I should probably head over to Battery, because by the time the city is done with it, there won’t be much left to photograph…
Story on CBC this morning says that the city has a contractor on standby to demolish portions of the stage and wharf structures damaged in February storms, rather than explore rebuilding the area.
Croatian word of the day: mol wharf
Battery a couple of months ago. You can see the damage winter storms caused this past February.
Photo links today:
Check out the website of Indian photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta. All of it is not necessarily my cup of tea, but a lot of it is very interesting. Always good to see the world through non-western eyes for a change. I particularly like the photographs in Personal section under Edge of Faith heading.
You should also check out Claire Martin’s website. She is an Australian photographer and this year’s winner of the Inge Morath Award. Her photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side are very powerful and unflinching – take that as a bit of a warning. I have to admit that I am getting a bit uneasy with the whole Downtown East Side thing. It has been photographed million times and it starting to feel a bit voyeuristic – probably because I have been paying attention and have seen a lot of different work about it. To Canada’s shame, not much is done about it. This country is rich enough that a place like the Downtown East Side in Vancouver should not exist.
As I am working with my colleagues on a first ever reunion of the original Memorial University campus, this story on recently found photographs of British, Canadian and Australian soldiers of the Somme campaign in the First World War has a special significance. Over the past few months, I have lived with the history of Memorial University of Newfoundland and its origins. The university was envisioned as a memorial to Newfoundlanders who died in the First World War. I also had a fantastic opportunity to interview some of the graduates of the university’s original campus. The oldest one was 103 and is the last living graduate of the very first graduating class of 1927. It is a fascinating journey and probably the most rewarding (and in many ways most complex) project I worked on here.
And since this is a Tuesday, here is your Loonie Tuesday movie: this is part one of the documentary about Henri Cartier-Bresson called The Impassioned Eye (parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10).
Croatian word of the day: prilika opportunity [pre lee ka]
As promised tonight at the Eastern Edge, here is a post featuring nothing but links to photographers and other materials I mentioned today. Thank you all for coming.
Bruce Gilden at work in New York (If I were to teach street photography, this is exactly what I would tell you NOT to do, but there is no question that it works for him):
Let me know if I forgot something.
This is Battery in St. John’s Newfoundland.
Croatian word of the day: hvala thank you