Comments on: fake https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/ burn is an online feature for emerging photographers worldwide. burn is curated by magnum photographer david alan harvey. Sat, 18 Jun 2016 08:35:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.4 By: david ukaleq b. https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18124 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:41:15 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18124 Ok David, in fact I will be in Paris only for a connection so I wouldn’t have had much time either. Maybe another time…

Have a safe trip to Paris,
David

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By: david alan harvey https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18125 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:01:04 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18125 DAVID U..

i will be in paris monday and tuesday, but probably too busy to meet…i have a Magnum board meeting and that probably will keep me from venturing too far from the office…my duty calls!!!

cheers , david

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By: david ukaleq b. https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18126 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:35:02 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18126 David,

Having just read that you would be in Paris, may I ask you when? I’m in Germany this week (as usual) but will be in Paris next Tuesday…

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By: pierre-yves racine https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18127 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:22:20 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18127 I’m not in Paris this weekend, unfortunately. It would have been a great pleasure to meet but I have a big birthday party in Normandy…

Anyway I’m quite impressed : how were you able to remember that I live in Britanny ?
Ever been there ?

If you want to come, you’ll be welcome. A former english teacher of mine, Claude Le Gall, who is a photographer for the VU agency, really likes your work too. So if Paris is not too far, just come and we could chat ! Brittany is beautiful !!

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By: jason hobbs https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18128 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:10:10 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18128 hi david,

i have to admit i do love fish and chips. mmmm can can taste it now, which reminds me its nearly lunch time! there’s plenty of great food to be had i’m sure we can find something.

enjoy paris and see you soon.

jason

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By: Rafal Pruszynski https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18129 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:39:08 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18129 Hi David,

great to know about Alec’s reasoning. I had suspected that. Being a new father myself, I could never find the time to run a blog as big as Alec’s was and I wonder where YOU find the time to run this, even though you dont have a baby to take care of.

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By: Sofia Quintas https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18130 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:49:52 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18130 Reading you’re a bag freak made me laugh. I totally understand you because i’m also on the quest for the perfect bag foe years, and have too many for the cameras I actually own.
On other hand I think the frustration of not having enough money to upgrade my gear as regularly as I would like, makes me buy bags to compensate my consumist female hoemons :)

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By: david alan harvey https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18131 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:46:47 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18131 ROSEMARY…

it is always nice to hear from you…and it was great to see you in new york a couple of months ago….

now bags!! i have actually been offered a chance to design a camera bag for a major company…but guess what?? i just cannot make up my mind on so many things…i like this about one bag, and this about the other…and what i think is important , you make not think is important…anyway, think i will just stay a simple bag consumer for awhile!!

YAN…

i trust people until they prove otherwise…and i go with my gut…not other people’s opinions of someone…but, nobody gets it 100% of the time…

HARRY…

chips n’ gravy??? no fish? just chips n’ gravy?? hmmmm, sounds healthy!!

DAVID UKALEQ B…

i will announce the winner on december 15…but it might be about the first week in january before i can have the new web site up to show all the work that seems appropriate…everyone will just have to please be flexible and patient giving that this time of year is just raining with stuff to do falling out of the sky from everywhere!!! i imagine all of us are in the same boat….but, thanks for asking and rest assured that i am “working on it”…i have not forgotten…

NEIL…

many of you have suggested a book as an outcome for this forum…it was not something i thought about at all when i started, but after seeing the amazing amount of material that comes in textwise and now soon to be picturewise, it certainly seems like at least something to think about..the best books are organic……and this forum is totally organic…there was no plan…it just happened!! so let’s wait and see…you can do your part by writing brilliant text..no rules, no bounds….c’mon dude get cracking!!!

MICHAEL…

ok, you guys have found my “tech talk” weakness…bags…well i have always liked Domke bags…i even went to school at missouri with jim domke..i remember when he came up with the bag while a staffer photog at the Philadelphia Enquirer..he brought prototypes down to us at Geographic to see how we liked them…my only problem with the Domke is that they are a bit heavy even when empty and do not do too well in the rain..but i have used the reporters satchel quite a bit over the years..

the Barbour thorn proof waxed canvas is very light, waterproof (or very resistant) low key, and a good size..same size as the popular Billingham Hadley pro but less “steal me” styled…

i also find useful a couple of different bike courier bags because of the cross strap which allows you to use it almost like a back pack and take the weight totally off your shoulder when walking great distances, climbing or…riding a bike!! patagonia “half-mass” good…Crumpler “hoax” or “”he-goer” good…by the way, if a bag does not have a cross strap, you can put one on anyway..including Domke…you can buy a Timbuk 2 cross strap as a separate item and use it on almost any bag..

ok, no more bag talk!! until later!!

cheers, david

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By: Michael A Shapiro https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18132 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:50:28 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18132 Dare I do this without starting a massive write in???

Unless it rains (hard) the Domke Super Satchel is great for Nikons and the Reporter Satchel is wonderful for Leicas. You can put the cameras in the big front pouches.

The cheapest I found David’s little Barbour (or something close) is at Osprey Fishing Gifts. To get the best price, you have to order the thorn proof bag which is waxed canvas. I don’t understand it, but that bag is $50 less than the other one. Probably the same bags.

I needed a break from editing, so I went shopping. So much for delving into the meat of creation and photography.

BTW – Has anybody read “Image Makers Image Takers?”

