BURN is buzzing…..in New York…..now….
wherever i went at the recent New York Photo Festival in the last couple of days, BURN was the talk of the town…now yes of course it would SEEM like that to ME…..but, even factoring out the dah pride thing, BURN was buzzing…..
however, forget that….the important thing right now for all of us is the response you have given us starting within seconds of us putting up the donation button…..as many of you know i was reluctant to put up a donate button…..hard for me to ask…but the response has been humbling to say the least….YOU have saved BURN…well, you have saved BURN for another month or so…but, that might be just about right….we are making the big push for responsible sponsorship, setting up a gallery for your work, continuing as per normal my personal mentoring for some of you, and continuing to put out an online magazine (annual print)where we can share our opinions on a wide variety of styles …. where the integrity and morality of the work is just as important as the aesthetic……
i want us to be on the high ground…as sponsors now view us, each person here is personally responsible for our move into a whole new world of publishing….what you now write is read by many in our craft and in our art…your words are now more than ever IMPORTANT….as you hold me to my responsibilities, i will hold you to yours…..
think before you write and write exactly as you think…
as we move closer to Look3 and the announcement of our EPF grant recipient, our discovery/promotion of the new talent imperative here on BURN will clearly be manifested….you may or may not agree with the finalists and the final jury choice, but i do not want anyone to doubt the integrity of the selection….Anton and i together went through all 1,200 entries…i made the selection of the ten finalists within the context of serious second opinion from Anton….so we alone are responsible for the ten finalists soon to be presented on BURN starting probably on Tuesday….a prestigious eclectic jury of peers will make the final choice for the 2009 recipient….neither Anton nor i will have a vote towards the grant recipient….there will be other, soon to be announced, support for the remaining finalists as well…
our potential sponsors will notice our traffic and the loyalty of our audience….mostly they will notice our audience produced content with the emphasis on authorship……they will definitely notice your volunteered financial support for BURN….i thank you for all three from the bottom of my heart….
part of my plan is to put some respected legends in our craft on commissions specifically for BURN…i want to do the same for some of you……not just the EPF finalists, but for the most talented of you here on BURN….for example, one legend producing original photography for BURN and three emerging photographers on an equal commissions doing original work as well….i can put this together with guaranteed photographer’s publishing rights, better than editorial day rates, and artistic control by the authors….how could i represent anything less??? we are going to rock with this one….
i will count on you to help keep BURN all it can be, and i will do all i can to help you to be all that you are….
…..david alan harvey
davin
email me…
feature being shot in romania…
maybe some still work for you?!?
production starts in a few weeks..
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DAH: Yes! It’s all on my hard drive as either Imacon scans or RAW files that need to be worked on!!!
All I have is two 5Ds, a few M6s, an M8 and a Macbook Pro….
jee… u got more guns than the entire Navy…
show us some action… we are all eyes……..
go wendy..:))))))))))))
DAVIN,
Sorry to hear about your stories.
Why would you choose Stockholm or Paris to move to? just curious. Both are beautiful cities though.
PANOS,
There’s many images from Davin at http://www.anzenberger.com
DAVIN….
i do not know where you stand with an overall edit….if you have it down to say 50 or less, please send to submissions here as an essay…if you have more, please send me a link where i can take a look….i have been tracking you all along and am very familiar with the countryside work….what you describe in the city sounds frantic….if you have captured this mood you feel so deeply, then surely we can make an interesting essay….those pictures combined with the words you have written right here, or a condensed version, should make for interesting viewing….anyway, shouldn’t we give it a shot??
WENDY…
it would be really interesting if you and Davin worked together….even the story of the making of the respective stories is an interesting story….are you doing another film in Romania as per your work in Cuba?? please let me know if there is anything i can do to help…..
cheers, david
wendy. Ditto what DAH said. Also, If davin cant make it and you can pay exes for the trip(and of course if you were interested :) ) I would for sure want to come out there to shoot for it. If you want you can email me John@john-gladdy.com
John
David,
I have sent you an email.
Regards,
bodo
no romania for this chica..
only abandoned brothels
in california…..
yes, will see how this develops for davin…
xox
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5,510!
Needed a round number.
dellicson, I can’t wait to see your pictures.
NIN – Head Down – Live rehearsals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_Grw-GeUg
NIN – We’re in This Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Zulx4mjHk
Oh, hello there. No, I dont have anything to add here. I just wanted to be at the end of the thread. I was sorting hoping to snag #6000, but as that doesnt seem likely now, I’ll send for being Tail End Charlie. Carry on.
Jim
“Well, I don’t completely agree with this. I really believe it is the photographers role to interpret his work. Photographers need to spend much more time telling us about their photos. Few photos, especially in documentary work, really have the power to stand alone. If you don’t want to talk about each photo, at least talk about the photos in general, set the context. I’m thinking of the introductory material to each group of photos in DAH’s “Divided Soul” for example.”
This is not interpreting the work, it is introducing the work and I agree that is necessary. Photojournalistic pictures need to be put in context and words are needed for that. Photojournalistic pictures have a specificity that needs articulating. We need to know, where when, why? and the pictures often (almost never) do not show all this.
Interpretation is more like what a singer does with a song. The singers words before a song are introduction, not interpretation. An artist’s statement is an introduction. It’s the role of a second party to interpret the original work. Photographers are interpreters of reality. Critics are interpreters of performance, image and object.
I think that Jason was trying to do a lot more than introduce the work. I also think he was using other people’s analysis rather than his own.
