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iPhoneography / The Street Volume
Published July 5, 2011 Photography , Street photography Leave a CommentTags: iphone, iphoneography
Anton Kawasaki
I recently picked up an iPhone 4 for a cross-country trip that just wrapped up. Along the way I took a few photos, which was fun since this is my first pseudo-digital camera and the immediacy of being able to see the image was kick-ass. I don’t think I’ll ever use an iPhone for any of my street or documentary work though, and I definitely won’t be posting any of my trip photos anywhere. They’re not good enough or interesting enough to share with the masses.
On the other hand, I have heard about all of the great stuff people have been doing with apps (for the record, I hate this word) and their iPhones. So since I had some downtime this weekend, I decided to search the web in hopes of finding a street photographer who’s put down the SLR for an iPhone.
And luckily, I came across Anton Kawasaki. Enjoy.
“Like one punch in the face after another”
Published June 21, 2011 Los Angeles , Photography 32 CommentsTags: Armand Emamdjomeh, Framework, Interview, shawn nee, The Los Angeles Times
A big thanks to Armand Emamdjomeh for featuring my work on the Los Angeles Times’ photography blog, Framework. I have to say that reading someone describe my photos as “Like one punch in the face after another” is one of nicest things I’ve ever heard. Those words will keep me motivated.
You can read the interview here, but unfortunately some of the photos that were included in the profile were not shown. So I posted the entire series here. (Which you can see after the jump).
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It’s the little things in your life that truly don’t matter
Published June 17, 2011 Photography , Police , Police Harassment 2 CommentsTags: Boston Bruins, Canucks, Frank Rodriguez, Police, Richard Chrisman, riots, Vancouver
It’s shocking to think that it takes a professional sports team to lose, in the grand scheme of things, a truly non-significant event (seriously, on a world scale of importance who actually knows or cares the Boston Bruins won the NHL championship?) to riot in the streets. And this is coming from someone who grew up in Boston and lived there for more than two decades.
But no one seems to care when an Arizona police officer executes a man in his own home, and the cop’s own partner turns on him. Frank Rodriguez was killed by Officer Richard Chrisman in October 2010 and nobody outside of Arizona’s Maricopa County seems to know about it. For instance, I just learned about Rodriguez’s death this week. We should’ve all known about this last year, and you would think that a police officer being charged with second-degree murder would be national-headline news. However, it’s not. And you would think that people would riot in the streets over something like this, but they don’t.
The likelihood of you being killed by a police officer in the United States is far greater than you ever having a shot at losing the NHL championship.
Capturing the “Eastern European Coney Island”
Published June 17, 2011 Documentary , Photography Leave a CommentTags: Gidropark, Gitterman Gallery, Kiev, Yelena Yemchuk
Photo by Yelena Yemchuk
Yelena Yemchuk is most known for her fashion and music photography, as seen in places like Italian Vogue, W and Dazed and Confused. Before she emigrated to the US at 11, she spent her summers at a resort area in Kiev called Gidropark, which she describes as an Eastern European Coney Island. Recently she spent three summers there, photographing the carefree and sunbathing denizens on a 35-mm camera. The result is her book, Gidropark, out now, which shows a lovely mixture of quirky, evocative scenes. An exhibit of selected works is at the Gitterman Gallery in New York through September.
To see more of her work, go to Photo Booth or La Lettre.
Photography Link Roundup
Published June 16, 2011 Photography Leave a CommentTags: birds, Fort Lauderdale, historical figures, iphone, lawsuit, links, Lomo, Robert Altman, Rock of Ages, roundup, sardines
Photo by Robert Altman
• If you’re in San Fran, you can spend an evening in July with photographer Robert Altman (which is really just an excuse to run one of my favorite photos). [Jazz Heritage Center]
• Worlds collide in this cool collection of photos of notable figures in odd situations — think Nancy Reagan on Mr. T’s lap, or Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Ludacris at a basketball game. [Quora]
• High tech birding, or 10 cool photos of birds taken with the iPhone. [Mashable]
• The new Lomo camera takes its inspiration from … sardines? [CrunchGear]
• A South Florida publication and the Society of Professional Journalists have banded together to sue the City of Fort Lauderdale for prohibiting photography around the Rock of Ages set. [Miami Herald]
Photojournalist Unlawfully Detained by LA County Sheriffs
Published June 16, 2011 Harassment , Los Angeles County Sheriffs , Photojournalism , Police Harassment 2 CommentsTags: LA Weekly, Los Angeles County Sheriffs, Ted Soqui
From YouTube:
This is what happens when you try to take photos from the street of L.A. County Jail. The six deputies let me go only after I was searched and run through their computer system. Was told by the deputies that the jail area is private property, and there were national security concerns. For the most part, they were professional and somewhat polite during the stop. Still it seemed highly unnecessary for 6 deputies to stop me for taking images from the sidewalk. The images of the jailhouse building are for use in an upcoming story for the L.A. Weekly.
There’s not much to see in this video showing Los Angeles County Sheriffs unlawfully detaining photojournalist Ted Soqui for taking pictures from a public sidewalk of the L.A. County Jail (a constitutionally protected activity) since the cops prevented him from recording the encounter—actions that should raise serious credibility issues on the part of the officers because if the cops were acting in a legal manner then they shouldn’t be concerned about being videotaped. Like cops say, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about. So I’m curious to know why these officers moved Ted’s camera as far away as possible and prevented their conversation from being recorded.
Is it because Ted’s detainment was unlawful and the cops had no legal grounds for stopping him? Is it because the officers didn’t want their questionable or illegal behavior documented? Or is it because they didn’t want themselves on YouTube in another video that shows LA County Sheriffs unlawfully detaining another photographer for performing a constitutionally protected act? We’ll never know.
But there are a few things to remember.
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Photos Go “Back to the Future”
Published June 15, 2011 Photography 1 CommentTags: Back to the Future, Burn Magazine, Irina Werning, vintage photos
Photos by Irina Werning
Argentine photographer Irina Werning claims her life is chaotic, but the attention to detail in her “Back the Future” project is pretty impressive. Werning painstakingly recreates vintage photos with the same subjects, years later, and the the result is an engrossing collection of photos that show the passage of time.
(Incidentally, Werning has also given the similar treatment to a few pro athletes, as seen in this ESPN article here.)
Werning just received Burn Magazine’s “Emerging Photographer Grant 2011” — for “the icons of tomorrow and not today.” To see more of her work, go here.
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