Everyone recycling the news on the found Capa negatives – (a sure sign i am reading too many blogs) I thought this item was interesting on a week in the life of Martin Parr, courtesy of PDN’s Pulse.
Parr really influenced how I felt about documentary photography, coming from a photojournalism background, it often seemed to me that (at least come awards time) the pj’s were too predictably fixated on the low-hanging fruit of the exotic, but from Parr I first understood that the mundane and everyday was topical, sometimes more subtle, and therefore to me much more interesting.
January 29, 2008 at 12:47 am
Hey Susana,
Just wanted to say I’ve enjoyed readin’ your blog since I’ve came across it. I’m a grad student at OU and my classmates and I are about to leave for our magazine shoot….ready to leave the stress of planning and the what if scenarios and start shooting. I enjoyed your magazine topic and the other work on your website. Like Parr you’re an inspiration. Thanks.
January 29, 2008 at 12:39 pm
hi tim,
thanks for your nice comments! good luck on your magazine shoot, i really enjoyed it (despite the fact that i was positive i failing at every turn – sadomasochism abounds in this vocation). would love to see your finished project. say hi to teri- did he show you his nude faculty series at orientation?
January 29, 2008 at 3:48 pm
hey,
assuming it’s not a total flop i’ll have something online….doing multimedia(gulp)
nude faculty series?!?! didn’t have the pleasure to take that one in…i’ll have to ask him about it