A recommendation for the WPP Multimedia award…
Written by duckrabbitThis is inspirational stuff brilliantly executed so I hope they get nominated by the panel at WPP.
Look at how free they are with their use of a photographic frame!
That is not to say it is perfect, or that you will not see stuff that you might think “I can shoot that better” as shooters always do but because there is plenty of context, everything just makes sense. It is visually cohesive, brilliantly directed and it gives you so much relative information about these people’s lives.
What I like about it the most is that it highlights the power of working in teams and collaborating with people from outside the world of photography thus liberating it from its present narrow ideological confines.
This is the level of competition that everyone in the medium has to work against and it came from the film making world (not from agencies still flogging social change in limited edition single images hung on white walled galleries for the wealthy to share).
Massive massive respect to the National Film Board of Canada and Katerina Cizek.
Author — duckrabbit
duckrabbit is a production company formed by radio producer/journalist Benjamin Chesterton and photographer David White. We specialize in digital storytelling.
Discussion (2 Comments)
Hey IAMNOT, THANKS for sharing that. Inspiring stuff. Sadly for World Press, I suspect the quality of the photo, not the story will be the big issue. That’s why we see faked up shots like Vernashi’s winning.
as my peeps of the ghettos of NYC would say this is a dope ass way at lookin’ at the housing projects and learnin’ how we all be livin’. ‘Cause in our urban jungle we have been livin’ in these cubes for a minute but now as our Mayor of NYC said recently we now are livin’ in a Luxury City. What luxury housing we ask? Congratulations to this hard workin’ photographer and strong story teller. Thanks for your hard work. i will show this to my students at the International Center of photography and New York University