Sortir du Cadre (Think Wider) – Future of photojournalism in English
décembre 30, 2010 by gholubowicz · 3 Comments
It took me a couple of month, but I finally found the time to work on a translation of the ebook about future of photojournalism (in french) I’ve published last July. This ebook was the result of a long professional and personal journey during which I’ve tried to figure out what was ahead of us. All along 2010, I’ve posted a series of texts about that matter and by the end of July, I’ve released a series of video interviews with Paul Melcher, Stephen Mayes, Mark Lubell and Jean Pierre Pappis where I was asking the same question: What about the future of photojournalism?
The series had an unexpected success (at least for me) with more than 15,000 views in a couple of weeks!
I really wanted to share with you this ebook, and with the help of a friend I finally finished the translation.
Here’s the updated result of the ebook published in July. Feel free to download it, to comment and to share it. This is nothing but an attempt to make things moving forward and I’m eagerly looking for conversations around this if you want to. Thanks!
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Haiti Schism, Morel vs. AFP
octobre 16, 2010 by gholubowicz · 7 Comments
The case of Daniel Morel vs AFP goes unnoticed in France, yet its legal implications are vast, as are the various positions stated by different well known actors of photojournalism.
Make no doubt that Daniel Morel only had one thing in mind on January 12 of this year: witnessing the atrocities and rampages resulting from the devastating earthquake which struck Haiti. Morel, former AP photographer, stopped covering news a while ago to refocus his work on documentaries projects. But this time, it was a matter of History, his history, the history of thousands Haitians, friends, relatives, neighbors, all living together in the same city, sharing the same culture, the same destiny.
How would have he ignored that, how being a photographer and obliterate this major event? He had to alert the public; he had to transmit this information and to bear witness for generations to come. He did it for History, for his history and for ours.
For those who missed the whole story and the legal battle engaged in since then by AFP – who “STOLE” Morel’s pictures on Twipics and sold them without compensation – against D.Morel, take a look at BJP who made a great compilation work on this.
If the debate is getting tougher online, about legal questions, Terms of Service and what should be used as argument from both parties. If comments are uncertain about whether or not the Twitter & Twitpics ToS should be different or the uploading process more careful with embedded data, there’s a more subtle concern that nobody seems to care about. A question that would potentially reshape the way we’re looking our business and our practices.
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Le Schisme d’Haiti
octobre 8, 2010 by gholubowicz · 2 Comments
L’affaire Daniel Morel Vs. AFP passe inaperçue dans l’hexagone, pourtant ses implications légales sont vastes, tout comme le sont les diverses prises de positions exprimées par différents acteurs du photojournalisme.
Nul doute que Daniel Morel n’avait qu’une chose en tête le 12 janvier dernier: témoigner de l’atrocité des ravages qu’avait générés le séisme qui venait de frapper Haïti. Morel, photographe pour l’Associated Press pendant 14 ans, avait cessé de couvrir le news pour se recentrer sur du travail documentaire. Mais il s’agissait d’Histoire, de son histoire, de l’histoire de milliers d’Haïtiens, amis, parents, relations, voisins, inconnus, tous vivant dans la même ville, partageant la même culture, le même destin.
Comment ne pas montrer, comment être photographe et oblitérer cet évènement? Il fallait alerter, il fallait transmettre cette information. Pour l’Histoire de son pays, pour son histoire et pour notre histoire.
Pour ceux qui auraient raté l’épilogue légal de cette histoire et la bataille juridique qui fait rage actuellement, British Journal of Photography reprends l’entièreté de l’affaire qui oppose désormais l’AFP, ABC, CNN, CBS et Getty au photographe après que les premiers aient décidé de récupérer gratuitement et d’exploiter commercialement, mais sans compensation, une des 13 images que Morel avait envoyé sur Twipics le soir même du tremblement de terre.
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Sortir du Cadre – Interview : Jean Pierre Pappis
juillet 28, 2010 by gholubowicz · 2 Comments
In this third video of the « Sortir du Cadre » (Think outside the box) Interview series, Jean Pierre Pappis talks about his experience and goes further to explore the state of the photojournalism and its future.
J.P Pappis was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt where he received his high school diploma from the Lycee Francais in 1967. He moved to New York in 1968, attended Queens College and received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Philosophy. He attended graduate school in Paris, France and received a Masters Degree in Literature in 1972 from the Sorbonne University. He started his career in photography in Paris as a photographer covering news and social unrest in post May 68 France. He returned to New York in 1975 as correspondent and bureau chief of Fotolib, a photo agency based in Paris. In 1980 he joined Sygma Photo News and remained there until 2000 as Executive Editor. He then joined Gamma Press USA in New York as Editor-in-Chief until August 2002. In September 2002 Pappis started Polaris Images, a photo agency representing photographers dedicated to the coverage of news and the production of news features.
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