Comments on: Lorenzo Meloni – Moonlight Yemen https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:12:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: fillyblynn https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100791 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:39:50 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100791 Lovely, very visceral quality to the image set. HDR composites are especially pertinent to night scenes. Often times one exposure just can’t capture the fantastic amount of light pollution in our bustling cities. These images are able to achieve that.

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By: nancyspadaro https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100740 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:50:54 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100740 The first image is amazing, the colours, the compo, there is a whole story in just that image. It does put the bar up pretty high for the rest of the essay, and there are no other images with the same impact, although I really like #10 and 19.
Congratulations Lorenzo for getting posted on burn and for the story !

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By: wendy https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100658 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:40:41 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100658 dah
thank you….
that helps me….
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By: Gordon Lafleur https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100650 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:34:12 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100650 David
I hope you did not interpet my comment as in any way critical of your role in editing burn. On the contrary, your role and skills in that regard are central to the success of burn.
I was merely thinking out loud about the idea that every image needs to be as strong as every other within an essay.

I was also thinking out loud about the intended audience for a piece, and how as photogrpahers, myself anyway, tend to react more to the photography rather than the content. I often buy Vanity Fair magazine, mostly for the portraits. I look through fashion magazines, even though I have no interest in fashion.

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By: panos skoulidas https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100609 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:55:23 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100609 WENDY

the strongest for me are:1, 2, 5, 19 all the rest are what i call “similars”
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totally agree + 16

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By: david alan harvey https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100608 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:44:01 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100608 GORDON…

i edit very loose on Burn, at least for my tastes….and we can only publish what the photographer gives us…it often happens that photographers leave out material we would have published if we knew about it..we literally do not have the time nor the inclination to be private detectives and try to imagine what was not sent to us… …we go with what is submitted to us…we have considered dropping submissions and taking everything from private interviews, workshops etc where i can really really know where a photographer is coming from…involved in a project from the get go…if i did not have my own work to do and was a full time editor, i think this is what i would do…Gordon, i cannot be a perfect editor here…if i were, i would have to sacrifice my own work…so Burn is a bit of a compromise in one sense …on the other hand if i were a full time editor and did not do my own work , i am afraid that would be even worse…i will just keep doing the best i can at both worlds..

WENDY

the strongest for me are:1, 2, 5, 19 all the rest are what i call “similars”

cheers, david

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By: Frostfrog https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100578 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:46:54 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100578 The first image got me pretty excited, because not only is it excellent, as others have stated, but it spoke to me of Captain America, which I found to be nice touch of irony in a story about Yemen. The second image grabbed me, too, and made me think of the moon. The third gave me a feeling like being in Mexico on a hot night. Number 4, just eerie, strong and ambiguous. A symbol of construction and development or stagnation?

Beyond this, images 7, 8 and 12 resonated most strongly. The themes of some of the others struck me as good, but they felt too detached from the subject to me.

I am wondering about photo 20, referenced by ommphoto, since the essay stops on photo 19. Did an image get cut after the essay went up? If so, then images referenced by # before that cut was made could be out of whack now.

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By: jope https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100576 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:33:02 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100576 Cool!

I really enjoy photos 1, 4, 7, and 11. What I felt most when seeing this work was the whole man-made world theme.

In 1 you’ve got the metal workers with incredible colors/reflections shaping raw materials in to useful things.
You have the skeleton of a building in 4 which resonates with the stone in 11.. which in turn resonates with the man in 7.

Nice work

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By: Gordon Lafleur https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100558 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:14:40 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100558 There is a longer edit of this on Lorenzo’s site. I like it.

David, you are always pushing for less, but often times I want to see more. I have no issue at all with “weaker” photographs mixed in with very strong ones. Like a musical composition, there are often the little hooks that anchor the piece, and tie it together, and then there are the intervals between. There is no doubt that leaving in only the gems increases the wow factor. But is the aim to wow, or to communicate? Is less really more, or is less just less?

On my personal gallerys, I find my photographer friends more impressed with the short edits, where I leave only the strongest photographer type stuff, while my non-photographer friends appreciate much longer edits. I appreciate photographs that show me what sometihing feels like, but also appreciate photographs that just show me what something looks like.

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By: Photography Links for The Week of 21 October 2011 | N O T I O N https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100556 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:31:49 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100556 […] Moonlight Yemen by Lorenzo Meloni via Burn […]

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By: bullockphoto https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100548 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:22:38 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100548 There are some phenomenal images in this essay. I think what I like most about them as a series is the visual consistency, which revolves around the color and especially the geometry found in the majority of the compositions. Image #8 I would edit out of thsi group – it’s the one that feels out of place. Your landscapes, and even some of the details have this grander scheme, Burtynsky-esque quality to me, and #8 lacks this. This work feels fresh and borne from a clear vision – really enjoyed it. To Jim Powers – I’d be interested to see your photographs…

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By: lorenzo meloni – moonlight yemen | The Click https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100545 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:33:15 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100545 […] burn magazine: Walking around the streets at night gives the feeling of travelling back in time, to a place where time has stopped. […]

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By: wendy https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100536 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:50:28 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100536 DAH
which 4 would you choose?
:)

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By: Jeff Hladun https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100532 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:11:26 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100532 There’s chiaroscuro, and then there is tenebrism. Meloni has shown us the difference between what most people think of when they consider Caravaggio, and what Caravaggio was attempting in his foreboding, murky, sensuous best. His dark images really excite me in the way he has shown how well-grounded he is in knowing the difference. I can’t wait to see more.

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By: Imants https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100531 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:44:56 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100531 ………making night into day is just doi knia, same same but diffrerent

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By: Imants https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100528 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:00:41 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100528 The first image works but then we need the mystery of the dark ………..

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By: david alan harvey https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100523 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:09:30 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100523 SIDNEY

yes, that’s about how i feel as well…why is it on Burn if it isn’t perfect? well, cause there just ain’t nothin perfect out there…at least not that we know about…Lorenzo insisted that his essay be a work in progress and not to be considered a finished essay…of all the work we see, this is in the top 25% i would say in terms of work in progress and that i feel will go much much further…having 4-6 strong images and one killer (the lead/opening shot) is a damned good start….i always edit fairly loose for Burn..i think i have mentioned that before…i like for the readers to throw stuff out..play a bit….if i were being total dah, i would have this down to about 4 images….

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By: Jim Powers https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100501 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:02:06 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100501 Me. Nothing special here.

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By: moonlight yemen « ettagirl https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100499 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:48:48 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100499 […] burn magazine Share This entry was posted in photography and tagged Lorenzo Meloni, moonlight, yemen. Bookmark […]

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By: caT https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/10/lorenzo-meloni-moonlight-yemen/#comment-100489 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:38:58 +0000 http://www.burnmagazine.org/?p=11161#comment-100489 1.3.6.8.13 , for me they differ because they can really draw this charming reality that you mention.
The first photograph is very nice, has the intense colorful surrealistic approach , I really like it,
the rest I like for their silence.

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