Reportage 1
Downtown East Side, a suburb of Vancouver, is a microcosm of visible social ills. These include but are not limited to: extreme poverty, homelessness, addiction, prostitution and an AIDS rate estimated at over 30%. This is the result of a myriad of problems. Most prominently there is gentrification of the DTES due to its close proximity to the Downtown core and development for the 2010 Olympics. A formal complaint regarding conditions in the DTES has been put forward to the United Nations, and the Human Rights Council is expected to take two years to hear and study the complaint. But one look at this truly desperate and squalid section of society is all it takes to know that something is tragically wrong.
Reportage 2
Lawyers and students, doctors and clerks escape the boredom of daily life turning themselves, for a few hours a week, into the fearless members of Ghost Brigade. Some might call it the ultimate weekend escape, but the actual name of the game is Soft Air. A squad of men and women playing war with weapons purchased on the internet, just no death, no pain. There is no violence, but the illusion of it.
Reportage 3
Since 1830 up to the beginning of 1900, an Italian migratory flux, from Puglia, Italy, involve Kerch, Crimea. This Italians were mainly agriculturists, seaman and expert in shipyards attracted by the mirage of better future. During the Stalinist purge, many of them were accused to be Italian spy and therefore arrested, tortured and shot dead.
Reportage 4
Housework is a unique labor situation, in where the employer and the woman employee live together under the same roof and where inevitable affection exists. The employee, the maid, the domestic servant, the housekeeper has to stay for a while in this supposed second home following the roles that escape from her primitive function. She becomes a mother, a daughter, a friend, a sister and a grandmother, but taking into account that she does not have to feel completely identified with her roles only that this is her job. “Family and Domestic” moves between the domestic servant’s two universes: one composed by her labor family and the other composed by her own family.
Interview
At this point, Javier Bauluz could resign himself to be a living legend of photojournalism. This man has won the Pulitzer Prize, he’s published in the top of the top of the media scene, and has a couple of books signed by his name. Although he could, he isn’t lowering his guard in any moment. Knowing that journalism (traditional mass media) is no longer what it was, he decided to go back to the roots, and to do it from below, with independent digital media and operating under an approach of the human rights.
Interactive photography
InsideOut is a six-month project involving 30 workers from Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. They learn the basics of photography and, guided by volunteer photographers and photojournalists, are encouraged to take photos of their daily lives in Singapore. Through their photographs, we hope to learn from their perspectives and experiences. The sharing of their stories may spark more interaction between host and migrant communities, strengthening links that already exist and building bridges where there are none.
Collectives
Since 2004, the Argos group has documented the impact of global warming on populations that are as distant as they are vulnerable: reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, Alaska, Bangladesh, New Orleans, a Chinese village ... This project seeks to convey a sense of urgency shared by the group: the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases will cause millions of people being forced to a displacement.
2009 Award
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is the home of the Lakota Sioux. They are the tribe that suffered the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre, in December of 1890, in which an estimated 350 Lakota were killed. Sadly, Pine Ridge continues to be the setting for an ongoing massacre within the tribe. Gangs on the reservation are out of control, and the violence they live by grips even the smallest villages. This photographic exploration tries to bring to light a people who have long been demonized, victimized, and romanticized, but ultimately abandoned.
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
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
Blog: Oriana Eliçabe || memoriallena@7punt7.net
Communication: Celeste Arroquy || comunicacion@7punt7.net
Coordination: Roger P. Gironés || coordinacion@7punt7.net
Colaborator: Toni Arnau
Translations: Paola Denari, Malena Saralegui and Alejandra Duschatzky (English), Laura Córdoba (Catalonian)
Proofreading: Aileen Corbett
Editorial Council: Silvia Omedes, Rafael Badía and Carles Costa
2009 Award Jury: Pepe Baeza, Leopoldo Blume (Blume Editors) and Alice Monteil (Photographic Social Visión)
Photographic Social Vision and Editorial Blume.
comunicacion@7punt7.net
Dr. Gine i Partagás 38, 08003, Barcelona, España
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, El Centre de Fotografía Documental de Barcelona 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 second edition of this competition is open and will include works published since issue 5 to 8 inclusive. The receipt of projects is continuous and does not close during the year, but will can not submit for this contest after 15 September 2010.
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, Centre de Fotografia Documental de Barcelona, 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.
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. RUIDO Photo develop different framework projects related to its current strategic priorities:
·Global Migration Correspondent. Designed to try to identify the different locations and agents involved and to understand the multifaceted reality of migration from a cross-sectional approach.
·7.7 Documentary Photography Digital Magazine. Is a platform for creation, use and dissemination of a base that becomes a reference of an independent, social, critic and committed journalism.
·Photography school. Includes training practices of our organization and is meant as an open space for the initiation and specialization in the visual language as well as providing resources to professionals and promote the creation of new audiences.
