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08/04/2009 05:58:43 PM · #1 |
BBC Article
Originally posted by article:
Ian Parry was a photojournalist who died while on assignment for The Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989 aged 24. A scholarship was created by Aidan Sullivan and Ian's friends and family. Each year, young photographers who are either attending a full-time photographic course or are under 24 can submit work. Previous winners include Harriet Logan, Simon Roberts, Marcus Bleasdale and Ivor Pricket.
This year's winner is Maisie Crow, who is a graduate of the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University and currently an intern at the Boston Globe.
Maise's project is entitled Love Me, and portrays the life of a 17-year-old girl, Autumn (not her real name), who lives in a small town in Ohio with her parents. Maisie describes her project as an exploration of "coming of age in an environment that lacks the emotional and financial resources to facilitate her growth into adulthood." |
The series of photos can be seen here
Judging by the comments on the BBC article, there is some controversy about if the photos were 'staged', and if the photographers portrayal of poverty in the US is an accurate representation. I'm not from the US, so I can't comment on the latter.
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08/04/2009 06:26:00 PM · #2 |
I'm wondering if 6 months of solid DPC has really affected me--if it's made me much more cynical. Here I thought that I'm widening my scope. There are so many photographs that I appreciate now, that I would have dismissed 6 months ago. However, when looking at this series of photographs, I wasn't impressed.
I'm curious as to other people's reactions to these photos. Do they impress you? Do they move you? Or did they just seem kind of blah...? |
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08/04/2009 06:32:29 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
I'm curious as to other people's reactions to these photos. Do they impress you? Do they move you? Or did they just seem kind of blah...? |
Photography wise, no I am not impressed. However, considering the topic, I think the style of the images is very fitting. Well composed and highly polished images, while more pleasing to the eye, would be less reflective of the environment they are portraying. |
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08/04/2009 06:39:01 PM · #4 |
| It just seems like there should be more photos that evoke an emotion. In this case, there are only two. The rest didn't seem to portray the good or the bad--they just seemed indifferent. |
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08/04/2009 06:44:27 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
I'm curious as to other people's reactions to these photos. Do they impress you? Do they move you? Or did they just seem kind of blah...? |
A few of them made me wonder "what was she thinking??" but many of them were, I thought, genuinely very good. Overall, the series really communicated to me her subject's life situation.
If we separate them and analyze them individually as art works, they lose context. Few of them are stand-outs on their own. They are much stronger as a group. |
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08/04/2009 07:03:14 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by JH:
there is some controversy about if the photos were 'staged' |
Hmmm, one photo caption states that the family is so poor that they roll their own cigarettes, yet another photo shows her smoking what is clearly a machine-rolled cigarette with a filter. This lack of internal consistency makes me wonder... |
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08/04/2009 07:56:39 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by ErikV:
Originally posted by JH:
there is some controversy about if the photos were 'staged' |
Hmmm, one photo caption states that the family is so poor that they roll their own cigarettes, yet another photo shows her smoking what is clearly a machine-rolled cigarette with a filter. This lack of internal consistency makes me wonder... |
You can buy a box of empty cigarettes with filters on the end. Then you buy the tobacco separate and get a little machine where you put the tobacco in and it packs the tobacco down. Then you pull the empty cigarette in and out of the contraption and that empty smoke now is full of tobacco. Seems like what was going on. But the reporter just said "roll their own cigarette". I think that part is still consistent. Not sure otherwise. |
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08/04/2009 09:20:32 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by jdannels:
Originally posted by ErikV:
Originally posted by JH:
there is some controversy about if the photos were 'staged' |
Hmmm, one photo caption states that the family is so poor that they roll their own cigarettes, yet another photo shows her smoking what is clearly a machine-rolled cigarette with a filter. This lack of internal consistency makes me wonder... |
You can buy a box of empty cigarettes with filters on the end. Then you buy the tobacco separate and get a little machine where you put the tobacco in and it packs the tobacco down. Then you pull the empty cigarette in and out of the contraption and that empty smoke now is full of tobacco. Seems like what was going on. But the reporter just said "roll their own cigarette". I think that part is still consistent. Not sure otherwise. |
Still makes it a machine-rolled cigarette, although undoubtedly much less expensive that way. |
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