August 2002

there are worse things you could be called

Maryanne Golon: savvy diplomat, passionate editor, champion of photojournalism

how newspapers should be using the web...

Some great multimedia stuff going on at The Herald Sun

Check out Joe Weiss' story A Long Road Home. From Durham to Celaya, Mexico, follow a young man home to the family he left behind.

And Dave Cone's story Speedway-Hearts and Thunder. A sights and sounds story from behind the scenes at the Orange County Speedway.

Good stuff, done by good people!

yellow pages

The story of fallen hope teaches an all important lesson -- it pays to be in the yellow pages

Women's conference

Anyone interested in going to the women in photojournalism conference in san diego this year, but thought the airfare was a little pricey? Check out the great low air fares now at southwest airlines. San diego is their featured city of the week and the prices are super cheap.

photocolumn

Our very own favorite nebraskan gerik parmele, who already runs a nice weblog full of great, frequently updated links, just announced a new site he's started called photocolumn.org. go give him some love.

The Real Horrors of the Vietnam War

"Perhaps it was because he was a foreign observer in a far-off war. Maybe he just saw things more clearly than most people. Ultimately, he showed the American public the real horrors of the Vietnam war.

Welsh Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths saw Vietnam as a "goldfish bowl where the values of American and Vietnamese can be observed, studied, and because of their contrasting nature, more easily appraised."

Griffiths's images were some of the first to clearly show the mismatch of American soldiers in a place they didn't belong. America had became lost in a conflict run by a government which had lost its perspective about its place in the world."

Ground Zero Time Lapsed

Since late May, three 35-millimeter movie cameras have been trained on ground zero from atop nearby buildings, each programmed to take a picture of the vast site every five minutes, night and day. By Sept. 11, they will be joined by three other cameras rigged to do the same....

Each camera will produce 790,000 images over seven years, but the resulting film presentation, which the producers would like to show in a room framed by six screens that would be in continuous use, would be about 20 minutes long, thanks to the time-lapse photography.

Farewell to Bosnia

Just got done looking at Gilles Peress' Farewell to Bosnia -- wow.

The Palestinians, by James Nachtwey

The Palestinians, by James Nachtwey, is at Time.com with some 57 photos and audio commentary. Nachtwey spent a month in the West Bank and Gaza documenting the lives of Palestinians.

Rowells Die in Plane Crash

World-renowned wilderness photographer and writer Galen Rowell, and his wife and business partner Barbara Cushman Rowell, a photographer and writer, died early Sunday morning in an airplane crash outside of Bishop, Calif.

You will be missed.

A Human Face on Islam in Southeast Asia

When Steve Raymer started this project, his aim was to put a human face on Islam in Southeast Asia, a goal that seems more urgent now that Southeast Asia has become a new front in the global war on terrorism.

 
 

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