tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675613867398378842024-02-02T06:35:19.142-08:00Anna's Blog @ LCCMiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-15848972779046217392009-04-20T14:18:00.000-07:002009-04-20T14:23:54.000-07:00On the EdgeGlobal warming and rising sea levels is changing the British coastline dramatically, causing part of the east and south coast to erode faster than ever before.<br />The battle with the sea is costly, with millions of pounds being spent on sea defences. Now the U.K government says it can not afford to defend the whole of the coast. This new policy, dubbed ‘managed retreat’ by scientists, means making difficult decisions about what land to save and what to sacrifice. Natural and cultural heritage is being lost and people of small villages such as Happisburgh in Norfolk and Skipsea in Yorkshire face no other choice than to abandon their homes to the sea. No compensation is offered for land or property lost due to coastal erosion; life along the sea has proved risky.<br /><br />As the sea is moving further in, it is constantly reshaping the edge of Britain and redefining the borders as we know them.<br />This set of photographs looks at the land that has been left defenceless - soon to be claimed by the sea.Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-21889626247275316862009-04-16T08:34:00.000-07:002009-04-16T09:54:44.948-07:00Fairlight<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxIX0XSaisyJOa3LRUDCd9FbYVaffETmrrU2SewPAXG_3g4X9MBpkHXb_XDk1jnwod7jbYteLh9bAd2yPJOOl1Ne6nD7kf1wxZFBrNDEZMuLNPLCFyu3s8nu3MI4tKUn_IJBU4N6JJKao/s1600-h/Fairlight19.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325318426411719618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 322px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxIX0XSaisyJOa3LRUDCd9FbYVaffETmrrU2SewPAXG_3g4X9MBpkHXb_XDk1jnwod7jbYteLh9bAd2yPJOOl1Ne6nD7kf1wxZFBrNDEZMuLNPLCFyu3s8nu3MI4tKUn_IJBU4N6JJKao/s400/Fairlight19.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp6IlmkbxptY0-CzVXNUXQbcdjWSJaLh-ZfDqdC601Ioirt7sHYu0bFxbJ2p5xE0z92B783xLrFIgcE58Rtwhvn4JtxEnkQ0GHsNgNPpetYbY3H50B9-10dOenzdG1cA08NvWKod1T5K0/s1600-h/Fairlight24.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325317943400156946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 314px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp6IlmkbxptY0-CzVXNUXQbcdjWSJaLh-ZfDqdC601Ioirt7sHYu0bFxbJ2p5xE0z92B783xLrFIgcE58Rtwhvn4JtxEnkQ0GHsNgNPpetYbY3H50B9-10dOenzdG1cA08NvWKod1T5K0/s400/Fairlight24.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHqLrhrtDmNCzRWLnGeWzsGQNglqXY3-zRb6yKV7IBRwrIfOLiY82vcudpgFVne0hGgiizOkuQM2Y32HA7eonvkAJRg6E5jsWYKjyW8zf7p70m5nSw1qnInh0EJEOrZ71h1c7ufC3ml_o/s1600-h/Fairlight15.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325317211173153170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 317px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHqLrhrtDmNCzRWLnGeWzsGQNglqXY3-zRb6yKV7IBRwrIfOLiY82vcudpgFVne0hGgiizOkuQM2Y32HA7eonvkAJRg6E5jsWYKjyW8zf7p70m5nSw1qnInh0EJEOrZ71h1c7ufC3ml_o/s400/Fairlight15.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOM68aBh0Fm35Ze89EwwIVh0LLklIqV-SE5bUtInz0fUT2Duc0GM-FzudFsADHqCQhM4nxhF52a26o3dGF07vGo1UiRiec7FPs9vm6lpDZw3ZtOIzOT08HkMIyRHPPI1uatWM3zqfv8Mw/s1600-h/Fairlight29.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325315740039402834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 316px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOM68aBh0Fm35Ze89EwwIVh0LLklIqV-SE5bUtInz0fUT2Duc0GM-FzudFsADHqCQhM4nxhF52a26o3dGF07vGo1UiRiec7FPs9vm6lpDZw3ZtOIzOT08HkMIyRHPPI1uatWM3zqfv8Mw/s400/Fairlight29.jpg" border="0" /></a> Fairlight, East Sussex </div><div></div><div>The tide was out and the sky was bleak - finally I got some pictures.</div><div> </div><div>I have been agonising for weeks over how to present this project, partly because I don't feel that it is finished and also because ideally in the non virtual if I were to present it, I would hang a set of large prints on the wall (probably only about six images) and use some of the affected peoples stories and comments together with facts. I still have no real solution to the presentation and have been playing around with different layouts for a pdf and have just discarded all of it... so it is fare to say that I'm going a bit crazy. I'm a very hesitant editor of my own work and at the same time a real control freak. </div><div></div></div></div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-10279852507984017762009-04-09T08:59:00.001-07:002009-04-09T09:51:08.632-07:00Sea Change<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq_CuCoWFtNjtFOAIT-r3q0fI0mvW_6MOR0_H1AwppEFBw1TTIfv663acSxYTOXaoN863xt0d9Qr2URlSiJDie7Fk7OPFyZ-4B42-NYgiNUSW9yuQAdc1KJ_0H8fwbMF3UE5yNVo0AQfw/s1600-h/sea+change.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322726956734205330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 285px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq_CuCoWFtNjtFOAIT-r3q0fI0mvW_6MOR0_H1AwppEFBw1TTIfv663acSxYTOXaoN863xt0d9Qr2URlSiJDie7Fk7OPFyZ-4B42-NYgiNUSW9yuQAdc1KJ_0H8fwbMF3UE5yNVo0AQfw/s400/sea+change.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I'm reading a great book called <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sea-Change-Britains-Coastal-Catastrophe/dp/1903919789/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239293868&sr=1-3"><em>Sea Change - Britain's Coastal Catastrophe</em> </a>by <em>Richard Girling</em> at the moment. Girling has dedicated a chapter to erosion and discusses many of the problems and conflicts involved. </div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-78714927446721024652009-04-06T00:54:00.000-07:002009-04-06T03:08:35.414-07:00Changing Landscapes<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321491065916945058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 297px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxTE66vzSizVpxzMPGkww4wpb-y4barxNZwmRmvo67grfDtptYVXVEgjZ-NKLhq69hB908iTwrSBarJkPhkcMny_nAtM6pq6Ep0EUbhOLfbJffUGydq0hkyELY5j4AAeW__4l_YwUYmVU/s400/cover.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321492063593094738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfGjyq0PrLU7ryXUEugJtmhY5K_GP-clT-3q-JMgTOfPNBxjCmJLDaGVO0FuYx9pmKGyAD3_tbPcXCpYWch4Y_v0ytAm8PRmYoA5oZfpOYPxCLmlMt93PrJvWT96cU7PVL5hF64bYoyck/s400/red+sledge.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321494218743633810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 306px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCUJvBBsIbdSiOJau9LXG_4KLSQ6J7lUNWn9UClWQZxeIVNoHabGrZKWhYUeo-XXZIhR-beGt3CGJM1U9UKF5qiCmeSX2MRUMaAT7H9tu586ywtkTEzXPODNzNyav7mkY07ggPCiI0Euw/s400/blue+river.jpg" border="0" /> <div><em>Broken Line -</em> Olaf Otto Becker </div><div></div><div>A while back, I picked up a book entitled <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vanishing-Landscapes-John-Berger/dp/0711229287">Vanishing landscapes</a>, that I keep going back to again and again. All the photographers included in the book have documented landscapes that are undergoing change in some way. Olaf Otto Becker's work <em>Broken Line</em> covers 4000km along the west coast of Greenland, documenting the melting ice. Each image has the GPS location in the title. There is more amazing images on his <a href="http://www.olafottobecker.de/">website</a> that has not been included in this book.