Links: Philip Jones Griffiths, Noah Kalina, Hamburger Eyes
Posted in: On: March 20, 2008 posted by: 20x200
- Over at the Magnum Blog, Stuart Franklin has a quiet, moving elegy for the Welsh photographer Philip Jones Griffith, who passed away yesterday morning after a long fight with cancer. Franklin says, "Philip was always concerned with individuals - their personal and intimate suffering more than any particular class or ideological struggle. And the strength of his vision, that inspired so many of us, led Henri Cartier-Bresson to write of Philip: "not since Goya has anyone portrayed war like Philip Jones Griffiths." RIP.
- Shoot the Blog's Rachel Hulin wonders how it is exactly that despite all the attention he's received for his Everyday project, Noah Kalina is still not getting the kind of jobs or even representation that he probably should: "When all this started happening, he was just launching his career, like so many other young dudes just out of SVA. And although he's sort of "famous" now, he doesn't have a rep. No agencies have contacted him. And when he's contacted them, the response hasn't been overwhelming. This project did not get Noah to where he wanted to be. He's rarely in print. Ideally he'd be shooting for Wired, GQ, Details, Fader, or the NY Times Magazine."
We at Jen Bekman World Domination HQ think he's pretty awesome—he was a Summer 2005 Hot Shot, and his Untitled (LA20070805) was one of our first 20x200 offerings of this year. We've still got a few prints available if you like him as much as we do!
- My favorite new magazine of the last few years, Theme, has a great interview with Ray and David Potes in their February/March 08 issue, written by Drew Lazor. The brothers Potes are founders of the black-and-white photography magazine Hamburger Eyes, which started life as a zine photocopied at Kinko's and is still, seven years later, "all photos, not a scrap of verbiage. Ray says that this was essentially an accident that grew into one of the most vital and definitive characteristics of the magazine as a whole. “I actually had left some blank spaces for a friend to do some writing,” says Ray. “But he never came through, so I filled the spaces with random photos.”
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