nicely done..

Congratulations to everybody, specially Rafal (enjoyed that, very clean cut, nice), Panos (surprised me, because after a lot of talking he finally delivered) and Chance (interesting topic and good photography, worth carrying on).

“..a motherfucker that talks too fucking much…”
that’s going to me …

“…one of the most talented,…”
that goes to JONI K..

oh.. i forgot… MY FAVORITE OF ALL…
AND THAT WAS

MIKE BERUBE… for me… by far THE BEST…

ANDREW S… whats up… great work

I still think though,
that
DAVID McGOWAN’s video
was FAR MORE ARTISTIC,
.. struggle.. to watch..
over the shoulder..
I told ya.. Only a dead battery can,
only temporarily .. stop this guy from shooting

ANTON, I’m opening a DUVEL right about
… NOWWWW!!!
peace

Yum yum! Bravo y’all. Well smart. I forgot my beer too.

Hope to see it soon, need time as I am on the run…

Very exciting though!!!

Woo-hooo!!!!!!!

CONGRATS ALL…

so today i spent 3 hours with my dear friend, younger brother, compañero, Mike Berube….

……mike, this evening, spent the night drinking wine and talking to marina about our conversation, and all i can say is that, only more of what we talked about…the sea of love and all that…

I am very tired, and very sad that still the need to segment….

done, done, done….

David: email on the way….

ALL YOU BOYS AND GIRLS SING, AND ALL YOU ARE GLORIOUS, EVEN YOU WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT THERE…

the moment i see that still others separate, segment, define, elevate…

i am so happy for what this blog has achieved…and so sad that still our eyes have not achieved enough…

thank you david, thank you michael….

adios amigos…

b

BOB,
MIKE C…
is the coolest kid… smart too..!!
he made me carry so much weight…
still paying dues…???
yep..!
that makes me feel young…!… though!
thank you Mike C.

panos…

i am done for now….will post self-portrait…

and then will be vanishing for some time…

adios

b

ohhhh… CATHY… IM SORRY..
back in the other thread you asked me a question???
please remind me because my short term memory is GONE…
we call it “medical” here in cali.
peace

Panos you crack me up!

Hopefully there are some hidden results in my non-stop shooting.

Here’s the “artistic” version:

http://www.humanfiles.com/mov/emerging.mp4

PANOS,

You said you and David had discussed (analyzed?) me in C’ville along with other various blog “family members.” So of course I was wondering what was said…but I only wanted to know if it was good!

Since you never replied I guess it was not :)) (kidding)

The other part I wrote you about was that David is teaching in Venice in November.

CATHY….

ME analyze YOU????

i do not try to figure out anyone….i might be curious about someone’s “circumstances”, but get into their head?? nope…

PARTICULARLY NOT YOURS!!!

teasing Cathy teasing……

ok, time for for bed… before my mischievous mood gets me in the kind of trouble that often follows me like a laser guided missile!!!

peace above all…david

some people on this forum think way to much of themselves. how does it go> ” i’m not much but i’m all i think about.” Cathy have you ever seen the film called Reefer Madness ?

david: just watched the look3 slideshow very nice work by all. thanks to all that posted from the festival for those of us that could not physically make it.

marcin: ” My mind is the only thing that i know exists.”
” this is solipsism and only thing i know ”

precisely right on – excellent observation marcin !! so true

wittengenstein: the analogy could be the dog that continues to chase it’s tail. so it seems the dilemma with this thought process is that it’s always the same thing which is rhetorical nonsense.

solipsism: one is faced with the impossibility of getting beyond ones self..sounds like a nightmare !!

” i think therefor i am or i exist ”

descarte

Damn good show! Went from bedroom to beach to China to jazz bar to home and a lot in between, including a dogs backside.

Loved the music, matched up pretty darn well, especially when Panos rolled around. Chris Bickford…blew me away with the colours.. good call for that tune too.

Wonder what the next slideshow will look like? How’re we all gonna top that?

@Panos: you have already 12 comments on this thread, so I think my judgement was minimally founded ;-) But yeah, I think that by your ways you have chances to put yourself in situations that many people wouldn’t end up in… I thought that before, and I thought that it might lead to interesting photographs, but I yet had to see it coming as a bunch that makes more sense within the cacophony. I would be lying if I didn’t tell you that I was surprised!

I have a question for Panos, since he is eliciting questions:

Quien es mas macho, Pat Sajak o Alex Trebek?

alex trebek

all:

great stuff on the site. the video plays really well. music is synced and all. i met up with bob yesterday as mentioned and filled him in on the festival as well how his slide show went/looked.

everyone’s work up there was amazing.

it started off really well. i did not get a chance to meet you all at the show as i had to be back here to start a new body of work in progress. but from the people i did meet (sean and panos) i was amazed at how amazing this blog really is a uniting people. everyone did an amazing job with their work and david thank you for getting this out there.

this is all very exciting.

and again…
i’m SO PROUD of the next two photos…
thanks again to (HenriCB), “flyonthewall” a.k.a.
DAVID MCGOWAN…

http://blog.panosfotografia.com/2008_06_21_archive.html

Panos

I will wait for your next essay…

peace

ps. my computer have problems with video software so I’v not seen this slideshow. I’m sure it is great. congrat for all

ANONYMOUS,

Anyone posting here as anonymous really doesn’t deserve a response. Why would you not be willing to let the rest of us know who you are? Are you thinking YOU’RE something special? :))

RE: your Reefer Madness comment…I think you are responding to the punch line without knowing the joke……Did you read Akaky’s comment about paranoia after Panos said he had spoken with David about a bunch of us? He was HUMOROUS…unlike you.

ok.. ALL,
just got the phone call from the production
office up in NY..
I’m in Venice right now..
but our blogmaster wants you to
know…
THAT THE WORKSHOP- STUDENTS
SLIDESHOW.. Is ready..

POSTED UNDER MOVIES AND
STUDENT WORKSHOPS..

PEOPLE ENJOY..
so go click in the main website either
under “movies” or “student workshops”

THANK YOU ALL..
back to my Venice party now..
peace

Panos

I will wait for all your work, new one and from venice. You shooting your life so…

David

You promise to show us some photos from famili essay from time to time… maybe this time has come?

Patricia

Impressive work… admire…

Aga

do you work as a photojournalist now? You should…
pozdrawiam

Rafal

I see You have tackled wind to sails, great works… I wish to see more…

Katharina

I like your pictures very much :)

Akaky

I wish to see your selfportait… I’m curious you face wise man…

peace… and free tibet

Aga, i KNOW you will figure it out, it will come to you through your options … and you have many options i think … serendipity will find you through your hard work and amazing talent … your searching, the crazy unknown, is just part of the process. I look at your work often, and many others here, along with of course David’s and many other “known” masters, and Goya, just fell in love with Goya, damn, amazing, still reeducating myself ;-)

Have faith Aga, i have faith in you and your talent, you have taught me much without ever knowing it and i doubt i am the only one … if you ever need a place to stay on the west coast of US, please do not hesitate, my wife and i have many visitors, and are always happy to have many more … and that goes for the DAH crowd as well, we have 8 acres in the country and you are always welcome to pitch a tent and grab a shower. There was something of a hippie haven here years ago … much good energy. The sculptor John Hoover once lived here, his carved mask faces hanging in the woods, and Curt Cobain came here when he was a kid to stay with his uncle and play in the creek. My neighbor, just through the moss-draped woods and across the field of long grass, is an artist with a wonderful studio on the creek. Please come, we’ll have a campfire, drink, smoke and tell great lies.

I also have hope for a new major market for great photographers who see with their heart … a throwback to the golden days of old, not so long ago even now … but in the age of new media.

As was noted at Look3, so much is entertainment driven these days, that mostly awful exploitive drivel, BUT i can’t help but to believe that if just the right mix of the right “stuff” was created bridging both communication and economic models, that a new resonance could be created that would catch fire with a broader public … and that is the point isn’t it, to have something to say and reach either the widest or, as Nachtwey noted, the “right” targeted audience. I think about this often … so many possibilities … you can reach the world in a matter of seconds and publish a book now in a matter of days. There are hints of the right direction out there … mediastorm and, of course, this place … who knows, this may be the seed right here.

I have this feeling, i see little signs everywhere … a quote posted on the bank teller’s wall, street conversations, the rise of the good indie’s in music and film … that people want to wake up, throw off the sedative chains of a consumerist society, kill their televisions, and be here now for a change.

I have hope. Hold on … something is coming.

cheers,
tom :))

YOUNG TOM….

yes, you are right on it….i have to rush out and shoot right now, so no time to elaborate…but your thoughts are basically mine….what we have is so so organic right now, and we do not want to lose that at any cost….i did talk to Brian Storm of Media Storm at my house at Look3…we both agreed that we should have some kind of relationship…now is the time to INVENT….not try to follow the past….appreciate the past, learn from the past, but move move move with gusto to the “right now” and the future…ok, running…keep thinking my friend….

cheers, peace et al…david

MICHAEL K..,
you look like Salvador Dali…
in the above photo…
and i look like an intoxicated pirate!

Salvador Dali…OK…I can live with that! Though being a drunken Pirate is more romantic I think. Next year I’m wearing a patch!

DAH…

Would it be alright to “borrow” that pic above for a blog entry of my own? All the requisite and due credit, of course!

-MK

David McGowan..
great, nice old school photography and retro look..
awesome… fashion show style look

Hey Panos,
Nice shots… I like 1, 3!, 4, 9 (wish I could see her face), 20, 23!, 26… great energy.

thank you Mike…
thank you.!