</div><div>Jem Southam's <em>Rockfalls</em> are very much forming a typological study and are essentially of coastal erosion. Over the past 15 years he have kept revisiting the same location, studying the gradual changes of the rock surface. <a href="http://seesawmagazine.com/southam_pages/southam_interview.html">Seesaw</a> magazine has a good interview with him about his work. </div><div></div><div></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321495680727780914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 285px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyKEziFkCKEmEHtK77NcU_U8KFrjMaIom0uoD6dMSr8jt0JG8Jyu1_LwrMAQNuBu4vgIT3jNueh3rUHUQftb-qgdHcWT5zhgalxpyDZ-gVnLPT1HChH-giwGOQAmI5exAhwN3b0_BNVCk/s400/rock+falls.jpg" border="0" /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbewguJPwTZTrsGfWUH71U7NdTNSHy12A8uLfmx7HK21MI6lIhr9luVY1Hf38m4lOBTpMhWI5s_kvMt6eMQ4Z6lhdeR4Dhh65iCwhnH3sOW_kY-uvKmOY_F4OIxo9f9HcSHgJY6rBKc5Q/s1600-h/rock+falls2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321497490528547458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 287px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbewguJPwTZTrsGfWUH71U7NdTNSHy12A8uLfmx7HK21MI6lIhr9luVY1Hf38m4lOBTpMhWI5s_kvMt6eMQ4Z6lhdeR4Dhh65iCwhnH3sOW_kY-uvKmOY_F4OIxo9f9HcSHgJY6rBKc5Q/s400/rock+falls2.jpg" border="0" /></a> <em>Rockfalls</em> - Jem Southam<br /><div></div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-62391220042436250472009-03-18T15:38:00.000-07:002009-03-20T06:39:07.866-07:00More stories from the cliff edge<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCAw4XupasTSTbwFzwNqLbPvO5uwp5rbuMDrYb5-H3I7GN2QPrdqxRaI9UJHamJJllXx54pH8AiFT9C7_dR8KmbPBbyqnDUdg0VOe318M2iFGMXK-ftowqYbJY0Ppox3BvAto4M5eK-Lk/s1600-h/Boulder+Clay-Atwick+Sands.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314662708614489810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCAw4XupasTSTbwFzwNqLbPvO5uwp5rbuMDrYb5-H3I7GN2QPrdqxRaI9UJHamJJllXx54pH8AiFT9C7_dR8KmbPBbyqnDUdg0VOe318M2iFGMXK-ftowqYbJY0Ppox3BvAto4M5eK-Lk/s400/Boulder+Clay-Atwick+Sands.jpg" border="0" /></a><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314662680847248786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 316px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYznpT7C7tERqKLDDGuPBfqie9A2tKskEpcQCezpqpxR7i9NKqu1sdRYdR59TExYw4o4Lb_32gNNIqcUOX8b6iy2wYFQjfnTiuf0DuB1my3iBNX86rPGJXcar1raQDDr8NRDYQyYJtpHE/s400/Trevor-Skipsea3.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314662688585218082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 318px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv2tI28V_xKEMTHumeucoxPCWw1SrJiK7ktjHSrrEl3R_zEgS39o6JRBXMUSSI_AdarCC-SGCEZSx9fa3x5ZNX0kYrvIzCm7B9sQBWiNnRPLwYWDSTmoTCBuPgxv32QTRRH6Qew-KcxRI/s400/Trevor-Skipsea5.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314662697889591634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 324px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ_OJRFWVwjZT1IrNTTisLvT6yHyalcUSMcUeGRBwk_a3eHKxivryehEILFzyA05Fg3_T8v1rUJh_tcCMXdHFYVuaV-390oGgsGzNfqWOqMuC6Vy1RcRtlnx_lxWxbVKyfJqetQOWfJ9g/s400/Saffron-Skipsea3.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div>Shanty Town in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Skipsea</span>, Yorkshire is a fascinating place - a row of chalets made out of wood and some train waggons. The buildings are literally sitting a few meters from the edge and many has fallen in to the sea over the years. Recently the residents have got planning permission to build 70 meters or so back from the cliff edge, so they should be safe for a bit longer. I met Trevor who have had to cut his house in half to save it from the sea. He says the salt water destroys everything and he can't keep up with the paint work or justify spending money on it.<br /><br /><div><div>Saffron is an Sculptor who have made <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Skipsea</span> her home, she had an exhibition in Hull last year titled: Tides of R-Evolution that was about the community and their relationship with the environment. Now Saffron will be building an Eco house made out of straw bales on the land behind her present house. I also met a lady called Janet who had old postcards from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Skipsea</span> in the 1950's - a whole road and street of houses have disappeared into the sea since then. Janet's family had a caravan there back then but that land is long gone. Janet has a real interest in the erosion and dug out a load of photographs she had taken over the years. Her house is about 1 km inland and she told me she did not buy a house nearer the sea because of the erosion. Her perspective is interesting because she is not directly affected but she knows most of the people in the village who are. She is sympathetic but she also points out that there are people who bought big nice houses for a lot less than the actual prize in the area just because of the risk of erosion. The problem seem to be that they have been told that the erosion is a lot less than it actually is in some places, an average is measured in studies and can not foresee that several meters will just suddenly disappear. It seems clear that nobody really knows, their are so many different theories about sea defences, what works and what doesn't. Sea defences in one place speeds up erosion further down the coast where there are non. It is not just the sea who contributes to erosion, it is just as much the surfaces water coming of the cliffs. </div><br /><div>I have been struggling to find people to participate in the project. I just feel that it is to intrusive to knock on people's doors, that the issue is a bit sensitive. John suggested in one of our tutorials that I write a letter and drop through people's letter boxes - a great idea that for some weird reason never crossed my mind. Thanks to having printed photographs to give and a letter explaining what I'm doing, it was a lot easier to get talking to people. I met many people outside because the weather was nice. Some people were happy to be interviewed but not photographed which is fine because their stories are fascinating in itself. </div><div>I'm still not quite sure how the project will look when finished, the landscapes taken from the beach looking up seems to be the most effective. I took some pictures inside Saffron's house, I was interested to see how they would work together with the landscapes but it does not quite do it for me. Maybe I'm trying to do to many things... I really need to think about this, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">aesthetically</span> it is not working. I'm not even sure the people shots fit with the landscapes but I so want them to. </div></div></div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-37408401379328818452009-02-22T08:28:00.000-08:002009-02-22T09:23:20.803-08:00Some articlesI have just found a really useful website - <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/">http://www.editorsweblog.org/</a> They have published a recent article on the citizen photojournalism agency <a href="http://www.citizenside.com/">Citizenside</a> - <a href="http://www.citizenside.com/">'Citizenside is there a future for Citizen photojournalism?'