2Is This The End of In-PUBLiC? Questioning What Street Photography Really Is.
The question ‘what is street photography?’ has caused a divide within the community for decades. It could now be causing destruction.
iN-PUBLiC has been a long-standing and respected collective in street photography. For the best part of 18 years, it has featured some of the most applauded and successful street photographers in the game. However, could one simple photograph be about to bring what has been a strong source of education for so many to its bitter end?
This week two of the collectives photographers, including the founding member, made the decision to leave iN-PUBLiC. Sources have suggested that both Nick Turpin and Nils Jorgsensen (who have both been removed from the website) were unhappy with the collectives current selection in their ‘Photo of the Month’ category.
3The Decisive moment — Street photography beyond photojournalism
Street photography has become a very popular medium and practise. It’s gained a mass of attention on instagram, as all sorts of scenes and situations are being captured by talented photographers internationally. The medium has grown well and truly beyond it’s humble beginnings, and the forms emerging show it’s growing potential as a recognisable art in it’s own right- but how do we keep it that way?
It’s no doubt that photography has taken the world by storm. Instagram alone has 1billion active users and continues to grow exponentially. It has become one of the most accessible mediums globally, and has a multitude of industrial, commercial and social functions. There’s are numerous ways people can work and make money from photography, and quite frankly it’s become one of the most diverse and used mediums of this day an age.
4An Easy Street Photography Project to Get You out There
Are you stuck in an artistic routine or struggling to become comfortable photographing people in the street? Try this simple project that’ll get you out there, shooting and gaining confidence!
What started out as a few simple images on a ferry while passing the time turned out to become a really interesting project for me. The simplicity of it allows a lot of room for your own artistic interpretation, while also giving you room for improvement for every time that you shoot outside. The project is based on documenting people enjoying a moment of peace by themselves in the city, while letting the rest of the world go by.
5The Enemy: Combining Photojournalism and New Technologies
The Enemy is a non-standard work that deals with the representation of the enemy in conflict zones. Its producer, Karim Ben Khelifa, and its Canadian co-producers imagined two complementary experiences—one in virtual reality and the other in augmented reality—to transform the vision that we may have of an enemy.
Going Beyond the Fantasy of the Enemy
The work’s trailer is narrated by Karim, who expresses in it a “frustration” resulting from more than 15 years spent covering conflicts throughout the world through photography: “What I saw [in a conflict zone] was not what my photos were portraying,” he confides during a discussion at Montreal’s Phi Centre. “The Enemy results from a hands-on experience that I had not managed to convey using the medium at my disposal. In the case of The Enemy, the goal is not to explain a war but instead to go straight to something that is much simpler: the word of one combatant against the word of another combatant.”
6Ghana’s first photo festival opens 12-21 September
The Nuku Photo Festival Ghana features exhibitions of work by local and international image-makers plus a conference, a portfolio review, and networking events
“We do not need to specifically just focus on changing stereotypes of what being African is through our visual storytelling; I think that’s an additional burden that other artists from other continents are not expected to subscribe to. I do think that through our visual storytelling, whatever theme we choose, and the quality of our work, we already do so much to challenge external perceptions of the African continent,” says Ngadi Smart, one of the image-makers whose work will feature in the exhibition Foreseen: New Narratives from the African Photojournalism Database.
It’s just one of the shows in the forthcoming Nuku Photo Festival Ghana, the first event of its kind in the country. Featuring exhibitions, a conference, a portfolio review, and networking events, Nuku Photo Festival Ghana aims to “create a space for artistic explorations and exchanges”, according to the festival founder Nii Obodai. “For this first edition, we have curated a diverse programme in cooperation with local and international partners that showcases the works of 40 both established and up-and-coming photographers and visual artists.”
