Aujourd’hui, kiné & bureau puis demain : dans le train pour Grenoble ! Je me rends à l’Alpe d’Huez pour le magazine Studio Ciné Live. Après quelques semaines passés auprès d’avocats, de patrons, de politologues ou… de chefs à moitié nus dans leur cuisine, je retrouve le monde du cinéma dans un cadre encore inédit pour moi. Retour : dimanche !
Evidemment, grande sera l’envie de chausser des skis là-bas… Si c’est Michael Youn ou François Damiens qui me propose, j’ai le droit, non ?
En octobre, je me suis rendu à New York avec Loïc (abstrait ≠ concret) pour Propos, un mag’ que vous retrouverez en kiosque en mars-avril prochain. J’en ai profité pour glisser une petite mission pour un autre jeune mag’, Snatch ! À la demande de Raphaël, je me suis ainsi retrouvé dans St John’s Cemetery, en plein milieu du Queens, à photographier ce lieu étrange où sont enterrées des figures majeures de la mafia new-yorkaise…
Le magazine est en kiosque depuis quelques jours, courez l’acheter !
St. John Cemetery is an official Roman Catholic burial ground located in Queens' Middle Village. Some famous mobsters are buried here in the cloister.
Decembre 2010 - Snatch Magazine : Pantheon Nostra, reportage dans un cimetiere de mafieux, St John's Cemetery dans le Queens, NY.
Believe me, I REALLY wanted to talk to you about how things were doing here in New York, how I lost my passport on Monday, then found it tonight in a homeless shelter, just like, lying on the floor… Oh ! that’s right. Photography. Reportage. Essay. That kind of stuff. So, hmm, sorry, really, I’m way too tired to write a decent blog post where you’d be happy to read how I’m shooting a story about Street Soccer USA for Propos Magazine… So, instead, here is a picture of some very artistic-whatever-neat-lovely-nice place Loïc, the journalist I came with, lives in when we ain’t on duty:
Shared apartment in Brooklyn.
This is Kyla and her boyfriend, in Brooklyn, like, around Johnson Street Metro Station. Very nice people indeed. The night before yesterday.
Some interesting / depressing view on EPUK‘s website about how photojournalism might be dead already:
No funding for photographers to act as reporters
Today I look at the world of magazine and newspaper publishing and I see no photojournalism being produced. There are some things which look very like photojournalism, but scratch the surface and you’ll find they were produced with the aid of a grant, were commissioned by an NGO, or that they were a self-financed project, a book extract, or a preview of an exhibition.
Magazines and newspapers are no longer putting any money into photojournalism. They will commission a portrait or two. They might send a photographer off with a writer to illustrate the writer’s story, but they no longer fund photojournalism. They no longer fund photo-reportage. They only fund photo illustration.
Read the article: “For God’s sake, somebody call it!”
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