2017-08-16

A FORMERLY HOMELESS PHOTOGRAPHER ON HOW TO (AND NOT TO) PHOTOGRAPH HOMELESS PEOPLE

Un article intéressant sur le sujet de la photographie de SDF sur PDNOnline. Robert Schultz, photographe et lui-même ex-sdf, y explique pourquoi ce sujet est très difficile à aborder.

La question qu'il faut se poser selon lui pour toute démarche documentaire est de savoir si l'on en sait assez sur le sujet. Cette question est d'usage beaucoup plus général que dans le champ du documentaire.

A FORMERLY HOMELESS PHOTOGRAPHER ON HOW TO (AND NOT TO) PHOTOGRAPH HOMELESS PEOPLE

2017-08-06

On the web: How We Should... / Sarah Sentilles / The New Yorker

On the web: How We Should Respond to Photographs of Suffering by Sarah Sentilles / The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/how-we-should-respond-to-photographs-of-suffering/amp


How We Should Respond to Photographs of Suffering

Renty, a man taken from the Congo, in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1850.
Renty, a man taken from the Congo, in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1850.
Photograph by J. T. Zealy / Wikimedia Commons



Several years ago, while staring at a photograph of torture on the front page of the newspaper, I began seriously asking myself a question that many people had asked before: What should one do when faced with images of violence?
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Then I read Ariella Azoulay’s “The Civil Contract of Photography,”...
It’s not empathy she’s after; she wants action. Images can transform the world, she argues, and the only reason they haven’t yet is because we don’t know how to look at them. The problem isn’t images; it’s us.

2017-08-05

2017-08-03

Techo-Parade

Les manifestations et autres parades m'attirent. Ce sont des occasions pour essayer de mieux comprendre. La techno-parade quant à elle est un peu particulière car y participent essentiellement des personnes assez jeunes, voire très jeunes, avec une motivation évidement festive. Toutefois, l'ambiance est assez proche de la Gay Pride, et il y a sans doute un important recouvrement entre les participants. Depuis 2015, ces défilés sont naturellement très fortement encadrés par les forces de l'ordre et l'itinéraire est plus limité. Coté photographie, cela rend le suivi plus facile.


Protest marches and other parades attract me. These are opportunities to try to better understand. The techno-parade is a bit special because it mainly involves people who are young, even very young, with a motivation obviously festive. However, the atmosphere is quite close to the Gay Pride, and there is probably an important overlap between the participants. Since 2015, these parades are naturally very strongly supervised by the forces of order and the route is more limited. On the photograph side, this makes following easier.