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Multiple exposures taken during Chinese New Year Celebrations, Manchester. Fomapan 100, Ilford DDX.
breakbeat posted a photo:
Multiple exposures taken during Chinese New Year Celebrations, Manchester. Fomapan 100, Ilford DDX.
breakbeat posted a photo:
Multiple exposures taken during Chinese New Year Celebrations, Manchester. Fomapan 100, Ilford DDX.
breakbeat posted a photo:
Multiple exposures taken during Chinese New Year Celebrations, Manchester. Fomapan 100, Ilford DDX.
Brooklyn Bridge Baby has added a photo to the pool:
Diana Moore’s eleven foot, cast concrete depiction of Themis, Greek goddess of Justice, was commissioned by the US General Services adminstration Art-In-Architecture Program. Themis, her eyes masked, is, in Moore’s interpretation, genderless, ageless, and race-less. the power of the work lies in the simplicity of the partial figure and it’s accessibility to the public. While we are accustomed to seeing Themis as a full figure, balancing a set of scales, Moore’s Themis is more symbolic. She has removed from her traditional, lofty position in the courthouse pediment and placed within the observer’s space. Moore contrasted the approachability of her piece with the remoteness of so many of America’s monumental sculptures, such as Mount Rushmore of the Statue of Liberty.
Moore’s Justice is not typical of New Jersey’s public sculpture.
h.delic has added a photo to the pool:
La Cite, Carcassonne, Languedoc-Roussilon, France. 15-5-2006.
The fortified town of Carcassonne and its dream-like silhouette need no introduction. The city’s role in Cathar history, and especially the Albigensian Crusade during which over 200,000 people died, is equally famous.
Shot in crazy wind and miserably overcast weather using a three-stop graduated neutral density filter. It was hard to get a view above the trees and I had to clone out some protruding branches.
dartmjb has added a photo to the pool:
the pedestrian mall in the middle of Avenue Habib Bourguiba, the largest street in the city, named after Tunisia’s first president upon independence from France in 1956
Last Saturday night, riding the empty metro with some jerk friends nd taking some memorial photos (refer to my photolog) when suddenly a security customer (usually assigned to the metro through the hottest nights with increasing violence in Saturdays and beyond the midnights service) get out the driver booth and told me :”taking photos in the train is prohibited !! give me your camera !”, so my reaction was a big exclamation, my friends stood up and I told him that we were taking self photos, as he smelt the breeze of alcohol he gave up his fury.
The point is every time I tried to take a photo some guy usually the security forces, or even a simple employee, shows up and ask me to stop taking photos, as if I were shooting a nuclear plant or his daughter naked, damn world ! how can I practice photographing if everywhere my cam becomes a spy’s gadget ?
As locals taking photos of the market, people, the little wood next to your city around is always are not welcome : they will ask you to stop, or who you are ? or in some extreme cases :”show me you ID !”, ans so on, even I have developed many techniques of camouflage such as holding the cam in my hand and press the trigger, or try to find a hideout where nobody would notice me, or just talk with the people around creating some kind of friendship that leads to a unlimited photographing license, sometimes I have even paid to take shots.
Despite, If you’re a tourist to a resident foreigner (or just look like), you’ll just get smiles everywhere and take photos as free as a you were shooting your personnel garden, the police, or the people around won’t disturb your open photo workshop : God Bless Tourism !
I don’t understand this exaggerated awareness about the camera, or is it just about the media ? thus that most of the Tunisian think that all local photographers are working certainly for a newspaper, and their rear is justified as the press has been publishing unauthorized photos of many people without any permission for decades (the law has been fixed a few years ago), and all those photographers were pretending to be just making photos for joy or as souvenirs !
But the point is that Tunisian don’t really understand photography, except wedding or ID portrait, here in this country we don’t trust a man with a Camera, just because we don’t know him or we haven’t asked for his services, we don’t see the photos with art issues as they could harm our life making us uncovered.
It’s in the late years with the increasing popularity of the digital photography, that usual people shoot in the open air and that people are accepting those devices becoming a usual tool to memorize warm moments or just for fun, led by the outnumbering of the cell phones with camera, the freak is still on, but it’s getting less expressed to avoid getting damned as a retarded and primate person.
For the police two main reasons are making photography a real state enemy:
First, as those toys cam make videos, they have lately a useful tool to many people who started a propaganda videos, sex scenes or event took shocking videos who instantly spread over the web. Two stories are making sense to this : Two high school teacher shoot their self while making love, and the other is about a dancing policeman.
