Author: Stephen Mayes
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Toward A New Documentary Expression
The role of the ancient storyteller wasn’t to relay facts but to impart greater truths: archetypes, emotions, political structures, and the nature of human experience. It’s only recently that we’ve conflated storytelling and factual reporting
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“Django Unchained” – When Black Is White
Looked at with clear eyes this is a movie by a white man about white guilt in which Tarantino sets up Django as the black Christ to redeem the sins of the white race.
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From Memory To Experience: The Smartphone, A Digital Bridge
The legacy of cubism that was absorbed by popular culture through the Twentieth Century was harnessed by Hockey in his joiners and is finding a vernacular voice in the Smartphone as the social media community intuitively adopts the principle of taking multiple fragments and stitching them together in our minds.
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The Theatre of War – Tim Hetherington on masculinity & aggression
The theatre of war means one thing to the actors and another to the audience. “The software runs it and the software is young men. And in some ways I’m part of the software. I get the operating system. I am the operating system"
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What Crisis? The business of photojournalism
It’s not about finding new ways to do old things, but time to radically rethink our business models by redefining our products, our partners and our clients.
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470,214 pictures later – Lessons from World Press Photo
470,214 Pictures Later: A Lecture by Stephen Mayes from World Press Photo on Vimeo.
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