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The Charlie Rose Interview With Henri Cartier-Bresson on July 6, 2000 Richard Avedon Opening :: video

I have tried to find the words to express how a camera, no matter if it is an iPhone or loaded with film, is just a tool for me to capture a moment a feeling... and then this morning I found an interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson that I did not know existed.
Previously, I admired Cartier-Bresson for his photographic images, but did not know the inner-man. As I listened to the way this self-described anarchist viewed what he did, I was moved to tears in humble recognition of a kindred soul.

The interview is approximately one hour long, and is available on DVD via amazon: Charlie Rose with Richard Avedon; Henri Cartier-Bresson (July 6, 2000)

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Lalla Porter on 28 January 2010 at 09:57 AM in Art Matters :: posts by Lalla, Photojournalism | Permalink | Comments (0)

Les Tribus De L'Omo - The Painted People of the Surma and Mursi Tribes in Southern Ethiopia - Photos by Hans Silvester

Every now and then I discover with great joy a part of our world which leaves me filled with wonder. In the case of the Surma and Mursi people in Ethiopia, my delight is also visual.

I'm breathlessly left with the impulse to paint: canvases, my body, something, everything.

Silvester describes his mission, "what’s most important for me is saving, in some way, as much as possible of this truly living art, which is mobile, changing, subject to infinite variation, and whose constituent elements are simple and form a link between man and nature. It seems to me that our modern painting found the purpose of these elements, this simplicity, and used it as its foundation."

HERE IS A SLIDE SHOW OF MORE THAN FIFTY OF SILVESTER'S IMAGES

Tribus de L'OMO / Hans Silvester

I'm happy to report that Hans Silvester has a new book featuring these photographs. The title is Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa. It is available now at amazon.com HERE.

Hans Silvester published part one of this two book series in April 2007. It is Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley. The first volume of the deluxe two-volume set presents the everyday lives of the Omo people, their rituals, parades, children’s games, and even their battles. Silvester's text details his experience.

Learn more about Hans Silvester's time with the L'omo people at the Marlborough Gallery website HERE.

My thanks to Jayne McKay and Fifty is the New for alerting me to Hans Silvester's slide show.

Lalla Porter on 04 January 2009 at 10:05 PM in Art Matters :: posts by Lalla, Creativity, Hans Silvester - L'Omo People Photographs, Les Tribus De L'Omo, Photojournalism | Permalink | Comments (5)

Zoriah: At The Camera Obscura Gallery in a Solo Exhibition of His Documentary Photography Titled: Baghdad and Beyond

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger, and David "Chim" Seymour, co-founded Magnum Photos. They shared what Magnum Photos defines as an idiosyncratic mix of reporter and artist. These four men led the way for independent photojournalists to work outside the formulas of magazine journalism.

Awarded critical acclaim and honors, Zoriah has shot, in his career as an independent photojournalist, a remarkable range of visually and emotionally powerful images. His photography touches our empathy and compassion. His extensive humanitarian work involves the viewer in catastrophic events suffered by ordinary people. Zoriah's photographs of children capture their innocent resilience in the midst of numbing destruction, or grievous living conditions.

Baghdad and Beyond opened at the historic Camera Obscura Gallery in Downtown Denver, Colorado on April 25th and runs through June 8th, 2008. The opening reception was held on April 25, 2008, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m, at the gallery.

Zoriah presented a broad body of work in a lecture, on April 24th, 2008, at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. The event was a chance to see recently completed bodies of work from the Middle East, as well as an opportunity to meet Zoriah and ask him questions.

The Camera Obscura Gallery was originated, in 1979, by Hal Gould at the corner of 13th and Bannock Streets in Denver, Colorado. He and associate Loretta Young-Goutier work with some of the world's most important photographers including Steve McCurry and Sabastiao Salgado. (The Camera Obscura Gallery was the first to show Salgado's work.)

Baghdad and Beyond features Zoriah's work from Iraq, the Tsunami, Asian Earthquake, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Read the press about the images in the show and Zoriah.

If you can not attend this exhibition in Denver, but want to purchase prints from Zoriah's show for your collection: contact Hal Gould or Loretta Young-Goutier at The Camera Obscura Gallery. Preview over forty photographs from the Baghdad and Beyond show.
Telephone: The Camera Obscura Gallery @ 1-303-623-4059
Email: info@cameraobscuragallery.com

The Camera Obscura Gallery
1309 Bannock St., Denver, CO
80204
Open Tuesday--Saturday 10 AM to 6 PM and 1 to 5 PM Sunday; Closed Mondays
Directions

Zoriah is an award winning photojournalist who is committed to exposing the world to the people affected by conflict and disaster. "The power of the still image to teach, affect, and inspire is truly amazing."
Read Zoriah's Curricula Vitae here. The Vitae lists Zoriah's achievements, awards, and his in depth training and experience necessary to photograph under extreme conditions and harsh environments.
Zoriah's portfolio.
Visit: www.zoriah.com.
Zoriah War Photographer: website.
Zoriah offers workshops for qualified photojournalism and documentary photography students: read about them here.
Find out how you can support Zoriah's humanitarian photojournalism: here.

Lalla Porter on 22 April 2008 at 10:09 AM in Photojournalism | Permalink

Zoriah - Khmer Rouge's S-21 Prison - Photojournalism - Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Genocide Museum

Zoriah, the acclaimed photojournalist, gave me permission to republish photographs he took on a visit to the S-21 Prison in Phnom Penh. A history reminder: Cambodia was used as a base by the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. On April 17, 1975, Phnom Penh fell under the control of the Khmer Rouge, the communist guerilla group led by Pol Pot. An estimated 2 million Cambodians or 30% of the country’s population died by starvation, torture or execution. Almost every Cambodian family lost at least one relative during the genocide.

Zoriah, "In August 1975 the Tuol Svay Prey high school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia was turned into a prison and interrogation center by the Khmer Rouge."

"It was renamed S-21 for 'Security Prison 21'."

"In the four years the school served as a prison, more than 17,000 individuals were interrogated and beaten there."

"The jailers kept detailed records of its inmates and often took photographs moments before their executions."

"The walls of S-21 housed some of the most vile human rights abuses in history and those walls tell a story to this day."

"Of those 17,000 individuals there were only twelve known survivors." ---Zoriah.

The New York Times posted an article about the Kmer Rouge Killing Fields on March 30, 2008, upon the death of Dith Pran, their photojournalist whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in the 1984 movie: The Killing Fields.
Read the New York Times article about Dith Pran, which includes history of the Kmer Rouge in Cambodia, here.
The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge documents the history of S-21.

Photo stories by Zoriah.
Zoriah is an award winning photojournalist who is committed to exposing the world to the people affected by conflict and disaster. "The power of the still image to teach, affect, and inspire is truly amazing."
Read Zoriah's Curricula Vitae here. The Vitae lists Zoriah's achievements, awards, and his in depth training and experience necessary to photograph under extreme conditions and harsh environments.
Zoriah's portfolio.
Visit: www.zoriah.com.
Zoriah War Photographer: website.
Find out how you can support Zoriah's humanitarian photojournalism: click here.