Labour Strike
Dianavision by GC
03 July 2008
02 July 2008
Old family photos II
Front row (l to r) Ernestine McCleary, Velma Thompkins, Gussie Cribb, unidentified woman. Back row (l to r) Raleigh Ross, Annie Reynolds (Thompson), Harry Treeye, Gladys Reynolds (Ward), Mary Louise Cribb (Refoe) and Zack Spears. - Fernandina Beach, Florida.
These young people maintained their connections through old age. When my grandmother, Louise Cribb, died at age 83, she was still writing letters to some of the people who went to a local photographer and had this picture taken. The small, black community was insulated from much of the racism that was prevalent during the first decade of the 20th century. This photo was taken between 1911 and 1914; by 1914, Louise Cribb had become Louise Refoe, and she had moved to Sanford, Florida.
In 1989, the Florida A & M University (FAMU) Marching 100 was the United States representative in the Bastille Day parade. Their membership generally numbers more than 300 young men and women.
Florida A & M University started out as Florida State Normal School. Its purpose was to provide vocational training for black students. My grandfather was born in 1890 and passed away in 1987. In 1908, he was a student studying tailoring in Tallahassee, Florida where FAMU is located, and he was a member of the band and the baseball team.
Herman L. Refoe, Sr. is the sixth man from the left on the back row in the band picture, and he is the second player from the right in the baseball picture. He didn’t graduate, but he used his tailoring skills to support his family as evidenced by the reefer worn by his son between 1934 and 1938 at Florida A & M College (FAMC), which is now FAMU.
Silver Springs is noted for its glass-bottomed boats. In May 1949, students and teachers from Midway Elementary School, located east of Sanford, Florida in what was then an agricultural area, were used in the brochure advertising Paradise Park.
Jim Crow was alive and well in the two separate parks. Note the use of the nomenclature “colored people.” This vernacular is no longer in regular usage.
Text by © Annye Refoe
in cooperation with William Schmidt who scanned the photos.
30 June 2008
Zoriah: Iraq War Photographer's Diary
The last five weeks in Iraq have been intense.
My trip began with a return to Baghdad ER. Iraq's busiest trauma hospital for combat injuries, it sees its share of the ravages of war.
Moving on to Sadr City, I spent two weeks documenting the wall which now separates between two and four million residents from the rest of the world.
Continuing my documentation of Sadr City, I photographed life in the Jamilla Market. Having sustained severe damage during the weeks of intense fighting, many shops were closed and lines for the few remaining shops were packed tight.
I arrived in Anbar Province a week ago and on my second day was eyewitness to an Al Qaeda suicide bombing and assassination which left over fifty people dead or severely injured.
Not everything has been this intense, I have also had my share of pure boredom and have taken to photographing the graffiti that soldiers write on the walls of the latrines.
text and photos © ZoriahIf you would like to read more about these experiences and view more of the images, please visit www.zoriah.net and don't forget to spread the word about what you see there.
29 June 2008
28 June 2008
Kamila Kulik's Family Album
These pictures were taken in 1975 by my father - Karol Kulik in Gdansk, Poland. This little girl is my sister who was 1 year old then, and next to her is my mother.
text by Kamila.JPG)
27 June 2008
26 June 2008
young photographers: Viktor Gårdsäter
Name: Viktor Gårdsäter
Born: 1984
Residence: Stockholm, Sweden
Statement: I like to go for walks, looking and thinking, questioning and reflecting. I enjoy listening to music while walking and a camera is always hanging down from my shoulder. I watch people waiting - I see stressed men and little old ladies smiling. They are my subjects - people. I may knock on a door looking for a meeting with a stranger. I find amusing faults and comic contrasts in the cityscape. Beautiful lines and ugly things. I like subjects with something missing or with imperfections in different ways.
Homepage: www.gardsater.se
We are introducing a new label on The F Blog called "young photographers". The idea is to present a few of them in a more continuous way.
There is of course a story involved in this too - isn´t there always? In 1949 a group of photographers in Sweden held an exhibition called "Unga fotografer" (Young Photographers). The photographers participating were among others Hans Hammarskiöld, Rune Hassner and Tore Johnson. The exhibition was a landmark in the history of Swedish photography and a small revolution. Kurt Bergengren has written about it and also Pär Rittsel. Rittsel by the way has an excellent site about Swedish photography (also in English). prittsel.googlepages.com
We hope to present a selection of hotographers born in the 1980's from all around the world in the coming months. Stay tuned. We are there for Photography. U.F.
25 June 2008
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