “down”..edited….organized….printed….presented as a “whole”…
cheers, david
Hi David,
I hope to have caught you in a live moment.
If you have the time, would you mind commenting on a story of mine? Something along the lines of what you said to Ross, a perspective from a hypothetical group of editors would really be helpful as I have essentially a week left to fill any gaps, before it goes up for editorial review at a magazine.
The link is http://www.charliemahoney.net, then click ‘portfolios’ and ‘Spain: Living in the Shadows.” It’s a story you’ve seen before, but I’m close on publishing this and would really value your feedback.
I hope to hear from you.
all the best,
Charlie
Bob,
wow, thanks for that interesting read. And you are right! Im obsessed by the diaristic mode of shooting, the intimacy of it. And thats for sure whats driving me with HSH of FT or the still life shots of the domestic variety. And yes, the riverside stuff is just photography but its fun, it lets me sort of try something new, and maybe focus more on a compositionally driven sort of stuff vs emotional and intimate stuff. Then again the Riverside stuff is purposefully void of emotion…Im trying to steralize it as much as I can in that regard.
What Id love more than anything is to really emerse myself in that environment more…but the FT stuff is basically the fruit of 3 or 4 visits to my inlaws…it really needs time and exposure of a more sustained kind than I had the chance to give it. I live in Seoul and they live about 4 hours away and Im pretty much unable to get there except 2 or 3 times a year because of work.
A much better editor might be able to put the 3 together (HSH, Family Ties and the Domestic Stills sets) and perhaps make something bigger. Im not sure how it will go, be it JUST HSH or maybe expand it and make it much larger. I have plans of getting MY side of the family in Poland and Chicago and Canada..but thats all about $$$$$ and time I dont really have.
CHARLIE…
ok, give me a few minutes…need to make coffee
from SEAN GALLAGHER:
“…Dear Everybody,
Thanks to those who gave a little feedback about the Beijing Air piece by MediaStorm. It was a very cool piece to be involved with, especially with some of the excellent photographers who were part of it. Air pollution seems to be the hot topic out here at the moment and rightly so to be honest.
I wanted to ask people on the blog about PERPIGNAN. Is anybody going? I’ve just found out that I have to make an unforseen exit from China for 2 weeks due to some visa restrictions which, in their lack of flexibility, mean I have to exit the country for that time. Conveniently though, the two weeks falls at the end of August/beginning of September, which means that I can make the trip to Perpignan. The problem is that a lot of the accommodation is already booked up and I really want to make it there for my first time. If anyone here on the blog knows of anyone with a spare room/couch/piece of floor that they wouldn’t mind be using for a week (pro week Sept 1-7), I would be very very grateful. If you know of anyone, please feel free to pass onto them my email sean@gallagher-photo.com I’m a great guest and am happy to cook and clean a little to pay my way! ;)
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
Bestest,
Sean”
Cheers Panos…”
RAFAL…
HSH, Family Ties, Domestic Stills, can easily be put together…they belong together!!!
but, yours is not a “magazine coverage’ kind of essay where you “need” one place or another..totally different than either Ross or Charlie who are “covering” a social issue in a magazine reportage sort of way…
Bob wrote about your “motives and moves” so eloquently as usual..and your work says it all…we all “feel” every word Bob wrote..and yes yes any great essay, even though “specific” by nature, becomes “universal” when we are touched by the power of true intimacy….
CHARLIE….
yes, i have seen your work on the African immigrants before…for sure, a potentially great story…
ok, you want a critique from a magazine editor’s viewpoint???
here is what i think an editor would think:
you, like Ross, need a “lead”…that one picture which speaks to all the things, or at least one of the things, you mention in your text…
stories in magazines that may have 6-10 pictures, all have one or two pictures to “hang the story on”…pivotal storytelling pictures…
the most obvious picture you “need” for any major magazine is the one which shows where these men (only men??) are…for example, where is Barcelona in any of these pictures??
i do not see these men as “living in the shadows” of Barcelona…i just see African men living in poverty….
you need the contrast between Barcelona, one of Europe’s most prosperous eclectic cities, and the lives these men have been forced to live…
and you need it in one powerful picture…
you must remember that magazines are for the masses..not for photographers….mass communication editors have a relatively simplistic way of presenting material to their readers….i am sure any magazine editor would tell you what i just told you..
the “supporting pictures” you have are quite good…you have obviously “gotten in” and are able to work…so, just go make that “key” picture….
now, i know you are going to tell me that these men are not strolling along Paseig de Gracia…i know that….but, they do come into contact with BARCELONA in some way…you must find that way….aren’t these men selling stuff to rich tourists cruising around the Ramblas etc etc??? if you had an assignment from any magazine, the editors would EXPECT that picture for sure based on your very own words….
