FotoDocument Grants of £2,500 for Documentary Photographers
Jan 30, 2010 Awards, Grants, Competitions,Fellowships, Photojournalism
Introduction
Each year FotoDocument will commission documentary photographers worldwide to produce photo essays on a social, cultural or environmental theme designed to educate and inspire the viewer. Whilst the stories will expose the hard facts related to the issue, there will be an emphasis on solution-focused projects and positive outcomes.
Through exposure t
o innovative projects happening in different countries around the world, the viewer will feel part of a growing global community who want to effect positive change. FotoDocument’s aim is to create a visual dialogue between the local and the global.
Tags: Documentary, FotoDocument, Grants, photographer
Mahes and Punting Experience | Christchurch
Jan 30, 2010 Multimedia | Video
Mahes enjoys punting experience at the Avon River, through the beautiful historic inner city of Christchurch.
A punt is a flat bottomed boat that does not have a keel. Typically, a punt is approximately 21 feet (6 metres) long and 3 feet (1 metre) wide. It should be propelled by means of a pole – about 16 foot (5 metres) long – which is also used to steer the punt. This method of propulsion is known as punting.
This is first time for Mahes embarks a small boat.
[Numpak gethek ning selokan muter kutho-jawa]
Tags: Christchurch, Documentary, Experience, New Zealand, Punting
Perjalanan di Taman Nasional Rawa Aopa
Jan 29, 2010 Articles
Rawa Aopa by Ahmad Zamroni
Sebagian besar orang menuju ke liang kubur dengan keinginan yang masih terpendam dalam diri mereka“, begitu kata Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Tentu saja saya berharap hal itu terjadi. Keingiinan dan rasa ingin tahu tersebut yang membawa saya ke Taman Nasional Rawa Aopa Watumohai. Sebenarnya sudah banyak cerita dan juga data-data tentang tempat itu sebelumnya, tapi rasanya tanpa melakukan sendiri perjalanan ini saya tidak aka mendapatkan pengalaman batin yang berharga.
Taman Nasional Rawa Aopa Watumohai (TN RAW) dengan luas 105.000 ha terletak diantara 121°44’- 122°44’BT dan 4°22’- 4°39’LS. Wilayah ini terletak di ujung Tenggara pulau Sulawesi dan secara administratif terletak di Propinsi Sulawesi Tenggara. Di dalam TN RAW ini terdapat ekosistem yang cukup bervariasi yaitu : ekosistem hutan hujan tropik, ekosistem savana, ekosistem rawa dan ekosistem mangrove. Begitu pun dengan keanegaragaman hayati TN RAW. Bahkan, berdasarkan hasil survei (Dirjen Perlindungan dan Konservasi alam dan Wetlands International Indonesia Programme, 1997) telah ditentukan bahwa TN RAW memiliki kepentingan kepentingan nasional maupun internasional untuk konservasi, karena memiliki keterwakilan suatu wilayah biogeografi yang menyokong sejumlah besar kehidupan jenis fauna yang hidup di dalamnya, termasuk beberapa jenis yang telah langka atau telah terancam kepunahan, seperti Wilwo (Mycteria cinerea), Buaya Muara (Crocodylus porosus), Maleo (Macrocephalon maleo), Kakatua (Cacatua sulphure) dan Burung Tikusan Sulawesi (Gymnocrex rosenbergii). Selain itu, lokasi ini juga merupakan penyokong kehidupan sejumlah sepertiga dari keseluruhan jumlah jenis burung endemik Sulawesi serta enam jenis mamalia endemik Sulawesi.
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Tags: mangrove, Propinsi Sulawesi Tenggar, Rawa Aopa, Taman Nasional, Watumohai
2010 International Conservation Photography Award
Jan 29, 2010 Awards, Grants, Competitions,Fellowships, Photography
What are the ICP Awards?
The International Conservation Photography Awards (ICP Awards) is a premier worldwide photography event focused on conservation and the environment. The biennial juried photo competition, along with awarding cash and merchandise to selected photographers, will include an online exhibit, a 3-month museum gallery exhibit at the prestigious Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, Washington, publication in a national photography magazine and other printed communications, and a slide show for use in community outreach and global on-line entertainment/education.
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Tags: Award, Conservation, International, Photography
Christmas Photo Contest 2009 by Jawaban.com (deadline : 19 Pebruari 201
Jan 29, 2010 Awards, Grants, Competitions,Fellowships
Jawaban.com Christmas Photo Contest
Dalam menyambut hari Natal di akhir tahun ini, Jawaban.Com untuk pertama kalinya akan menggelar dua event berbeda dalam waktu bersamaan demi sebuah visi misi yang sama yakni mengangkat dinamika kehidupan anak di hari Natal.
Salah satu event tersebut adalah Jawaban.Com Christmas Photo Contest.
Bagi Anda para pelaku dan juga pecinta fotografi, baik pemula maupun profesional, kami mengundang Anda bergabung dalam event ini.
Ada 2 tahap dalam event ini, yakni:
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Tags: Christmas, Contest, Photo, Photography
Indonesia’s Historic Poll
Jan 27, 2010 Photography, Photojournalism
Indonesia’s first ever presidential election is a massive enterprise, with more than 150 million eligible voters spread across 14,000 islands and three time zones. Presidential elections were held in Indonesia on July 5, and September 20, 2004. In the second round former security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono defeated incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri. Yudhoyono was inaugurated on October 20. The second round of Indonesia’s historic first direct presidential election has taken place successfully, in a general atmosphere of calm, order, and open participation. This represents a major step in the country’s ongoing democratic transition.