Ciao,

Michael

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By: Rosemary https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18133 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:30:07 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18133 My copy of “Living Proof” arrived in the mail today. Books, paintings, photographs–of the things I own, these are what I love most. Well, my cameras also. Words and pictures can give us a spiritual connection that crosses barriers of time and place. I see and I can feel the rhythm of the world of hip hop.
I had to laugh at your dilemna with finding the right camera bag. I have too many cameras, but I have even more too many bags. In your spare time, it would be great if you designed a David Alan Harvey bag–maybe two bags. A Leica bag and a Nikon bag depending on what the shoot would be.

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By: Neil https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18134 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:16:35 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18134 Everyone knows TRUE chippie sauce ;-) is only available in Edinburgh in unmarked, unlabelled former irn-bru bottles. Its ingredients are unknown and it’ll never get past the FDA.

Whenever I’m down south I find myself drawn to Wagamamas (there is one in Covent Garden I think).

Totally understand the bag obession! I go into stores, play with the bags for half an hour then buy a lens cap and leave.

I was impressed by “On Being a Photographer” and it was a series of edited conversations between photographers, so distilling the wisdom of this blog would make an awesome book.

A statement I keep reviewing now and again from a fridge magnet:

“What people say about you reflects only upon themselves.”

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By: david ukaleq b. https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18135 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:55:19 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18135 Hi David, hi everyone,

I know that you must announce the “winner” on Dec. 15th but what about the web site for the other submissions and the feedbacks? I guess it will come a little later, since you have been pretty busy recently and it must be a very time-consuming task…

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By: Harry https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18136 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:04:21 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18136 David fish and chips in London are rubbish you have to head north and get chips and gravy. Then there is curry which makes all the bad things about living in the UK worth while. Maybe you should try and get a gig at the National Media Museum in Bradford worth it just for the food.

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By: Yan https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18137 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:58:20 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18137 Hi David, for the watch don’t worry, I know from good source that most of the time the parts are stolen from original warehouses or just do not reach them on the way from the production units, this means that the assembly might be the only difference with the original. Concerning Mr. X, that’s life and it usually happens that you trust someone and he makes you a child in your back (swiss expression)… this is very disappointing but luckily not everybody is like that, even when bad things happen we should not forget that trust is the essence of friendship, don’t lose trust, it’s important…

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By: david alan harvey https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18138 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:52:42 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18138 JASON…

i was supposed to be in london this week, but the Magnum meeting location changed, so now i end up in paris…we will do the fish n’ chips next time around..by the way, is there anything else to eat in old ‘londontown???

oh yes, your submissions are here…no problems

PIERRE-YVES..

nice to hear from you “lurkers” every now and then…and it was nice to see you in arles last summer…hmmm, where oh where did that time go?? seems like yesterday…

yes, we have all of your work….

i am in paris this weekend…but, i think you are in brittany…if not, call me at magnum….

RAFAL…

ok, i got an e-mail back from alec soth…i asked him why he dropped his blog…

directly quoting alec:

“I don’t have an altogether satisfying answer about the blog. It was a combination of things. But I guess the most prominent aspect was that it got too big. I was getting all of these e-mails from people wanting me to promote their stuff. My failure to promote one friend’s work ended up killing our friendship. What was supposed to be this personal little diary was turning into a magazine. I created the blog as an oasis from the the art business, but it was just turning into another arm of Soth Industries.”

so ends our chat about why alec dropped the blog….

cheers, david

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By: Wendy Marijnissen https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18139 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:46:17 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18139 Thanks David. Will give you a call when I’m in town and hope to meet up with you then.
Talk soon.
Wendy

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By: Bob Black https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18140 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:03:17 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18140 David :))…

you can bronze away, no royalities needed ;)))))…

yes, indeed, life is much too short and, in truth, we’re all pretty priviledged, too priviledged, to be muddied down by the darkness and cynicism around…since we have such a star-burst short time, why not use it to its best effect: share, live, shine :)))…

Im happy to have made a small contribution to a community (here) that has also given my own life so much :))

running :)

cheers
b

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By: pierre-yves racine https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18141 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:17:39 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18141 Oh, by the way, did you get the text that goes with the 20 pictures I submitted ? I was not able to upload it via digital railroad so I sent it to you directly (one of your email accounts)…

If it didn’t reach you, I can send it again.

Merci !

Ps : did you eventually get the pictures themselves ?

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By: pierre-yves racine https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18142 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:13:43 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18142 Hi David !

As usual, this post turns out to be so interesting…

As a regular reader of your blog, I feel I don’t have time to write things but I also feel I need to thank you for being so generous of your time !!

I “listen” to what is voiced here, just like many others, and sometimes I would like to smile, meaning that’s great we’re here together to exchange ideas, thoughts…

So here are a couple of smiles from a silent lurker :

:-) :-) :-)

Pierre

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By: jason hobbs https://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2007/12/fake/#comment-18143 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:06:41 +0000 http://s57354.gridserver.com/2007/12/07/fake/#comment-18143 hi david,

it’s good to hear you had such a great time in Bangkok, although i’m sorry to hear about the one bad experience. i think most people have experienced something like that, i certainly have. while it may leave us hurt, or disillusioned, i think its important no to dwell to much on the negatives. that sort of person is simply not worth the time; its better to use the energy and time to move on to something more positive, like being with people you love, taking pictures, editing pictures – anything!

its been great to read through the comments about books. i’ve just completed a project and am looking to get it published. i’m still filled with the good feeling of completing something that can, hopefully become a book. although i’m in the early stages its been a very interesting process so far. i’ll keep you posted on how i get on.

david, is there anyway that you can let me know if my submission got through okay. i had a few problems with the ftp site. i know you’ve probably had a million request for this since the deadline, so sorry for asking, i just wouldn’t want to miss out.

are you going to be in london any time soon? if you are and you have time perhaps we could meet, i’ll pay for the fish and chips this time.

take care

Jason.

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