The UPA government today tabled the white paper published by the Finance Ministry headed by Pranab Mukherjee. BJP's Jaswant Singh described it as a "bikini" that conceals the essentials and displays the non-essentials! Here is the full text of the document in pdf sourced from the news website, Ibnlive.com. You can download this document and read.
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
RIP Horst Faas
Picture Copyright: AP
Horst Faas on assignment in Vietnam
I had never before seen Horst Faas' work till a photojournalist friend post a link to this mind blowing series of photographs on Denver Post website to mark the 30th anniversary of The Fall of Saigon in the Vietnam war. There are some stunning shots by Faas in this series posted in a previous post on this blog. But, Faas was clearly more than just a war photographer covering Vietnam. As this obituary on National Public Radio points out, he also trained a number of young photographers during the war coverage who went on to create iconic images. Two of them are significant. The Saigaon police chief executing a captured prisor by Eddie Adams, and the "Napalm Girl" by Nick Ut. In fact, he is widely credited as the picture editor who pushed these image past AP editors to the AP wire.
Couple of Faas' pictures are here
His interview with Digital Journalist where he speaks about the Saigaon Execution picture which is a must-read.
Do also read an obituary by Richard Pyle, former AP bureau chief and Faas' colleague, on Lens Blog
My salute to the great man. May his soul rest in peace.
Media Foundation of India announces photo contest 2012
Media
Foundation of India announces photo contest 2012
Mumbai, May 10: Mumbai-based Media Foundation
of India has announced its second national press photo contest for full-time
professional press photographers.
The MFI National Press Photo Contest 2012
invites entries from professional press photographers working with media
organizations to send in their photographs shot during the calendar year of
2011. Photographs shot during January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011 would be
eligible as entries in the contest.
(This contest is open only for full time
professional photojournalists who earn a living from photojournalism, and is
not open to amateur photographers)
Contest
Categories:
General
News (GN): Pictures
of scheduled events or planned events
Spot
News (SN): Pictures shot on the spot without any advance planning
Daily
Life (DL): Glimpses of richness and diversity of daily life
Sports
(SP): Pictures capturing sporting moments
Arts
& Culture (AC): Pictures of the literary and performing arts;
festivals etc
Best
Photo Stories (BPS): Picture sequence of a minimum of 2 and maximum of
12 images narrating a story pictorially. Photo stories shot in any of the five
categories could be entered here.
Awards
structure:
Picture
of the Year award: Rs 75,000 and a trophy
First Prize: Rs 50,000 and a trophy
Second Prize: Rs 30,000 and a trophy
Second Prize: Rs 30,000 and a trophy
Third Prize: Rs
20,000 and trophy
Jury
A three-member
eminent jury consisting award-winning photojournalists would judge the images
submitted. This year the jury includes senior photo journalists Pablo
Bartholomew, Kevin Frayer and Arko Datta.
Deadline
Entries could be sent in a CD to MFI
registered address or sent on email to MFIcontest2012@gmail.com
on or before the extended deadline of June 7, 2012
Website:
For more information about the contest, please log on to http://www.mfi.org.in
Contact:
Vikas Khot 9820039847/Satish Nandgaonkar 9820942662
About Media Foundation of India
Media Foundation of India (MFI) is a trust started by four
media professionals as an independent platform to organise media-related
activities that could extend beyond mere journalistic endeavours to promote a
knowledge exchange on wide-ranging contemporary issues. As a broader media and
cultural platform, it plans to undertake activities that include journalism
fellowships and awards, workshops, publishing, travelling exhibitions, art
shows, music concerts, film festivals among other things.
MFI launched its activities with MFI National Press Photo
Contest 2011. The contest received over 6,000 photographs as entries from 290
photojournalists across India. Kashmir-based freelance photojournalist Showkat
Nanda won the “Picture of the Year” award for his image of three widowed
sisters who lost their husbands to different causes arising out of the violent
conflict in Jammu and Kashmir.
Jury Profile
Kevin Frayer
Born in Canada in 1973, Kevin Frayer is chief photographer for
the Associated Press in South Asia based in New Delhi, India. Frayer began his
career in 1991 in the former Yugoslavia, and worked for the Canadian Press
before joining the AP in the Gaza Strip in 2003. He has covered major stories
across the Middle East and South and Central Asia, and his work has been
published in leading newspapers, magazines and websites around the world.
Over the years his work has received numerous awards, including from World Press Photo, POYi, the Headliner Awards, and the APME. His work was part of the AP’s finalist entry for the Pulitzer Prize twice in recent years- in 2006 for the war in Lebanon and in 2009 for the agency’s coverage in Afghanistan.
Over the years his work has received numerous awards, including from World Press Photo, POYi, the Headliner Awards, and the APME. His work was part of the AP’s finalist entry for the Pulitzer Prize twice in recent years- in 2006 for the war in Lebanon and in 2009 for the agency’s coverage in Afghanistan.
Arko Datta
Pulitzer award nominee and winner of the Picture of the Year at
the World Press Photo 2004, Arko has extensively covered news and sports events
across the world for the last two decades, including wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the kargil conflict, Summer Olympics, cricket World Cups to name a
few. Hid work has regularly appeared in leading newspaper and magazines like
The New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, International Herald Tribune,
and on the covers of Time magazine, Newsweek, The Economist etc.
Arko Datta was featured among the 20 photographers in Rotovision’s coffee table book “World’s Top Photographers”. One of Arko’s award-winning images also appeared on a postage stamp in Europe. Twice recipient of the “Photographer of the Year” award by Asian Photography magazine, Arko started his career at The Indian Express in 1991 and has since worked for The Telegraph, AFP and Reuters. Arko is also a member of the faculty at Udaan School of Photography.