</a> This agency seem to be different from other agencies/companies that collect citizen's photographs in that they can check the authenticity of an image through an especially developed 'tool' where for example image changes online can be spotted and by using the senders IP address they will now where the image is sent from. They are also keen to share their technology and sell the reporter kit to traditional publications. I want to find out some more about this, could be interesting...<br /><br />This weeks TIME magazine have a couple of good articles on the challenges newspapers are facing: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html">'How to Save Your Newspaper' </a>and <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1880581,00.html">'Turning the Page' </a>(Charlie Beckett is quoted in this one). It mainly deals with the dilemma of decline in subscriptions, increase in people reading free online content and web advertising falling. Many newspapers and magazines rely heavily on advertising.... citizen journalism is also mentioned.Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-49589609453816901502009-02-07T07:32:00.000-08:002009-02-07T08:35:14.114-08:00Cow smuggling and India's new fence<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqNniLWOwHC978E-bdXLBPnDWfBDDRaJ8bGMhXPg6gIcOyscH-yVREG8_rkYU78K9D1g4eN5r-QLGxOXlfnIaTZV9qui_vYHOQJQ7tXZoMz0CW8k6MSQy0PKdRf2-Qxp-WLYeIlIP5GFI/s1600-h/india-+bangladesh+border.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300081506827427938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 286px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqNniLWOwHC978E-bdXLBPnDWfBDDRaJ8bGMhXPg6gIcOyscH-yVREG8_rkYU78K9D1g4eN5r-QLGxOXlfnIaTZV9qui_vYHOQJQ7tXZoMz0CW8k6MSQy0PKdRf2-Qxp-WLYeIlIP5GFI/s400/india-+bangladesh+border.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> Photographer <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Prashant</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Panjiar</span></span><br /><br /><div align="left">Time Magazine published a really striking story about the Indian/ Bangladeshi border this week, titled ' <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1877200-1,00.html">A Great Divide</a>' India is building a fence on its border with Bangladesh that will when finished encircle the whole of its smaller neighbour. The Indian government sees this as a necessary step against extremism but there are several other border issues, the biggest problem is cows smuggled from India over to Bangladesh. Since cows are sacred in India they can't be exported for slaughter but they are in great demand for food in Bangladesh. Dozens of Indians die every year trying to earn $22 for getting a cow across. The Indian Border Security Force (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">BSF</span>) captured 70,000 cows last year. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">I also found another border story, <a href="http://www.livewireimages.com/home.htm">'The Wall - <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Ahmedabad</span>' </a>by the same photographer as above.</div></div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-26373008790396330722009-02-05T00:44:00.000-08:002009-02-07T08:34:25.104-08:00Yorkshire and sound<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299233000633062242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS2H5EIY0hlOgdSwEgJ8eqFL24zCBqu0cgJeCsFTOEIjbZPjlsh7Y2lrgXWImf8tk7BQqpyvgGeZNZl9wXc1Z9cS6ciLYXz9V5pku5uJ855Ge1WhaxNzZKBhZfC5P-GNZoXqBSXF6PMxw/s400/Untitled-1.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299233003861831874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 316px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnqCKgbRTKS-Qbk7X2Qh7WFMA-CL3h9M2fkdbK91ygSFBZTKWD6YqMnm1OSzvJ5z8zvUA47zhl-OzppuhL2Ed-yDwrvFibazXhIlzRIiYO0CGgThZ3Owp7WVQYi46lkhqMIhC-0Q3j3WY/s400/Shanty+Town-Skipsea+05.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299233006705258386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 332px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPEAttZ_rnjCI8TjA9NTvqtw99qrqrxVFPK4SkDoxqFIQw8tjCB3oFnm6bQm4Cjbp0aIImaoBF1QSJzb_T9ASdzoVWevZqAbktYDRdhq8CImVWE23SclYDdeRN20_Uks-N3wwRBi7Uy08/s400/Shanty+Town-Skipsea+01.jpg" border="0" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifSKiZMoO_rjI-7Uq9wuR5joR_8t8Vv31a0Bqczmx6_YYhRwNwRVYqhNgQy4wDIunowhoTNdaEhMpgyaS8K59_yPgzplwUyz2RQVOEC0hl8PFVrraOGcWgekkvq7dV2wlJzzQJwDGFEtc/s1600-h/unkown.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299233332720995106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 317px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifSKiZMoO_rjI-7Uq9wuR5joR_8t8Vv31a0Bqczmx6_YYhRwNwRVYqhNgQy4wDIunowhoTNdaEhMpgyaS8K59_yPgzplwUyz2RQVOEC0hl8PFVrraOGcWgekkvq7dV2wlJzzQJwDGFEtc/s400/unkown.jpg" border="0" /></a><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299233009830602338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLHg4cBMcPMcBDsx_dWkZnFqKHUlyDj5_Ub3SQ8P3nyDq34yb961IBQk6in7lKaZVhO7QsqlzIHUxIeaxW5xqZ376u9WKv5GGMdF7tHpHwyVcBTgyy9KeKTHYD1jF4n9_gUTh4J2MNWf4/s400/Great+Cowden03.jpg" border="0" /><br />The Holderness region in East Yorkshire has one of Europe's fastest eroding coastlines. The Alderborough area is estimated to erode as much as 3.8 metres a year. Walking the coast line there were bits of earth constantly falling off, creating a deep rumbling sound. It made me think of doing sound recordings of this, it all felt very athmospheric and there is also the constant sound of the sea. I'm not sure how difficult this would be to record yet, how near to the 'fall' I would have to be and then it is the sound of the wind to take into consideration. I saw an really interesting exhibition last year called <a href="http://www.soundingsfromtheestuary.com/islesofgrain.html">Soundings from the Estuary </a>that combined sound with images as well as text. The different sounds were playing on an constant loop in the gallery.<br /><br />I found some good locations in Yorkshire that illustrates what I want to capture but the light was not right for most of the time, to much sunshine which does not fit with the bleak landscapes I want. I will make another trip for sure to get better light and there are still more locations in the Yorkshire area that I want to explore.<br />I'm looking for more people to include in the landscapes, people that are in some way affected. I want to interview them and use their stories/thoughts with the images. I think the writing could fit well with a set of landscapes and would hopefully add more understanding for how erosion is affecting peoples lives.<br /><div><div><div><div><div></div></div></div></div></div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-19915255253899285442009-01-30T01:03:00.000-08:002009-01-30T01:40:53.327-08:00Major Project PlanningI have some very loose ideas of what my major project will be so this is really just throwing some thoughts in the air and most of them are quite unrealistic. What I have been thinking and reading a lot about is the Arctic. I am fascinated by the concept of the north and the idea it seems to hold in the collective imagination as a hostile and much uninhabited place. I'm interested in the settlements/towns - the people who inhabit these places as well as the landscape that surrounds them. The idea is off course very wide and the area massive so it has to be defined in some way.