“The Images take us on a sinister, eerie tour of a country whose only existence centers around their military and patriotism.” This is pure interpretation.
“The contrasting beauty between the savagery of ruin and rebirth of destroyed lives creates a romantic idea of what once was there, conveying a different feeling for each person that witnesses the images.” This too.
Bob, I liked your ideas about Jason’s work. I was thinking something similar in terms of how it would be appropriate for him to talk about his own reactions to the place, his own reasons for being there and certainly. But often we don’t know what we are trying to do when we take pictures. The intentions are not clearly formed in the beginning and they change as a project develops. This, i think is the real challenge of an artist’s statement. But honesty is essential in writing a good artist statement. I think it takes time and maturity to develop that ability.
You don’t think your own behaviour may be inviting trouble? I travel in places where no one speaks English and don’t have anything like this sort of trouble. People are much the same everywhere so perhaps its time to consider what you are doing that gets these reactions. You probably need to calm down a bit. Why are the stray dogs attacking you? They way you dress could be the reason. Try to look more like a local. I have experienced this myself when cycling. So now I take off the helmet and sunglasses when I pass by stray dogs. Think about your head gear and jacket. On the other hand, once you look more like a local, your images may look less spectacular. ;-)
AndreaC: are you familiar at all with Romania and the effects of the Nicolae Ceausescu regime on the country? I don’t have any of the issues that I have here anywhere else! Only in Romania! There are fewer now after the mayor exterminated many of them, but there were as many as 200,000 stray dogs in Bucharest at one point–literally packs of them roaming about. Very intimidating. I wear jeans a button down shirt not tucked in. . . I shouldn’t stand out too much. Romania happens to be quite a unique place and situation and this is why there are so few tourists here and why people normally are unaware of just how oddball a place it is. In the 1980s at the end of Communism, Bucharest was close to a police state and people were practically starving. The secret police in Romania controlled people comparable to the way North Korea controls its citizens today. The upshot of all this, is that Romania is quite bizarre.
Davin you better listen to aunty C …….. if you don’t she will get mad at you
Davin;
Those stray dogs sound pretty nasty. I’ve spent a bit of time in Tonga and nearly every mutty dog there is born with a gene that automatically demands them to try and take a decent chunk out of your calf as you cycle past!
Flying past them at a great rate of knots doesn’t work; it winds them up even more! The only thing that worked was to slow right down to slower than walking pace when you spotted one. They would fly out the gate and stop with a confused look on their face wondering why they couldn’t chase you; and they’d turn around and go back again.
Mind you; it was always a bit nerve-wracking until they stopped though…. I mean; I do want to lose weight, just not in half kilo chunks from my calves…Sounds like the dogs you contend with are a different kettle of fish completely!!
But Ross, I am not biking. I am just walking down the street when they attack. I usually have to avoid whole streets where they have claimed their territory or cross the street to get out of their way. This is what I mean when I say that Bucharest is the most backward capital in the European Union. People are being controlled by animals. I am unable to walk freely about in some places nor am I able to enjoy myself without fear of being attacked. A Japanese business man bled to death a few years back here when a dog bit his femoral artery. Ceausescu bulldozed a fifth of historic Bucharest in the mid 1980s and forcibly relocated thousands of people from their homes (which he destroyed) to Communist blocs. Thousands of dogs were thus put out on the street suddenly with no home and they multiplied like nobody’s business. Beyond this though, Romania is the most corrupt European country next to Bulgaria. The only thing separating the two is that in Bulgaria there are broad daylight mafia style killings. Romania was so traumatized by Ceausescu’s police state that the transition to a democracy and capitalism has been especially tough and the country has yet to learn more modern and educated ways of conducting itself. Some people have suddenly come into large sums of cash and have gone from having almost nothing to driving 100,000+ Euro sports cars. A whole nouveaux riche class has risen up and the whole culture is a mess with young people just dreaming of material possessions. Bucharest’s beautiful pre World War II architectural heritage is all crumbling as everyone just wants new building. I am trying to document all this!
Davin; It certainly sounds like you’re right in amongst everything alright. And also in a unique position of a society in rapid transformation.
Sorry; it meant to read “unique position of documenting a society in rapid transformation”.
Ross…:))
In a “rapid transformation”…situation
who is at fault?
I mean who wins ?
who said its late???????????????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQWLeFiPQ_U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdn6wrM1Hqw&NR=1&feature=fvwp
check here please !!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc8A&feature=related
VIVA !!!
Today we are drinking DALI!!!
BURNIANS the world is “crumbling down” just in front of our eyes every second …
that’s why we the civilians rely on you…
You are the ones that you can document all this !!!
LOVE YOU ALLLLL…my heart is with all of you …wherever you are …please,keep in mind
there are people who believe in YOU.
Panos;
“Ross…:)) In a “rapid transformation”…situation who is at fault? I mean who wins?”
I don’t know about fault because I’ve never been there, but if I remember right Ceausescu’s regime was pretty ruthless.
I’d say as an educated guess, no one at the bottom of the pecking order wins…. As usual….
Cheers man.
Devin re, Isn’t that what happened in Russia when the communist block came to an end? Wasn’t it a lawless society too for a while. Though I don’t know how foreign photographers were treated by the citizenry. There are 20 millions dogs in India, almost all are strays. But anyhow, I will take your word for it.
all… closing down comments here… please continue over at Stray Cat….