Reportage 1
On Read Road dozens of people who have escaped from their countries and have applied for asylum in Glasgow (Scotland) take refuge. Under constant pressure from detentions, subsequent deportations, surrounded by walls and blocks of flats, many of them face some mental health problems. They live trapped in a continuous period of uncertainty.
Reportage 2
Roughly 150 kilometers northeast of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, the Manitoba colony’s 2,000 Mennonites maintain the lifestyle of their Dutch ancestors. The country’s approximately 60,000 Mennonites produce much of its soy crop and dairy products. They owe their prosperity to strict social discipline and traditions closely guarded against surrounding influences. Over the past decade, girls and women of all ages would occasionally wake up naked and sore; they often blamed their husbands, or the devil.
Reportage 3
In Warsaw, being drunk in the streets and becoming violent is enough to get a paid stay in an isolation cell, “the sobering chamber”: a place where you may wait in a long admission queue with other drunk –wealthy or poor- people, and little water is given to you while you wait for the alcohol in your blood to disappear.
Reportage 4
There are great changes everyday in China since it began opening up 30 years ago. The cities are like big construction sites speeding their construction pace to catch up with the rest of the world. Now the citizens have to face the old traditions and customs and the effects on their lifestyles' of the rapid development of the economy. No matter whether these are good or not there's a struggle in their hearts between the old traditions and modern culture. No longer will their lives resemble what went before.
Interview
Bibi Abisha’s image with her face disfigured by her husband, without her nose but with that gaze of dignity travelled around the world in the cover of Time magazine. Jodi Bieber had taken that photograph for an interview about Afghan women, and in 2011 she won the overall World Press Photo award. That was her springboard for her achieved fame. However, Jodi has had a long career, from her book “Between Dogs and Wolves – Growing in the south of Africa” to the publication of “Soweto”. In November, she inaugurated I Workshop 7.7 in Vienna.
New Formats
Fisnik dreams about a future far away from Kosovo. He, like other youngsters, lived through the Balkans War, some of them fought at the front, and others preferred to hide themselves. Now, they can only see one way out: to obtain a passport that will take them out of unemployment, and create for thems a new life wherever there is a job.
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 May 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.
