I may be wrong, but it seems like most of the forum group is doing landscape work. Anyone out there using LF for reportage or social documentary, such as working for NGO's or personal projects?
If so I would love to see what people are doing. I'm having a frustraiting time getting my current project going and I need some inspiration!
David Burnett and Ash are the two most famous modern day LF PJs. Ash's work can be found on this forum.
you can check my website for my personal projects that are with LF. the projects are called "my da lu" and "portraits in china". good luck.
I have from time to time. Mostly Speed or Crown Graphic usage. Recently did a magazine shoot that was going on the cover, with a double truck inside, and the photo ed asked me to shoot 8x10. Very fun.
What about using a graflex for street shooting? Or are people only using rangefinder cameras?
Yes, there are people doing that.
Do a search on Edward Burtynsky, Tony Roma, the guy who worked with 8x10 in schools in the. US (somebody help me with the name, which escapes my mind for the moment).
For work that I think is documentary, but maybe not obviously so, check out Geoffrey James and Tim Atherton and Chris Jordan.
A woman named Rita Leistner, who has worked in Iraq, etc., is about to do a large format project on Canadian Indian reserves, as part of what is apparently going to become a theatrical performance. Definitely worth checking out.
Those are just current people, which I assume is what you are looking for.
Also, check out a guy I found out about recently, from NJ/NY, named Noah Addis.
And then there is Jeff Wall, who is in my respectful view very special, but he is mostly working in digital, albeit on a very big scale.
Cheers
That should be Thomas Roma, and the photographer whose name I couldn't remember is Nicholas Nixon.
Cheers.
On the subject of Edward Burtynsky, you'd do well to track down a fantastic documentary about his work called "Manufactured Landscapes".
It's a brilliant companion to his stunning images, which acheives the rare feat of expanding and complementing the ideas he creates in his photographs...cripes, the opening scene alone is worth the search.
On a drastically more humble note, my recent time in China was spent taking portraits with my Crown Graphic -- maybe not quite reportage or documentary but pretty close! (Can post links or images when they're safely developed...thank you for the links, Nelson)
hi arne
i have been photographing and interviewing people at work, where they work
with a 4x5 camera for more than 20 years.
i started off with a 35mm then 6x6, and eventually ended up using a speed graphic ... the last ones i did were with a graflex slr.
i guess i read studs turkel's working when i was a kid, and never got it out of my system ...
john
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