all the best, audrey

thanks for getting back to me, sorry it took me 2 days to get back to you, Burn is busy…me too ;))))…yes, keep me appraised of Montreal…would love to see the show and you’re in great company there with the Anthropographia Awards…great great company :)))))))…

and im happy that another photog is thinking out of the book…especially important i think for journalists, ’cause the stories need it as the the photographers ;)))…so pleased to see ur story here :))

running
hellos from Berube! :))

bob

Those are the exact reasons I expected you to make that choice for b&w. I think it works well, esp considering the subject. Once again, well done. I remember seeing this a while back (on your website?) and thinking what great photographs and a moving (but actually hopeful) subject.

Take care,

Charles

Yes, Yes Charlie has being doing well this year too—an award in the Travel Photographer of the Year and the SOS Racism Photography Competition. He’s of to the Maldives (lucky bugger!) to shoot an assignment with funding from a ’07 contest in a week or so!

The question has been raised a couple of times regarding the use of colour video. We did struggle over this choice. Some seem to prefer it others not. I’ll quote from a previous response to save time…

“We deliberated for some time over the whole B+W vs colour for video. I saw advantages in both. In the end we could only make one choice and decided on colour. I kind of wanted to detach the interviews (and video) from the still images. Was a tricky one though.”

Charles P: Yes the piece was shot in digital. I didn’t plan originally for the piece to be b+w. But after arrival this changed. There were two main reasons 1. There wasn’t much great light. Due to it being close to the rainy season 95% of the days were cloudy so, no nice pm light. 2. was that that added to this the cemetery is a pretty monotone place. Lots of concrete, lots of stone, there isn’t a huge amount of colour there. I guess it could have worked either way, but I made my choice at the time and stuck with it.

Charlie M: Keep up the “Young James” like it!! Harvey busted me as a “thirty-something” earlier….. Barely a thirty-something, right!? ;))

Charles

You are absolutely right. Time to break out of those traditional restraints. Inspiring to go back and see what I can do with my VN work in slideshow format.

Best,

Charles

I have very diappointed that after just couple of days, you have already dropped me as your agent to replace me with Charlie….tough business around here :):) but Charlie is a friend so I forgive you… :):)

It is good to see your essay here James. I have been following your essays and progress since seeing the work you did with David during your Bangkok workshop. I am a fan of your work and I am so pleased to see you starting yo get some recognition and awards… Your new agent also got one of two that made me most happy. I also enjoyed seeing the MM piece with many new photographs that I liked. Your opening picture that was not new to me is a real classic. I absolutely love the light on the face. My only question overall is whether you were right to use color for the video and mix this with your B&W pictures. At times, I felt this was taking me away from the topic, as if I was all of a sudden in a wrong place, outside your cimetery…

Anyway mate, I look forward to see more of your work… Hope we meet in Perpignan this year….

Cheers,

Eric

this is the last time things will be so scattered..from now on , comments for the essays will be here on Dialogue so that nobody has to jump around to keep up..that way, i can keep your essays up longer as well..what happens now is that after 48 hours or so , readers here stop commenting on the essay and go off on all kinds of other subjects irrelevant to the essay…so i have to then pull the essay and put up another just to get the conversation back on track..anyway, we will at least find out if that system works…i think it will…i do look forward to running another one of your pieces soonest..

cheers, david

Charles P. I strongly encourage you to keep shooting the way you are. It has been drummed into us for so long to keep things consistent in photography, or more particularly, photojournalism. I strongly encourage change in this respect! I enjoy the work of mixed-media fine artists, who have mixing stuff up for years. I have no issues with switching formats. I think is just a little jarring for most of us right now as we just aren’t used to it. But who is to say that is right!?… Don’t do it because its not traditional!!? Look at Blenkinsop. although no use of colour he often combines MF with 35mm and awesome MF “joiners”!! All great stuff! I think you are right in it playing easier in book form. But there is so much flexibility with digital that it offers new possibilities in creative presentation. A slideshow is the purest and simplest form of digital presentation, and has its place, but what excites me is what is beyond that. These are areas that I intend to explore further with my own work.

Here’s the link:

http://www.anthropographia.org/concours/eng/info.html

Congrats and good luck, mate!

Great work. I really enjoyed the multimedia aspect of the project. For the viewer it’s a great way to “get” the lives of these people. And I would suspect that it’s also a great way for you to get closer to your subjects. Well done.

And congratulations on the Anthropographia contest nomination. It’s a home town organization!

Best,
Aislinn

Yes, I got that was what you were doing with the MF portraits, as chapter beginnings. Maybe if you were to emphasize the “frame” even more, ie make the photo stand alone (smaller with more space around it) more to speak to it’s difference and intent.

I have a long ongoing project photographing in Vietnam (just a general survey). I have made it difficult on myself by shooting in 35 b&w/color and 2 1/4 square b&w/color. It’s been a great challenge to figure out how to bring it all together cohesively, and/or scrap 2/3rd of the work and stick to one look. like I said it’s easier to deal with in book form than in a slide show.

Best,

Charles

ps: it’s amazing how the body can adapt to waking up every two-three hours. So, yes I am getting some sleep. Thanks!

If things continue as they do in photojournalism, you’re a natural as a television news journalist. Your BBC accent would just kill them stateside;-)