Meridian Collective » Burn Magazine http://meridiancollective.org Journalism by any Medium Necessary Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:28:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Burn Mag does it again http://meridiancollective.org/2009/07/23/burn-mag-does-it-again/ http://meridiancollective.org/2009/07/23/burn-mag-does-it-again/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:18:46 +0000 Jackie Snow http://blog.meridiancollective.org/?p=580 It is no secret that I am a fan of David Alan Harvey and Burn Magazine, but the photo essay, “States of Identity,” published a few days ago is blowing my mind even more than usual. Guillem Valle documents people without a homeland-Palestinians, Albanians, etcetera etcetera- and made one hell of a beautiful and cohesive photo essay despite covering so many struggles.

Guillem Valle – States of Identity

His website is worth a look, too.

]]> http://meridiancollective.org/2009/07/23/burn-mag-does-it-again/feed/ 0 David Alan Harvey’s loft extravaganza http://meridiancollective.org/2009/04/09/david-alan-harveys-loft-extravaganza/ http://meridiancollective.org/2009/04/09/david-alan-harveys-loft-extravaganza/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:42:35 +0000 Jackie Snow http://blog.meridiancollective.org/?p=46
Well, that was not entirely what I expected. First, it wasn’t Magnum photographers as the surprise guests. It was James Nachtwey and Steve McCurry, a Seven AND Magnum photographer. Also probably two of the most famous (if not THE most famous) living documentary photographers. Nachtwey won a Ted Award to document XDR-TB, a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, and had his photos premiere live in New York, Rio, London, Sydney, Hong Kong and ANTARCTICA, among other places. McCurry is most famous for the Afghan Girl, although all his stuff is pretty amazing.
Anyway, I digress. I walked in and had David Alan Harvey greet me within two minutes and–can I get an amen?–offer me a beer. The loft ends up being in the “Photographer Building,” aptly named since at least 40 photographers live and work there and has been that way since before the neighborhood became trendy and totally unaffordable. The rooftop view (my photo above) has an amazing vista of the city and is enough of a reason itself to go back.
After everyone had imbibed to their satisfaction, we settled down to watch slide shows by his students from his weekend workshop as well as some of the work by party attendees. There were some stand out and lovely essays considering they only had three days to shoot, edit and put their work together, making me feel like a slacker for not shooting anything nearly as exciting lately. David also showed After the Storm, probably my favorite photo essay on burn to date. This is about the time he announces that Nawtchey and McCurry are on their way and we will have to watch the essays again. This is also about the time I get so excited I feel like a puppy shaking from her tail wagging so hard.
After the guests of honor arrive, he showed these slides again and asked if anyone else had any slide shows with them ready to go. Are you kidding me? Do you mean to tell me if I had been prepared DAVID ALAN HARVEY, JAMES NACHTWEY AND STEVE MCCURRY would be looking at my work? I thought of racing the 13 blocks home but David gave me his card and told me since I’m a neighbor, I should come by sometime with my work. And this, my friends, is exactly why I go to events. Opportunities, pretty photos and free beer.

david alan harvey loft
sorry for the mess.

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