“Eye on the Web” is our latest weekly column. Contemporary art archivist Laure Boyer will be keeping you up to date on what’s new in the online photo world.
What happened this week on the web in photography:
Twitter: The project “Follow Me” by the photographer Travis Hodges
This is a way to meet people in real life before taking their picture. Travis Hodges decided he would only use Twitter if he could use it as a creative tool, so he started the project “Follow Me.” Each subject is selected and presented by the next, and chosen by the people he or she follows. The project has already led to 19 portraits representing peoples’ digital identities. He believes that he can capture with a camera something that we don’t normally see: a distinct online personality. [1 to 3]
“I photographed the most active person I followed and asked them to select the next subject from those they follow. Online social networking is changing the way people build relationships and I set out to illustrate one thread within this interconnected web.”
His interview :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3MFGgl7FLo
Photojournalis: Prizes Awarded an a Ukraine Portfolio
This week was filled with prizes, and a new portfolio on Ukraine was put online. [4 to 9]
The Magnum Emergency Fund announced the winners of its 2014 grants on Time Lightbox. The fund, which began in 2009, awards annual grants to photographers from around the world to support anticipatory work that sheds light on under-reported issues and communities. The winners are:
Qingang Chen (China) — Patients at Muli County
Kai Loffelbein (Germany)— Death Metals
Laura Morton (United States)— Wild West Tech
Zann Huizhen Huang (Singapore) — Remember Shatila
Christian Werner (Germany) — Depleted Uranium – The Silent Genocide
Alessandro Penso (Italy) — Refugees in Bulgaria
Carolyn Drake (United States) — Invisible Bus
Oscar Castillo (Venezuela) — Our War – Our Pain
Ed Ou (Canada) — North
Edmund Clark (United Kingdom) — Unseen Spaces of the Global War on Terror.
The World Press Photo Award in multimedia was awarded to nine photographers. See the winning videos online here: http://www.worldpressphoto.org/multimedia-gallery/2014-multimedia-contest .
Donald Weber, based in California, Molotov Cocktail Portfolio on the site Photojournalisme VII
Molotov cocktails are the weapon of choice for protesters in Ukraine. They’ve used thousands upon thousands to hold their positions. The photographer Donald Weber recovered a few and photographed them against a white background. The object itself, taken out of context of barricades and demonstrations, retains its evocative power of the Ukrainian fight for democracy. [10 to 12]
On Boooooom, the Tumblr of the Day: Where I See Fashion
Get ready to add a new Tumblr to your list of favorites. Bianca Luini, 22, studies fashion and design in Milan. She is the brilliant creator of WHEREISEEFASHION which brings together images of fashion, landscape and contemporary art in all shapes and colors. More than 100 images are already online. [13 to 17]
Tumblr, Instagram
The 2014 PIRELLI Calendar: 50 years of women and photographers
Starting in February, the most famous calendar of the tire brand Pirelli is finally out and celebrating its 50th anniversary. For this edition, Pirelli brought out of its archives an unpublished series by Helmut Newton commissioned in 1985 and 1986. The selection of photos and a retrospective of pin-ups can be seen here. [18 to 22]
News of the Week:
Festival Photo Ireland, July 1 – 31, 2014 in Dublin
The festival’s magazine is now online here.
Copenhagen Photo Festival, June 5 – 15, 2014
their website here.
Apps:
The Henri Cartier-Bresson application on Android and iTunes. To celebrate to the Cartier-Bresson retrospective running from February 12th through June 9th, 2014, the Centre Pompidou has developed an application with great artistic and documentary value in collaboration with the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum Photos and Le Monde. [23, 24]
Android , Itunes
On Saturday, April 5th, 2014, a giant pillow fight will be organized on the Place de la République. For the occasion, grainedephotographe.com is offering visitors the chance to document this event with the class Street Photography on Saturday, April 5th, from 14:15 to 18:15. [25]
A Conference with Quentin Bajac online
VIDEO: A conference on photography with Quentin Bajac from MoCP, Columbia College Chicago [26]
Quentin Bajac, the former head curator of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, moved to New York in January 2013 to lead the MoMA photo department. This conference approaches photography from two angles: that of the art historian faced with contemporary art, and that of the curator studying how these changes affect the way museums, in particular MoMA, work with photography.
Keep an eye on the web and until next week!