DMcG,

Yesterday was national skate day?! Here’s my homage to the sport, made last weekend…

http://annaboyiazis.blogspot.com/

p.s. Noticed AKAKY did a skating series too (in his fresh fruit post).

Anna, apparently so—that’s more my brother’s scene, but it was fun to shoot. I partied like it was Look3 yesterday! Still in recovery…

“Unofficial Self-Portrait Gallery”

hope david doesn’t use that as the judging gallery, since mine is missing…maybe others too?

CONGRATULATIONS ON LOOK3 WORKSHOP PHOTOGS! :))))

I just had the 1st opportunity to watch the vid of your projection ending your week with DAH :))))…great work, hard work, inspired :))..I hardly recongize Charlottesville :)))

well done! :)))…too many of you to point out (and besides I hate the name pointing distinction on a group effort such as this, which is what got me so depressed on the first couple of posts)…YOU ALL SHOULD BE PROUD AND CELEBRANT! :)))..terrific terrific work…

a lovely breakfast treat this morning :)))

cheer y’all

running
bob

MICHAEL K…

sure, use the picture…..

DAH…

Thanks very much!

And thanks also for the ID on Ryan. That was an amazing essay…especially given the short tun around time!

David, I see you just posted now. Can you confirm your Paris dates, I need to finalize trip details for Istanbul. We

PANOS…

thanks for the vision of a Hollywood beach party….”jealousy son and mother” hit me right away, but there are several others i like too…i was kinda rushed in seeing all of them, so i need to take a closer look…

i do have a suggestion….not about the shooting…i would not dare “mess” with your loose shooting style…but, editing your work requires much care…the late Leonard Freed (check him out) gave me a tip many years ago..make small cheap 4×5 prints of everything…keep them with you or spread them out on the floor or tack them to the wall…play with these pictures…come up with visual relationships or sequences or whatever…it will help you to think about the overall impact of what you are doing…and will help you to form a book in your head…now, you are a long way from a final edit….but i think this would really help when we meet again, so we can do a first edit…can you do????

BOB….

you lost me with “name pointing distinction”….did i miss something???

cheers, david

Hello David,
I am really sorry I cannot come on Paris, I would have liked a lot meeting you, maybe to Visa For the image in the comeback of September ?
Kind regards,
audrey

David,
No problem. If I missed something (Nick Yoon, etc) please email me your shot at david@humanfiles.com. I can work out getting the names on there.

Also there are more than one shot of some people because I didn’t know what their official entry was. Not a perfect system but it’s probably fine.

JONI K,
try this link (web gallery style)…
if you click slideshow you get hi res. hope this one works.

http://gallery.mac.com/innerspacecowpanos#100079&view=mosaic&bgcolor=black&sel=0

DAVID ;)))

nope, u didnt miss anything…i just meant that for me, in group shows, i tend to celebrate the whole, instead of isolating the parts, i was proud of all the look3 epf work and equally thrilled by what i saw this morning…creating a distinction just aint the way i comment on the hard work of all the photogs…seeing one more distinguished just left me depressed early on…that’s not from you, no big dearl…enjoy Paris (lucky bastard)…enjoy Herve and hugs to Vink if he’s there..

running
b

DAVID MCGOWAN…

bless you….yes, i know there were multiple entries from some despite my pleas for one picture, one time…there were several who kept changing their mind, or posted older pictures, and that is just almost impossible to track…we will just have to do the best we can and will lean in the direction of those who made it simple and followed the DIRECTIONS!!!..i know that Anna B. wants her first rather than second, but i am lost on some others…

many many thanks David….i owe you….

BOB….

oh ok, i get it…need more coffee!!! yes, i am the same …i see a totality in these works too…..it is the “whole show” i am presenting…a collective “body of work” that flows….a collaboration…individual presentations are another thing entirely…thanks for pointing this out….

cheers, david

DAVID MC GOWAN NEVER SLEEPS…
good job David..

BOB, i agree..
yeah , i guess you are right…
it’s sad… i read it too.. some kids here got confused…
and measure their worthiness regarding the slideshow
sequence…!!?
I was right before you BOB… in the slideshow…( closer to the start)… or im a “headliner” ( closer to the end )
therefore im “better”… than YOU..!!!????
SAD….!!!!
or ,
i opened the show, or closed the show…
pathetic shit… this is not the OZZFEST… people..
If you were first or last or in the middle in the look3
slideshow make no difference

STILL MIKE BERUBE was the strongest….. up there…
( ok,, now kidding, although i admire his work…! )..

Bob, David, you are right ,
this was a collective effort, a collaboration…
not who is first or second…
but as always…
people twist things their own way…!
what’s new!!!????

BOB, PANOS….ALL

the sequence of a slide show, and i am sure you know this, is not in the order of quality, but with the intention of overall mood and texture…and it is not empirical in nature, but just how it “feels”

cheers, david

DAVID they are over in the self portraits post…

DAVID ;)))))

hey, no no worries :)))…I LOVE BOTH THE LOOK3 EPF AND THE DAH WORKSHOP SHOWS! :)))…really enjoyed them :)))))..sorry, i didnt mean to upset anyone: i meant only that i hate when people write “i love this, i love that, i want to be first, i want to be last” etc…but, that’s just me, and i think the MEANING of the both slideshows was that this blog produced imaginative, inspired, interesting work and the whole speaks BEAUTIFULLY about that…which is why i was depressed (briefly) about the first couple of comments..so, please: no worries: i never look “she/he is better, etc”…i think in this blog what is so important is that the community is heightened and strenghthened by the totality of the diversity of the work :))…that’s why i congratulate all and never single out anyone: that’s what i meant :)))..

sorry for the confustion: fucking bane of electronic conversations ;))))

let me remind others : PLEASE LOOK AT THE DAH WRKSHOP PROJECTION: it really is beautiful…and remarkable considering that was all achieved in 3-5 days! :))))…that’s what is so so brilliant :))

running running

hugs
b

BOB…

no worries mate…i think everyone is cool…

running too..bob black style!!!

DAVID MCGOWAN…

think you should post this under the “self portraits” post also…can do??? you are the man!!! many many thanks for your fast response..big big help you are….

peace, david

and again…

MY “SLIDESHOW” IS BETTER THAN YOURS…
( it brings all the “editors” in the “yard”

PANOS…

now THAT video woke me right up!!!

ALL….

i make slide shows similar to the Look3 show after every workshop i do….so, when i return from Paris we will try to post a few others from the past few workshops…you have seen many students pictures under “student work/workshops” but you may enjoy seeing the “final product” as per projected….

DAVID…
I somehow knew that this video would wake YOU right up…
my brother… i knew …
laughing

MARTIN,
thank you my friend , thank you!

Imagine 200 years from now..
AKAKY the new Moses..
HERVE.. apostle Ioannis the Baptist..
me , Judas or something like that,
BOB, apostle Andreas the fisherman..( although i guess
they were all fishermen at that era )…
but definitely happy ending…
Real “happy ending”..

LAST SUPPER IN A STRIP CLUB… WITH CABERNET- MERLOT
AND BIG FAT BLUNTS.. ( and duvel’s too for sexy ANTON )…

” GOT CHURCH…???”{

no cult stuff…????

No “Last Supper” in a strip club ??
hmm.. ok, i can live with that…
.. then the “WAFFLE HOUSE” it is…!

ok,
ALL, (religious and non religious friends…)
i’m just kidding.. hopefully Jesus doesnt gets
offended that easy, otherwise…….

david mcgowan – you simply ROCK!!

thanks for putting all the portraits together.
it looks amazing and so easy to see everyone now.
we’re all so damn beautiful, aren’t we?
we need to put DAH on there too, in the first spot. :))

AND..

thank you, too, for filming the EPF slideshow at LOOK3. i felt like i was the one sitting behind that ladies shoulder and i wept huge grateful tears when i saw my work displayed amidst all the insanely wonderful works from all the others.
i feel soooo proud and grateful and humbled.
and your film, it just made me feel THERE and feel the FULL EMOTION of it all.

so.. thank you. really.
thanks for all you do here. :))

k.

Here are a couple of shots from LOOK, actually waiting for the train back to NYC with John, Juliana and Mike.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3161/2604270901_4de28c5c4d_b.jpg

No problem everyone! Thanks for the heaping of praise—happy to help when I can.

http://www.humanfiles.com/dah_selfportraits/

DAVID

YES… i’ll be there!!!

just tell me what to do…

peace
anton

DAVID

I am really sorry that I missed the dead line to self portrait’s contest. I was out working a lot, and just had no time to read the blog. Did you receive my e.mail about ehxibition opening last week here in Brazil ?

All
this is the link to the Naitan ehxibition at the Unicamp Gallery, if anyone want to see, and comment, I’ll love to have some feedback (even if bad !)

http://www.galembeck.com.br/naitan2

cheers

AGA

(God! I don’t want to be wedding photographer! also newspaper photographer is not the thing i want to do)

Somethimes I think that work on weddings or newspapers are far better that sell anything that is not your work. It could help sometimes, even if it’s not what you want for your life…. you can easily manage it like a normal job, and keep the way shooting.

ANTON,
thank you..!
All my respect to you, because you
went through 45 different countries…
no jet – lag for me.. i never went anywhere…
STILL AT HOME!
from the West Coast to the South…
thats about it!
but, YOU… MY FRIEND…
you’ve been everywhere!
congrrats.

ROBERT, COOL
but
GO CLOSER, close and closeer…!
I wanna see their face…
i wanna smell their ( subjects ) breath!

