pictures to prove it™

some people know, and maybe some don’t, but actor jeff bridges is a pretty interesting photographer. for a few years now he has been documenting the films he has been in and the results are pretty cool. it’s an insiders view.
The Dude is a-ok in my book.

peep here to see his Crazy Heart snaps. and here to see Ironman.

these images by Chris Jordan are the most distressing environmental work ive seen in recent memory. the work is powerful in it’s design and message. It is worth your time. view this and share it with everyone you know.

MIDWAY

Chris Jordan said:

“These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

~cj, October 2009″

Chris also has this video on youtube. post it everywhere you can.

Daidō Moriyama (born October 10, 1938) is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan.

Teengenerate @ Fireside Bowl, Chicago, IL (photo by icki)

MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL PHOTO ISSUE! edited by Mark Murrmann!!!

Take pictures at shows? Have a 20 year old box of band photos? We wanna see them! Maximum Rocknroll is putting together a photo issue. Here’s how to be part of it…

Photo Submission Guidelines:

Send up to 10 pictures.
We accept digital files and prints.
If you send prints and want them back, PLEASE PROVIDE A SASE!!! Otherwise prints will not be returned. Prints should be no larger than 8×10. Send all prints to MRR, ATTN: Photo Issue.
Digital files should be 10” at the longest side, at 300dpi. Please only send JPGs or TIFFs. You can email the files to Mark Murrmann at the email address below. You may also send a CD/DVD of images to MRR, ATTN: Photo Issue.

All photos should be in black & white. If you submit color photos, we will convert them to black & white.
Bands in the photos should fall within MRR’s area of coverage.
Please provide as much caption information as you can with the photos. At the very least we need: the name of the band (or who is in the photo), when it was taken, where (city, state, country) and who took it. Include this information in the IPTC fields of the photos, or on a separate piece of paper/word document.
Make sure to include an email address at which you can be contacted, and a street address so we can send a copy of the magazine to you, if your photos are included.

Questions? Don’t hesitate to ask. Know someone you think would make for a good interview subject for the photo issue? Get in touch!

Due date for submissions is October 1, 2009.

Email your photos to: markmurrmann {at} gmail(.)com
Maximum Rocknroll
ATTN: Photo Issue
PO Box 460760
San Francisco, CA 94146-0760
USA

August 18th, 2009 by icki

those who know me, know i love comic books as much as a love photos. i was thrilled when i stumbled onto this story at PDNonline. ive been suggesting that ben lowy do a graphic novel of his first trip to Iraq, but draw it himself. maybe this will inspire him.

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“Drawings and photographs are like oil and water,” says graphic artist Emmanuel Guibert. “One always wants to kill the other. They are like enemies.”

Despite this esthetic antipathy, however, Guibert’s graphic illustrations blend peacefully and seamlessly with the black-and-white photographs taken by his late friend Didier Lefèvre in The Photographer (First Second Books, 2009), a deeply compelling narrative in words, drawings and photographs. The book, a 278-page graphic memoir, describes Lefèvre’s first mission to Afghanistan for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in 1986, during the Soviet occupation of the country. (continued here…)

my dear friend Rachel Sauer is one of the greatest and most genuine voices i’ve ever known. i find great joy in the fact that she has packed her wagon and scuttled to china for a bit to teach english and to learn a bit about the world.

she has an amazing blog that chronicles her adventures. every word is worth reading, but i’d suggest you start with this current post about how her camera bridged a gap between her and a train full of locals.

she is wonderful. this is proof.

© 2008 Tim Hetherington

i just stumbled across this post of Tim Hetherington’s World Press Acceptance Speech on Gary Knight’s site dispatches. it just struck me in a way i can’t seem to verbalize, but i wanted to make sure people go back and read it. it’s simple, honest and good.

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A lot of people have asked what this image means to me. It’s a question that I’ve tended to sidestep because it touches on some fairly personal issues. But I thought perhaps I could try and answer it tonight.

For many people, this photograph represents the larger political idea of war. It’s said that the man portrayed shows the exhaustion of a nation. Some people see it as propaganda for the war, others as an indictment of the war. But it doesn’t need to be either.

For me, this image isn’t about a nation, or an idea. It’s about a young man stuck on the side of a mountain in Afghanistan. His world has become the four dirt walls he dug by hand. A quarter of his platoon has been killed or wounded, and he knows that he may never see his wife again… (continued on dispatches)

This week’s featured images from American Youth - Images by Redux Pictures

The fine photogs at Redux pooled their talents together to create a 240-page book called American Youth. It “examines the newest generation of 18 to 24-year-olds in detail, observing young couples and Mormon missionaries, debutante balls and drunken tailgate stupors, war widows and B-boys, street kids and lobstermen. How are they different, and how are they exactly the same as the generations that came before?”

they also have a blog with photographer commentary, outtakes from the shoots and Q and A’s with the shooters. tons of talent was involved in the making of this book; great photographers like Greg Ruffing, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Q Sakamaki, David Butow and Erika Larsen worked with editors Bill Black (Reader’s Digest), Karen Frank (Conde Nast Portfolio), Jeanne Graves (BestLife), Armin Harris (Fortune), Nadja Masri (GEO), Brenda Milis (Men’s Health), and Allyson Torrisi (Popular Mechanics).

i wish more agencies were creating these sorts of projects. i almost always love how they combined talents work together to turn out great work.

Dai Sugano created THIS sad and beautiful multimedia piece for the San Jose Mercury News. It is called “Left Behind.”

The staff at the Mercury News is consistantly doing moving and thoughtful multimedia stories. “The Chance to Break Free” is another powerful story from India.