Been doing some reading lately for my dissertation, I am still not 100% sure what I am going to be writing about, but I have a good feeling on what direction I want my essay to head towards. Here are few quotes and references that I am hoping to use in the final essay.
In an interview with Joerg Colberg, Benjamin Lowy states
"what happens in NY and Iraq are separated by vast cultural, economic, and geographic differences, and getting people so disconnected to care about others is very hard." (Colberg, J. 2011)
Broomberg and Chanerin state on their website,
"Crucially, for traditional photojournalism, is the fact that the three biggest news stories in recent years, September 11th, Abu Graib and the Tsunami, were all recorded by amateurs. Chris Boot made a joke during the Aperture discussion that these days if your photographs aren't good enough, you aren't far enough away. An inversion of Capa's famous quote. This strategy, of stepping back from the event and producing more reflective journalism, is a direct response to this new reality: that armed with a digital camera or mobile phone everyone is a photojournalist, in the traditional sense, reporting from the front line of life" (Lehan, J. 2006)
Colberg, J. (2011). A Conversation with Benjamin Lowy. [online] Available from: http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/extended/archives/a_conversation_with_benjamin_lowy/
[Accessed 17th September 2011]
Lehan, J. (2006). Interview with Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin conducted by Joanna Lehan, assistant curator at the International Center of Photography, New York for the catalogue of ECOTOPIA, the second triennial of photography and video. 2006. [pdf] New York: International Center of Photography. Available from: http://choppedliver.info/pdf/lehan.pdf [Accessed 14th November 2011]
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