Posts Tagged ‘photography’
Images speak louder
11:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Immigration| San Francisco · 1 Comment
13 Apr 2006The rhetoric, punditry and backbiting stirred up in the media and swirling around the immigrant rights movement is getting to be a bit much. Sometimes images are more eloquent than words, so I’m posting this one.
My Flickr friend Franciscophile snapped this one at our local SF protest. It gave me a peaceful feeling in the midst of all of this hostility.
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Documenting the undocumented
4:39 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Arts| Immigration · Comments Off
5 Apr 2006
Ever wonder what it’s really like to be an immigrant on the border? What about what it’s like to be a Minuteman? The creators of The Border Film Project, a photography project like none other I’ve seen, goes beyond the images we see in mainstream media to let the two groups tell their stories in photos. I wish I would have thought of this:
We are three friends – a Rhodes Scholar, filmmaker, and a Wall Street analyst – who spent three months on the U.S. Mexico border filming and distributing hundreds of disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the line: undocumented migrants crossing the desert and Minutemen volunteers trying to stop them.
The project looks to portray the reality of the border and it does a great job at that. The immigrant photos are a mixed bag of strikingly “normal” everyday photos — some even showing happiness — to shocking and disturbing. They tend to photograph things around them; snakes, plants, their homes, while the Minutemen take more pictures of themselves and their activities, such as target practice and manning a radio.
People who know me know I am addicted to Flickr, the most amazing photo sharing site on the web (by the way, I’m not associated with Flickr — this is real live consumer evangelism). It’s a place where would-be voyeurs clamor for photos from quasi exhibitionists who share everything from what they had for breakfast to to the way they dressed in the 70s. It’s great entertainment, and the best example of a community-building site I’ve seen yet.
Blogs en la Media Noche
2:00 pm By Maegan La Mala · Culture| Events| Internet| New York · 1 Comment
14 Oct 2005
Blogs are playing an ever growing role in Latino life in the United States. They have become a popular means for the exchange and expression of ideas and information. MediaNoche, a gallery and community cultural space in el Barrio aka Spanish Harlem, NYC explores how photoblogs are changing the photographic landscape and opening up new possibilities for visual communication and exchange in the exhibit BLOGS , that opens tonight. Judith Escalona, Director of MediaNoche says via the release for the exhibition that:
BLOGS represents a rupture in the way photographs are traditionally exhibited and sold, allowing the presentation of over 1,000 works in MediaNoche’s space and converting viewers into bloggers who can interact with the printless photographs on display
Bloggers and those that love them should go and represent and experience the work of over 200 photographers worldwide, from Puerto Rico to Taiwan.
Tonight is the opening reception from 6 pm – 9 pm. There is a special talk by the artists on Saturday October 22 at 3PM. The exhibit can also be viewed on Tuesdays through Saturdays through November 26, between the hours of 3PM and 7PM.
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