NewsletterNewsletterTo sign up, enter your email address here: NewsDaylight/CDS projection @ Golden Belt Thanks to all who joined us at Golden Belt for a wonderful evening of multimedia projections featuring audio/visual presentations of contemporary photography projects. June 11, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Durham, NC 7:30 p.m., drinks, snacks, and conversation 8:30 p.m., Daylight Multimedia Screenings and a special slide presentation of applicants’ work from the 2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards! NYC FotoWorks 2010 Announcing the biggest professional networking event of the year... The NYCFotoWorks 2010 Portfolio Review Event is hosted at Sandbox Studios in Tribeca NYC. Reviewers include editors, creative directors, photo reps, art buyers and gallery representatives...all under one roof! For more details, please visit www.nycfotoworks.com The professional world of photography comes together for one weekend...be there! The Singapore International Photography Festival The Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) is the first event of its kind in Southeast Asia. This biennial festival strives to provide a platform for Southeast Asian artists to showcase their works alongside their international peers at various venues across Singapore. The three main festival components are the official exhibitions, workshops and a 2-day portfolio review session for 50 selected Southeast Asian photographers. For more information visit: http://www.sipf.com.sg/web/ Lightstalkers Network For Global Photographers Lightstalkers is a network of uncoventional travelers. The core of its membership is made up of photographers, but also counted are journalists, aid workers, military and security professionals, and information techs, among others. Lightstalkers was created to help its members by serving as a central hub for a mobile, global crew of explorers and operators. Using the site as a virtual base camp, members can track others' movements and projects, exchange unique, real-time information, and assist each other with advice and feedback. For more information visit: www.lightstalkers.org/ Adoramapix.com Online Photographic Services AdoramaPix is all about high quality prints, attentive service and the best prices around. AdoramaPix started out as the 1 hour photo lab for Adorama Camera more than 10 years ago and quickly became the go-to lab for film processing in New York. An online presence since 2004, the AdoramaPix website was designed with the user in mind, offering easy ways for the professional and casual photographer alike to upload, organize and order the best quality digital photo prints at the best prices. For more information or to begin using Adorama's services visit: http://adoramapix.com |
Baghdad, Iraq - Camera distribution
Sadiq Mahdy (smoking) moved to Baghdad to join relatives after the first war in Iraq. He is currently jobless and shown here with his family. His daughter was named Americas the day U.S. troops entered Baghdad.
Photo by Jassim Mohammad Program CoordinatorsAlaa Kamel
Related informationSince April of 2004, Daylight has been compiling photographs taken by Iraqi civilians in Baghdad and Falluja. This important photo-historical record represents a unique, and human, perspective on the war in Iraq. The photographs are currently touring the United States in a traveling exhibition curated by Pixel Press and made possible by funding from the Open Society Institute. Prints from the exhibition are available on our website with all of the proceeds being donated to the Committee to Protect Journalists Distress Fund, which dispenses emergency grants to journalists and media support workers who are targeted for their work. The travelling exhibition has been shown at venues all over the United States including: Union College Roosevelt College New York University Michigan University Central Michigan University Council on Foreign Relations Center for Photography in Woodstock Offline: Baghdad Film Festival (Milan, Italy) The Hospital (London, UK) By now it is a truism that “The first casualty of war is truth.” How is anyone to know what is going on? Which news source to believe: Al Jazeera? Fox? CNN? Both the New York Times and Washington Post recently apologized to their readers for the inadequacy of their pre-invasion period coverage. US and other foreign journalists were “embedded” with American and British troops. Few were able to explore the Iraqi side of things. Now it is unsafe for US journalists to walk the streets in much of Iraq. Few speak Arabic. In many situations reporting is prohibitively dangerous and difficult. The Daylight Community Arts Foundation, a group committed to new forms of documentary, had the idea of providing Iraqi civilians with disposable cameras to get another, perhaps more tenable point of view. Why not ask the subjects what is going on, instead of making them the objects of a foreigner’s camera? These pictures are a result of that experiment. They are glimpses from the inside. Ten people were given cameras in April and May. They were told: “This is an opportunity to show the American public what you want them to see.” No one has found weapons of mass destruction. But in these pictures – taken from only ten rolls of film - there may be glimmers of another, more formidable weapon: understanding. -- Fred Ritchin |