<br />There is the white nights (24 hour light) as well as 24 hour darkness in winter (which will be hard to include in the time frame of the project).<br />Global warming is affecting these areas - in Alaska a whole village was moved due to erosion, seal hunters fall through the ice.<br />Then it is the quest for the Arctic(oil & natural gas), what some call 'the new great game'.<br /><br />Some good books:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arctic-Anthology-Elizabeth-Kolbert/dp/1847080278/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233308013&sr=1-2">The Arctic - An Anthology </a>(Granta)<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Running-Reindeer-Encounters-Russian-Lapland/dp/0719557364/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233308081&sr=1-2">Running with Reindeer - Encounters in Russian Lapland</a>, Roger Took<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/True-North-Travels-Arctic-Europe/dp/1846970784/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233308126&sr=1-2">True North</a>, Gavin Francis<br /><br />Other ideas is to expand on my coastal erosion project and maybe look at other areas in Europe or continue to photograph the Thames Estuary.Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-18430921018179832272009-01-15T04:46:00.001-08:002009-01-15T05:09:59.401-08:00Selsey<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ-apl801jfk5R0GcFQk7Tz43zrZTSpa4rZ9Kur3Dr6dvCh8o-jc0SA9YwaZ6oFxP60AMjLHM3rCErxwOJwwQljO1Gof_dC-KKwkL0V-R8xevdHhmAeDyZgfN9L_-HagGEHWwdo3tweRw/s1600-h/Selsey+for+blog.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291501160585571522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 329px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ-apl801jfk5R0GcFQk7Tz43zrZTSpa4rZ9Kur3Dr6dvCh8o-jc0SA9YwaZ6oFxP60AMjLHM3rCErxwOJwwQljO1Gof_dC-KKwkL0V-R8xevdHhmAeDyZgfN9L_-HagGEHWwdo3tweRw/s400/Selsey+for+blog.jpg" border="0" /></a> I went down to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Selsey</span> in West Sussex just before <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Christmas</span> and met with Richard <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Dearsley</span> who started the action group <a href="http://www.saveourselsey.org/">Save our <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Selsey</span></a>. The sea is moving in closer and closer in this area. Richard and his wife recently moved from their house on the seafront to a house further inland because it became <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">unbearable</span> to stay on. The sea kept crashing in to the garden and things needed constant repair.<br /><div></div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-15128286982006108382009-01-12T15:08:00.000-08:002009-01-12T15:25:05.383-08:00Beautiful story on Turkey<a href="http://www.bjp-online.com/">British Journal of Photography </a>(BJP) published a really amazing set of images about Turkey this week by photographer <a href="http://www.georgegeorgiou.net/gallery.php?ProjectID=148&groupid=1">George Georgiou </a>. The work is called 'Happy is he who calls himself a Turk'. The images are so layered with past and future, ideology and transition and incredibly beautiful. I just can't stop looking at them!Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-22208926791292461572009-01-08T13:56:00.000-08:002009-01-08T14:59:07.600-08:00Hard drive failureOn New Years Day my hard drive went bust, a pretty <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">aggravating</span> start to 2009. <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Fortunately</span> all my images were backed up so no real disaster. But I lost almost all <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">research</span> (my bookmarks) for this project and what I have been researching for the potential final project, emails etc, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">aggghhhr</span>.... It was just one of those things I never thought of saving somewhere else. So it has been a lot of loading programs and collecting information but I'm almost back on track and ready to crack on. I had a really nice and relaxing Christmas back in Sweden and now I'm back in chaos land.Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-26116660020470535162008-12-17T06:04:00.000-08:002008-12-17T13:52:58.822-08:00The right to defend your home<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280866944293844370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 270px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVSdMjmNdN2w1DVZ75ZNVVzH4lYE6Kf-KKGyOS3bd8mHXKGMA-oYRuqnOeYoBkRbbbSQKrdc5mVuV3gq5KVDcDXqsftBzW_bE_Q879icGsl1wMGfT8-ISzh068zT7TcL6JLbGjLmvjFD0/s400/Untitled-3.jpg" border="0" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdg-JOZO2rtpIdL9EF-nlmhTBr8kmRFTefjwHqvV5ITnU0yhmRiyxRV5M2yMJMld8LjiEp7bW44fZdR-fRueCdfNIjaFNaQWxng5voZ7Ypkv_AJyg00cg-0JbIxIv1PLPbm5K6TCLzrd4/s1600-h/Untitled-4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280866961827464306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 276px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdg-JOZO2rtpIdL9EF-nlmhTBr8kmRFTefjwHqvV5ITnU0yhmRiyxRV5M2yMJMld8LjiEp7bW44fZdR-fRueCdfNIjaFNaQWxng5voZ7Ypkv_AJyg00cg-0JbIxIv1PLPbm5K6TCLzrd4/s400/Untitled-4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqj8YPcPoiyBBU3AFJLuLJHnH0JDSYABqlJeChlRx6KKIL4b-AWrjbEd-Y2ycL6q4i6Guq5WmVB74ex_UhqIIkKYucuqVZaqMV39LevJgJlTI7dNCjm-gumCdwpXYkSvZ1-8jd1-UopxQ/s1600-h/Untitled-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280866934723649602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 276px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqj8YPcPoiyBBU3AFJLuLJHnH0JDSYABqlJeChlRx6KKIL4b-AWrjbEd-Y2ycL6q4i6Guq5WmVB74ex_UhqIIkKYucuqVZaqMV39LevJgJlTI7dNCjm-gumCdwpXYkSvZ1-8jd1-UopxQ/s400/Untitled-1.jpg" border="0" /></a> The court case of Peter <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Boggis</span>, 77 fighting Natural England over if he should be allowed to continue building his sea defences to protect his home from falling in to the sea, in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Easton</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Bavents</span>, Suffolk got quite a lot of coverage in the national papers on 6<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">th</span> December. </div><div>Articles: </div><div>The Independent: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/tide-turns-in-favour-of-diy-sea-barrier-1054430.html">'Tide turns in favour of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">DIY</span> sea barrier'</a> </div><div>The Guardian: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/06/law">'Coastal campaigner wins legal battle to save clifftop property'</a> </div><div>The Times <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5295682.ece">'The Clifftop crusader wins his fight to repel the sea - by a technical knockout'</a></div><div></div><div>Natural England(a government body) argued that they want to make this stretch of coastline a 'Site of Specific Scientific Interest' (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">SSSI</span>) and it should be allowed to erode naturally to reveal fossils etc. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Boggis</span> wants the right to protect his home, he has already put down 250,000 tonnes of clay in front of his house. This court battle also highlights the issue that 'if you don't allow someone to defend their own property then you must compensate them.' (The Times) This is something that is not happening in the U.K at the moment.</div><div></div></div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-35284562340656867242008-12-04T13:01:00.000-08:002008-12-04T13:26:34.469-08:00Birling Gap<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUfkoVqu4g14DUbQyP3mEjMacxeSLvSPMsqvUk51QUBnxXkFLzzB0LkKI9Retq92MIwVQD7d1J6y89fqYvyInBY1AQ6a0OC2WJ_dWuM2v2gC9DA0-KD0_X_DCfw5fFR7f2j1D4C3oKYbY/s1600-h/life+boat-Birling+Gap1.jpg"></a> Birling Gap, Sussex - A National Trust site<br /><div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZiwiftaNJUl3Eq38-977SEF4jdvCQp-fCNRvLCq4unOYrPRPiHZlhRniawxdYPpjO005wnWI-XFxR4_199k8GtSAOV9C8vponKvh0mUmNZkfch3em0VajeUK1T9db5WewBxOS3pi3CIE/s1600-h/B&B-Birling+Gap.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276043706862302018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 315px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZiwiftaNJUl3Eq38-977SEF4jdvCQp-fCNRvLCq4unOYrPRPiHZlhRniawxdYPpjO005wnWI-XFxR4_199k8GtSAOV9C8vponKvh0mUmNZkfch3em0VajeUK1T9db5WewBxOS3pi3CIE/s400/B&B-Birling+Gap.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl4YjPU8BSUrQdTXswtQwa6TpaRkHpnDN_lHHcQly7xrsZOO3pkRDS2U0bBfiOagaOdAqmMMBJ9Z5hXC-LDgw594XTv_F_P0WKPWHwMcGQWbM_wCTD2KsbxjiN5Aju8wdiKN5Jex69OxQ/s1600-h/life+boat-Birling+Gap1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276043704327347218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 318px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl4YjPU8BSUrQdTXswtQwa6TpaRkHpnDN_lHHcQly7xrsZOO3pkRDS2U0bBfiOagaOdAqmMMBJ9Z5hXC-LDgw594XTv_F_P0WKPWHwMcGQWbM_wCTD2KsbxjiN5Aju8wdiKN5Jex69OxQ/s400/life+boat-Birling+Gap1.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div></div></div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-75633048054965109482008-11-26T05:58:00.000-08:002008-11-26T13:36:32.391-08:00ResearchIt is not exactly on the theme of borders but I am looking at different stories at the moment that are somehow relating to what I am trying to do in order to find a working 'template' for my project. Some images that I have kept returning to over the past year is Gideon Mendel's photographs of last summers floods that affected many parts of the U.K. The images are interestingly juxtaposed with his images of floods in India that happened around the same time. They feel quite bizarre and yet so real. The work was published in the Guardian's G2 supplement last year and author Maggie Gee wrote a really intelligent and thought provoking article titled <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/20/flooding.naturaldisasters"><em>Drowned Worlds</em> </a>to accompany the images.<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270743159108542754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 310px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheXYz06a6leydemdT7RXxBL_W5BpcUCEoO5sl_E2ES3Smchy2Rn0f3KGAaeO0PG3r02phrC7_lYbgP6HkREUIBeJLeJ_hXM3fgLNZUeT02YGDw5B8En5nct0NY7zSgKi5ilydFzOtKSao/s400/DSC_0009.jpg" border="0" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWN7y-uGLexHqJhJnbvJGD0qdkx0xBkf_dswEs6JSgeo7ungPQtHcAA7Ox-ikXr8j0H-N_FYOxij4wI70pWOvaoJew8bdoXurdibRRggXsjc-QeA3VEmCQq1xlPLwIiOk85lzOTG6nZ5Y/s1600-h/DSC_0018.jpg"></a><br /><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfnqLQTF1myedI9CjC_oANP0RNI5fanYwEeZ3w5_tej9lvcrsKx1xUCJ19YZjzdnsHRLUR0TnKwqZougHie4EublJtMKfz2Oruh9po3XaDxO_gzFOI-3y6nWqbW2zpG5Lk_rJ-6lFbmZc/s1600-h/DSC_0011.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270740796813834674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfnqLQTF1myedI9CjC_oANP0RNI5fanYwEeZ3w5_tej9lvcrsKx1xUCJ19YZjzdnsHRLUR0TnKwqZougHie4EublJtMKfz2Oruh9po3XaDxO_gzFOI-3y6nWqbW2zpG5Lk_rJ-6lFbmZc/s400/DSC_0011.jpg" border="0" /></a></div></div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-42453520729424084932008-11-24T11:49:00.000-08:002008-11-24T12:26:12.137-08:00Missed exhibition<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272314459673745746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 201px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZ2_znD7YoiMN1bFzbYxg0sglqUBO6mBZE5M0c7tPbjvnDyGgmN0ezQhkaqy2SxYbeyx82CYm_LW6jWAeHwr9z90R2KoofKu7UH7f4JXqDe3XZJrGTR822cjJ7BeA4FY0ssgwu6uvebs/s400/Borderspaces.jpg" border="0" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUdGCKPmS8L5Bb10fjK1oeZ24e6rc9bSgIwA0tbrc4wZuyk6IXSZQeekwXzMFzhmjR-5fHTtzrKhsIm8hljmq_r2kJU5bpyIYTCuuen80rDSJUbUi8Qy7gRPKzSAQPPUrJUY79K5O7SOA/s1600-h/Borderspaces2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272314467262860722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 202px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUdGCKPmS8L5Bb10fjK1oeZ24e6rc9bSgIwA0tbrc4wZuyk6IXSZQeekwXzMFzhmjR-5fHTtzrKhsIm8hljmq_r2kJU5bpyIYTCuuen80rDSJUbUi8Qy7gRPKzSAQPPUrJUY79K5O7SOA/s400/Borderspaces2.jpg" border="0" /></a> I found this postcard advertising an exhibition titled <em><a href="http://www.schwartzgallery.co.uk/exhibitions-previous.html">Borderspaces</a></em> when visiting an exhibition at Photofusion. It ended Sunday so I missed it unfortunately. Did anybody else see it? Looking at the website it is nice to see that the theme has been interpreted in many different ways. Really gutted I didn't see it though, so many good photographers and it would have been interesting to see how it was put together in relation to what we are doing. Instead I just got myself wet and soggy down the coast with no good photographs!<br />However I did see <a href="http://www.photofusion.org/gallery/photography/exhibitions/current/default.htm"><em>Uta Kogelsberger's Bunker series</em> </a>which are fantastic to look at.<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272320974717874370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 190px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6uKj0TdsfWaDYr9jkA9ZYbUZQVclJW7n9P-TgiYM0Ew5VX3BPdchblMzAQvBG0MnvHoU_Q28ULrrmKUXG_J4Us29alEm8flgjwCnz2iMJGsTPlfJWghzoK-hJKwPj5WOSZtDUoN368s8/s400/bunker+series.jpg" border="0" />Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-8509864745170512642008-11-18T13:08:00.000-08:002008-11-18T13:11:38.545-08:00Contemplating sea defence<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHgctjRGBkGfeK467IMq4Rsd9gsxdiRZ3zmRO374gPg9BaYOwUO_iYdPGkFN4HvzjRNSiLqQ99B7-WGVuISSXdHuWNE-6uhntouqZs1FqjISGsG4MjUBLIgrnF-mKh_0928qHwskwxDsU/s1600-h/sandcastle-Happisburgh.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270107992675917058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 317px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHgctjRGBkGfeK467IMq4Rsd9gsxdiRZ3zmRO374gPg9BaYOwUO_iYdPGkFN4HvzjRNSiLqQ99B7-WGVuISSXdHuWNE-6uhntouqZs1FqjISGsG4MjUBLIgrnF-mKh_0928qHwskwxDsU/s400/sandcastle-Happisburgh.