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Photography From Iraq (Or Elsewhere And Reflecting On The War)
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I am working on putting together a show about photography depicting the Iraq war and its effects, and would love to see what folks are working on, especially recent work.
The show will be in Johnson City in upstate New York this summer, at this venue: http://www.spoolmfg.org/home.html
Spool MFG, a former thread spool factory where the exhibit will take place, is dedicated to supporting the arts, and its past and current shows focus on the fine art world and have made a real impact in a community that respects and hungers for creative expression. This exhibit will be their first foray into photojournalistic depictions of current events, and everyone there is excited about bringing powerful work to folks who want (and need) to see it.
The synopsis of the exhibit idea is below. If you have some work, or know of some work (including ‘amateur’ pictures or video) that may fit this rather loose description, please email me at stokes.young@gmail.com.
OVERLOAD: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM IRAQ
War photography is an expensive business. It costs serious money to buy equipment, to travel with some modicum of security, to transmit and distribute pictures. Meanwhile individual photographers risk paying an even higher price: their mental stability, physical health, and lives are on the table. Despite the costs, news organizations and photographers continue to create images of historical significance in Iraq. In purely economic terms, there is a lot of supply.
Demand is a different story. While leading print, broadcast and online publishers disseminate imagery from Iraq on a daily basis, the average American news consumer sees only a tiny fraction of the pictures from a war that continues to cost more in blood and fortune than any news organization could imagine putting on their balance sheet. There are far more images of hot stars, hard abs, fast cars and yummy meals on newsstands than there are pictures from a war that will define our world for generations.
The difference between supply and demand is an excess of imagery: an overload of pictures seen by only a small number of professionals and consumers, or none at all. The purpose of this exhibit is to take a small step towards evening the balance just a little bit.
by
Stokes Young
at
Sat Apr 01 08:56:30 UTC 2006
(ed. Mar 12 2008)
New York City,
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i’ve got some stuff that hasn’t been seen . . .
check my website www.patrickandrade.com
i’ve got a couple galleries on iraq, what you are looking for might better be the 2003 stuff
yours,
Patrick
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you can see a small sample of my “typology of car bombings” on my lightstalkers gallery. pictures from 2005. cheers, Alan
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I spent the first 6 months of 2003 in Iraq (on the Iraqi ‘side’); I have a book out (Baghdad: Truth lies within) wich is easy to find on Amazon as the story is not online…alternatively I could send you a ‘digest’...
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I was in Tal’Afar with the 3rd ACR all of last year. Check out my gallery for samples of my stuff. I’d be interested in contributing to the project.
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I have lots of stuff from the first days of the war and the following 6-months. I would love to get some of it on display. My website is www.photojournalismstock.com Thanks, this is a great idea. Bill
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I have tons of stuff too. Check out www.warshooter.com or PM me. I have stuff that hasn’t been seen by anyone but me.
Bill.
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I have tons of stuff too. Check out www.warshooter.com or PM me. I have stuff that hasn’t been seen by anyone but me.
Bill.
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I have many photos from a recent trip to Iraq. None of them have been published but I would love for some or all of them to be seen. I am a Director/Director of Photography and was there shooting a documentary. Please check my site. www.vznary.com. I can send photos to you if you like Best Erik
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hi stokes
if you are looking for a different story from iraq i.e. one that does not deal directly with combat operations , bombings and suspect roundups, but more about unforseen consequences of the war, then please check out a photo essay i did in early 2005 on the struggle of iraq’s assyrian christians against the iraqi resistance and the kurdish nationalists. the work was published in politiken but could use a larger viewing in the USA. the images are here:
http://www1.digitalrailroad.net/arafiqui/gpgs.aspx?pgid=139895&e=0&p=0
asim
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