#4 Ian Berry - PHOTO TALK - WTF-STOP PODCAST

02/14/22 • 75 min

Magnum Photos photographer Ian Berry talks about his time working in South Africa and in England, while we look through his favorite photos both from his lifes work and from his book on South Africa entitled 'Living Apart'.
Originally recorded in the Print Room at Magnum Photos in London on Feb 28th, 2019.
Magnum Photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photogra...
Ian Berry was born in Lancashire, England. He made his reputation in South Africa, where he worked for the Daily Mail and later for Drum magazine. He was the only photographer to document the massacre at Sharpeville in 1960, and his photographs were used in the trial to prove the victims’ innocence.
Henri Cartier-Bresson invited Ian Berry to join Magnum in 1962 when he was based in Paris. He moved to London in 1964 to become the first contract photographer for the Observer Magazine. Since then assignments have taken him around the world: he has documented Russia’s invasion of Czechoslovakia; conflicts in Israel, Ireland, Vietnam, and the Congo; famine in Ethiopia; apartheid in South Africa. The major body of work produced in South Africa is represented in two of his books: Black and Whites: L’Afrique du Sud (with a foreword by the then-French president François Mitterrand), and Living Apart (1996). During the last year, projects have included child slavery in Ghana and the Spanish fishing industry.
Important editorial assignments have included work for National Geographic, Fortune, Stern, Geo, national Sunday magazines, Esquire, Paris-Match, and LIFE. Ian Berry has also reported on the political and social transformations in China and the former USSR.
Ian Berry Books:
Water: (Ghost 23) https://gostbooks.com/products/water
Living Apart: https://youtu.be/VVSZ_GfbH9I
The English: https://youtu.be/jgOIwYAicn0
Whitechapel: https://youtu.be/J1gYp7mVFos
Observer Supplement: https://youtu.be/bDKvf3shtik
Music by kind permission Martin Stephenson:
https://daintees.bandcamp.com/album/s...
To buy the song We Are Storm: https://daintees.bandcamp.com/track/w...
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#3 Diane Bush - PHOTO TALK - WTF-STOP PODCAST

Vegas-based American artist and photographer Diane Bush talks about her time as part of the Exit Photography Group in the 70s and her life connection with the world as a photographer.
Diane Bush is an American activist artist and photographer, who trained in the U.K. In her later years, Bush has embraced public art through public participation projects using fiber art (Yarn Bombing) and performance. "I think of myself as a problem solver that uses art (and humor) to get the job done."
Diane Olson-Bush was born in Buffalo, N.Y. At the age of 18, she emigrated to the U.K. with a draft dodger, in response to the Vietnam War. After living there for ten years and working as a documentary photographer, she returned to the U.S. to attend to her ailing parents. Once back in Buffalo, N.Y. she obtained her Masters Degree in Photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo by documenting local boxing gyms and billiard halls.
After graduating, she spent seven years as staff photographer at the local affiliate of the National Public Broadcasting and ABC-TV stations. At the same time, she pursued self-imposed artistic projects and established a non-profit public arts organization, “URBAN ART”.
Diane returned to academia by spending six years as the Coordinator of the Photography Department at a local two-year college just outside of Buffalo. While her students were winning numerous national awards and prizes, Diane was doing the same with her own professional and artistic work, through the generosity of such entities as Kodak, Polaroid, Women in Photography, Nikon, Ilford, the Royal Photographic Society, Friends of Photography (San Francisco), The Albright –Knox Art Gallery, and the United Nations.
Throughout her professional career, Diane has continued to exhibit her work in approximately 2-5 group shows per year, and has been exhibited and published locally, nationally, and internationally, including shows in Japan, China, Great Britain, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Italy. Since her relocation to Las Vegas in 1997, she has been awarded 15 grants and a Fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council. In 2009 she became the U.S.A. Fellowship nominee. Diane continues to teach occasional photographic workshops and regularly contributes art and donations to Buffalo and Las Vegas-based arts organizations.
Diane’s satirical and fine art imagery sampled from T.V. and other sources spans over 30 years and includes videos, talking pictures, performance work, and stills.
Bush’s published 2005 monograph, WARHEADS contains images that satirize America’s news censorship of the Iraqi War, are more relevant now, than ever. These were created by shooting TV surfaces with a macro lens at obtuse angles and throwing bleach the resulting C-prints.
Currently, she is creating fiber-based works aimed at satirizing president Trump’s self-admitted sexual predatory behavior, called “Make a Merkin Great Again”.
Diane is a past President and Director of the Contemporary Arts Center of Las Vegas where she lives with her artist husband, Steve Baskin, and Mookie the cat. Both she and her husband collect everything vintage but have a very soft spot for anything mid-century, mod and psychedelic.
Diane Bush:
Web: https://www.dianebush.net/
Warheads: https://www.dianebush.net/political-satire/warheads
Diane - Cafe Royal Books https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/search?q=diane+bush
Cafe Royal Books: https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/
Music by kind permission Martin Stephenson:
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#5 Nick Hedges - PHOTO TALK - WTF-STOP PODCAST

