Guardian picture policy

This is a report about the notion of imageas from the war zone and conflicts. What should be shown in the newspaper and what should remain hidden. Which image is acceptable and which one only shows horror of human behaviour? You can read more here

Leaving by Vaclav Havel in Orange Tree, London

I have been photographing the rehersal of the play by Vaclav Havel, please view the images here

SABINE GADGET - ARCHITECTURE

CHECK IT OUT

BACK IN CZECH

EDITING MISSILES IN PHOTOSHOP

rEAD aND sEE hERE hOW mEDIA cAN mISLEAD....

PLACES WE LIVE IN

Magnum Photographer Jonas Bendinksen documenting the slum areas around the world and the "quality" circumstances how we live in 21st century. Click here for the images.

NO ATTENDANCE

sTADIUM iN bARCELONA nOU cAMP fOR 100 000 pEOPLE wITHOUT tHEM bEING tHERE...

CHINA FROM ABOVE

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/05/china/aerials/steinmetz-photography?email=places_20080509

CHINA EARTHQUAKE

http://www.pdnpulse.com/photojournalism/index.html

ROTTERDAM

info

AN URBAN HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

pHOTOGRAPHY eXHIBITION - tATE mODERN

HAMBURG

LAST WEEK IN PICTURES

http://www.stern.de/bdt/614399.html?cp=40

Stern is a German Magazine which concentrates on current issues in the world and publish regularly great essays by photographers from around the world. This magazine also publish special editions of portfolios....

SEABASTIAO SALGADO

http://www.terra.com.br/sebastiaosalgado/

Cinematic Orchestra Man w/ the Movie Camera 1

great documentary movie - chack it out

LONG EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPHY

- film 400, 800 or 1600
- tripod
- cabel shutter release
- tricky part is to focus

http://adcuz.co.uk/how-to-articles/how-to-create-a-long-exposure-photo/
http://www.dazecoop.co.uk/22-11-2006/bulb-mode-with-the-canon-eos-400d
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonEOS400D/
http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=008fZi
http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=008YyM

BRAZIL _ BEACHES _ EXHIBITION IN ICA

"In Bárbara Wagner's photographs of the urban beach of Brasília Teimosa, loud colours, stark shapes and lashings of light depict supposedly flawed standards of beauty, revealing a sense of joy in a world that requires enormous strength of character."
Kiki Mazzucchelli, curator

http://www.ica.org.uk/Bras%26iacute%3Blia%20Teimosa+16426.twl

portrait of an actor Vaclav

FACE 2 FACE

Photography project which aims to stop violence in Israeli/Palestinian conflict through humour and laugh. Check it out......

http://face2faceproject.com/

Stop violence in Tibet

PICTURES FROM TIBET

http://zpravy.idnes.cz/foto.asp?r=zahranicni&c=A080315_082444_zahranicni_klu

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,29841,00.html

BUS STOP

SHIPPING FORECAST

mARK pOWER and his unusual approach on documentary photography.

It is possible to document something so obscure like shipping forecast from radio BBC 4. Have a look at

http://www.markpower.co.uk/index.cfm?g=1

"DOCUMENTARY" MUSIC

more news from nowhere........
Dig Lazarus Dig, new album by Nick Cave online

http://www.myspace.com/nickcaveandthebadseeds

NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL

Firs international festival in NYC, curated among others by Martin Parr. April 14 is deadline for competition to enter.

http://www.nyphotofestival.com/

A JOURNEY WITH MARCO POLO

Michael Yamashita movie - National Geographic documentary

http://www.michaelyamashita.com/fsearch.shtml

LAKE DISTRICT

CONCERT

Welcome to the new blog about photography. It will be mainly focused on documentary photography in dialogue with fine art. If I am talking about documentary photography, it would be great to discuss here also current issues. I hope you will enjoy it and find these information useful.

Best wishes
Krystof

The image above is from the New Year's concert in Prague (Iva Bittova - Ida Kellarova). I have chosen this photograph because of the composition, atmospehere and the lighting.