I happened to be in Detroit at the end of March on an assignment for TIME magazine, staying at “The D,” Time Inc.'s Detroit home base for a year-long journalistic commitment to the complicated city. I picked up the weekly rag of clubbing and nightlife, which seemed stocked full of partying not so much right downtown, but just barely out there in the suburbs. I was sort of surprised to find such a paper, as I had been, on my own, exploring the new “urban prairies” and very desolate, demolished parts of town. From what I’ve read, it seems he city has lost 1.3 million residents since its peak in the late Fifties. so some areas have returned back to some semblance of nature. I surprised two pheasants and one fox in my wanderings. Once-much loved and busy schools are now shuttered, and traffic lights at some intersections still hang there, but turned off, so as to not waste electricity.

On March 22, 2010 Shahidul Alam's new body of work, titled "Crossfire", was supposed to open at the Drik Agency in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Because Alam's allegorical photographs depict sites where the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has committed killings, police shut the exhibition down fearing the photographs would cause public unrest. Both The New York Times and PDNPulse have written great articles concerning Alam's work and the exhibition.

 

Today at FotoFest.

Artists and Curator Reception (open to public)
Medianation: Performing for the Screen
curated by Gilbert Vicario

6:00 - 8:00pm | Art League Houston, 1953 Montrose
6:30 - 8:30pm | Isabella Court, 3917 Main
8:00 - 10:00pm | New World Museum, 5230 Center

Leslie Hall, Susanne Jirkuff, Adria Julia, Kalup Linzy, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Laurel Nakadate, Sandra Valenzuela, and Emilio Chapela.

Noorderlicht is a multifaceted and international podium for documentary photography that has embraces both traditional and non-traditional modes photographic story telling.

This year, the Photofestival is looking for work the explores the idea of the contemporary country side in non-Western areas.