Thrilled that POP was asked to participate in Creative Week NYC
Check out the event details below
Pedaogogy of Photography (POP) Community Exhibit
Friday, May 14, 2010
Creative Week NYC
Thrilled that POP was asked to participate in Creative Week NYC
Check out the event details below
Pedaogogy of Photography (POP) Community Exhibit
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Crowdsourcing goes global: The NYT’s “Moment in Time”
I loved this article by the Nieman Journalism Lab, a project from Harvard University.
Here's a snippet
“A Moment in Time” (and, with that, I’ll try not to use the project’s name again in this post — so that you won’t, as I did, get something unfortunate stuck in your head as a result of repeated exposure) is aesthetically compelling and socially revealing. It also suggests the Times’ openness to exploring avenues of documentation and expression that don’t fall into the neat categories of traditional journalism.
“I was driving to work, and it just hit me: Okay, we’ll get thousands of people around the world to take a photograph at the same moment,” Estrin told me of the project’s inception. And the goals of the project mix the artistic and the journalistic to the point that it’s difficult to tell where the journalism ends and the aesthetic begins: first, to produce a valuable document, one that records — to an extent — a particular moment as it’s lived out across the world. Second, from the social media angle, to facilitate the sense of shared identity that comes with “doing things as a community around the world — doing the same things at the same time.” Ultimately, Estrin says, the project was about “the intentional profundity of the moment.”
Whether the feature represents journalism, or something more, or something less, the reaction it’s received from Times users offers a lesson for news organizations chasing after the holy grail-and-sometimes-white-whale that is reader engagement. If the project’s participatory outpouring is any indication, it has struck a nerve with Times users. In a good way. And the ‘why’ in that is instructive. The project involved an assignment with specific instructions; users weren’t merely being asked for something — a hazy invitation to contribute — but to provide something specific, and easily attainable. And to provide something, moreover, that would be part of a project with a clearly defined, but also inspiring, purpose: to document the world, via its many corners, at a particular moment. That mix of depth and breadth, of pragmatism and idealism, can be a potent incitement to action — a fact evidenced by the thousands of images currently blanketing the globe over at the Lens blog.
Here's a snippet
“A Moment in Time” (and, with that, I’ll try not to use the project’s name again in this post — so that you won’t, as I did, get something unfortunate stuck in your head as a result of repeated exposure) is aesthetically compelling and socially revealing. It also suggests the Times’ openness to exploring avenues of documentation and expression that don’t fall into the neat categories of traditional journalism.
“I was driving to work, and it just hit me: Okay, we’ll get thousands of people around the world to take a photograph at the same moment,” Estrin told me of the project’s inception. And the goals of the project mix the artistic and the journalistic to the point that it’s difficult to tell where the journalism ends and the aesthetic begins: first, to produce a valuable document, one that records — to an extent — a particular moment as it’s lived out across the world. Second, from the social media angle, to facilitate the sense of shared identity that comes with “doing things as a community around the world — doing the same things at the same time.” Ultimately, Estrin says, the project was about “the intentional profundity of the moment.”
Whether the feature represents journalism, or something more, or something less, the reaction it’s received from Times users offers a lesson for news organizations chasing after the holy grail-and-sometimes-white-whale that is reader engagement. If the project’s participatory outpouring is any indication, it has struck a nerve with Times users. In a good way. And the ‘why’ in that is instructive. The project involved an assignment with specific instructions; users weren’t merely being asked for something — a hazy invitation to contribute — but to provide something specific, and easily attainable. And to provide something, moreover, that would be part of a project with a clearly defined, but also inspiring, purpose: to document the world, via its many corners, at a particular moment. That mix of depth and breadth, of pragmatism and idealism, can be a potent incitement to action — a fact evidenced by the thousands of images currently blanketing the globe over at the Lens blog.
A Moment in Time- NYTimes Lens Blog
It's up and it's incredible! I can't wait to view these global images!!!