Hey everyone…

A bit off topic (although it is a slideshow)…. The work of eight Magnum photographers on Aids….

http://accesstolife.theglobalfund.org/

A must see.

f.y.i. > if you subscribe to the magnum thread for (free) when a new project comes up they alert you. the project on aids awareness by 8 magnum photographers is nothing less than amazing. Damn; you guys really know what your doing in terms of content and access. all of those photo essays SHINE so BRIGHT !! ++

Just did a nearly successful dry run (no film) for the assignment, thank god. It was still damn complicated, things blowing over and such, but at least now I feel more confident that I can solve the first batch of problems which surfaced. It helped, DAVID, to read your remark about the 25% ..I think I ask for too much sometimes. And while I didn’t shoot the big camera yet, I shot rollei for a friend using the set-up that I will use for the assignment, and I had a great time. That’s the thing..if I think too much about photog it becomes a stressful thing. If i shoot, I start smiling and connecting and feeling great…

Paris…sounds great! Send photos all… Have a banana chocolate tart for me.

I’m off to Keith Carter/Antonin Kratochvil slide shows.

David M. AMAZING how you put that site together. If you’re this efficient in all areas you could make big bucks!!! :))

David and ALL-

I am just back from my family vacations in South Carolina, straight after Look3. I have practiced, with some success I have to say, being a “beach bum” of my own…Although I cannot claim the concept invented by our dear Master, I can relate to it as I was born in Marseille….few miles from the beach and although I do not exactly look like a surfer….I am actually quite reasonable wind-surfer…(although this was about 15 years ago….so who knows if I can still stand up on a board…). Vacations was great…lots of sun, time with the kids… With the sole exception of that one day during which I posted a quick highlight of Look3 in the lobby of an hotel, I did not have any connections or access to internet so I am catching up on the 100s of posts from all….I have realized that I have officially missed the deadline for submission of a self-portrait having driven for 14 hours and got home in middle of last night, few hours after the drop dead midnight ultimatum…although I will not compete with the many great portraits already sent, might send one to David M just to be sort of part of the “family”…

I have come back from Look3 and vacations for that matter very energized and refreshed…I do not want to repeat again the same comments from all on Look 3 but I was inspired by seeing a lot of the work of the photographers at the Festival….I forgot in my last report to mention Maggie Steber…I knew of her from one of David’s previous post but did not have a chance to hear her until then. She brought a very refreshing energetic personal view on what photographers should do, ask for all to get engaged, be creative for new ways of communicating (no wonder she is friend with David….) and she certainly shared a lot of creativity and positive vibes among a profession that, at times, came across a bit “gloomy”…She ended with a poignant essay on her mother who is old, losing her mind…Very moving and received a great standing ovation from the audience at the end!!!! I briefly talked to her afterwards…Charnomg lady really who even knows some French…(how can anyone speaking French not be charming?!!!! she probably thought my English was bad…..)…Anyway, thank you Maggie for that special moment!

I have to say also that the show that David produced with your work really looked strong. I am not saying this to be nice!!! I saw the slideshow of more experienced photographers shown on Saturday evening during the closing celebration and, of course, the work of a few of the most experienced photographers maybe did stand up as even stronger(work from Marcus Bleasdale on Congo was amazing but overall, you guys were right up there with them…nothing to be shy off….so again, congrats to allk!!..I would not want to start distinguishing between all as our conscience Bob has already indicated that we should focus on the work of all…agree….few of the photographers I have met during the Festival know how much I am a fan of their work and I told them directly….

After Look3, could not do much photography beyond random shots, largely taking pictures of my kids…might post some pictures later if any are of value but not everybody has the talent of Rafal for showing family intimate side….

David, as I mentioned before, was hoping to tchat with you but did not really get a chance…was keen to check with you if you still have an interest in me doing some assignment over the summer….I wanted to let you know that I do have a lot of passion now for working on my “boxing” story. I have now great links that I have estbalished with some of these kids…I sense that this can be a strong story and could turn out to be the best work/ story I have done. Do not need an answer immediately as I know that you need to focus on your own FAMILY project now and still have to coach/ guide few of the photographers who were on assignment already but, if you want to see what this French engineer can be up to, keep me in mind and it will be a priviledge to continue to be part of this “adventure”….

Cheers to all and thanks Sean for your message that I found on my return from vacations! Go and conquer the desert man and keep us posted! Erica, cannot wait to see your new portraits and hope you started your project now!

Eric

Eric,

good to have you back. nothing to show yet but your words (and Walt’s!) me donnent une vraie force qui m’encourage..

Any Keith Carter fans out there? BOB???
It was great to finally meet him tonight.
Keith is one is a billion…poet, photographer extrordinaire and tonight singing love songs as Elmer Fudd (to kill time during a technical malfunction in Antonin’s slide show) :))

DAVID,
Antonin said he’d just seen you in NYC. He’s another great character. His slide show was postponed till tomorrow due to technical difficulty.

Would I be wrong in saying we want David to show us a bit of a preview of his Families project? Has ayone asked this, I dont want to look like a fool repeating it, but I might have missed it. In any case, David, I want to see what you are doing….

ALL!!!!!!!!!!

The slideshows are MAGNIFICENT!!!!!!!!!!!

I love it all!

QUESTION?????????

How does everyone else keep up here, I am already a couple of days behind I think!

I’m the new Moses? Oh…well, can I charge tolls after I split the Red Sea? I need the dough now.

Dear All,

In reading through the comments on self-portraits I caught a thread that I have been wrestling with, especially last night.

I’m back home in the town I spent my adult life until the age of 34 and experiencing much of the events that you might read about in a novel written about a woman who returns to her home town after being away almost 30 years.

Last night the oddest thing happened and I need to talk about it with people who might have experienced it also and maybe even wrestle with it.

When I first arrived in Arkansas (prior to the festival) I connected with a man that I dated 30 years ago and due to my lack of interest in anything permanent (just out of a marriage of 9 years and was more interested in dating many men and not just one) it faded out. That is the short version. Anyway, from the first moment I met him I started shooting him, and almost immediately saw the possibilities of an essay entitled “Bachelor of Campbell Lane.”

In the process of spending several days with him shooting his life, he says he loves me. Then, I meet another old bachelor boyfriend and he takes me out shooting at a gravel pit, I shoot him for 36 hours and now he loves me. This one is fairly predictable in that he is a bit on the odd side in the mental capacity arena.

Now, get this. Two days ago I stop in at a business in Arkansas that I used to shop at all the time and meet the owner again after 30 years. This guy I never dated but after 36 hours of shooting he is getting “Jealous!!” because my ex called while I was in the shop and he heard me say “love ya.” By the way, did I mention, this one is a bachelor also? I ordered a product from him and spent the 2 days documenting the work. He is an artisan and the process is very unique and I have some wonderful photos.

Anyway, the question I have for the group is this:

How do you get close enough long enough deep enough to shoot people in their environment and keep them from falling into yours? Now, I know the knee jerk reactions to this question will fall in the lines of who I am and what I look like but seriously, think about this and tell me, how do you shoot something so personal as a person’s life and their story and keep them at a safe distance? Is it even possible? How do you get out of it once you are in so deep?

One more comment on this last bachelor (last night) and his response. One thought I had of why I keep getting this response is these bachelors see my interest through the camera as interest in them personally. And while I am very interested in them in that they have a good story and the photographs I am collecting are amazing for me to look at, I have no interest in these bachelors for anything except being friends and taking their photos.

Any ideas? This also happens with others besides bachelors, by the way.

Lee

Hi Lee.

Without knowing the men’s history, background, economic and educational status…I’ll just say this: Three men, bachelors–probably lonely. Pretty lady, very nice, showing them lots of attention…easy to create a fantasy…or more accurately, their own reality.

Also, in these cases you knew the men previously…so there’s a “history.” You are able to get close with old recollections, with “hey, remember when…” kind of things. It’s different when you’ve just met someone, no history. You’re trying to “get close” with your wits, with showing an interest in their work. No personal connections for anyone to cling to, or to create misinterpretations.

Not sure if any of this is making sense…but in the end you can always fall back on the ultimate truism: We men can be pretty stupid when it comes to the opposite sex!

DAVID,

I wasn’t necessarily asking for opinions about Keith…although I am ALWAYS interested in your opinions about ANYTHING :))

Just was wondering if there were any Keith fans on the blog.

BUT…Since you gave an opinion about Keith…any comment on Antonin??? He’s such a riot! He told me he saw you in NYC just a few days ago. I’ll see him again tonight since his slide show didn’t work out last night…it was postponed till tonight..in case you (or anyone) have a message for him.

Hi David,
Thanks for the feedback about the C’ville photos… I totally agree about print quality and trying to do too many things at once. Basically, this is the way I get to these prints: First I have a rule not to print any negative that hasn’t been contact printed first, to slow me down and to allow me to evaluate what I did indeed shoot (I broke this rule last week, and now I’m hopelessly behind with contacts…) then, I make 5×7 (fiber) workprints, as many and as quickly as possible. On a good night I can print about 50… and these are what I’m scanning and showing everyone on the internet. Probably not the best way to go about things…

I’m going to have to work on lightening up on the incongruity… I have been trying to lighten up on the looseness, which is an improvement, I think…

But I do want to follow up on your comment to Panos about the Leonard Freed tip… these workprints are invaluable to me… first for editing, I find it very difficult to edit on a computer screen, and with small prints it is just so easy and immediate… but then they are great for sequencing, you can write on them a la Bill Burke, you can write a note on the back for reference, you can put a stamp on them and send them to your friends as postcards, you can keep a few in your camera bag and have an impromptu exhibition when you meet someone on the street, you can give them away, and you can stack them and watch your archive grow. I don’t think I could live without workprints!