Documentary photographer Nick Hedges talks about his life and his connection with the world as a photographer over the last 50 years.
Nick Hedges was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, 1943. He studied photography at Birmingham College of Art 1965-1968, and as a final project, he worked with Birmingham Housing Trust on an exhibition about the city’s badly housed. On leaving college he became a photographer and researcher for Shelter, National Campaign for the Homeless from 1968-1972. An archive of his work for Shelter was acquired by National Media Museum in Bradford, and he prepared a touring exhibition for the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1974.
He worked as a freelance documentary photographer from 1972-1980 for Mencap, Disability Income Group, Population Countdown, BBC, Penguin Books, and New Society. He was commissioned to make an exhibition ‘Problem in the City’ by the Royal Town Planning Institute that was shown at the ICA in 1976. In the same year, he was awarded an Arts Council Fellowship to make a documentary study of working lives in factories and steelworks in the West Midlands, this was completed in 1979. His photographs were exhibited at the Half Moon Gallery in London and by the British Council in ‘Uncertain Art Anglais’ in Paris in 1979. The resulting book ‘Born to Work’ was published in 1982 by Pluto Press.
In 1979 he was commissioned by the Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne to make a documentary study of the fishing industry based around North Shields Fish Quay on Tyneside. He worked on an exhibition project ‘I’m a Believer’ photographing many different religions in Wolverhampton between 1976 and 1980.
His work was exhibited, and he was a guest speaker at the 2nd Latin American Colloquium of Photography in Mexico City, 1982. He was a frequent contributor to Camerawork magazine and was a member of the editorial board of Ten.8 magazine. From 1980 to 2003 he was head of photography at West Midlands College of H.E. and the University of Wolverhampton.
In 2004 he donated his entire collection of Shelter negatives, contact sheets, and prints to The Library, Birmingham under the aegis of Peter James. His exhibition ‘Make Life Worth Living’ was shown at the Science Museum in London between 2014-2015. His work was exhibited and acquired by the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, 2015. He has edited and produced a selection of his photographic work in book form, published by blurb.co.uk between 2012 and 2014. In December 2016 he was a major contributor to the Channel 5 documentary “Britain’s Slums 50 years on”
Nick Hedges
Web: http://www.nickhedgesphotography.co.uk/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HorizonLevel
Facebook: https://twitter.com/HorizonLevel
Selected Books:
Home https://bluecoatpress.co.uk/product/h...
Street https://bluecoatpress.co.uk/product/s...
New Dawn New Nightmares https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/3760817-new...
Seeing How https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4411771-see...
The Fish Quay and the Dairy https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/3843055-the...
The Man with the Mirrors https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4172824-the...
Big men...Blue glasses...Steelworkers https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/3686581-big...
On the Line https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/3760706-on-...
Bluecoat Press https://bluecoatpress.co.uk/
Music by kind permission Martin Stephenson:
https://daintees.bandcamp.com/album/s...
To buy the song We Are Storm: https://daintees.bandcamp.com/track/w...
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