I have just returned from Burma (Myanmar) recently where I had the opportunity to work with FujiFilm’s new X/100s camera.

You can view a short film here made by the Bangkok based film maker Gerhard Joren.

I do collaborate with Fujifilm on various projects with their cameras.  As an aside to that stated collaboration (after shooting with the x/100 for over a week on the road in Burma) it is clear that FujiFilm have fixed the few glitches that  X/100s predecessor  (the x/100) experienced.

FujiFilm have produced a brilliant, ‘thinking outside of the box’ camera. You can view Gerhard’s Joren’s video and some of the stills I authored with the x/100s  here:

                           ©Photograph on the FujiFilm x/100s by Jack Picone

For all enquires about our next amazing workshop event in Kathmandu July 9th – 14th email Jack Picone here: jack@jackpicone.com

Visit the REPORTAGE  as further exhibitions, projections and festival events are confirmed and announced!

~ Jack Picone 

Chobi Mela VII

January 25 to February 7, 2013

Introducing the invited artists

Eugene Richards, War is PersonalGraciela Iturbide, NaturataJ. D. Okhai Ojeikere, Headgears Max Pam, Indian Ocean Journals Saori Ninomiya, From That Place, …

Above photographs © Eugene Richards

71 – Degrees | by Jack Picone

The images in this gallery have all been made on the Hasselblad X-Pan 1 and the Fuji TX-1 essentially, they are exactly the same camera just branded differently.

Both these cameras are relatively small 35mm film cameras that can produce striking unbroken images across a full 71- degree field of view (the normal field of vision of the human eye, by contrast, is only about 45 degrees). The resulting photographs make concrete the concept of the panorama — quite literally, to “see all.”

I take these cameras with me everywhere I go. They are my, “I am taking my cameras for a walk” cameras. Pictures in this slide gallery are from Bangkok, Hong Kong, Macau, Bali, South Africa, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Kathmandu, Laos, Cambodia China and Australia.

The trick with using these cameras is not to rely too heavily on the actual panorama format in an effort to make your images  more aesthetically interesting. This would be clichéd. It is really about using the panorama format in conjunction with compelling composition. If there is a confluence of  both these variables it is possible to elevate your images to a higher aesthetic plane. The latter sadly, I have yet to achieve with the work here.

I am on a creative cusp! I am close I can feel it, Exciting!

Jack Picone

                                                                                                                                  © Photographs by Ed Giles

View this compelling (and at times chilling) report by  Ed Giles  who recently joined Syrian rebels fighting for the Free Syrian Army as they venture into Aleppo’s no-man’s land. The unit’s senior fighter Anas (who Ed’s report largely centers around) leads around 50 men, called Shuhada e-haq, or “The Martyrs of Truth”. Yet to be known, Anas will become a casualty of war. Having personally been on the receiving end of a sniper’s delivery in various conflicts, and witnessing the violence and horror of their work, Giles’ report resonates with me. This report affords a view (rarely seen) and communicates an understanding of the motivations underpinning a snipers deadly work.

Please View here:

Jack Picone

View the ‘where and opening times’ link  here:

Just as a taste, here is Bobo Tsang image using a Lomo camera and doing a double exposure. Intriguing.

                                                                                                                            Photograph by Bobo Tsang

Tracey Shelton displays extraordinary courage under fire while documenting the ongoing conflict in Syria.

“On this morning, the men were relaxed and joking around as they cleaned their area from a tank attack the day before. That time, they had been prepared and the tank had fired too short. This time, the assault came with little warning”.

View Shelton’s report  here:                                                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                    © Tracey Shelton

                                                                                                                               © Photograph by Jack Picone

“PEACE”, which follows Degree South’s WAR exhibition and book, features photographs from the Collective’s members – Tim Page, Michael Coyne, Jack Picone, David Dare Parker, Ben Bohane, Stephen Dupont, and Ashley Gilbertson – who have selected photographs they believe reflect their notion of peace. The exhibition also includes photographs from Sean Flynn, who is listed as missing in action in Cambodia since 1970, and whose archive falls under the Degree South banner.

For further exhibition details please read  here:

• Jack Picone