Artista, fotógrafo y documentalista, este sujeto que se crió en el centro de Nueva York pero que no puede esconder su esencia árabe recorre el mundo con su Rolleiflex de 1957 en la mano registrando diferentes sociedades; nunca ha usado una cámara digital, solo dispara su Rollei de medio formato y después se pasa días en el laboratorio de revelado.
Ya se ganó el premio Henry Cartier-Bresson y la medalla Leica de la excelencia entre otros; y tenemos el gusto de tener su exposición colgada en el museo de arte de la Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango
Lo que yo realmente no entiendo es como invitan a un fotógrafo de esta talla a Bogota, y el tipo da una conferencia espectacular acerca de fotografía documental y NINGUN fotógrafo de prensa de NINGUN medio va a la conferencia.... que esta pasando? El Tiempo, El Espectador, EL periódico de los Colombianos, Colprensa, agencias EFE, Reuters, AFP, AP.... nadie.... no había nadie... bueno.. será que no les gusta el trabajo de Sheikh? o será que no les interesa el fotodocuemntalismo?
De todas formas los invito a que se pasen por el museo de arte de la Luis Angel Arango porque la exposición realmente vale la pena, mientras tanto aquí les dejo las propias palabras de Fazal Sheikh
“It is one thing to photograph a group of people, it is another to try to understand them. For that you need time, and patience, and an innate respect for difference – the gulf between your own religion, politics, economic status, language, and those of
the person in front of you. Trying to bridge that gulf with a camera invites suspicion and mis-representation. But at a time when traditional photographic coverage is often limited to a brief stopover and a search for sensational images, the need to take time and represent and understand the people whose lives and values are very different from our own is greater than ever.
To travel, and to observe carefully and with sympathy the people whose lands he travels through, has been Fazal Sheikh’s practice from the beginning. Most often his work has been with displaced people driven out of their homelands by civil wars, drought and famine, struggling to survive for years in refugee camps where the traditional balance of their lives has been entirely destroyed. He has worked in camps in Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania, where people fleeing conflicts in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Mozambique and Rwanda were gathered. In the mid-1990s he found Afghan refugees living in camps, who had fled after the Soviet invasion of their country. At the end of that decade he returned to the camps in Kenya where Somali refugees had been living for a decade. He found children he had photographed ten years before, now grown into adolescents, who knew nothing but life in the camps. Since then he has worked in Mexico, Cuba, Brazil and, most recently India, where his latest book, Moksha, examines
the lives of India’s dispossessed widows.
In all these communities, the photographs that result are not dramatic nor do they attempt to shock. They are contemplative and respectful: the product of a watchful intelligence. Fazal Sheikh not only makes pictures, he interviews the people he photographs about their lives, transcripts of which appear in his books and exhibitions, to which he adds his own commentary on the people, their country, and the situation in which he finds them.
In 2000, so that this work might be more freely available, he established the International Human Rights Series, which, in collaboration with international galleries, institutions and human rights organizations, uses publications, exhibitions and the Internet to reach a much wider audience." Fazal Sheikh
si quieren ver mas acerca de este fotografo pueden visitar www.fazalsheikh.org
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Y ESTOS SON FOTOGRAFOS DE BODAS, TIENEN UN BUEN TRABAJO, QUIENES ESTEN INTERESADOS PPUEDEN BUSCARLOS EN LA WEB.
CHRIS FAWKES
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During the last few days of 2009, the Washington Times unexpectedly eliminated all nine of their staff photographer positions. The news spread fast and furious throughout the photo community. Photographers who were still fortunate enough to maintain a staff position somewhere got another wake-up call - they could be next.
With all the layoffs we've seen in the industry in the past few years, what surprises me most, however, is how common it is for a staff photographer to be "surprised" with the news of their own layoff. They are very often leaving themselves totally unprepared for life as a freelancer.
"The staff photographer who believes he will have a job in 10 years is kidding himself," says John Harrington in his book "Best Business Practices for Photographers".
The writing is very clearly on the wall, so I thought I'd ask Harrington, a freelance photographer, blogger and author, to help me come up with a list of things that photographers (both staff, and former staff) should be doing immediately.
The 10 Things a Not-Yet-Laid-Off Staffer Must Do
1. Know that it is not a matter of if, but a matter of when, you will lose your job. No one gets gold watches these days, and your company, no matter how much you think they care about you, only cares about the bottom line. Don't take it personally, it's not personal, it's just business.
2. Save, save, save. You should have at least 6 months (if not a year or 18 months) worth of savings that will sustain you.
3. Establish your online presence, including a website with your URL, and a professional e-mail address (that means no @gmail or @hotmail accounts!)
4. Over time, build out your businesses infrastructure. Acquire a laptop, cameras/lenses, cell phone, and street legal software (stealing Photoshop is bad karma for people stealing your photos).
5. Determine your cost of doing business in the event that you are no longer subsidized by your full-time employer. The best tool to help you do this is the NPPA's Cost of Doing Business Calculator.