LEE…

Well that’s just it isn’t it? Extricating yourself. You just do it. You’ve gotten in this deep…no need to get deeper. It isn’t fun but you have to “break up” with them. I don’t know your situation well enough, are you living there now? Do you have to see them on a regular basis? Even so…you may have to–in a straight forward, rational manner–point out to each one that there was a misunderstanding or misinterpretation. That you are working. Not looking for a mate.

Continue with the project? That’s tough. Is there a point of no return for you? Is there a point where the project just isn’t worth it?

If you sit down with each fellow and straighten them out…as honestly and nicely as possible…and still nothing changes in their behavior…well then you have to make a decision.

This topic is lacking another female photographer’s perspective. I think that would be helpful at this point. Ladies?

RAFAL:

hey, please do not worry. I was talking in general and believe me (believe me), i totally understand about the excitement of the project. I mean, when david asked me, i was like “fuck hell, yea!”..:)))…and it think that is so important to value your work and to celebrate it and to cherish it and dig dig dig, cause with time in the end, most likely (for all of us) if you dont love your work no one will. all i was suggesting was that too often people and here too try to distinguish work, try to say “this is great, this is best, this is not ” etc. The truth is there is so many great photographers, so much great work that is being done is that I always feel lucky and humble to even be making photographs. Every week, it seems, i “discover” someone who blows my socks off…and in truth, we’re all just small pieces in the collective photographic puzzle…so, let’s just embrace each other and really smile for what the art is…so, no worries, really…i was just talking about the act of saying “i love this work so much” …i dont even like thinking, in truth, abot my own work in a group project (i always thing everyone’s work is better ;) ), but just know we’re all connected, threaded…that’s the brilliance :))…

MARTIN B: jesus ;))))…you are crazy ;))))…but thank you so so much…and well, yea, that would be an honor of the highest form, but i dont expect it, at least not in my life time ;)))))

ERIC :)))))…love that long song of yours amigo :))

ok, my son graduates from 8th grade…and i’ve used my 1 hr allotment..

hugs
all
b

DAVID

Thanks for the kind words.

As you know, my mother is pretty sick at the moment, so life has pretty much been turned upside down. But I’ll do my best to join in here when time allows.

But I’ve been photographing as much as possible, and I also hope to have a couple of things to share with you all in 2-3 weeks time. So I’ll keep you posted.

ERICA

As we all know, getting our acts together to make things happen can be the hardest part of a photographer’s life sometimes. And when it’s tough you just have to get your head down and push a little harder. I’m not sure I always practice what I preach though!

Regardless, your portraits are quite stunning, and you’re on to something for sure with that approach.

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs&feature=related

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8U6jD6lKRs&feature=related

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=ng-9A6k3qvU

martin excellent taste as always..thank you thoroughly enjoyed these key resources.++

No problem David. Be sure and find an email I sent you with magazine information.

Bob,

true what you are saying but I also think its natural that some work appeals more to others so for example when some people say they like Panos or your stuf but dont mention mine I dont feel any hurt because I tghink not everyone will like the same thing equally. human nature, I dont think its meant in a bad way even one bit.

David,

is this the first time you are using medium format exclusively to do a project?

Really, Panos, it was time I got off my ass and did something. Turn on your video conferencing so I can watch you sob.

Lee– It’s all about the vibe. Just be clear what message you are sending out.

LEE

I agree with Linda O.

Its in the approach- if you are professional about what you are doing, then it carries a bit of weight with it and you can establish boundaries that can take you ‘inside’, but keep you at a ‘safe’ distance.

It does sound a bit complicated ‘cos you have previous knowledge of these guys, but then you have to put yourself in their shoes.

Here is a woman that they used to know on a more intimate level who appears 30 years later showing interest and being good company and they are thinking ‘Yahoo’. They don’t remember you as a photographer, they only remember the vibrant girl they knew and so they think you are just playing around with the camera and its just some big ploy to get their attention.

Thats why they are ‘bachelors’ eh? They are only thinking from their own viewpoint, which is they are lonely really.

I guess that you must examine the reason’s you want to shoot them in the first place- are you really interested in why they are ‘Bachelors’? Then ask them why they think they are. If they say its because you broke their hearts or something 30 years ago, well maybe you should of had the ‘talk’ with them 30 years ago. You can have it now though!

I reckon you just have to be really honest with yourself and with them about why you are shooting them, is this an interesting story for the world to hear or is it just for you? Do you care enough about these guys to respect them photographically and therefore respect you? Why are you actually shooting them? Is it to explore where you have come from and why you are different to them? I think it sounds like its quite a personal story, so in all fairness to them you have to let them know why you are shooting it.

I know the lines can sometimes get blurred, there is a great story about a very good photojournalist (on LS) who had a relationship with someone that was in fact part of the story he was pursuing. In fairness to him I don’t think he knew that the woman he fell pretty hard for was in fact involved, but I think the end of the whole thing was pretty devastating.

Full disclosure has always been my mantra…

Mind you, you should definitely be gracious about it, its not very often I have had three blokes fall for me within the space of a couple of weeks!

You go girl!!

“…Leave your options open…”, my mantra …says panos…!
sorry Lisa!

“…Full disclosure has always been my mantra…”..
LISA SAID.. ABOVE

MWAHAHAHAHA………

PANOS YOU MAKE ME LAUGH!!

You certainly know how to puncture a pompous lecture from me!!!!!!!

Hehehehehehe………

Jean Sébastien Bréault, Cristina Faramo, Panos, Bob, etc. etc. (“Assignments folks”).

Did you guys finish or turn stuff in yet for the assignments? Dunno if I missed something!?… Been sick for a few days… blurrchh… so just (sweatily) crawling back to reality.

Cheers,

James

PANOS :))))

lovely lovely…and SHE IS A KNOCKOUT!…u’d better keep her away from PANOS….ummm, oh, yea you are her uncle ;))))…She’s a beauty and love her expression (runs in the family!)…

love the old voightlander too ;))), alot! :))))

hugs
b

Linda,

You are right on about my motives. I have been examining this whole issue since before I posted initially and the answers are coming through. Part of it is the unfinished story; a large part of it is the story and how it shows in the photos. The hardest part, as always for me, is telling the unspoken story through photos.

I spoke to the one that I dated 30 years ago, in depth yesterday, and he is very understanding and has taken what I shared with him to heart. I also did. I realized that I was falling back into (a bit anyway) old patterns with these guys and that is what they recognized.

This has been huge for me.

The photos are so good. I will post them when I figure out Flickr. I have always used my web page as a link to show people but I can’t post to my web site from here.

I don’t even know if my last effort to make my self-portrait accessible worked or not. I went in and made it available to all the next day after the deadline but if it worked or not is still a mystery. I’ll work on that after I get home from the SPA!!!

Thanks everyone for your insight.

Lee

Hiya Guys and Girls,

I haven’t written here before but my boyfriend Jason Hobbs is a regular contributor….so, hello!

I’m based in London and work for a publisher here, specialising in client magazines.

I have a job for a photographer in Freeport, Maine, this Monday (30th) at 10am at an LL Bean store. It’s to shoot a cover and a spread for a magazine that we do for Barclays Bank….

Is there anyone here who is a fabulous commercial portrait photographer and can make the most out of photographing businessmen? I’m looking for a striking cover shot and spread to match.

It’d be great to see your portfolios but I will only look at those working in stylised portraiture, preferably who are can get great results with studio lighting…..I also need you to work digitally….

The rate is £450 inclusive….

If you’re interested please email me at johanna.ward@wardour.co.uk and send along examples as indicated above. I’ll endeavour to respond to all those who email.

Thanks a lot,
Johanna

Last night, I dreamt that I lived in a house with two dear friends AND HERVE. Separate rooms. Totally platonic.

I’ve never met Herve… And b/c he didn’t submit a self portrait, his presence was faceless.

I also dreamt that THREE ADDITIONAL GUYS were in the house, vying to win my heart. (Thanks, LEE!)

Wow, power of suggestion…!

DAVID and EVERYONE –
I’m not sure, but I think something very big just happend here. I believe that Johanna just posted the first assignment on this blog that didn’t come through David. I really hope that someone here fits the description that Johanna is looking for. This assignment (and the Karen Malarky assignments and David’s own “assignements”) are an opportunity to continue to demonstrate the breadth and depth of talent here…AND to demonstrate that we are not only a talented bunch, but can deliver as professional photographers. If we can keep doing that, well then… WOW! David might end up needing another section on the blog for assignments. I’m excited.

… you also mention 3 more guys..!
question: was AKAKY there too??

ok, let me hit the 200 th comment,
so I don’t have to scroll while I’m driving..
sorry..
peace

KELLY + PANOS

We should continue dreaming until we change real life to conform to our dreams.

Jean-Claude Carriere

this how will look a new anselm’s adams style photography… what do you think?

http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/1554/1P266148187ESF89BAP2591R1M1.JPG

JAMES, DAVID

I have to scan what I shooted for my assignement (part 2) and send that before friday. I will be in Cuba next week. Family vacation and a day in Moron.

McG!

can’t be a tool
if you’re drinkin’s something cool!

