Picture of the Week:
In the Shadow of Ebola - Daily Life Goes On In Liberia
(C) Michaeleen Doucleff/NPR
Photo Essay:
William Daniels - Train for the Forgotten
Panos Pictures' photographer William Daniels' photo essay on the Russian medical train that services communities in remote parts of that vast country draws focus on what many who live in urban environments take for granted - easy access to medical support. For those residents in isolated towns across Siberia, medical conditions that are routine procedures in the city, like appendicitis, can be death sentences. This government funded train has around 15 doctors who treat a range of conditions as best they can given their resources and the frequency of visits.
Above: 31 year old Elena Shershova suffers from severe psoriasis. Here she sweeps up her skin flakes in her tiny apartment. “I’m losing my skin on my body, everywhere, everywhere!” laments the 31-year-old."
You can see the full story on National Geographic here. All images (C) William Daniels.
Book Review:
Majid Saeedi - Life in War
I met Iranian photojournalist Majid Saeedi at Visa pour l’Image last year when his exhibition, Life in War, was featured in the core program. Since then Saeedi has gone on to win the 2014 FotoEvidence Book Award for the same work, with the official launch of his book, Life in War, in New York earlier this month.
Saeedi has covered the Afghanistan conflict for more than a decade. But his interest in that country and its people extends beyond the news headlines and since 2009 he has lived amongst that country’s inhabitants and focused on telling the story of daily life in a war zone....(to read the full review and see more images please click on the Book Reviews tab at the top of the blog).
Exhibitions:
Melbourne
PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS FEMINISM:
Australian women photographers 1970s–80s
(C) Anne Ferran - Scenes on the death of nature 1986
With the resurgence in interest in feminism, not only because of Emma Watson’s landmark speech, but also other movements around the world where women are speaking up for their rights, it seems timely to look back at the feminist era of the 70s and 80s.
A new exhibition at Monash Gallery of Art opening tomorrow – Photography meets feminism: Australian women photographers 1970s–80s - revisits the work of 16 female photo-artists to explore themes that are still relevant today – the objectification of women in advertising; concepts of beauty; struggling for balance between career and nurture.
(C) Micky Allan 1980
(C) Christine Godden 1976
Until 7 December
Monash Gallery of Art
860 Ferntree Gully Road
Wheelers Hill
Australian comedienne Hannah Gadsby will open this group show at 2pm on Saturday 25th October.
Artists: Micky Allan, Pat Brassington, Virginia Coventry, Sandy Edwards, Anne Ferran, Sue Ford, Christine Godden, Helen Grace, Janina Green, Fiona Hall, Ponch Hawkes, Carol Jerrems, Merryle Johnson, Ruth Maddison, Julie Rrap, and Robyn Stacey.
Sydney:
Gary Steer - Ghost Lakes
Australia's interior provides a rich palette for documentary photographer Gary Steer whose images have a painterly quality. In this exhibition Steer presents a series of aerial landscapes that turn the natural beauty of windswept salt pans, rivers and lakes into works of art.
Until 9 November
Black Eye Gallery
3/138 Darlinghurst Road
Darlinghurst
New Articles by Alison Stieven-Taylor:
Pro Photo magazine
NZ Pro Photographer
Don McCullin - No Rest for the Weary
Available in print and on iPad
Imhoff: A Life of Grain and Pixels
Click on link above to read the story
