I took the snapshot above last year in Perpignan while sitting in the Café de la Poste with some other RoadTrips bloggers. We met David Alan Harvey during Visa Pour l’Image to brainstorm about how to possibly expand the idea of the RoadTrips blog into some kind of online magazine. This was the beginning of BURN. Not even 3 months later BURN went online, owning its name to Kelly Jynn James, after a long collective search and discussion. Owning the rest mostly to David and Anton who worked nightshift after nightshift.
Yesterday night BURN received a Lucie Award as Photography Magazine of the Year 2009!
PDN calles it a “milestone: This is the first time the Photography Magazine of the Year award has recognized an all-electronic publication. It’s also significant that Burn, which launched less than a year ago, has already established itself as a leading venue for photo stories.”
Congratulations to David Alan Harvey, Anton Kusters and all of the BURNians! I have to say I am quite thrilled to have at least partially witnessed this birth.
From The Lucie Award Site:
“Photography Magazine of the Year Nominees Are:
In an effort to recognize both print and electronic platforms, this category will include online photography magazines in addition to traditional print magazines with the emphasis on acknowledging great vision and execution regardless of the platform.
Aperture Magazine
BurnMagazine.org
C International Photography Magazine
Foam International Photography Magazine
GUP (Guide to Unique Photography) Magazine
Lunaticmag.com
Nueva Luz Photographic Journal”
Congratulations to all of the nominees!
“BURN Magazine presents an unique showing of prints by Elliott Erwitt, Bruce Davidson, Gilles Peress, Susan Meiselas, Alex & Rebecca Webb and Chris Anderson, and featuring an exquisite selection of prints by BURN emerging photographers.”
- David Alan Harvey -
BURN is curated by Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey, and I am totally proud and honored to have a photograph of mine chosen by him for this exhibition.
The opening was on October 9, with a special collector’s showing on October 10 – and I heard that the gallery show will proceed to FotoWeek in Washington DC in November in slightly expanded form.
I put this together now on very short notice for the preparation of a online meeting with Martin Parr on BURNmagazine. I tried to assemble some interviews (Google & Youtube), so we can – hopefully – go beyond the standard question of “what advice would you give to an aspiring/ emerging/ young photographer”. BTW, you can find his answer to this question on the Magnum Blog
Please forgive me if I forgot to include something you find important, this was really on a very short notice.
Martin Parr
Official website
It does contain an intro by Thomas Weski, a FAQ section, a collection of interviews and videos (see menu>film) and obviously a list of his books, works etc.
Martin Parr / MAGNUM
Interviews in English
We Are All Photographers Now!
Interview with Martin Parr
“Martin Parr, author of, among others, “Boring Postcards” and “Bliss : Postcards of Couples and Families” explains in his conference how your family photography is form of propaganda, his opinion on technique, what his new agenda is, the demise of Corbis and Getty at the hands of Flickr and what the best new business model for successful photography is. And how dreadful, cliche’ed and boring a lot of amateur photography is.”
Interview can be downloaded on the page, or listen to it here.
May 2, 2007
(definition of amateur, flickr/youtube, crowdsourcing, indexing, Magnum’s website, revolution/evolution of photography, vernacular photography, citizen journalist, changes … )
Lensculture
Martin Parr: Mischievous Ironist
(introduction, gallery & 10min audio interview with Jim Casper “about irony, vulnerability, the secret of history of photography, and more”)
Date??
PDNonline
Why Photojournalism has to “get modern”
Interview by David Walker – August 1, 2008
The Zeugma
Martin Parr: Humanity is not Pretty
1994
The F Blog
Meeting Martin Parr (“Martin Parr Photographs 1971-2000)
12.09.2007
Interviews in German
Interviews on YouTube
Sooo, dear friends from RoadTrip, this is the idea:
We might not know each other’s faces but there is a face we all now: DAH’s!
I just checked and found one frontal image of him. Not the best, but it will work.
UPDATED TO-DO-LIST (after testing!)
1. Download the COLORED MASK (sorry, link is not active at present)
2. Print it out on at least 200g/m2 paper with a good color-laserprinter (I had it done in a simple copyshop around the corner.
3. cut it out (+ eyes)
and finally:
4. HOLD IT UP AT PERPIGNAN when we meet at the Cafe or wherever!!!
WE WILL FIND EACH OTHER EASILY!
Bonus: attached sunglasses!