CHARLIE ALSO MADE THE LIST FOR THE FOTO8 SUMMER SHOW! :))

http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/541/226/

both are great competitions…and marina and i will be participating next year, hope u all do as well!

good work team! :)))))))

congrats again Charlie!

cheers
bob

congrats to ALL… FOR THE AWARDS..
thank you BOBBLACK for the info…( as always, BOB will guide
us, and we will cowardly say… oh sure, yes, cough, of course
i knew “this” guy, or “that” girl photographer… blah blah..
Bob, thanks again…!

ALSO,… i’m gonna be “out” for a “while”.. due to some ,
“extreme”-( lately ), family ( personal )… drama…
until next time…( hope next week, peace )..
Michael K. & Raechel thank you again for the “listening” part,
and the “advice”… ( still without saying anything…! amazing )
Thank you again… beautiful couple.. ( MK & Raechel)
im trying to “clean” things “up” right now!!!
Not easy!
ok, bye for now!

YOUNG TOM

An aside… I’d like to follow up on your question about the perfect publication, and your sense that there is something in the air…

I watched with sadness as Life magazine went through it’s death throes… it ended up a Sunday newspaper supplement featuring suduku puzzles before they pullled the plug… it made Parade look like the New Yorker… what an ignominious end for that great magazine….

My perfect publication would be a resurrected Life magazine, but glorious again, big and glossy and filled with the best documentary, or reality-based photographs being made today… and the best writing. It would be fun, and weird and serious at turns, but most of all it would be smart, populist, and would assume the highest level of visual sophistication from the readers. But no “art” and no pretense.

I would ask photographers to assign themselves, but maybe it would be fun to assign them… I don’t know… send Jim Nachtwey fly fishing with John McPhee, or Lauren Greenfield to cover the competitive eating circuit. Maybe Nachtwey photographing Civil War reenactments instead… Bruce Gilden, how about showgirls in Las Vegas. Larry Towell, a NASCAR event… women’s fashions would have to be Miroslav Tichy… Richard Kalvar to cover the coming election. Where to send Eugene Richards… Hollywood? Roger Ballen… Christmas in New York? I would make the magazine a nirvana for photographers and I wouldn’t stop until their names were as well known to the public as our great writers, Mailer, or Updike… I think finding advertisers and an audience would be easy…

But, the website! Blogs and forums and articles and so on…. behind the scenes, the stories behind the great photographs. How-to’s. Everyone love gear! Sell, sell, sell… Reports from photo festivals and workshops… involve the audience, allow them a voice in the process of putting out the magazine. Contests!! Winners published… show everyone how it’s done, involve them, teach, share the excitement and joy of image making… and, of course there’s the Life archive…

Doesn’t that sound like fun??

JCHANCE: Don’t know, maybe too many Dead concerts in my youth … don’t ask how many, i really don’t remember … this “trippy” seems to be a direction for me … hmmm, what did Lisa say, “otherworldly,” like it ;-)

MIKE!!!! I share your dream, a wonderful dream … good photography, important stories are disappearing from the public eye … the pendulum will swing back, i have faith, the time will be right soon.

KELLY & MIKE … something IS happening … something here … something wonderful …

ALL … forgive this aside but … perhaps you have seen it but i watched for the first time tonight a truly wonderful independent film, Sweet Land … simple, sweet, beautiful and the cinematography was … words fail me, it’s a series of wonderful photographs that move, frames through which the story moves, stunning … The film is a triumph, especially for Ali Selim who spent 15 years writing the script and trying to make the film … a film Hollywood would not make … and then it was all shot with the help of a Minnesota community in 24 days. It may be too sentimental for some but it is now one of my all time favorite films. And the last line is for all of you.

I also just saw Goya’s Ghost, also highly recommended, with moments of brilliance in the cinematography as well.

Okay … thanks for listening … i think i’ll go to istanbul … and then maybe Nikos Economopoulos’ favorite island … and Thira to meet my wife. Trippy late summer in the Balkans :)))

PANOS, meet me in Athens!!!

tom

I could see evryone now
many many thanks Mc Gowan

Congratulations to Albertina, Erica, and Charlie!!!

Hervé and Anton,
I shall have very much liked to accompany you… you will tell us all details!!

AUDREY

i will record as many details as possible!!! i will try to take a picture of Hervé and David and me… in montmartre… jim morrison’s grave? tribute to Panos?… we shall see…

love
anton

HERVE,

i don’t know much of photography either… we can be the two kids from the suburbs… david’s pupils… and talk about LIFE, wine, and women…

see you tonight, leaving now…

peace
anton

David, I could see anyone except myfelf. you forgot me

Thank you Anton,

If you have the time(weather) you have Saul Steinberg to the Foundation Henri Cartier Bresson (magnificent place!) and Anni Leibovitz, William Klein, Sophie Elbaz, Eric Aupol at the European House of the photography and ” sexy Be, thank you! ” Of Gérard Uféras to the Shop Jean Patou….
Good stay,
audrey

LISA :))

talked to tamara last night :))…will see her on sunday and have a bash (small bash) in her honor on monday…u’ll get a report, i imagine, when she returns to sydney ;)))..

hugs

running
b

HERVE…

Take the SLR. One small, wide angle lens. Beer in one hand camera in other. The DAH shuffle. Take only mental notes and consult the images later for refresher.

Amusez-vous bien!

SO..

first time I ever really wished I had a DSLR was last night. If someone is in NYC, there is a really fun thing to shoot, which I couldn’t with rollei, but get yourself over to Water Taxi Beach in Queens with a DSLR that can handle low light.

You take a subway or water taxi there from the city, and it’s right on the river with the NY skyline in the background, on a little “beach”..but the potential pics have to do with the way NY city folks let their hair down when there are games, trailers, couches, food and drink out in the night air.

I spent much of the night rebirthing my hula hooping skills and learning dance moves from people who could really shake it. Sore today, but got to feel briefly like that girl from the movie Dirty Dancing as I was leaping into the night air with abandon..thank god I was caught each time, and that the sand was soft…

OH!

forgot to say that my PX3 images (Portraiture
2nd Category Winner) were all ones that dear DAH chose, so i trusted his judgement when submitting..these were all part of our first DAH challenge, so thanks thanks DAVID for the push and the selection..

http://px3.fr/winner/zoom.php?eid=4561-08&uid=2223101

ALBERTINA/CHARLIE/ERICA,

scads of congratulations

AGA,

I’m sorry to hear about your dog; I only had the one dog when I was a kid and when my father had to have her put down we never got another one, we were all so broken up about losing her.

PANOS/ANNA B.,

No, I am not making guest appearances in other people’s dreams these days. I do, however, have a samba band playing Ary Barroso’s Aquarela do Brasil in my head right now, a song I usually like but not for the 4712th time in the past 90 minutes. It also makes me wonder just why I have undocumented and nonunion Brazilian musicians working in my head when there are so many American musicians who could be in there making my life miserable. Other that that, all is well here in our happy little burg.

ALL

need some help here…

i’m in paris at a hotel lobby checking up… does anyone have Hervé’s number or a picture how he looks like??? david & i cannot find him!!

herve if you read this please call me at +32 496 425553

peace anton

here’s a list of names of photogs in the exhibit..

You Are Invited

Please join us for the premiere exhibition of winning photographs from Prix de la Photographie Paris 2008 and also Px3’s Human Condition competition, juried by international photography decision-makers.

June 27 | 7pm-9pm
Acte 2 Galerie | 41, rue d’Artois 75008 Paris
Open to the public

The winner of the most coveted public recognition, the Px3 Photographer of the Year, is professional photographer Balazs Gardi of Hungary. The recipient of the Best New Talent Award is Ryan Schude of Los Angeles. Both the Px3 2008 winners and the Px3 Human Condition competition winners will be exhibited at the prestigious Galerie Acte 2 in Paris and published in the Px3 Annual Book.

Works of these Winning Photographers will be Exhibited:

Balazs Gardi, Ryan Schude, Alex Telfer, Benjamin Antony Monn, Gillian Laub, Stephen Shames, Howard Schatz, David Bowman, Sophie Nowicka, Ellert Gretarsson, Josef Hoflehner, Reimar Juul, Elene Usdin, Andrea Land, Jon Edwards, Martine Fougeron, Matt Eich, Amro Hamzawim, Michel Rajkovic, Anthony Kurtz, Faisal Almalki, Erica McDonald, Fabiano Busdraghi, Yeang Chng, John Hryniuk, Marcos Bizzotto, Camille Zakharia, Abir Abdullah, Derek Johnson, Jessica Antola, Glen DiCrocco, Jean-Claude Louis, Seckin Yalcin, Thomas Lee, Christian Burkert, Jean Chung, Olivier Asselin, Andrew Glickman, Kemal Jufri, Frank Herfort, Petra Barth, David Saxe, Jaret Belliveau, Rania Matar, Douglas Menuez, Dani Marin, Charlotte Oestervang, Daniel Cima, Juliana Beasley, Stephanie Sinclair, and Marco Di Lauro.

Okay, since we’re all good sports and want more, more more!!!! I’ve added a few portraits that came trickling in. Not that I have ultimate power (or do I, hmmmm) but I think as far as the contest goes we have a pretty honest group here, and if you don’t qualify, please pass the prize on to someone else. Plus we don’t know when David is going to check back in, so we might as well see a few fresh faces.

With that in mind, I’ve added Bernardo Gimenez, Chris Hinkle, Giampiero, Kira, Mike Berube, Ozzy Al, Sidney Atkins (who looked exactly as I expected!!), Herve Blandin, and Pierre Yves.

