Documentary Shooters

Andrea Bruce Shoots You In The Heart

bruce — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:33:08 +0000

Ingushetia by Andrea Bruce Andrea Bruce is a passionate, stylish, skilled documentary photography who’s images -in the best traditions of still photography- sear your soul and drive their point through your heart, restoring it instead of terminating it. She is the new breed of documentary photographer that blends all the skills of good journalism with [...]

Henri Still Kicks!

bruce — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:43:53 +0000

Article posted courtesy of Huffington Post and Steve Ettlinger Is Photojournalism Dead Yet? by Steve Ettlinger Born in the 1930?s, come of age in the 1950?s and 60?s, and pronounced near dead in the 1970?s and virtually buried by the closing of magazines/rise of the internet–you have to wonder how it is that some aspects [...]

Ashley Gilbertson: Shrines and Conflicts

bruce — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:26:43 +0000

Contact Sheet of Ashley Gilbertson’s Conflict Photography “He has a very good news sense and for me that’s really essential,” says Cecilia Bohan, foreign picture editor for The New York Times. “I need them [her photographers] to be my eyes and ears on the ground.” Ashley Gilbertson is a VII photographer and one of the [...]

End of Labor Town: Dumping Ground of Old Men in Japan

bruce — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:47:47 +0000

These are not the view of Japan that we normally see. Shiho Fukada shows us how some elderly people in Japan fare. It is not a story unique to Japan. SEE http://www.socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/shiho_fukada/728

Sara Terry: The Aftermath

bruce — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:16:25 +0000

Women returning home from a visit to the homes they fled in 1995 in Srebrenica, Bosnia, September 2000 SEE: http://www.bosniaaftermath.com/widows.html# These images from Sara Terry document the aftermath of the war in Bosnia. They are classic documentary images in that they take us to where we have not gone and they show us the meaning [...]

Pearl Harbor Brownie

bruce — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:49:12 +0000

Moises Saman: Lost Boys of Afghanistan

bruce — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:39:33 +0000

Lost Boys of Afghanistan by Moises Saman See this stirring slideshow by Moises Saman shot for The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/27/world/20090827AFGHANMINORS_index.html

Evgen Bavcar: The Blind Photographer

bruce — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:13:16 +0000

Self portrait by Evegen Bavcar Photography has always been thought about as “another,” way of seeing. And it is. But, usually, we think about that as a person looking through the camera, seeing what’s there, and, through the magic of the camera and the film -or digital- capture process, one sees the world in different [...]

Dhiraj Singh: Video Biographer

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:03:54 +0000

“My name is Dechen.” Watch this touching video done by Dhiraj Singh. He did an interesting thing: A Video Biograph. In a way, all Visual Journalists who do stories on people, are doing “biography,” but with the addition of audio, where the subject can speak for themselves (edited, of course), where the image-maker can animate [...]

Dhiraj Singh: The (New) Eyes Of India

bruce — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:30:35 +0000

From “Six Feet Under,” ©2009Dhiraj Singh For more work by Dhiraj Singh, SEE: http://www.dhirajsingh.com/01.htm Dhiraj Singh is a Photojournalist who lives in Mumbai, India. His work has been published in numerous international magazines and online journals, including Newsweek, Vanity Fair, msnbc.com, The Wall Street Journal, L’Expresso, and, many others. He has won numerous awards (see [...]

Parikarma: But It Rained

bruce — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:42:46 +0000

Parikrama: But It Rained from Split Magazine on Vimeo. This is a rock band video based on a magazine article about kidnap victims in Kashmir and those who wait for their return. This is one of India’s most revered bands and was one of India’s all time most popular rock songs.

Alan Berner And The American West

bruce — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:10:43 +0000

Harold G. Olson and his goat Buddy, Stuck, Washington, ©2005 (from a story on annexation in King County, Washington) Alan Berner is a staff photographer for the Seattle Times. He is also one of the most exciting, interesting and undiscovered photography talents on the planet. His work is lyrical, thoughtful, enjoyable, moving, well constructed and [...]