The Northern Life Museum in cahoots with the NWT Arts Council is offering a
Digital Photography Workshop over two weekends – September 24th & 25th and October 1st
Instructor: George Lessard
Cost is $45.00
This beginner to intermediate course will give an introduction to basic photography techniques such as framing, composition, exposure, plus a presentation of documentary architectural and landscape photographic techniques for use with a digital camera plus much more.
As part of the workshop the participants will produce a pictorial exhibit of local sites chosen by the Northern Life Museum to be part of a “Now & Then” exhibit for the Museum’s permanent collection.
Registration is limited to the first 10 paid participants.
For a more detailed workshop plan please stop
by the Museum.
110 King Street
(872) 872-2859
nlmmanager@direcway.com
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Digital Photography Workshop
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Graphic Rescue Photo Becomes a Symbol of New Orleans
Graphic Rescue Photo Becomes a Symbol of New Orleans
[excerpt]
By Daryl Lang
Published: September 15, 2005 12:51 AM ET
NEW YORK (PDN) The front pages of more than 20 newspapers Wednesday
ran a photo of a naked, emaciated American clinging to life as
rescuers carried him from his home.
Editors say the startling image, showing a man being rescued in New
Orleans 16 days after Hurricane Katrina, created discussions in their
newsrooms but ultimately carried enough news value to make it worth
publishing.
The photo, by Orange County Register photographer Bruce Chambers, was
distributed by the Associated Press and Knight Ridder/Tribune.
The Register identified the thin, unconscious man in the picture as
Edgar Hollingsworth, age 74, and said he was taken to a hospital and
was expected to survive.
In the picture, National Guard Spc. Manuel Ramos gently lifts
Hollingsworth, who is naked, off a stretcher while other rescuers
assist with an breathing mask and an IV bag. The image is centered in
front of a tidy front porch, with mailboxes and a potted plant.
[full text]
http://editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001137369&imw=Y
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
* Google unveils blog search site *
* Google unveils blog search site *
Google has launched a dedicated search site for weblogs.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/technology/4244944.stm
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Google blogsearch
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Technorati
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Memeorandum
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Friday, September 02, 2005
André Beaupré's 2005 vacation photos of Fort Smith and Iqaluit.
André Beaupré's 2005 vacation photos of Fort Smith and Iqaluit.
Photos are from between
28 Jul 05 & 26 Aug 05.
2005 SSFF South Slave Friendship Festival
The Festival is over... and pictures have been posted here daily... For information about purchasing single images or a compilation CD ... contact the photographer.. George Lessard directly at (867)872-3455 or at media@web.net
If you wish to use the images on your website....
See this page
members.tripod.com/media002/george-lessard-photographer.html
for examples.
For more information, please visit the 2005 SSFF website
friendshipfestival.org/
2004 SSFF Photos
www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/68243/
Photos are from between
13 Jul 05 & 22 Aug 05.
finding-looting
Flickr user dustin3000 uploaded two similar news photos; each of a flood victim in New Orleans wading in chest high water with boxes and bags.
Caption 1 under the very dark skinned person: " A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans"
Caption 2under the light skinned person: "Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store..."
AMENDED NOTE:
I posted this picture not to CLAIM Racism - I reposted this because I thought it was an opportunity to examine why certain words were chosen and to question if skin color played any role. But keep in mind that these photographs were taken by 2 different photographer, in two different situations and captioned by 2 different copy-editors at 2 different companies. Had the 2 pictures been taken by the same photographer AND captioned by the same copy editor, then the racial motives behind the copy-editor's word choice could be equivocated.
What's interesting about the the juxtapostion of these two photos is that when compared, one can see how word choice can greatly affect the way a viewer extricates meaning from an image. The nature of comparing 2 items in an analytical world is just that - to get you to critically analyze the photos and astutely pull out larger themes that give insight to other topics that otherwise wouldn't be as apparent.
To inculpate the 2 photographers, 2 copyeditors, and American media for being racist, is not the most cogent claim in this situation. This is not to say that media is not bias when it comes to playing on stereotypes - but the last thing we should do is participate in the supposedly "black versus white" paradigm - America's race problem is much bigger and more complicated than that.