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-72919742369340472472008-11-13T14:07:00.000-08:002008-11-14T06:02:39.383-08:00Some rough scans for today's tutorial<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268276148546743138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 324px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVOlYuOHlHYIxD8Mb9SnKv3TEzrZ_T1xqmdfhJ4d3caEi0PRQmXES3JNti49jVHhCnlGiyxZYj2Cui8zoGTrkbUN38nCBMdC4qVR5yd3p6BnCjV0chxU-Ed19xkr15psLrqnwKO9cxARY/s400/flintstone+erosion-Mundesley1.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlObbARUIkxC9MMQTTcfxCaWQqvPbwXNNfX882kle88jEne0Mnni6HCyGXjKDfwWQ6kV0b67LHm-CV1wJ6MBkuS3PA6x67hucFtuPDWkXBPEiBl_wQbjrkVT3lIO2UHU7g0Yp-a4BQ_f4/s1600-h/new+defences-Mundesley1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268430729669523970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlObbARUIkxC9MMQTTcfxCaWQqvPbwXNNfX882kle88jEne0Mnni6HCyGXjKDfwWQ6kV0b67LHm-CV1wJ6MBkuS3PA6x67hucFtuPDWkXBPEiBl_wQbjrkVT3lIO2UHU7g0Yp-a4BQ_f4/s400/new+defences-Mundesley1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268269193140340482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 315px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdfFJSRGBIZIpNSVsUoGoNJOuJPTDBLRBVa4PDuraClZjgnfa3H96gZURrP6jlKu2misRLQYdihTwFwfKfI-7sA7fVwU__lL7DLH5Td-o338tPmykm26wpCwTVtCNbt1WC9drgAaV-BLY/s400/flags-Mundesley.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268274846199948242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 321px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqAGqbpnDORz66vLMm4gD96kHM7aq1R5_-V58V5aGtO1PxlgdZR5kiojXP0gzmI6nYkttAmoAJiOl8lofuzlcBwgqqNL43byOWaTo1W77PTD53YheNXMLzO3qohBrcFJm8L6c-Ayy273I/s400/Mundesley2.jpg" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268273705276338146" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 321px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPXJF1nCleXBy_79-jfvYE6-KowhnDykOWYBnWJ33r2y3jowyj8k2zwKLh6vuROLiF78YFymVhS0-ctCK-5Jp6852OHM8IQWNrR0oUL4G2taKTVzk7EfjNjQApV9xmpux1ITyFDfDYLUA/s400/new+sea+defence-Happisburgh.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268431534300814914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 329px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9conw2J-A0f_mrs-DgVDTsh4TnIOBEO9X0d1V5R4ojB1RAIU38JiomFE0RDqjr8Sdf5IYcbq3FJ9VPz14OKMP2nHt6kZobWLQwkZQ5FEVZMLP31i6kq7MoZDavd4fTiXhy_eQsKkhcA/s400/Ron+%26+Sue%27s+cottage.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268279871794415906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 317px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmUbrwx3H00F67ah7Y-Odo5c8QRTZabZPdsS9ErHwZFAg0skZo-GkwUWRx6FgbR9FnItTK-W-lWBncDmqv9vtC8TCLngn9oP2eoSKgvqaSWiUq12hxYxVVKgPgyuzN52iggjWyE1i5Vqk/s400/diggers-1.jpg" border="0" /></div></div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-85342660332971546022008-11-13T13:19:00.000-08:002008-11-13T13:42:44.729-08:00National Trust report<a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/shifting_shores_brochure_final-2.pdf">Changing shorelines</a>, a report published by the National Trust, Britain's largest coastal landowner.<br /><a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-shifting_shores.pdf">Changing Shorelines pamphlet</a>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-46567340582783482812008-11-10T12:24:00.000-08:002008-11-13T15:09:00.486-08:0013m from the edge<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6qe3ShbGFBN1wMcx9Rx47mocBS67l86ArVpavSAHDmQiw4DYa32bWM0qfBfs6BJrj3bfgntQGFQcLEUlSUQy1Johpw4aKziB8nh2Jrgh5LHB9sRXHr2B1i3wUu6G5Y-GBNoUDYUVrSjE/s1600-h/Briony-2.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY1ypiwqYJex5DaCoJdDJfE9JPjo_G7YrkPnW5qHi_HEmoVa_cZaYJwCufJsWDKUJ9nSB5rt3BDITMgWXuZNvFLC4gTlIWjJTselAZru2ztwXeyGoupAy-QR68jf549ZiGcXRnVb6sTU0/s1600-h/Di-4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267130335513228610" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 331px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3vBmVCBsiPPunkuReHAEArYgXYOP9v94hlVqqdVUsR2-1NgUN7X_Ysf0I0Ihu-4JW9S163CqYubnSPR-6SGFjAEFDBorcsGC9Hamhksc0lDKOhon9VfgiyUdSgtVFPUsEzz8Gdk10q7E/s400/Briony-1.jpg" border="0" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgRt6aMliQDdQm8wwnfPK6YEVhHx0TfTsKpTHiZpTkAX8LKY-hY767Fk3hAk6Xc67vvAclEBtdu5pSOrAXrlydFhKhy8maspNCUZIvdqqKhNUVaX5vcl8ta_O8okT4hYAQRS8UA70wERk/s1600-h/Briony-2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267128742566243778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 318px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgRt6aMliQDdQm8wwnfPK6YEVhHx0TfTsKpTHiZpTkAX8LKY-hY767Fk3hAk6Xc67vvAclEBtdu5pSOrAXrlydFhKhy8maspNCUZIvdqqKhNUVaX5vcl8ta_O8okT4hYAQRS8UA70wERk/s400/Briony-2.jpg" border="0" /></a> Bryony<br /><div><div><div><div><div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6y1HAVcVbLbwlPuvT6UCug-VDQx3hSfFrR6Q7TUcW-RfdWsii183kVjz1fdEjJFgurdKaBWKTBss_3ddZbN_e3DfZ-mBR76GvFZpXeYxVIvfBGB0LORQv9o4Kx2ocvJDb-YQi0Eel1Ig/s1600-h/Di-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267128724501027218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 355px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6y1HAVcVbLbwlPuvT6UCug-VDQx3hSfFrR6Q7TUcW-RfdWsii183kVjz1fdEjJFgurdKaBWKTBss_3ddZbN_e3DfZ-mBR76GvFZpXeYxVIvfBGB0LORQv9o4Kx2ocvJDb-YQi0Eel1Ig/s400/Di-1.jpg" border="0" /></a> Diane<br /></div><div></div><div>I have spent some days exploring parts of Norfolk coast that is badly affected by erosion. I stayed in Happisburgh, a small village which has lost most of its sea defences. Diane Wright bought Cliff house on Beach Road in Happisburgh over 20 years ago to run a B&B which she still does but the house is now only 13m away from the cliff edge. From the room I was staying in I could hear the sound of the waves, the windows were rattling in the wind and the rain pouring down outside. Diane has 3 m left to go until she will be forced to move out and the house will be demolished. She has grown used to the idea over the past few years but still feel it is unfair that the government is prepared to protect certain areas but not others. Diane said she bought the house in the belief that she would be protected. </div><div>Bryony next door, just moved in to her bungalow in July. 'I bought it in an act of defiance, I don't believe the sea should have the last word' she told me.<br /></div></div><div><div>My trip was an attempt to try to start the project and get my head around the issues I want to focus on. Unfortunately I managed to take a lot of not very good pictures of subject matters that could have been very interesting. I feel really gutted over how crap my composition is at times, so unhappy with my horizons....I get in to a real state about things like this and end up chucking my negs in a draw, pretending they never happened, until I feel strong enough to face them and attempt to make better photographs. So feeling really quite unsure of the whole project, I haven't got a totally clear idea of how the project will look or how to precede and what is realistic to expect. At times I think perhaps I should focus on another idea I have about residual spaces, this would give me more freedom in terms of what I could include in the photographs. But I feel really quite strongly about the effect of these coastal landscapes and the people who inhabit them.