The News Review:
- Lost for words on a migrant’s final journey
- Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
- Hundreds line up in Vancouver Downtown Eastside to take part in photo…
- Exhibition of photographs event
- Accused terror chief uses his trial to attack US
Lost for words on a migrant’s final journey
The Age – Jun 7, 2008
As this realisation hits me I understand that by watching the lives of others I am led to examine my own. It was another foreigner – Socrates the Greek – who said the unexamined life is not worth living. What would he think about all this? On the home visits the worst of it is the family photo gallery. Like ducks on the wall or a display on top of the television (which is as large as a cupboard but never a giant plasma) a set of framed photographs of the family the reason for doing it all … the journey from Genoa or Naples Messina or Trieste the Adriatic the Mediterranean Gibraltar or Suez. To work and have a house and grow children and vegetables and bottle the tomatoes. But when the grandchildren get old how old are you by then? It reminds me of the family photo gallery I’ve started back home. The children at school… Like ducks on the wall or a display on top of the television (which is as large as a cupboard but never a giant plasma) a set of framed photographs of the family the reason for doing it all … the journey from Genoa or Naples Messina or Trieste the Adriatic the Mediterranean Gibraltar or Suez. To work and have a house and grow children and vegetables and bottle the tomatoes. But when the grandchildren get old how old are you by then? It reminds me of the family photo gallery I’ve started back home. The children at school. The children older with mum and dad. My gallery stops there. But in the house of decay the photo gallery includes: the children grown the children’s weddings the children and their husbands and wives and their own children.
Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Daily Times – Jun 7, 2008
The photo entitled ‘Klara And Edda Belly-Dancing’ had been removed from an exhibition at the Baltic gallery in Gateshead last month after management had sought advice before it was put on public display. The photograph is of two young girls one of whom has her legs apart. Northumbria CPS said it had told police there was insufficient evidence to justify proceedings for possession or distribution of an indecent photograph. It said it had investigated the picture by US photographer Nan Goldin in 2001 when it was part of another exhibition at the Saatchi gallery in London and had decided then that it was not indecent. Kerrie Bell head of CPS Northumbria’s South Unit added: “In order to prove that the photograph is indecent we must be satisfied that contemporary standards of propriety are so different now to what they were in 2001 that it is more likely than not that a court will conclude that the photograph is indecent.
Hundreds line up in Vancouver Downtown Eastside to take part in photo…
Globe and Mail – Jun 7, 2008
“It basically touches everybody in the Downtown Eastside” said John Richardson of PIVOT Legal Society a homeless advocacy group that founded the project six years ago. It’s an annual event that brings together the disparate and dispossessed in what is arguably Canada’s poorest neighbourhood. That distinction though was lost on those waiting in line to get the disposable cameras for the three-day photo shoot that wraps up Tuesday. No on this day the poverty was put on hold and smiles and laughter were the order of the day as folks jostled to get into the gallery where boxes of disposable cameras awaited. The fact the cameras might be traded for something else in this poverty-stricken and drug-ridden neighbourhood is not lost on the competition organizers. But contestants have the incentive of getting five bucks when they hand the cameras in with their shots. “People want to win” Mr… It’s an annual event that brings together the disparate and dispossessed in what is arguably Canada’s poorest neighbourhood. That distinction though was lost on those waiting in line to get the disposable cameras for the three-day photo shoot that wraps up Tuesday. No on this day the poverty was put on hold and smiles and laughter were the order of the day as folks jostled to get into the gallery where boxes of disposable cameras awaited. The fact the cameras might be traded for something else in this poverty-stricken and drug-ridden neighbourhood is not lost on the competition organizers. But contestants have the incentive of getting five bucks when they hand the cameras in with their shots. “People want to win” Mr. Richardson said ”You can’t win if you don’t turn in your camera.
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Exhibition of photographs event
Hindu – Jun 7, 2008
It was in 1947 the year of India’s Independence that Magnum was born. Since then many of the famous cooperative’s photographers have worked in India returning there regularly over the years. Prepared especially for the first ‘India Photo Now’ festival in 2008 this projection uses archival images to provide an outline of the work in India of 14 Magnum photographers. From the silent sense of Henri Cartier-Bresson to the light and shade of Gueorgui Pinkhassov from the classical elegance of Raghu Rai to the radical portraits of Bruce Gilden from Martine Franck’s empathetic portrayal to Carl de Keyzer’s detached exploration: situated between the political and the poetic these personal visions of the subcontinent embody a continuous concern with documenting the word while challenging the way it is depicted. The artistes are Henri Cartier-Bresson Raghu Rai Werner Bischof Marylin Silverstone Ferdinando Scianna Bruno Barbey Martine Franck Steve MacCurry John Vink Alex Majoli Bruce Gilden Carl de Keyzer Harry Gruyaert and Gueorgui Pinkhassov.
Accused terror chief uses his trial to attack US
The Age – Jun 7, 2008
The arraignment on Thursday of Mohammed and four other detaineesthe US Government says were high-level co-ordinators of theSeptember 11 attacks was the start of hearings in the case whichis the centrepiece of the Bush Administration’s war crimessystem. But it was also the first public appearance by Mohammed who haslong cast himself in the role of super-terrorist claiming creditnot only for the 2001 plot but for about 30 others including themurder of Daniel Pearl a Wall Street Journal reporter. Mohammed who said he was 43 looked much older and slimmer thanthe dishevelled moustached captive in the photo that was widelydistributed after his arrest in Pakistan in 2003. A bushy greybeard all but covered his face. On Thursday he worked to get as much control as possible overthe proceedings. Peering through big black-rimmed glasses herejected US lawyers as agents of the Bush Administration’s “crusadewar against Islamic world” saying he would represent himself. Hesaid the lawyers could stay to help him as advisers… He said he wanted more information onMajor Jackson’s assertion. In Bin al-Shibh’s case he said hewanted to further investigate a new report from a military lawyerthat Bin al-Shibh has been on psychotropic medication. When Colonel Kohlmann asked Bin al-Shibh why he was taking themedication security officials cut the sound fed to reporters in aglassed-in gallery and a satellite news media centre. It was one of half a dozen times during a long court day when aprivate national security consultant to the court cut the soundwhen detainees appeared to be discussing what several of them saidhad been years of torture. Mohammed managed to get the reference through the censor twice. “After torturing” he said warming to his subject “they transferus to inquisition-land in Guantanamo. CIA officials have said that Mohammed was one of three detaineessubjected to the simulated drowning technique known aswaterboarding.