Reportage 1
Moldavia is the poorest country in Europe. 40% of the population lives under the poverty line, and more than one third of adults of working age leave the country. Many are mothers and fathers who, on their way to Italy or other EU countries, leave their children behind in the care of relatives or friends. Years may pass before they see each other again. However, at least once a month, minibuses bring money, sweets, and presents to their children: one of the few ways that their parents are able to show their love.
Reportage 2
In her "Self-Portraits", Jen Davis deals with the insecurities associated with her body image and the direct correlation between self-perception and the way one is perceived by others. In her photographs, Davis aims to raise questions regarding beauty, desire, body image, and identity through a focused observation of her personal story. Through the act of photographing, she invites the viewer into her private life, exploring the vulnerabilities that are associated with the life-long struggle with her body, feelings of isolation, and the battle to recognize beauty.
Reportage 3
The question we are most prone to ask when hardship strikes – “why me?” – makes no sense. That question presupposes that pain, disease, and death are distributed according to moral merit. They are not. We live in a world in which disease pervades and innocent children starve, genocide occurs, the list continues on and on. With Mary Ann’s story, we begin with suffering.
Reportage 4
The night has drawn us in since mankind can remember. The darkness hides secrets and cloaks our actions from the eyes of our neighbour. The night has also brought as a justification, a period in which our sense of morality is lax and a different, more primal, 'us' emerges from its slumber.
Interview
Time flies when you chat with Christian Caujolle. I open my notebook to take some notes, I launch the first questions. I get absorbed by his thoughts, he reveals them at a slow pace, in almost perfect Spanish, as if he were talking to himself. Every one of his comments encloses a key, a piece of information or an anecdote that forces me to reconsider many of my opinions related to the current photographic scene.
New Formats
The production of Near the Egress (2009) began in 2006 with 16 rolls of black & white photo film and a few curious ideas about the following: the moving still-image, a society's fascination with arena spectacles, and the desire of a memory. 800 photographic plates were used. Each 35mm frame of 16 rolls of film was processed and enlarged to become a 4x5 inch modern dry-plate image (aka tintype), which then were scanned and re-sequenced to produce a stop-motion video with often eerie and ephemeral visuals effects.
7.7 is a Project of the colective of photographers RUIDO Photo, and it is developed independently and voluntarily, with the goal of creating a meeting point and a debate space about the role of documentary photography.
This is a bet for the creation, use and publication of a new channel that is meant to became a reference of an independent, social, critic and committed photojournalism, proposing a photography as a tool to generate reflection and social change.
The team of 7.7 is a group of professionals that works as a collective, sharing the work and the decisions, searching for and horizontality that helps creation and debate.
Idea: Roger Rossell
Coordination: Toni Arnau and Roger P. Gironés || coordinacion@7punt7.net
Graphic Concept: Roger P. Gironés || disseny@7punt7.net
Web Design: Marc Martínez de Foix || web@7punt7.net
Edition: Mireia Bordonada || edicion@7punt7.net
Text: Alejandra Cukar || redaccion@7punt7.net
Multimedia: Mar Costa || multimedia@7punt7.net
Communication: Celeste Arroquy || comunicacion@7punt7.net
Translations: Paola Denari, Malena Saralegui, Aria Curtis and Alejandra Duschatzky (English), Laura Córdoba (Catalonian)
Proofreading: Aileen Corbett, Aria Curtis and Wayne Kehoe
Editorial Council: Silvia Omedes, Rafael Badía and Carles Costa
2009 Award Jury: Pepe Baeza, Leopoldo Blume (Blume Editors) and Alice Monteil (Photographic Social Visión)
2010 Award Jury: Jessica Murray (Al-liquindoi), Sandra Balsells (photographer), Leopoldo Blume (editor), Alice Monteil (Fundación Photographic Social Vision) and Marta Delclos (Virreina Centre de la Imatge)
Photographic Social Vision and Editorial Blume.
comunicacion@7punt7.net
Nou de la rambla 48, 2n. 08001 Barcelona. Spain.
We don’t care about the photo. We care even less about a photographic project. We care about the stories. And the way of looking at things.
Many times we’ve thought about those stories that, as documentary photographers, we wanted to give refuge. And we knew that they were not going to be like the work which we’ve seen so many times and with which we’ve grown up: a map of icons in exotic places where only terrible things happen and where people are just unhappy. A world of black or white, distant and different from the world around us.
