photoethnography

TOP linked to a great site showcasing the work of an uzbek photographer:

http://www.fergana.info/details.php?image_id=1220

trouble is, she's facing the possibility of a prison sentence from the uzbekistan government for 'negatively portraying' her people

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8473285.stm

which just...pisses me off.

would also like to point out that the following is an excellent website that also has tons of information on classic cameras:

http://www.photoethnography.com/

the uzbek set is probably my favorite set of work I've seen in quite a while. I love the unprocessed, just-scanned look to them - they would be at home just as much in a family scrapbook as in a photography book. very stark, naked presentation that adds to the 'authenticity' (a slippery slope) of the photos

http://www.fergana.info/000/2009/umida/41.jpg

would like to hide in all these jars

love it

http://www.fergana.info/000/2009/umida/20.jpg

if you told me that my fate in life would be to end up like this man, I would be very happy

you will be a man, in a speedo, by the water

^_^
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aw crap, formatting u_u

no worries, message received, god

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these are fantastic. love the way some of the people engage with the camera - part of the scrapbook aesthetic, i guess? like the kids in jars or this one:

http://www.fergana.info/000/2009/umida/40.jpg

yeah, she definitely engages with her subjects in a lot of them, an enviable skill. my favorite ones are the ones which show the ~joy & happiness~ of the people - like this one

http://www.fergana.info/000/2009/umida/21.jpg

which reminds me of

http://dialoginternational.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/boys.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8507519.stm

found guilty, but pardoned!

in a similar vein (also cribbed from TOP):

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-Russian-in-the-early-1900s/

Those old Russian photos are indeed great. There's a website here that has some additional photos and occasionally seems to have done a better job of stitching together the different exposures, although they aren't quite as sharp.

Just saw this. Lovely pictures - but ffs 'slandering the nation'. Prosecuting people who get up to harmless, fun & cool stuff is just the thing to make the place look great, is that the idea? The bbc could grow a set of balls too - the issue isn't really 'Negative images of Uzbekistan?', more 'Is this demented or what?'

really don't know where to put this, but:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/crisis_in_kyrgyzstan.html

obv journalism and not ethnography, but still. pretty amazing pics, imo

daaaamn are they using grenades

seems like boston.com is becoming the de facto photojournalism site on the web

Extraordinary pictures. I hope those guys are using very long lenses because I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that stuff.

I think this is my, er, "favourite".

Actually, some of them are clearly close and wide.