Links: Dith Pran, Colin Blakely, Miguel Rio Branco
Filed Under: On: March 31, 2008 posted by: 20x200
- Dith Pran, the New York Times photojournalist whose survival of his native Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge was the basis of the movie The Killing Fields, passed away Sunday at the age of 65 from pancreatic cancer. The NYT has a slideshow of photos taken of and by Pran, spanning from his work with Sydney H. Schanberg in Phnom Penh, his return to Siem Reap after the Vietnamese invasion, up to his life and work as a photojournalist in the US. In 1997, he released Children of Cambodia's Killing Field, a compilation of eyewitness accounts of Pol Pot's genocidal regime. RIP.
- I love this super cute blog post from Colin Blakely, whose 20x200 edition went up for sale just last week; he says, "Wow. I am stunned and ecstatic by the outcome of my 20×200 edition. In my most optimistic hopes I saw the small edition eventually selling out, but never in anything close to 28 hours." I wish everyone had a blog; it's truly one of the great gifts of this age that you can get information directly from someone if they choose to share it. Colin's piece, The Seeming Impenetrability of the Space Between, is still available in medium and large—pick one up while you still can!
- Magnum Photos has just kicked off their new series of conversations with their photographers by inviting friend of 20x200 Jörg M. Colberg to interview the photographer Miguel Rio Branco.
It's a long, fantastic read, well worth your time; my favorite part is his discussion of what art is: "The boundary between fine art and photography is clear at least to me. Between fine art and photojournalism it is the same. What I have seen lately is mostly commercial [photography], or technical or photojournalism, becoming "ART" just because of its size or because of who in power says that this or that is ART. To me Art is a question of: first, having something to say from the inside that has nothing to do with description of reality, reality being just the material thing that the camera captures. So for this question I must say that I always focus on the images I want to SHOW, not necessarily to see, some of those images I would even want NOT to see."
04/01/08 10:17 PM
Colin Blakely said...
Super cute!?? Yikes. I feel like I have to go out and play some football or something to reclaim my manliness!