</div><div>The project will definitely be a challenge for me, it is a more specific story from what I am used to photographing and is proving quite tricky in terms of how to physically shoot certain things. It is problematic photographing people and their houses on the edge. How to portray it? Only way of getting the houses and the people in would be to stand below the cliff shooting up, but one has to move far out in order to see the bungalows and the people would be tiny...<br />The broken sea defences look quite dramatic to me and I keep thinking they would look good shot on panoramic format, but I definitely don't want to shoot the whole project that way, mixing formats?... Anyway I put the above pictures up here to give you an idea of what I'm interested in conveying. </div></div></div></div></div></div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-23908364109122258652008-10-31T12:04:00.000-07:002008-10-31T14:17:32.677-07:00NorfolkI'm heading up to Norfolk for a few days to have a look around areas affected by coastal erosion. I'm staying in Happisburgh, in a house that is very near the cliff edge which should make for an interesting experience. It looks like the weather should be grey with drizzly rain which suits my needs. I'm after some really bleak landscapes. I spend a lot of time on Google Earth looking at the coast line, so I have an idea about what to expect but it stands to see if the landscapes will be as dramatic as I imagine.Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-50202572485072617422008-10-30T11:42:00.000-07:002008-10-31T01:28:44.979-07:00VisionI can't believe what a fantastic line up <a href="http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=219942">Vision</a> has this year. Actually it is so many good speakers that it will be impossible to see them all because some talks are on at the same time. What a dilemma!! Just found out that <a href="http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/c.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.BookDetail_VPage&pid=29YL5302GQCD">Stuart Franklin</a> will show his work from the book Footprint. I have just recently become familiar with this work through my research for the borders project. His work is about the environmental changes that Europe is facing. Looks really interesting but it seems that this talk will be on at the at the same time as <a href="http://www.simoncroberts.com/simonroberts.html">Simon Robert's </a>though, I can only hope that the schedule will change for the better. Simon Roberts and <a href="http://www.simonnorfolk.com/pop.html">Simon Norfolk </a> is a must, their work is truly inspirational. <a href="http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&l1=0&pid=29YL530NQSDE&nm=Jacob%20Aue%20Sobol">Jacob Aue Sobol</a> and <a href="http://www.samfaulkner.co.uk/">Sam Faulkner</a> should be really good to see too. I'm so looking forward to this!Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-78719098342822971052008-10-13T20:30:00.000-07:002008-10-13T12:42:14.274-07:00Border storiesHere are some photo stories that I really like that are about borders:<br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.yannmingard.ch/pages/personal.html#17">East of a new Eden</a> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Yann</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Mingard</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Alban</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Kakulya</span></div><div><a href="http://albankakulya.com/docs/east_of_a_new_eden.pdf">http://albankakulya.com/docs/east_of_a_new_eden.pdf</a></div><br /><a href="http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.philippegrollier.com/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dphilippe%2Bgrollier%26hl%3Den%26pwst%3D1">People of Derry </a>- Philippe <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Grollier</span><br /><br /><a href="http://baudelaire.net/fs/index_imagined_works.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Abkhazia</span> (Imagined States)</a> - Eric Baudelaire<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guy-martin.co.uk/mymovie.html">Trading over the Borderline</a> - Guy Martin<br /><a href="http://www.guy-martin.co.uk/mymovie.html"></a><br /><a href="http://www.oliviaarthur.com/">The Middle Distance</a> - Olivia Arthur<br /><br />A lot of <a href="http://www.paulseawright.com/archive.html">Paul <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Seawright</span></a>'s work deals with borders and the periphery.Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-14815177217126010292008-10-13T02:04:00.000-07:002008-10-13T05:39:29.768-07:00Sacrificial CoastI guess I originally thought that I would go back to Kaliningrad for my Borders story, being and enclave and cut off from the rest of Russia, border issues are a constant issue there. But I feel that I need a story I can revisit regularly and therefore it needs to be in Britain for the moment.<br /><br /><br />Land and people's relationship to the land interests me and is a theme that I keep returning to.<br />I came a cross an recently published book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vanishing-Landscapes-0-John-Berger/dp/0711229287">Vanishing landscapes</a> which deals with the fact that landscapes will soon no longer exist the way we know them. John Bergers writing appears and work by photographers such as Edward Burtynsky , Joel Sternfield, and Robert Adams are featured.Photographer An - My Le has written some very thought provoking words in this book:<br /><em></em><br /><em>'While landmasses are carved up into jigsaw puzzles of nations, territories, and green zones, oceans define borders but defy politics. Against the backdrop of an ocean, any enterprise, military, commercial or scientific, appears fragile and barley tolerated.'</em><br /><br />I really like <em>this: 'oceans define borders but defy politics'</em> This makes me think about Britain's eroding coastline. Certain parts of the coast especially in Norfolk is eroding faster than ever before. There are communities such as Happisburgh, Walcott, Mundesley that in the not so distant future might be completely swallowed up by the sea and wiped of the map. The U.K government says it is to costly to protect the whole of the coastline. 'Managed retreat' is the term scientists has given this approach, meaning that governments around the world are making decisions about what it can afford to save and what has to be sacrificed. A big part of the Norfolk coast seem to be out of luck, the sea defences are considered unsustainable and new ones will not be built. This mean that many people stand to loose their homes to the sea, farmers will loose their livelihood, historic sites and nature reserves will disappear. Unlike in countries like The Netherlands where compensation is given for loss of land to erosion, in the U.K there is no compensation. The effect the sea has on the land has become a political issue. How to decide what is protected and what is to be sacrificed? And there is talk of what could be Britain's first climate change refugees.<br />I want to visit these areas, photograph the landscapes and the people who belong to these places, not just Norfolk, though I think this might be a very good starting point but also other areas. At this stage I am quite open minded about what will be included. I could just focus on what I want to call 'Sacrificial Coast' or it could be extended to look at what is done to preserve and defend ourselves from the sea.