Nasha, send me your portrait!

http://www.humanfiles.com/dah_selfportraits/

david@humanfiles.com

just posted up some new shots taken with my tlr rolleiflex camera>
http://www.libertypictures.blogspot.com

— LIVE POST FROM MAGNUM PARTY PT.1 —

ok not really really actually ‘live’, i’m writing this in my hotel room live (no connection til the morning)… just got back… 3a.m. … a short walk… close to the moulin rouge, middle of the red light district… it has been amazing…

…i mean, i don’t even know that many photographers and david just kept introducing me to photog after photog after photog… it just kept on going… i was like janice in friends: OH MY GOD… literally EVERYONE is here… koudelka dancing, trent parke chatting on slippers, martin parr joking around, carl de keyzer talking about “8 percent”… antoine d’agata getting a ‘coupe champagne’… everyone dancing…

the atmostphere is great, a little courtyard between four buildings… right next to Montmartre… Jim Morrison’s grave… riders on the storm…PANOS where are you my friend… we just called you but it just made you further away… but it was good to hear your voice again…

ok there was this little incident with Hervé coming out into the street getting questioned by the police… i mean, wow what happened there dude… (he’s ok he’s right here in my hotel room crashing, he needed a place to stay)

:)))) SO NOW I FINALLY KNOW WHAT HERVE LOOKS LIKE!! he’s a great guy, mark my words…

BOB suddenly i’m thinking of you, don’t know why but you’re here… peace my bro

phew i reread this stuff and i sound like a drunken raving madman… sorry about that… i wanted to cover it as “live” as possible… but i honestly don’t know where to begin… sooo many impressions… tomorrow my head will have cleared up… then i will post party pictures…

but BEFORE THAT, as in AS SOON AS I WAKE UP AND GET IT UPLOADED, i will post the greatest mystery of all… the mysthical thing… the question that’s on everybody’s mind for so long… the big kahuna…

who do you think is the best dancer??? DAVID or JOSEPH K?

a tribute… in the truest sense…

and hopefully a few hours later i will have sorted out all the party pictures i’ve been making throughout the night, i hope you guys will be able to feel a bit of the atmosphere… what else am i doing it for if not to give back as much as i can with the little power that i have, to this great community… love you all

ok… this was anton reporting, for DAH blog, Paris, France… signing off… running… crashing…

sweet dreams…

peace
anpartyton

I just created a youtube account for some very special snippets I will post a bit later and that you will enjoy, i am sure. We will finally be able to note David on his dancing…. With camera and without!

Oh yes, I met Eli Reed too. Looking at the pix and videos, I am starting to see a few faces I could have recognized, if they had stood in line, with no music to get us swinging from one foot to another…

Apologies to all who had some precise people i salute in their behalf. I had to pick up the invitation in the afternoon, and went to paris early, so i never read the posts following mine yesterday.

Bob, I think all I met, and Anton will concur, just came with absolutely no attitude. Even Elliot, who’ seen a few, was gracious in his white, blue and red suspenders. I must admit my pix will be a lot more interesting than my conversations (which is not saying much), the music was a bit loud, if great to keep everyone loose.

Anton hit it up pretty nicely with Carl De Keizer, his fellow belgian. Trent was the least dressed, Alex maybe the most, but I think only the ladies, took care of their appearance last night. As it should be with Parisiennes.

They sure added a lot of sexiness to the party:Photographers do attract nice-looking girls, so they must have an aura i missed, because no way it would be on account of the clothes these guys wear :-))))

Working on pix and videos, adding soon. Is anyone alive out there, only me and Anton have posted since last night. Let me wet your appetite:

(See, I had no idea last night, but i believe David is actually dancing with Martine Franck. yes?)

COMRADE HERVE! :)))))

GREAT REPORTING AND BRILLIANT VID! :)))))…that vid is so fucking priceless! :))))….and cant wait to see more :))))…love the report (including the post that vanished), and loved the thoughts of you in a brawl au parisienne with police! :)))))…cant wait to see your pictures and your follow up comment …what i love most about your vid and your comments what that it is so so nice and refreshing to see and hear that people are still people and aint nothin’ better about things than that :)))…and any group that embraces harvey, park, d’agata, anderson, majoli, towell, pinkhassov (i want of vid of him dancing!), koudelka, sobol, bendikson, davidon, vink (i WANT that vid of him dancing too), meisalas, sanguinetti, pelligrin, erwit, chang, parr, reed, AND GILDEN (he’s gotta be shooting while dancing too like Harvey) in the same HOUSE/TEAM, let alone the same court, just simply rocks…and that aint about the photography either :))))))…

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR REPORT :))…cant wait to see the pics :)))

ANTON: :))))…great feed: great image (of herve in a pink room just having kicked the asses of some gendarmes and spiky madams and danced the night away with magnum babes into exhaustion! :)) )….believe me, wherever there is dancing im there in spirit (with camera too, i’ve always been found of the old dance moves shoot the pic technique too, loose baby, loose!) )…

be good all…

running

b

Hi Gerhard, I am sorry (for you) to say this but if we want something to happen in the streets on Sunday (and have something to shoot) we need Spain to win…

HERVE????

Trent was the least dressed?

It must be an Aussie habit…

PANOS

if you can, get a copy of the June 30 – July 7 New York Magazine and take a peek at the photo essay “Punk Like Them”, photos by Rona Yefman..interesting to see these published in a glossy..

— second paris report —

OH NO this is not happening… i have be trying for hours to edit and upload the video of david and koudelka (and the others whom i don’t know their names…) dancing… and it doesn’t work… my quicktime crashes everytime… dang…

luckily Hervé did some videos!!!

BUT
i have quite some party pictures… loose loose style (how could i do it otherwise, drunk on champagne…) i’m editing them now, and i’ll post them tonight!!

but first… un café et une petite promenade dans les rues…

i’ll be back soonest

peace
anton

Anton, let me know wassup tonight. Can’t make it too early, really.

Rafal, I was not late to enjoy the party full time, but beginning-late to take advantage of fewer people and David introducing me to the magnum Ps, with Anton. Not that would have meant great conversation. It was truly party time.

Anton, someting is not right here too for me. I can’t seem to upload the second video, it takes foooorever. I will try later. Meanwhile, i am going thru the pix and well, they should be less loose than Anton’s, though IMO, the loosest I ever took! :-)

HERVE! :))))

you got my respect for sure!! 100%.. :))…..I still cant get the image of you out of my mind in the redlight district, pink room, sleeping a lovely champagne buzz off and arguing with cops :)))…i am totally down with you….god help Venice if you, panos and Harvey hit Venice, this fall..ground zero! :)))

not only for holding your own on the dance floor and getting into a fisticuffs with the cops but standing straight up with the magnum folk and being a real person and a great guy and having humour about all it!!!…i take all my stupid anger over the Myanmar pics back…my, as u probably guessed, i tend to be emotional and protective of my friends :)))…i’ll be in ur corner too, believe me: im a Taurus: loyal to the point of fault for those i care about :)))…u got my respect big daddy :)))…not get us pics! :))))

hugs
running
bob

Bob, how are you keeping up with this on one hour a day?

I’m currently logistically stuck with the same restriction, which is so good in a way but I find it impossible to keep up with this brilliant blog! People are getting awards — CONGRATS — and dancing in Paris and dodging cops and bachelors on two different continents and holy hell…no way to keep it all straight.

But yes, PICS would help!

I’ll be back shooting on my project this weekend, it’s been two weeks and I’ll be out of sorts, but there is a lot going on there to tune into.

Joan

Check this out: David shoots and Josef Koudelka (white beard, green shirt) does the cool moves.. I have a feeling there is someone else in the video worth mentionning, I am sure someone here will tell us:

HERVE :)00

FUCK…brilliant vid…even better than #1 :))))…love the old Harvey/Koudelka arm pump in the air! :))))))…and koudelka aint bad, aint bad at all, guess it’s all that walking ;))))…and it’s mad gorgeous to see all these guys and galls dance…david, koudelka, franc, etc….

and i LOVE the pics :)))

no time to comment, have to run now, but i see, in no particular order:

dah, d’agata, alex, m, koudelka, reed, towell (with hat, of course), erwit, jakob?..reed,soth (i think), thomas d, trent, …but, i dont know all faces…didnt follow magnum until i met david here…

ok, running (for real)

b

PANOS…

Go get ’em my man!

Panos… my dear Panos

you are photographer now… get used to it!!

you are artist now… get used to it!!!

hundred people will say you “your work is shit”…. get used to it!!!

hundred people will say you “you are gorgeous”…. get used to it!!!!

YOU ARE PHOTOGRAPHER NOW!!!

peace

ps. Panos first time I understood that you and your Girl are ok now, if not I’m really sorry, but I hope you are good and happy.

PANOS

Don’t let “anonymous” types like that get to you. The web is full of such folks who hide behind their monitors in order to vent whatever nastiness lurks inside. They don’t deserve a minute of your time or energy. It’s THEIR stuff, not yours. Let it go…

Okay, I realize that this sort of thing is really Panos’ turf (my apologies for horning in on the action, panos ;-), but the opportunity presented itself and so I took it. Sorry about the lack of a soundtrack, but when I look at these I start thinking of Charlie Parker playing Laura or Mingus doing Theme for Lester Young.

http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/13474

AKAKY

Oh yeh man, you’re playin’ my kind of music here. Can you see my head noddin’ to the beat, my foot tappin’ the floor? Yes, a souundtrack would be cool but I can hear the music through your images. Especially LOVE #14!!!

