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| ©MARIA TURCHENKOVA |
MARIA TURCHENKOVA (Freelance photographer, Russia)
This picture was made on July, 5th 2014, when the Ukrainian forces have just entered the city of Slavyansk, the bastion of separatists in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.I was on assignment for Le Monde, together with the correspondent Benoit Vitkine we were the only journalists witnessing the storm of the SBU building by the Ukrainian soldiers. This building was the headquarters of the separatists and its takeover was the key moment. Although the rebels have already abandoned it , they left mines inside. One of them exploded at the second floor during the search.This shot is the second in the sequence, and the moment of explosion and reaction of the soldiers are seen better. As well as my correspondent can be seen less, as he jumped in my frame escaping from the falling at his head bricks and shards of glass.
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| © JACOB BALZANI LOOV |
JACOB BALZANI LOOV (Freelance Photographer, Milan/Zurich)
One raindrop, two, three… very soon I got totally soaked in my sleeping bag. How miserable since I didn’t had a proper rest since two days. It was only midnight and rainfall was just increasing in a forest between the oblasts of Ternopil and Rivne, in Western Ukraine. In the very same place, in 1944, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army fought against the Red Army in the battle of Gurba.I was there to photograph a very particular game in a very particular time: 300 people divided in two teams had to challenge each other during a never-ending, 60 hours long, match organized by the Young Nationalist Congress. Many of the participants, between 18 and 26 years old, spent their winter in Maidan and there was a concrete fear that Ukraine could have been invaded by Russian troops, several already took courses from Army Reservist or would have then enlisted in the National Guard.Everybody was soaked and since there were no shelter they lighted up quickly big fires. I wrapped my camera in a plastic bag and I started shooting. The problem of a fire is that it reveals easily your position so the team soon got attacked. As everybody went to defend the camp, for a moment I remained with two exhausted girls close to the abandoned fires. I thought the atmosphere was haunted and evocative especially thinking that these young people were facing a country on the verge of war. I would be scared. To me the mixture of darkness, trees, loneliness and light shows the uncertainty which was in the air. We spent all the sleepless night half soaked-half dry standing near the flames.
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| ©CRISTOBAL OLIVARES |
CRISTOBAL OLIVARES (VII Photo Mentor Program, Chile)
This photograph is part of my project «In Karen’s Name», which portrays a part of the life of Karen, a mid-age woman who struggle with issues such as alcohol,drugs, poverty and sexuality. In this sequence: Yara ( the little girl in the back) is the daughter of Karen`s girlfriend. She is fixing Karen’s hair, so they can go out together. Karen takes care of Yara everyday, like her own daughter. the three women are a family now, struggling with several social issues.I choose that photograph because of the corporal expressions. The light was already good and the moment so quiet and personal. I’ve just waited for the right movements and expressions.
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Belajar fotografi bisa bersumber dari apapun dan siapapun, terlebih dari pengalaman. Dahulu 1 roll film berisi 36 frame yang dijadikan klise atau negatif. Pada saat era film, salah satu cara evaluasi hasil motret adalah dengan melihat seluruh negatif beserta catatan data teknis. Frame nomer sekian menggunakan f berapa dan speed berapa. Manual sekali, namun komprehensif. Kesalahan-kesalahan teknis seperti exposure, komposisi selalu menjadi bahan yang menarik untuk pembelajaran.
Apakah proses belajar seperti itu masih bisa diterapkan di era digital? Menurut pengalaman saya bisa. Desember 2008 sewaktu saya masih bekerja untuk John Stanmeyer di Denpasar, saya melihat dapurnya alias contact-sheetsnya John. Harapan saya bisa mempelajari sudut pengambilan yang unik dan lain dari yang lain, namun ternyata yang saya lihat cenderung banyak komposisi yang sama dalam 100 frame. Artinya John menunggu momen yang tepat sampai dia "dapat" lalu berpindah tempat. Tiap fotografer memang memiliki kecenderungan yang berbeda-beda. Namun selalu ada alasan dibalik mengapa "1 foto" dipilih dari berbagai frame yang ada, seperti penjelasan fotografer-fotografer diatas.
Semangat belajar
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