Secondly, the terrorism threat is making our national security more aware of … everybody, yes me and you and the guy pissing on the wall, as I’ve said before, we have no thought about art coming through photos, if you’re making a photo of the metro, you’re certainly getting ready to blow it, if you have take photos of an office, you’ll certainly come by night and steal its precious documents and if it’s not you, you’ll certainly send it to someone else, if ever you have no intention to any of those terrifying actions, someone in the web will use you photos as a material to harm our beloved republic. In one word, we don’t need your photos you can still make peaceful pencil drawings in a paper.
I have asked to colleagues graduated in law to find to make research and find me all about photography in the Tunisian law, the output will be published as soon as possible, and then I’ll get rid or may be of all this stupid behavior.
Finally, I just want to say , that I want make photos for fun, I don’t want to get nagged by a dirty bastard every time I tried to make an artistic photo,I don’t want to harm none, and I’d like to hear from your experiences and how do you faces such problems.
This is just a republish of an article I did write 2 years ago, since that things haven’t changed a lot.
Ahmed’s Eye ! posted a photo:
Statue d’Albert Einstein à la Cité des Sciences de Tunis, Tunisie !
Albert Einstein statue in Tunis Science City, Tunisia !
MM. Mohamed El Aziz Ben Achour, Minister of Culture and the Preservation of Monuments, and Robert F. Godec, Ambassador of the United States of America in Tunisia, inaugurated yesterday evening at the National Library of Tunisia, a photo exhibition entitled”The architectural heritage of New York”, in the presence of men of culture and diplomats accredited to Tunis.
This exhibition is organized by the Ministry of Culture and the Preservation of Monuments and the National Cultural Committee, in collaboration with the Embassy of the United States of America.
It is an exhibition, which includes about 80 black and white photos, framed and accompanied by captions that provide lighting cultural, historical and architectural on public and private buildings in New York City, restored during the 20th century by American and European architects.
The photographs were taken by some fifty known photographers or single students who have captured the spirit of New York.
These photos, it was Roosevelt””Birth Place, a national historic site, built in 1848 and expanded in 1916,””Central Park, the first large public park that combines beautifully of architectural and landscape features, Patrik””’s Cathedral, the largest cathedral in the United States,”and”Columbia University, the oldest college in New York State.
Included on the bill as”New York Exchange Building”or Wall Street, the first center of financial activity in New York,””Flatiron Building, a skyscraper, the most famous and eccentric that City and Manhattan Bridge Approach”or”the Manhattan Bridge established on the East River.
On this occasion, Mr. Ben Achour focused on the long relationships between Tunisia and the United States of America, especially in the cultural field, expressing his admiration for the rich cultural and architectural heritage of American cities, including New York.
For his part, Mr. Robert F. Godec welcomed the achievements made by Tunisia in all fields, noting that this event is in line with the fruitful cultural exchange between the two countries.
Via [La Presse]
More coverage coming soon as I go there.
The first time I visited Tunisia was in the 1960s not long after the country had gained its independence from France and President Bourguiba was in power. The country was just beginning to dip its toe into the rapidly expanding river of tourism.
…Close by is the real Tunisia, the medina at Sousse, the troglodyte dwellings at Matmata, the desert market at Douz, the Chott and the mountain oases. The photography is exciting and challenging and for a Muslim country–the least restricted that I have experienced.
Sousse, Tunisia’s third largest city, is an unusual combination of beach resort, industrial port and Islamic city. Each part of the city is separate, so you pass from one world to another quickly and totally. The old medina is a maze of winding streets and endless photographic opportunities–the ideal place to start your journey and become acclimated to the country.
This was a fascinating journey with plenty of photographic opportunities, so I was very happy to retrace my steps in February 2003 leading a group of 15 photographers from the Northern Region of the Royal Photographic Society.
This is an other testimonial how pretty the photography is in Tunisia through decades, people like Jane H. Black were coming and going enjoying every little stuff around, Tunisia is the land of the picturesque a motion worth take shots and getting back happy with a little smell of history in a photo.
Read the Full article by [Jane H. Black]
“A farm boy in no particular hurry allows his donkey to browse on wild poppies as they shamble along toward field work near Kairouan, a city holy to Muslims.”
By [Alan Harvey] from [The national geographic archives]
