Created by the person behind the A Photo Editor blog, Photo Rank is a digg-style site in which users submit and vote on photo related sites.
The site is described as “A place to discover photographers, photographs and news about photography.”
Seems like a great way for photographers to share inspiring work.
Apparently the first feature film to be shot entirely through the point of view of security camera footage, LOOK is not actual reality, but meant to show just how pervasive surveillance has become in our society. According to the official web site:
The Post 9/11 world has forever changed the notion of privacy. There are now approximately 30 million surveillance cameras in the United States generating more than 4 billion hours of footage every week. And the numbers are growing. The average American is now captured over 200 times a day, in department stores, gas stations, changing rooms, even public bathrooms. No one is spared from the relentless, unblinking eye of the cameras that are hidden in every nook and cranny of day-to-day life.
Shot entirely from the point of view of the security cameras. Adam Rifkin’s LOOK follows several interweaving, storylines over the course of a random week in a random city. LOOK is a film about the things that people do when they don’t know they’re being watched.
Motodrom is a short film that Dai Sugano showed this past Saturday at the SFBAPPA workshop. This piece will definitely help me out when I am out in the field doing video for newspapers, especially when gathering sound.
We were lucky enough to see Lauren Greenfield’s latest work, Kids + Money, at the VII workshop in Pasadena. The link above is to the shorter version she did for The New York Times Magazine. It documents the views of eight teens from very different socioeconomic backgrounds on the topic of money.
At some point during the VII Seminar, Frank Evers, the managing director for VII, mentioned watching an interview that Ron Haviv did on Charlie Rose. I thought I would look it up and post a link here.
This past weekend I attended the VII Seminar in Pasadena, CA. I don’t know that I’ve ever been more inspired than sitting in a room full of photographers looking at work from the VII photographers and the other speakers from the weekend.
One thing was definitely clear in hearing pretty much every speaker the whole weekend. They were all not only passionate about photography, but incredibly passionate about the subjects that they were working with. I have yet to find the subject matter that generates the same level of passion in myself, but I am looking.
There were so many highlights for the weekend, but I think that everyone enjoyed Lauren Greenfield’s screening of Kids + Money, which is showing at the AFI Film Fest today and November 9th. There is also a much shorter version of the same work on the NY Times web site.
Other useful links from the weekend:
VII Photo Essays
Noor Images
NY Times Magazine article and photo gallery for Jessica Dimmock’s The Ninth Floor
Marcus Bleasdale’s work on the Congo
Stephanie Sinclair: Lebanon in Crisis
Boogie’s work on Belgrade, drugs and gangs