now, Charlie i am only giving you this critique based on what i think you wanted..i am NOT saying this is the only way to shoot this essay…it is just the “magazine way” which is , i think, what you asked for..
just yesterday i saw an essay on the same subject by a woman from the Netherlands…she has taken a different , less obvious, esoteric yet still journalistic approach…
she photographed in Senegal the beds where these men used to sleep…the homes they left behind..a brilliant approach i thought…no people in these photographs at all…just empty beds….empty rooms…
she worked on this for weeks…
NOW, she will go to France and photograph the men themselves where they are living in Marseilles in much the same way as your men in Barcelona..she will do portraits/daily vignettes and match them with the empty beds…and then, she will do the same thing in New York..
i am always reluctant to compare one photographer to another…and she is not a “better photographer’ than you, but her concept is very special and on exactly the same subject…
i only mention it because i worry about photographers like you and like Ross because you are trying the rather “tried and true” classic picture story at a time when i think these kinds of stories are barely marketable even to the magazine editors of whom i spoke above….
times have changed…tastes have changed…..to survive now i think young emerging photographers need to think either very conceptually, or if “straight photojournalism” is your goal, then go with an audio/video combo as does MediaStorm or VII slide shows or Magnum in Motion…
i hate to be the “spoiler” on this forum..not a fun job….so many readers here love your pictures…but, i do come from the “school of honest opinion” as i think you know…and i like your pictures too…liking pictures is not enough for where you want to go… i just have to tell you the way it is based on so much work i see coming in from everywhere…
by the way, you live in Barcelona ..right?? will you be coming to Perpignan??? if so, we can meet and i can give you a more personal one on one critique and more suggestions for which way to take your career….
are you up for that??
be of good cheer…i hope to see you soon…
peace, david
Thanks David,
I always envisioned them together in a bigger whole….its good to hear you and Bob agree with that.
SEAN…
it will be tough to find a room reservation this year because it is the 20th anniversary of Visa Pour L’Image…
however, come anyway!!!!
i have rolled into Perpignan at the last minute several times with no room reserved and everyone saying no rooms, no rooms and then i found a room!!!
some of the rooms you may find at the last minute may not be so convenient and are certainly not “on line reservations”, but they will be there i am 99% sure…besides people are “crashing” all over the place…the beach is nice!!! make friends with somebody…you are resourceful, you can figure it out….i mean, this is a photo fest of people who figure things out!!!
(thanks for being a messenger Panos)
cheers, david
DAVID
When you click on “hometown” should be showed “coming soon…”.
I am really hurry to upload this story. Give me please time to end of next week. I will process all of films and scan the best part.
simultaneously I will upload “cuba” pictures and very soon portarits.
work in progress
robert / david ‘o’ bowen
While that stuff is fun to view, those “social scene” photographers are popping up a dime a dozen. We even have one in my home town. That may sound it has a hint of criticism (maybe a little) but really if someone is having success socializing with a camera, more power to them. It’s just that most of the time those guys aren’t finding genuinely good moments, but creating ordinary ones. You see a page of that stuff and that’s all you need to see.
Actually “Last Night’s Party” is pretty good, but there’s still so much stuff where nothing ‘real’ is happening, that it’s hard to weed through it.
Bowen your work is way better than that. You should check out Pat Graham’s “Silent Pictures”. He’s committed to shooting the bands, but it’s kind of the same vibe as your scene shots.
Maybe you can find a home at http://akashicbooks.com/.
MARCIN…
relax….i am not in a hurry!!!!
as a matter of fact, i have no more time today anyway!!!
i just read where you were referring to a particular picture, and i had the time to take a look…that’s all…
i will be ready when you are ready….
do you need more film???
peace, david
DAVID
The hometown story will be finished at the end of next week anyway.
Thanks for your offer, but I have enough films. This comunity help me more than I am deserve.
peace
DAVID
I made mistake, there should be “I will add pictures of old woman” not “I add this portrait”
I apologize, this is olny weakness of my english skills.
peace one more time
DAH
If you are up for a little chat Friday, I should be around..
GINA
please give a shout if you make it to Slideluck, I plan to be there
LANCE
awesome about Kelly’s work being shown in a pool! If I owned a digi, I’d take images for her..but I am sure others will.
DAVID B
I had the same impression as DAH about the Finkness. These are my favs..and I would also love to see more in the edit of individuals alone; for example, the person sleeping alone covered with newspaper I think it was. Something that speaks about the individual experience in a mass experience.
Nice phone message..I am hoping that it was someone else’s phone, otherwise, bummer you had to work!
Lots to consider from DAH words here:
“i worry about photographers (who) are trying the rather “tried and true” classic picture story at a time when i think these kinds of stories are barely marketable even to the magazine editors of whom i spoke above….”