Links: Polaroids, Face Your Pockets, Malaria
Filed Under: On: March 27, 2008 posted by: 20x200
- The Polaroid as we know it will soon be going the way of the dodo, but that's not stopping the people behind the For the Love of Light: A Tribute to the Art of Polaroid book, which will be out this July, featuring 25 photographers (most of them women!) from ten countries on five continents.
- Face Your Pockets is a project by Timur Akhmetov and Yulia Yakushova, who are interested in all the detritus "living in the pockets of your bag, jeans or jacket: travel and pay checks, old cigarette pack that just looks interesting, sugar lumps and all the stuff that has found home in your pockets," and encourage people to place these things and their faces on a scanner and then send in the resulting image to add to their collection. It's an interesting twist on the What's In Your Bag? meme that goes around every few months; I actually think the results of this project are more interesting, both visually and also as a voyeuristic look into a slice of a stranger's daily life.
- The National Geographic feature Bedlam in the Blood: Malaria is up for an ASME National Magazine Award in the photojournalism category, and it's not hard to understand why once you've seen John Stanmeyer's photographs. Many of them are painful to view, some outright shocking, and they really do bring home the awful reality of malaria deaths—half a billion people a year fall sick with it every year, and about a million die, many of them children under five in Africa. Increasingly drug-resistant, it's easy to prevent with insecticide-filled nets—but actually getting those nets to the people who need it most is more difficult than raising the money to buy them in the first place.
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