News, Views and Reviews For Communiqué Documentary Photography Workshops by Jack Picone and Stephen Dupont
Interesting edit of some of the more unusual and offbeat images from 2012 by TIME
June 12, 2012. Fraymaris Arias, widow of Cuban boxer Teofilo Stevenson, gestures in front of the coffin containing the body of her late husband during his wake in Havana, Cuba.
Franklin Reyes—AP
© Panorama on the Fuji X Pan 1 on Hong Kong’s Queen Rd Central by Jack Picone
Word Play: Queens Rd Central Hong Kong – in full flight. Homogeneous mirror - glass monolithic monster phallic buildings. The bold hard exchange of commodities. More. High energy and frenzied. Pervading. Exciting but overwhelming. Brand victims walking. Want. Significant and insignificant. Sharks feeding. What’s next?
Hong Kong’s subway is state of the art – no question. Advertising shouts from its walls, see me, buy me, eat me!
There was something about this image (below) I scanned as I scurried by – with battalions of Hong Kong people – that left me feeling a little despondent.
I couldn’t quite define my disquiet. Was it because the composition (body language) of the young duck suggested to me, ‘feed me’ or even perhaps ‘protect me’?
© Photograph by Jack Picone
Sometimes I think I could be a Vegetarian again. Vegetarians have a point of view that is worth considering more closely.
…seeking God’s forgiveness………….. but sadly, she won’t help him! © Photograph in Luang Prabang, Laos by Meg Hewitt
Eclectic and random vignettes (all images made on the Fujifilm X-Pro-1) of ‘living Buddhism’ on the streets and in the temples of Bangkok made over the last several days. All images are concerned and connected with the the central theme of ‘Buddhism’ and it’s ubiquity and universality in contemporary Thai life.
JP
* Click on ‘Living Buddhism’ heading above, to go to the next window and view the slideshow in a larger format.
My sentiments exactly. The cape crusader saves photography from mediocrity and probable extinction – once again! Thank you Batman. What was the Boy Wonder thinking? Holy Gotham City!
An Anti – War Statement.
A compilation of images by photographer Jack Picone from a cross – section of countries and cultures in conflict – pointing to the universality, horror and futility of war.
Unexploded ordinance. Quito, Angola. © Photograph by Jack Picone
Photographs and Multimedia by Jack Picone View Here
© Photograph at Lunar Park, Sydney by Jack Picone
Mostly, I don’t subscribe to photographers taking pictures of themselves in mirrors. It always strikes me as a bit of a Cliché . I make an exception in this case because this image has a certain, joie de vivre about it and also because in this picture are two of my long time friends and two of Australia’s most accomplished and renowned photojournalists, Stephen Dupont (above me) and David dare Parker (standing at right). It was taken sometime in the late nineties at Sydney’s Lunar Park.
Too Rude
by Communique© Photograph by Jack Picone
Two images; As found in a secondhand shop in Brunswick’s Head on Australia’s NSW far north coast. They were waiting for a new home and shelf to be placed on.
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