Reportage 1
Just before the start of summer, Villacarli, a small village in the Huesca province -Spain-, turns itself into a peculiar beauty salon. Over 2 weekends, Jose Antonio meets with other residents of the area to begin a ritual that each year leads them to shear nearly 900 sheep. But this, like many other daily activities in the countryside, is in danger of becoming extinct just as transhumance did in the region a few years ago.
Reportage 2
La Barceloneta is a working-class neighbourhood on the seaside of Barcelona, traditionally inhabited by fishermen and their families. Nowadays, they are suffering property speculation and various forms of harassment, being pushed to leave their life-long homes. La Ostia association is a collective of old women of la Barceloneta, fighting against this gentrification process that still has not finished.
Reportage 3
In November of 2005, the death of two adolescents in the Parisian banlieue -electrocuted whilst fleeing from the police- provoked an open battle in the form of riots between the young inhabitants and the security forces. The author decided to return to try to understand better a reality that we were only shown when the outbreaks of violence were attractive enough to get onto the media agenda.
Reportage 4
“Equals, secret life” is the result of the work carried out by the photographer during her 3 months stay in Kashmir. It is a mosaic created of portraits of people she came across, both as human testimony, as well as an intimate landscape. A vision of the region outside of any political framework. A testimony about life and the customs of the people in the region.
Interview
After working as a photographer for over 20 years, Clement Benard knows that what really matters, in photojournalism, are the stories. The ones he chooses are never time-worn, common or trivial. His unique point of view is easy to distinguish, either he’s portraying women from Sahara, the death of the relatives of Turkish prisoners, or the broken dream of Malika. He is one of them who believe it’s necessary to tell peoples stories, betting on less corporative forms of showing reality through photography’s.
Interactive photography
ActiveVision has initiated a photography course designated for that youths group which had arrived to Israel as refugees from the Darfur region and South Sudan. The purpose of the course was to provide its participants with the knowledge and tools through which they could tell their story and expose their distress. That will be the beginning of their journey, coping as individuals and as a group, with the past from which they escaped as well as with the uncertain future.
Collectives
Cumbia is music, movement and dance. Lyrics that are sometimes sad or mocking, that are about explicit loves or tales of brutality. Some people say that Cumbia is periphery and poverty, however it can also be understood as resistance and wealth. And if that’s the case, Cumbia ceases to be marginal and blossoms into a centre for the invention of ways of life that do no resign themselves to a system of expulsion and death. This is the view that Sub sets out to refine, by observing what the superstitious, who see Cumbia as an alien and distant music, don’t always know or want to see.
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.