<br /><div>I would like to use statistics with these images and get quotes from people. My hope is that I can make some good connection with people living in these areas. In terms of making it in to a multimedia presentation I could perhaps use voice over from people talking about the situation or perhaps record the sound of the sea hitting the cliffs and use it as 'background music'. But right know I really need to delve deeper in to the research and check some places out.</div><div></div><div>Some very useful articles:</div><br /><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/17/flooding.climatechange">Waves of destruction</a> The Guardian April 17 2008</p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/oct/09/ethicalliving.lifeandhealth">Living on the edge</a> The Guardian October 9 2006<br /><p><a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/04/europe/04erode.php">As the climate changes, bits of England's coast crumble</a> International Herald Tribune May 4 2007</p><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2008/aug/18/englandcoastlineunderthreat">Should we abandon Britain's crumbling coast?</a> The Guardian August 18 2008</p><p><a href="http://www.happisburgh.org.uk/press/dailymail120708.html">Living on the edge: The owners whose homes are going over a cliff</a> Daily Mail 12 July 2008</p><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/20/conservation.golf">Players at England's oldest golf course told to let it crumble into the sea</a> The Guardian May 20 2008</p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7200000/newsid_7209200/7209293.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&ms3=6&ms_javascript=true&bbcws=2">Erosion plea from sea victims</a> BBC News player</p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6350000/newsid_6359600/6359635.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&bbcws=1">Wale's coastal erosion threat</a> BBC News player</p><p><a href="http://www.happisburgh.org.uk/">CCAG Coastal Concern Action Group</a></p>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1167561386739837884.post-72625030300412772162008-09-13T05:09:00.000-07:002008-09-18T09:26:31.259-07:00Perpignan thoughts<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH1L3-MueePX-FL1ohMBDsMAQ2udPIuYyl5xxYX5BiSyX_4d6WdTMJIfKU9JWBI1IRpoxn5AAL_SKPD7H95CM_s7kMioGd9Q1KzZ_bgf1PSA49souoLoo227atdDi72tWz7x5NwLS-Dpg/s1600-h/visa_pour_image_logo.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247096286277140498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH1L3-MueePX-FL1ohMBDsMAQ2udPIuYyl5xxYX5BiSyX_4d6WdTMJIfKU9JWBI1IRpoxn5AAL_SKPD7H95CM_s7kMioGd9Q1KzZ_bgf1PSA49souoLoo227atdDi72tWz7x5NwLS-Dpg/s400/visa_pour_image_logo.png" border="0" /></a> Perpignan was such an intense experience, it was so nice to meet so many of the class all in one place. Saw and talked so much photography, been feeling exhausted, so many thoughts spinning in my head...<br /><div><br /><div>Some of those thoughts...</div><br /><div>I have mixed feelings about the exhibitions and slide shows that were shown. There were predominantly stories from Africa and Asia, shot by western photographers, very few stories from Europe and U.S. I have to admit that I found a lot of the work shown uninspiring. Many of the stories felt the same, shot in different countries but often seemed to take the same approach. I can't help feeling that many photographers see conflicts and suffering as an opportunity to make their name and it is something quite bizarre sitting in a pretty little town in France watching war, misery and disease on a big screen. I felt quite uneasy about the whole thing at times, wondering what the hell I was doing and was grasping for some sort of context. </div><div> </div><div>Having said all that, there were off course exceptions, such as a really amazing set of portraits of <a href="http://www.panos.co.uk/bin/panos.dll/go?a=disp&t=us\ft-loader.html&tpl=ft-index.html&mi=4&si=8BF0873C3F3A43B2A4C9EFAFE320E1&se=20">Belgian fishermen </a>shot by Stephan Vanfleteren, documenting a dying breed, there were so much character in their faces, truly anthropological. Exhibitions I liked were Paolo Pellegrin's images of the <a href="http://www.visapourlimage.com/exhibition/3493.do">Iraqi diaspora</a>, focusing on Iraqi refuges in Syria and Jordan. Pellegrin has that amazing ability to capture very big issues of our time without forcing a specific viewpoint on the viewer. <a href="http://www.visapourlimage.com/exhibition/3345.do">The Return of the Concubine </a>story by Axelle de Russe really reached me, these women's situation is disturbing and very upsetting. Brent Stirton's image of the evacuation of a dead mountain gorilla in <a href="http://www.visapourlimage.com/exhibition/3343.do">Virunga park </a>creates a reaction in me every time, so it was fascinating to see the full story on display.</div><br /><div>Looking at the World Press Photo exhibition that also were on show, I feel that a different state of photography are also represented with different styles, many stories are more portrait based, using medium format or even large format in some cases, often taking on a more anthropological or poetic/reflecting stance. This is inspirational, there is a feeling that the medium is evolving, acknowledging new ways of seeing. I would have like to see some solo exhibitions like this in Perpignan.<br />A really good thing in Perpignan was the bookshop at Couvent des Minimes. I got really blown away by the <a href="http://www.ojodepez.org/cgi/php/index.php?seccion=home">Ojodepez</a> magazines I found. I have seen a few issues before of this magazine but never seem to be able to find them in the U.K. So,so, so inspired by the photography in them. Olivia Arthur’s Behind the veil story heads the latest issue which really fascinates me. Brilliant stories in here are Matias Costa’s Cargo about how an abandoned fishing fleet crew from the former Soviet Union is stuck in Gran Canaria – amazing story and the light is so bleak, like nothing I have seen before. And Johann Rousselot’s suicide crop story of cotton farmers in India taking their on lives is just so strong and really brings attention to the disastrous effects big western corporations have on local farmers.</div><div> </div><div>So Perpignan defiantly got me feeling opinionated about the state of photojournalism. Coming back home, one of the first things a picked up to read was an article in PDN titled: 'The State of Art report: Photojournalism Survival' (I can't seem to find it online)it acknowledges the changing face of the media it also drew heavily on an article that Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin wrote in foto8 earlier this year: <a href="http://www.foto8.com/home/content/view/377/216/">Unconcerned but not Indifferent</a>. Reading this again made me feel a lot better about what I think.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><br /><br /> </div><div> </div><br /><br /><br /><div> </div></div>Miahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04790243696170947275noreply@blogger.com1