Patricia, 50 years a jazz fan

OH yes… and i also made some NON-PARTY paris pictures… not many but maybe some good… will need some critiques… will post tomorrow… dead now… going to bed…

love to all
anton

PANOS

if you find ‘mister anonymous’, just let me know, holland is very very nearby… i’ll go ‘pay him a visit’ & force feed him ten DUVELS in an hour, courtesy of the DAH gemini :)))))

now that’s what i call a sweeeeeeeeet revenge :)))

ANTON AND HERVE.
cool cool cool cool cool stuff

anton, herve,

awesome reportage! :))

anton– i love how when the kiss came, the music accentuated it.
did you notice? yumm…

herve– can you write the names of the people in your photos? i see you’ve done it in one case but truly i don’t know what most of these guys look like except DAH and erwitt. would be nice to have names with faces. thank you dear!

i’m glad you guys had so much fun! :))

Lisa: “Trent was the least dressed? It must be an Aussie habit…”

C’mon give your eastern kiwi neighbours some credit…. We can be scruffy buggers too you know!! :-) (PS thanks for the great Timor info you gave me on LS)

With all these great events going on it’s easy to think that I live in the wrong hemisphere…..

There’s no broadband where I live so watching the live movies (Magnum & LOOK 3)is nigh on impossible!!! Leaves me salivating on the keyboards like Homer Simpson over a doughnut….

No worries, off fo some counselling to get over it now….

ROSS

You didn’t see my first self portrait then?

Hehehehehe… thats what I meant by ‘least dressed’ (I reckon Kiwi’s would go to the wire in dress sense with Oz men- thats for sure!)

Loved the East Timor pics BTW, hey aren’t they the most gorgeous, warm people? It showed in your pics!

And I am totally with you on the wrong side of the world bit, but hey we just have to be better than the rest of the world to remind them of our presence!

And we aren’t even THE most isolated, think Matty down in Tassy, now thats a real long way from anywhere- except of course the Antartic!

Herve,

Excellent work, both the stills and the video! You deserve all of our thanks for bringing the party alive. Among the still photos in the slide show, I think number 29 will be an enduring classic!

I put new pictures in the “my free space” page as I promised to send new ones every week :-)
see them here:
http://noushinography.com/noushin/my_free_space.htm

David
I’ve thought about “a bit of mystery in each pic”… hope it happen again and again in future… I don’t feel if I have any control on it!

James
I enjoy your cemetery works, I realy like the way you show the life there…have you put new ones there?

ALL
sorry, cuz of low speed connection here I am not able to see most of your work and put comment (at last I saw the emerging photographers jobs completely last week in home of a friend who’s lucky to have ADSL)

Nasha, thanks, I can always write up a CD and send it to you, and anyone who wishes. Besides, youtube’s compression is pretty drastic, reduces image quality by half, and I do not have the know-how to correct it on my side.

Anton, some cool stuff, you got me thinking, You make me look rigid almost. And Mr, you have sharp ones, I thought we decided i’d do those and you take care of the creative ambiance blur, le je-ne-sais-quoi… :-)

Don’t forget to send me the shots you took of me and David.

HERVE

i’m sorry i took some sharp ones as well… but you have loose ones too :))) i liked your pics… you are not at all rigid!

oh yes, i will send you your pics… just send me an email tomorrow anton@forksteel.com so i don’t forget!!

LISA

mom’s lived in Melbourne for 10 years, australia IS my one and only ‘dreamland’ (to use the aboriginal term :)) and i will return whenever i can!! and then i’ll come visit you for a sister hug :))) and yes the light is the greatest over there, one of the only positive side effects of having no ozone layer up above you…

DAVID

again a big thank you for making it possible for us to experience this… i’ll driving home smiling ear to ear… i’ve talked to the great ones that walk this earth and they are all beautiful human beings… it has surely been a once-in-a-lifetime chance… Trent! Antoine!! Carl! and so many more… thanks again david, you really do keep on making things happen… ROCK ON and good luck with the family drive!!!!!

oh and i second YOUNG TOM on his thoughts a while back in this thread too… something is about to happen, and it’s gonna be good…

checking out of the hotel now, no internet till tomorrow at home…

cheers
anton

Get your score cards out, David dancing, no camera, no net…

Subtle hip moves, but losing one point for “accoutrement”, 5 out 6! :-)

Am very excited to see Olivia Arthur as a nominee..she shoots the socially relevant in such a personal, touching way..

David,

please say hello to Ms. Sanguinetti for me if you have the chance, Im a fan of her work. Also Jakob Sobol whose work I was not aware of until someone pointed him out to me this week…

PATRICIA, thanxalot :-)

I think 14’s the best of the lot too. I wish I could put a soundtrack on the thing but that’s life, I guess. For anyone in the NYC area, the David Bixler Quintet is opening at Birdland on Sunday, June 29. If you’re in the city, go catch them, they’re great.

Hello again!

Man! life is so much easier with as speedy internet connection in your own room! Loving it!

As I mentioned in the last post we are wrapping up a new project here in Cambodia. The work focuses on co-infection of HIV/AIDS and TB. Sixty-five percent of Cambodians carry the TB infection and with one of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in SE Asia, co-occurrence is a very deadly issue. We have discovered some very interesting Khmer-NGO partnerships which are working together to help treat and help people dealing with these infections.

I’ll put another post up when we have finished, but for now I hope you will take a minute to check out the blog with some work to date. As always, check the “photo” section for more images.

Also have the “final”? edit for the cemetery piece up on the site too now…. Gallery > Projects > Living With The Dead

http://www.jameschance.com

Cheers,

James

Great Pictures HERVE ! It realy show me how to have a party ! in the best style !
just to keep the “Paris time”, here is a 15 images essay about paris. it was made on july 2007. I love this city !!

http://www.galembeck.com.br/paris

Congrats to the PX3 winners !

i love it, AKAKY, i love it.

DAVID : :)))

FIRSTLY, congratulations on your brilliant brilliant dance/snapp style :)))…though Koudelka is pretty damn agile, i think your double fist air punch and velvety hip action takes the award for dance! :)))…i showed dima on friday before we left for NY (buffalo)…

SECONDLY: CONGRATULATIONS, BIG CONGRATULATIONS FOR JONAS AND LAARA! :)))…just send them an email, im like totally totally happy for that couple and Joans Full membership (it looks, according to Anton’s pics that that boy can chug champange like beer :))))…and CONGRATULATE Jakob for me on his 2008 Leica European Publishers Award. I fucking love him and his work and i cant wait to buy TOKYO book!…well, ok, so u know already how i feel about his book Sabine and the work of his :))))….damn, that’s 2 fucking parties i’ve missed in less than 3 weeks, so….god, u all are killing me!!!!…

J CHANCE: gonna dump them all at the end and (i hope) knock some socks off…will do the last shoot on wednesday without my son (he’s now left for florida)…will show work on the 2ND assignment publication…hope to finish writing the essay this week and then scanning negs and all that shit…gonna be some weird stuff, trust me ;))))…not everything will be blurry though ;))…

ANTON: GORGEOUS GORGEOUS PARTY PICS…love love the pics and love the shot of Jonas downing the champagne and lots of brilliant photos, and not just “party” pics…love the rue light steets too, yea, talking to t park in those ;))))…

LISA: YES, will give a hug for sure :))))…will see her soon :)))

MIKE: yes, that’s her..:))), will send along the message :)))

BROTHER GLENN: ok, i’ll look at the page tomorrow…:)))))…very happy and proud of you mate! :)))

DAD AKAKY: what can i say…u da man !

ok, that’s it, got lots to do, just a quick 5 minute read-through…will read all tomorrow morning when i return home…

hugs
running
bob

James C;

Thanks for the comments. The page I have put up is a first rough edit for David and everyone to critique. I will be editing down hard before my website goes fully live in a few weeks. This is just a temporary page.

I want to make my site very easy to navigate. No never ending slideshows that take forever to load etc.

Any other comments welcome.

Cheers everyone.

ALL

Despite some muggy NYC weather with intermitent rain, and with big thanks to a wonderful young woman assisting me named Sana (DAH, you may know her, she’s an intern at Magnum), I had my first actual day of shooting for the assignment. Shot both medium and large format, and the backdrop didn’t fall over and mame anyone! It took about 4 hours to find and photograph 6 people, hopefully will get faster with familiarity..but for now am just happy that all seemingly went well, though for all I know the bellows could leak or something else equally drastic on the 4×5.

If the weather is okay, back out tomorrow along with Sana and another fantastic young woman named Rachel who is going to help with the audio component. This is the plan anyway as it stands, to try to get some interviews to go along with the photos..

Permit is in place for the rest of the month thanks to a fantistic person at the Government Film office, and so far everyone signed model releases. Will have to budget the 4×5, it will cost about $8.00 per image just to cover the cost of film and processing alone, so I think mixing mediums is a good choice for the time being.

Peace and happy shooting…

and a big congrats to Jonas as well, one heck of a guy.

oh, and DAVID, you really can dance, sign me up as a partner the next time the music is flowing, cause I can see you know how to lead..

MIKE

nice work!
those are some powerful pictures.
am in AWE of the new approach.

ERICA

glad to hear you’re up + running.
wish I were close enough to pop by as well.
can’t wait to see what you’re up to.