Photo by: Ahmad Zamroni
Tags: elections, Historic, Indonesia, Journalism, Megawati, Megawati Sukarnoputri, Photography, Photojournalism, Poll, Presidential, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon
Tangisan Serigala Setelah Memenangkan Lomba Foto
Jan 27, 2010 Awards, Grants, Competitions,Fellowships, Photography, Photojournalism
Storybook Wolf. Photograph: José Luis Rodriguez
Fotografer yang dinobatkan menjadi “wildlife photographer of the years“ oleh The Natural History Museum di London boleh sangat kecewa saat panitia membatalkan hadiah sebesar £10.000 atau sekitar 125 jut rupiah setelah para juri menemukan dugaan yang cukup kuat bahwa sang fotografer menyewa serigala Iberian yang terkenal sangat langka di Spanyol untuk difoto.
Tags: José Luis Rodriguez, Journalism, of the year, Ossian, photographer, Photography, spain, Veolia Environnement, wildlife, wolf
Vanishing forests a counterpoint to Indonesia’s climate crusade
Jan 26, 2010 Photography, Photojournalism
Peatland Forest, Riau, Indonesia. Photo: Ahmad Zamroni
Photo by: Ahmad Zamroni
Text by : Aubrey Belford
KUALA CENAKU, Indonesia (AFP) – Head man Mursyid Ali stands amid blackened stumps, the remains of much of the rainforest belonging to this village on Indonesia’s Sumatra stripped and drained in spite of local protests.
Thanks largely to the burning of forests and destruction of carbon-rich peatlands, Indonesia is the third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, a statistic coming under the spotlight ahead of the nation hosting a major international climate change conference next month.
The December 3-14 UN summit on the resort island of Bali will see delegates from around the world — including more than 100 ministers — thrash out a framework for negotiations on a global regime to combat climate change when the current phase of the Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012.
Satellite images from environmental watchdog WWF show that only 25 years ago, the majority of Riau province — home to Ali’s village — was covered in equatorial forest, one of the most ecologically diverse habitats on Earth and a vital absorber of carbon.
Today, four million hectares (nearly 10 million acres), or more than 60 percent, have gone. Land clearing, both legal and illegal, has made way for tree and oil palm plantations, logging concessions and small farms.
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Tags: Ahmad Zamroni, April, Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), Forest, Indonesia, Peatland, Photography, Photojournalism, Riau, Riaupulp
To Tell the Truth: Codes of Objectivity in Photojournalism
Jan 25, 2010 Photojournalism
A bomb blast at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004. Nine people dead and more than 160 wounded.
Communication, 13:95-109, 1992
Recent mass media scholarship has shed considerable light on journalistic objectivity as a social construct. Seminal studies by researchers like Tuchman (1978), Gans (1979), Epstein (1973), and Fishman (1980) have revealed the relationships among work routines, professional norms and values, and the institutional contexts in which newsmaking takes place. Examining news production as a social activity has helped to place objectivity within an appropriate cultural frame, allowing us to see it as a professional value and a set of communicative strategies employed by journalists. While the newsmaking routines associated with print and broadcast journalism have received significant scholarly attention, surprisingly little scrutiny has been directed towards news photography, or photojournalism.
Both history and popular lore have encouraged us to view photographs as direct, unmediated transcriptions of the real world, rather than seeing them as coded symbolic artifacts whose form and content transmit identifiable points of view. Statements of the kind made by Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, published in the London Quarterly Review for 1857, represent the enduring popular attitude towards the medium of photography:
- [Photography] is the sworn witness of everything presented to her view. What are her unerring records in the service of mechanics, engineering, geology, and natural history, but facts of the most sterling and stubborn kind?…Facts which are neither the province of art nor of description, but that of a new form of communication between man and man–neither letter, message, nor picture–which now happily fills up the space between them?
Since the introduction of photography, viewers have invested the medium with a level of authority and credibility unparalleled by other modes of communication. The iconic similarity of the photograph to its subject masks the distinction between image and reality, and obscures the significance of the picture-making process in the construction of a photographic message. Like Lady Eastlake, most contemporary viewers continue to think of the photograph as a transparent window on the world, capturing the reality in front of the camera lens.
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Top 50 Free Open Courseware Classes for Journalists
Jan 25, 2010 Photography, Photojournalism
Top 50 Free Open Courseware Classes for Journalists
If you write fiction, then you are not a journalist – although, many people might believe that mainstream media has moved more toward sensationalism than to the truth to gain ratings. Journalism is in trouble, if this is how this writing genre is depicted today. But, educators are seeking to turn the genre’s reputation around to a more reputable yet still exciting stance. This movement is reflected in many free online courses and in entire Websites dedicated to journalism ethics, editing and new media.
The following list of top 50 free open courseware classes for journalists includes classes offered by college and universities. But, it also includes entire Websites sponsored by nonprofit foundations and colleges, which are dedicated to teaching readers about journalism. This list is categorized and listed alphabetically by course name or Web site name within those categories, and the sponsoring college or foundation is listed after each description.
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Tags: Classes, Courseware, Fellowship, Grant, Journalism, Journalists