Arko Datta was featured among the 20 photographers in Rotovision’s coffee table book “World’s Top Photographers”. One of Arko’s award-winning images also appeared on a postage stamp in Europe. Twice recipient of the “Photographer of the Year” award by Asian Photography magazine, Arko started his career at The Indian Express in 1991 and has since worked for The Telegraph, AFP and Reuters. Arko is also a member of the faculty at Udaan School of Photography.
Pablo Bartholomew
Influenced greatly by
his father, Pablo Bartholomew is a self- taught photographer who learnt his
first photography lessons at home.
In his early teens he photographed in the documentary tradition-family, friends, people and cities around him. At the age of 19, he was awarded the first prize for his series on morphine addicts, by World Press Photo in 1975.
Represented by Gamma Liaison for over 20 years, he worked as a photojournalist recording societies in conflict and transition. Published in every major magazine and journal in the world, he was awarded the World Press Photo, Picture of the Year, for an image of a dead body of a child, a victim of the disastrous Bhopal Gas Tragedy in 1984.
He won the World Press Photo award for his series Morphine Addicts in India (1975) and the World Press Picture of the Year for the Bhopal Gas Tragedy (1984). He has taken part in several international exhibitions & published in New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Business Week, National Geographic and Geo amongst other prestigious magazines and journals.
Between 2001 and 2003 as a time to give back to the younger generation of photographers in India, he ran workshops with the support of the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam.
With strong belief in the exhibition space, he has widely shown in galleries in India, photography festivals and museums internationally. Recent shows include Noorderlicht Photo Festival “Another Asia”, Netherlands,2006; ChobiMela, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2006; Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia 2006; Month of Photography, Tokyo, Japan 2007; Recontres d'Arles, Festival of photography, Arles, France, 2007; Private Spaces Public Places, Newark Museum, USA, 2007 & Noorderlicht Photo Festival “Act of Faith”, Netherlands 2007.
His first one person exhibitions in New Delhi in 1980 and in Bombay in 1981, dealt with themes of the fringe and the marginal worlds that he then lived and traversed in and shown at the Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi and at the Jehangir Art gallery, Bombay
His recent exhibition, OUTSIDE IN! 70’s & 80’s A TALE OF 3 CITIES… a visual diary of his teenage work, has shown at the Rencontres d’Arles, July 2007, At the National Museum, New Delhi, January 2008 and at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, March 2008. Bodhi Art in New York May 08 -14th June 2008. And at Bodhi Berlin in March 2009 in conjunction with the Berlinale. This concluded in Kolkata in 2010 as a joint show the Harrington Street Art Centre with his fathers photographs “A Critics’ Eye”.
In his early teens he photographed in the documentary tradition-family, friends, people and cities around him. At the age of 19, he was awarded the first prize for his series on morphine addicts, by World Press Photo in 1975.
Represented by Gamma Liaison for over 20 years, he worked as a photojournalist recording societies in conflict and transition. Published in every major magazine and journal in the world, he was awarded the World Press Photo, Picture of the Year, for an image of a dead body of a child, a victim of the disastrous Bhopal Gas Tragedy in 1984.
He won the World Press Photo award for his series Morphine Addicts in India (1975) and the World Press Picture of the Year for the Bhopal Gas Tragedy (1984). He has taken part in several international exhibitions & published in New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Business Week, National Geographic and Geo amongst other prestigious magazines and journals.
Between 2001 and 2003 as a time to give back to the younger generation of photographers in India, he ran workshops with the support of the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam.
With strong belief in the exhibition space, he has widely shown in galleries in India, photography festivals and museums internationally. Recent shows include Noorderlicht Photo Festival “Another Asia”, Netherlands,2006; ChobiMela, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2006; Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia 2006; Month of Photography, Tokyo, Japan 2007; Recontres d'Arles, Festival of photography, Arles, France, 2007; Private Spaces Public Places, Newark Museum, USA, 2007 & Noorderlicht Photo Festival “Act of Faith”, Netherlands 2007.
His first one person exhibitions in New Delhi in 1980 and in Bombay in 1981, dealt with themes of the fringe and the marginal worlds that he then lived and traversed in and shown at the Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi and at the Jehangir Art gallery, Bombay
His recent exhibition, OUTSIDE IN! 70’s & 80’s A TALE OF 3 CITIES… a visual diary of his teenage work, has shown at the Rencontres d’Arles, July 2007, At the National Museum, New Delhi, January 2008 and at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, March 2008. Bodhi Art in New York May 08 -14th June 2008. And at Bodhi Berlin in March 2009 in conjunction with the Berlinale. This concluded in Kolkata in 2010 as a joint show the Harrington Street Art Centre with his fathers photographs “A Critics’ Eye”.
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Vietnam war pictures
Picture Copyright: AP Photo/Horst Faas
(Photographs used in this blog are used purely with the intention of creating awareness about great photojournalism. I specify the name of the photographer and the source of the photograph to acknowledge the copyright. This blog has no commercial purpose.)
A friend posted this link from a Denverpost blog on facebook, and I am reposting it here as I feel these are very powerful images and reportage that underlines the crucial role played by photojournalists on the Vietnam war front in creating public opinion. Several iconic images here, but also several pictures that perhaps have not been seen before. April 30 marked the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, and these photographs strongly bring back pain of the Vietnam war.
Also posting a fascinating link from Nieman Lab about how 15 news organisation collaborated to narrate a single story
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