And this is how we came to understand the need for a photography of proximity and profundity, a photography where the stories that are told contain all the hues found in this world we live in. Stories told with photos that create a link, that provoke thinking; a thinking as complex as reality, without good guys or bad guys, without heroes or villains.
This is why we decided to open this window: as a place to display different ways of looking at things, visions committed to what surrounds us, and in a constant practice of understanding (ourselves and others), of explaining ourselves to ourselves. We want to start looking through the cracks, the holes, the keyholes, with an open and a flexible spirit, strengthened by the free formats of the digital era.
This is an open space for the most diverse forms of building visual discourse and its possibilities, an interactive space, critical, rebellious, open, participatory. Restless and disturbing. This is an invitation to think, to abandon common places and to start doubting.
Welcome to the digital magazine for documentary photography.
Welcome to 7.7
The spirit of 7.7 is to become a new way of diffusion of photographer’s work that escapes from the traditional market’s logic and its dominance over the media’s agenda.
In this search we organize a yearly photo contest, selected from the individual photographers works published in 7.7. This prize, of 2000€, is possible thanks to the support of Photographic Social Vision, Editorial Blume and RUIDO Photo.
Terms and conditions:
1) Participation:
All the photographic works made by individual photographers and published in each year of publication of 7.7 (4 editions) will be considered. Works made by members of the team of 7.7, RUIDO Photo, or any other collaborator that has participated in the editorial process of 7.7, will be excluded. The third edition of this competition is open and will include works published since issue 9 to 12 inclusive. The receipt of projects is continuous and does not close during the year, but will can not submit for this contest after 15 March 2012.
2) Submission
To submit material, please check the 7.7 technical requirements here.
3) Prize
A prize of 2000€ (two thousand euros) will be given to the work chosen as winner.
4) Selection
A special jury will be constituted to select the winner. The names of the members of this jury will be visible in the website, and they will meet before the 30 days after the publication of the 4th year’s edition of the magazine.
The decision will be communicated immediately .
The decision will be taken by simple majority of the members of the jury and can’t be appealed.
5) Jury
The jury will be constituted by members of Photographic Social Vision, Editorial Blume, RUIDO Photo, 7.7 and members of the editorial council of 7.7
6) General Conditions
The authors of the presented works - accepting the conditions of the contest - authorize 7.7 to reproduce their work during the publicity that 7.7 will make of the results of the contest. All the images will be used including the name of the author. The license of use of the pictures will be Creative Commons. The author must to choose the type of CC license that consider for his/her work, by default will be Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) (no commercial use is allowed in the original work and the generation of derivative works). The submission of the material to 7.7 supposes the acceptance of the conditions of the prize.
In the framework of the World Press Photo exhibition, organized by Photographic Social Vision in Barcelona and Westlicht Schauplatz für Fotografie in Vienna, 7.7 inaugurates a new series of workshops with the winners of the most important photojournalism contests in the world.
The workshops are aimed at professional photojournalists as well as photography students interested on documentary photography, seeking not only improve the quality of their images, but also reflect on their own ways of working. The aim of these workshops is create, through collective participation, debate and discussion about how we take pictures and why we chose the stories we want to shown. Instructors provide perspective about our own work, in order that we recognize and located ourself as authors. An important part of these workshops will be focus in graphic edition in documentary photography.
BARCELONA, SPAIN.
·Jodi Bieber, winner of World Press Photo of the Year Award 2011.
·Walter Astrada, winner 1st prize stories, Spot News, World Press Photo 2010.
21, 22 and 23 of November at the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona(CCCB).
VIENNA, AUSTRIA.
·Jodi Bieber, winner of World Press Photo of the Year Award 2011.
24, 25 and 26 of Noviembre en WestLicht. Schauplatz für Fotografie.
For more information and applications: Download PDF. M: workshops@7punt7.net
RUIDO Photo is an organization integrated by a multidisciplinary team who understand photography and documentary as a tool of reflection and social transformation. Since 2004, we conceptualize and develop projects which generate participation, debate and awareness on various contemporary issues.
RUIDO Photo operates in three interrelated areas: Research and documentation, formation and awareness, and practices for community revitalization. We develop different framework projects related to its current strategic priorities:
- Projects of Documentary photography and Interactive photography. In a critically deep way we tackle realities which usually remain invisible. We try to understand and convey the facts affecting people and through them to the greater community. We focus on the diffusion as an instrument of social change.
- 7.7 Digital Magazine of Documentary Photography. Is a platform for creation, use and dissemination of a base that becomes a reference of an independent, social, critic and committed journalism.