“Here it is, Earth, covered by stacks of thousands of virtual photographs, corresponding in location to where they were taken by Lens readers at one ‘Moment in Time.’”
When I heard that the NY Times Lens Blog was calling photographers of all levels to simultaneous record a moment of their lives, I couldn't wait to participate and encourage my students & photo enthusiasts to do the same. As a photographer and educator, this is what I am talking about, a moment to create art at the same time with lovers of photography all over the world, to click the shutter at the same time as my former students in San Diego, Nicaragua and the Bronx, at the same time as family and friends in Peru and California. To feel connected with not only those behind the camera but to the moments that they record.
What image(s) could I possibly take that could encapsulate this intimate feeling of a global photographic communion. Communion? Communion? Communion! Alright, I'll be literal! I received my First Holy Communion May 4th 1986 (I will always remember the date because it was Brian Finnegans 7th Birthday). There must be a First Holy Communion Mass the first Sunday of May around 15:00 hours (U.T.C.). And there was, just a few miles away. Alleluia!
While photographers all over the world were in communion with each other, Emma celebrates her First Holy Communion in Brooklyn, New York.
Click here to view the interactive gallery on the New York Times Lens Blog.
Click here to view my image.
“Here it is, Earth, covered by stacks of thousands of virtual photographs, corresponding in location to where they were taken by Lens readers at one ‘Moment in Time.’”
When I heard that the NY Times Lens Blog was calling photographers of all levels to simultaneous record a moment of their lives, I couldn't wait to participate and encourage my students & photo enthusiasts to do the same. As a photographer and educator, this is what I am talking about, a moment to create art at the same time with lovers of photography all over the world, to click the shutter at the same time as my former students in San Diego, Nicaragua and the Bronx, at the same time as family and friends in Peru and California. To feel connected with not only those behind the camera but to the moments that they record.
What image(s) could I possibly take that could encapsulate this intimate feeling of a global photographic communion. Communion? Communion? Communion! Alright, I'll be literal! I received my First Holy Communion May 4th 1986 (I will always remember the date because it was Brian Finnegans 7th Birthday). There must be a First Holy Communion Mass the first Sunday of May around 15:00 hours (U.T.C.). And there was, just a few miles away. Alleluia!
While photographers all over the world were in communion with each other, Emma celebrates her First Holy Communion in Brooklyn, New York.
Click here to view the interactive gallery on the New York Times Lens Blog.
Click here to view my image.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Mothers Day!
Happy Mama's Day! I had to take this pic while reading the following by Annie Dillard. Such a sacred moment. It is amazing that you can take and edit a pic on your phone.
" -Until you have a baby, her mother said, you don’t know what love is! Her mother volunteered this on the day of Lou’s one and only wedding. –Oh, Lou wanted to say, go soak your head. After Lou brought forth Petie, she at once recalled her mothers words, forgave and endorsed them. That her mother was so often right no longer irked her. As she would never irk Petie, now joyful in her arms, he sucked her nose. Later his pointy fingers made faces with her face. She never put him down. She must feel his skin on her, feel his cranium in her arm’s crook, his belly on her belly, and smell his breath, his scalp, etc. He obviously felt the same way. They were pieces of each other foully parted. When they had to separate, she took ever deeper- breaths as if the air had no use. Her sternum and central torso and arms ached. Maytree had some horseshoe magnets in the kitchen. She gave each of them a wrench to hold.
She and Petie laughed to flout fate by smashing together thigmotropic. Or they met staring forehead to forehead, then twisted and laughed.
Lou saw that she had hitherto wasted her life. When he was six months old, she asked Maytree, Can we have more?"
-Annie Dillard "The Maytrees"
Sunday, May 2, 2010
From Many Instants, A Moment
Over 10,000 photographs were submitted the first day! We have till Friday so ya'll know when my photo will arrive ;)
Read about it on the New York Times Lens Blog.
Read about it on the New York Times Lens Blog.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
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