Gaza: the last days

Well done. That’s about it. Well done.

Really nice Bruno. But why do you crop all your pictures into squares?

See you in Perpignan, let’s catch up

dave

Well i don’t think Bruno cropped any of his images into squares. He wrote that he took all of them with his good old Hasselblad… :-)

Regarding your images Bruno I already took a quick look at them yesterday night but still have to look at all of them quietly. My first impressions is very good.

Martin, yesterday I had only a dozen or so…now the whole story is up…

i was joking…

sorry dave… will look at them bruno.

Bruno

I just had a look at your work from Gaza. Fantastic work, initially i thought 89 seemed a lot but there all very good.
Someone might have a headache making any further edit on that.

Regards Mark

well, for a start..I have one! ;-) thanks for your kind comments…

Real nice. I like ID#478809…

Nice job! Way to use that square frame under the gun and shooting with a hassy.
Let us know when and where the stuff runs.
thanks
joshua

Mr. Stevens,
way to keep it real

Some good one’s Bruno…

To me, the darker images are the strongest from an artistic standpoint… but content strong in many.

478877, 478876, 478852, 478809, 478631…

; ) >

dR

Hi Bruno,

Great work. I saw you when you took the photo from the roof 478573  and I knew it is going to be a good one. It is excellent.

Most of my work in Shirat was with one family:  http://www1.digitalrailroad.net/yaldor/Frameset.aspx?bwid=161&cdsid=97aa3c05-e960-4228-a39b-c9f01d6e3824&rcp=85

Better to see it from the last photo backward (use previous) Digitalrailroad loaded the photos alphbetiacally but reversed and I have no idea how to change order.

Other Gaza work:

http://www.pbase.com/yalop/pullout_new

http://www.pbase.com/yalop/one_week

and I am sure you know where the idea for this one came from:  http://www.pbase.com/yalop/image/45488850

Best,

Eyal

Wow, you’ve got me feeling all nostalgic now.


Eyal, were you the guy from Haaretz with a Holga I met swimming on the beach one morning?


http://www.ripserve.com/perkins/lastwave/

Hi John,

I was swimming in Shirat Hayam and/or Tel Katifa almost every mornning but I was looking for isolated beaches so I did not met anyone while swimming.

Are you the guy who lived in the hotel ? I think we met some afternoun.

Nice work on the last wave. Very distinct style.

That is my work on the surfers:  http://www.pbase.com/yalop/gaza_surfers&page=all

Bruno,

I had someone ask me about DR today, so I sent them to your site in addition to mine.  Your pictures from Gaza are far and away the best work I have seen from this last few weeks.  I’m a huge film fan as well,  and there is no disputing it has an entirely different feel from the digital.  Just by using this means you put yourself in the minority, which is the place to be.

ciao,

DRM

Bruno: this is the best proof that you don’t need spend months and months doing a story, when you have it, you have it. In two days, three days, whenever. It is pretty good stuff. I have a question: How are the things there now? You can find still good stuff. I will try to convince my newspaper to go there.

cheers,

but there are certainly stories who need attention for months, or even for years. and at the end it often proves that it also shows…

but great images anyway!

That ’s for sure. I am not saying another thing. But another shooter, will spend weeks doing this.

Well, Hugo and Martin, thanks for your kind comments, In fact I sort of frightened myself by shooting these 2 stories so fast (3 1/2 days with the settlers and 2 1/2 days with the Palestinians) BUT don’t forget I have been working very regularly in the region (over 20 trips in the last 6 years) and these are the latest chapters of an already considerable biody of work, all in B/W Hasselblad (widely published and exhibited already)…it will become a book and new shows…eventually…but this story never ends…

Hi Bruno,

You may possibly remember me from your New Zealand workshop. Just want to know what devlopment you use for your TRI – X.
Might I add I have been following your work since the workshop, and its amazing. I also baught your book and it continues to be an inspiration to me. Thanks very much for sharing your knowledge , it made a real difference in my photos.

Hello Bruno-
Thanks for your insight into my camera question posted a few days ago. I have returned to school at 32 to persue photography again after an initial go at it 9 years ago, with lots of assisting between now and then. I’ve really come to respect documentary and reportage work so much more than my original pursuit of fashion and portrait photography. Even thought the images in docomentary/journalism are of a specific place in time past, so many have the power to remain timeless in their particular portrayal of the human spirit. I feel your images capture this spirit well, like images on the beach or your final image in the series. The image of the militants waiving their flag atop the yeshiva brings to mind the photo of Yevgeny Khaldei taken on April 30, 1945 of a A Red Army soldier flying the Soviet flag over the Reichstag. History does repaet itself. I think you and Larry Towell, so far, have shown less of the conflict like James Nachtwey chose to, rather choosing to remind viewers that the people you have photographed are still humans.

Hello, Nick! Of course I remember you..and your pictures (the prayer)…thank you for your comments, that time in New Zealand was really a great experience for me as well!
I don’t process the negs myself but the wonderful guy who does it for me does it according to Kodak’s instructions, totally by the book, I believe it is D76, 1+1, 20 c°, 9 min turning the tank around every min…something very close to that..but then I scan the negs using an Imacon scanner which translate every nuance into the digtal file…

Thank you Jason for your kind comments…I always try to document the ‘before’ and ‘after’ more than the actual ‘moment’, the tension and emotion rather than the action…always keeping the people I photograph in the middle of the ‘picture’ and I do believe photojournalism is (or should attempt to be) part from tomorrow’s History archive.