DAVID
such a difficult day for them and you!
I hope on deck photographers for next year could make it.
hearing from Magnum, make me feel alive, maybe because the first article I read about photography was about Magnum and some of my favorite photographers are from you.
I love the website the way you let us come and see published books and learn … and above all you’re independed who still go on, it seems kind of rebelling in this world. viva Magnum

HERVE
Thank you very much but sending CD to Iran not gonna work… I’ll try some friend have anti filter and ADSL at the same time soon

thank you NASHA…!
ALL MY RESPECT AND LOVE TO YOU..
YOU ARE BRAVE…
I wish, i wish,… don’t know what i wish..,
but bravo..
your courage is …. !!!!
anyways thank you

MIKE,
hey, everybody’s talking about your photos..
i have a hard time to find them…?
can you please repost them…?
thank you..
ps: no, not really, things not quite all right but,…
i see some light in the “tunnel”..
thanks though!
peace

PANOS

Hang in there, my friend…

Photos should be here:
http://workprints.blogspot.com/
The ones titled “Coney Island”… let me know what you think. I’m up to 85 total posts… when I hit 100, you’re going to help me figure out what the hell I’m doing, right???

MIKE…!!!!!!!!!
DAMN GREAT…
THANK YOU FOR REPOSTING!

“…Photos should be here:
http://workprints.blogspot.com/
The ones titled “Coney Island”… ”

HERVE jan
it’s allways hard when I am trying to explain situation hear. for sure you could send the CD to Iran, they not going to check it (do they???) but the I.R.I post system is slow unless you use DHL that’s expensive. and I am sure with all their mistake Iran’s government want peace (at last they due this to Iranian) but about controlling inside yes you’re right …
you know they choose a way 29 years ago (Islamic Republic, revolutionary behavior, present a manifest that what is the only way to live and yes they destroy at first year after revolution all opposite parties like communist or other left parties,it wasn’t a islamic revolution at the beginning there were different parties and believes but it became islamic. still so many of people from last generation are shocked about what happens in that a few months of our history) and they don’t correct direction when it ‘s needed (two parliament tried for a referendum but failed to have the minimum necessary votes)… I know we vote to candidate of president or national parliament election but still main decision are taken by them!!! it will change need TIME

The Rat Story! A short but very intense essay. I also love his storytelling and voice.
Enjoy! http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/rat

MIKE

yes! go humanism! right? you agree? I can feel more now, I’m in instead of out.. do stop by if you can, I think you know where, or email me..

NASHA

“I am just living my life as I like it as I dreamed it one day”..that mat be a very good definition of courage..

ANNA B

wish you were too!

ALL

I still need help..can’t physically do any of this alone, please email if you can come at all, even a day, Brooklyn..

making a tortilla espanola before it becomes a million degrees here..gotta run.

ERICA, in case you’re into processing your B&W
yourself, for 4×5″ (8×10″) I can recommend the BTZS film tubes (www.viewcamerastore.com) easier and more economical than the dip and dunk method (tank); this in answer to your budget considerations . . . good luck on your shooting, the NYC muggy weather I fled some time ago otherwise would be happy to lend you a hand processing. –

Hi everyone !

I have just posted this on Lightstalkers but maybe someone here now this and could help me :

I want to build a slideshow using Final Cut Pro (5) but I have really poor image quality when I import still photos into FCut.

I shoot Jpeg fine with a Ricoh grd camera.

It seems like the problem comes from the file format. I have checked on the internet, found several articles adressing this issue but couldn’t make it work.

Do you know what to do ?

I live in France (so maybe formats are diferent), and I am no computer expert though I have a few notions on Fcut. So please make it as simple as possible…

All advice welcome and appreciated !

Thanks a lot

Pierre-Yves

Pierre-Yves,

Je connais bien Final Cut (je l’ai utilisé pendant 6 ans, je ne l’ai pas utilisé depuis un an mais je pense pouvoir vous aider), voici mon mail
audrey.bardou@free.fr, on pourrait se parler en français ! je ne suis pas sure d’avoir bien compris votre problème, c’est pour l’importation ou l’exportation des images ?
cordialement,

BROTHER GLENN!!! :))

MR. GLENN, MR. GLENN I’M BURNING ;)))))…loved loved the picture and really loved the report….really, you write and it reads like a younger, funnier Michael Herr..as i’ve told u countless times, you need to be doing this kind of thing: writing with your pics…u r a natural story teller and i love the long long breath of your long long sentences (1st paragraph)! :))))…brilliant…please hit me up each time u write something there :)))

AKAKY: Love love the last pic :))…and really, what’s new, dig the report from your hobbit-trolled burg :)))…this part of your brother (i guess my uncle, right?) winning posthaste while sitting on his ass in a bar (would that be Moe’s?), it genius…quintessential american ;))…cant anyone in frickin’ NY get this guy a gig for the newyorker already?….

MIKE: really enjoyed the pics :))…gilden, yea, byt the way is a gorgeous freak, and one tough brooklyn kid :)))…and got to magnum late in his life…some of the pics look like u used a flash, if so, bravo (if it was just gorgeous angled light, bravo) :))))…really dig em…

HERVE/ANTON: :)))..yea, again, thanks for the great coverage….loved all the pics, all the vids…

HERVE: love trent’s yellow T and swimtrunks :))))…now that’s a surfer to the core! :))…and my god, what a hotel :))))…or was that a set from a Jacques Demy flick? ;)))

BOB, TOTALLY TRUE..

MARCIN’S WORK really
“SOUNDS”
SO TARKOVSKY..
SO THEO ANGELOPOULOS…

yes it makes you wanna “watch the Hometown MOVIE”
i have the same feeling!

Glenn’s post about Timor is here

http://www.picturestoryblog.com/2008/06/arrest-on-audia.html

was that a set from a Jacques Demy flick? ;)))
———————
Wish the music had been from MLichel Legrand as well, not from the pimps down the street! :-))))

Nasha, I kinda posted without any names, so that our friends here would add them as comment (there are faces I can’t put a name on, as well). Maybe it’s not easy to do, when not a member of Pbase. Bob, Can you help a bit?

Herve…

Cannot see images in Pbase. Do I need password?

Fernando Torres 1
Germany 0

GO SPAIN!!!!!!!!!

James C and all,
I do agree that I have some stronger shots of the girl, but I’m undecided if those shots are really adding to, or telling the story. I’ll probably end up adding to the main edit and create sub-stories to the big picture overall. A lot depends on the presentation—my main edit now is print minded, but I have to think about multimedia as well. A lot also depends if I can continue adding to this collection over the summer.

I spent Friday with the Barksdale family at their garage sale. The boy on the bike in 2 was recently tested to have severe hearing loss, so the family has incurred an extra $3000 of bill for medical and equipment. Again this isn’t a family that’s about to be put out on the streets, but one that is teetering and struggling with the added expenses.

They don’t expect to bring in $3000 from the sale, but maybe enough to buy growing kids new clothes. The are an all-American family—the dad sells parts of his football card collection from time to time for extra cash.

http://www.humanfiles.com/garagesale/gs07.htm

One thing I figured out is that I can’t just drop into to a garage sale and expect to get anything—I really have to set up a situation where I spend an entire day at one.

Glenn;

I see that the UN are talking about transferring policing duties soley to the Timorese Police…..

Call me cynical, but I can’t see that turning out well….

Thanks for the comments about the Timor pics. And yes, you have definately seen a different side to Timor than I have.

Cheers

David McG, there is a strong sense of narrative in the Barksdale Family Garage Sale portfolio. You make me care about these people. I think a lot of that is because you spent the day and got to know them. This connection shows up in your images. I know you’ll be making a tighter edit in time but you have terrific stuff to work with. Please keep going with this project. It is the real thing.

Patricia

Thanks to BOB for the Px3 results.
Congrats to all here who won!!!

I was thrilled to see my friend Dev Gogoi in India was a winner for his book cover. Great news.

Anna, Panos, Martin, Erica, Bob, Marcin… thanks very much for looking and for the encouraging words. I really feel like I’ve turned some kind of corner over the last couple of weeks and all because of you, and everyone here… thanks everyone. This forum was a big part of what got me back to photography, and it’s helping me become the photographer I want to be…

CATHY
2 ways,
use the software (iWeb) through iPhoto,
or
use the “web gallery” option,
through the latest iPhoto version, ( ONLY ),
(version8)…

check your email, for more info.
peace

MIKE

I am intrigued by what I have seen of your Coney Island project. You have a wonderful eye for the quirkiness of human nature and this gives your photos a marvelous texture all their own. I want to see more!!!

Patricia

does anyone know where i can find the work of hansel mieth and otto hagel on-line ? specifically looking for their photo essays when they lived in migrant work camps in California> any info appreciated from anyone..

oups… MANY thanks… early morning fog…

Michael K., i see view counts under each gallery and each shot, not sure why yourself can’t access. I just made them public to the entire site, should be easy now:

http://www.pbase.com/uc

ERICA

Hi, I have never really thought about it, but you may be rite. No, I think you are rite. there are 2 people shooting this…. I studied fine art at University but make my living working freelance for editorial and news publications. So I guess I strive for images that can live in the mainstream world but some how transcend the every day or issues of the moment. But that is largely what we are all trying to do. The story of the forests in Tasmania is long and complicated and as a photographer I am trying to tell as many facets of this story as i can with the hope that the whole will add up to more that the sum of its parts. But I guess this has always been the motivation for any photo essay. How do you get so many individual notes to make a symphony ?

PATRICIA

Thankyou for your kind words.
The writer Richard Flanagan has said of Tasmania that “it is an excuse to dream” The government has said that he is no longer welcome in the new Tasmania. There are many people here that still dream and believe in a different future for this place that is so redolent of history and myth.