EPJ:Website Critique

My website critique is about the website of the photographer Christian Als.

First of all I appreciate his photography very much. He has so many stories on his website, which is normally not very good, but in his case every single story is worth to show it and you will not find one weak image.

The starting site has a News section. I like that idea very much that the user can see immediately in which project Christian is involved or at what he is doing right now. The problem here is that he didn’t updated this section since March 2010, but if you have a news section I think you should care for that it is always updated. So if you are not working on anything or don’t have regular news to post it is a bad idea to have it. On the other hand you can use that like a blog and don’t be in need of an external blog anymore.

When you click on “stories” you can see his stories, displayed in a wide and huge box with an image and the title is shown in big letters which are not disturbing in my opinion. This site is very good structured and very assessable.

The portrait section instead is different in the design of the site, but I like it anyway. One easy black box and the picture in it. A simple navigation brings you to the next picture.
The other sections of his website are structured like that too. So there is no big disruption with the overall look.

To sum it up: I think the website is very clear structured and easy to handle. The only thing which I don’t like are the colors and the font. It doesn’t really fit together.

EPJ: Topic Final Project

For my final project I will do a multimedia story about Nisha.

Nisha, 25, is an inmate at the Henry County Jail in Clinton, MO. She is sentenced for biting off the nose of another girl in a drugfight. Nisha gave birth to her daughter Lyla three weeks before she had to go to jail. Since that Nisha was not allowed to touch her baby and saw her only on a monitor.

The first part in jail I already photographed and I also did some sound recording to get the atmosphere of a jail and an interview with Nisha.

You can have a first look at the story at my wesite

AT: Classmate Studio Portrait

Classmate Studio Portrait, Han Cheung, 30, comes from Taiwan and studies Journalism at the University of Missouri since 3 years. He is going to graduate this year. Han is a quite but very sympathic classmate, roommate and friend. Besides serious talk you can have a lot of fun with this guy. His tattoo comes from the game “Dungeons and Dragons”. It is played with a dice of 20 sides. It has a special remembrance for Han. His five teammates wear it also.

Some Studio Work

Hey classmates!

here are the pictures from our first studio visit. I did not want them to hide from you – Look at the light what it does with the shadows 😉

ATP: Portrait Inspiration

So many billions of extraordinary, wonderful, frightened, attractive, emphasizing, grazeful portraits…where should I start – where end? I have no clue, but it is definitley more than only one portrait…

Amy Vitale

Relatives of Naz Banu, who was killed during an attack on leading politician Sakina Yatoo, mourn over her body during her funeral in the northern Kashmir town of Mirhama.

I admire this picture because: first Amy Vitale managed it to be accepted in this culture, in this group of women, second because it is a very intimate, sad moment and she captured it. The composition, the colors, everything works with each other.You can feel the deep sadness and grief…and most important: a high respect towards these women.

Steve McCurry


Sharbat Gula (born ca. 1972) is an Afghan woman who was the subject of a famous photograph by journalist Steve McCurry. Gula was living as a refugee in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when she was photographed. The image brought her recognition when it was featured on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine at a time when she was approximately 12 years old. Gula was known throughout the world simply as “the Afghan Girl” until she was formally identified in early 2002.

This portrait shows how a single picture can unleash the world. It also shows the honest emotion of Gula. She is not laughing, not smiling, not even a little grin, just her, and her look in the eyes gives you so much questions. When I saw her portrait the first time I was stunned.

Thomas Hoepker

GERMANY. Hamburg. 1954. Old woman in a snowstorm.

I love this portrait of the old woman. It is just black and white, no more colors are needed to let you feel the icy snowstorm as you would stay next to her.

Amy Vitale


Dembel Jumpora-Eyes-Adema Balde washes near her family’s rice fields in the village of Dembel Jumpora located in the West African country of Guinea Bissua. She died as a teenager later that year after trying to escape an arranged marriage.

A portrait full of questions. In a way it looks dangerous, like she would hide, like she would be drown the next moment…when you read the capture, the picture becomes very symbolic for the life of this girl.

Rebecca Norris Webb

“The glass between us”

I hate zoos. They are unnatural and a cruelty for every single animal. Here you can see, you can feel how it must be to get penned in and what a torture it is to see the freedom one bar away from you, every day and day and day and day till death.

Eugene Richards

Dorchester Days

What can I say…just try to get so close to a person in pain – you will see what happens with the person AND with you.

Summery

To come to an end, I admire pictures which you not only look at. When you have to stare, to cry, to laugh, to feel cold or warm or whatever…as long as there is a feeling which comes up to me, it is an admirable picture.

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