Author: Aisling Keavey

This is crazy….

  In 1965, at Jackson, Mississippi, Matt Herron took an iconic and ironic image from the civil rights era as a white policeman rips an American flag away from a young black boy, having already confiscated his 'No More Police Brutality' sign. Herron remembers the events that surrounded that World Press Photo prize wining photos: The picture was taken at the side entrance to the Governor's mansion on Capital Street in Jackson in the summer of 1965. … Read More

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So, I got fired from my internship today. After not even working one day! She rang me and was like “We don’t need you to intern, we have some else who will take your hours”. That’s crazy! Surely, if she knew she wouldn’t have needed me, she wouldn’t have told me to intern in the first place! I’m so angry right now. I’ve just finished applying for a job in Gap… ew Gap! I’ve a list of camera shops to go to tomorrow aswell, so hopefully I’ll get something, I’m so angry right now… Ugh.

I feel like I haven’t blogged in forever, so here I am! I’ve been ridiculously busy of late, getting visas and organizing and packing and that. As of now, I’m typing this from my shared bedroom in a house in Brighton, Boston. I’ve been here nearly two weeks. Starting a Photography internship at Savas Studios tomorrow, I cannot be more excited! I’m actually gonna be a proper photo assistant! The studio is AMAZING, I can’t wait to start working! I’ve decided to turn this trip into an ongoing photojournalism essay too. Possibly black and white, I don’t know yet but it’s on college students and college student culture and socializing. I need to think of a title for it too. I want to do an archive project too, as soon as I get home. I need to bring my camera out with me more… I got a couple of nice architectural shots yesterday but not nearly as much as I thought I would… So, that’s on the cards for today as well as more job-hunting. I’ll blog about the studio tomorrow at some point, possibly upload some shots of it, if I’m allowed… excited!

So, the exams are finally over, I can start organizing stuff for Boston and getting out and taking photos again! :D And uploading to Flick, haven’t done that in ages. Hopefully get out to do another shoot with Conor and Tara before we leave. I have a huge edit to do too, I need to back up all the photos I haven’t yet, as well. That’s gonna take a while… We don’t have accommodation for Boston yet either and my Photography internship is only for two days a week so I need another job. Emailed a load of places, nobody’s emailed back. I need to get out and shoot for an entire day, I haven’t in so long….

Brilliant.

A short while ago, chelsea fuss featured this typographic poster to bring awareness to the issue of image crediting in the blogosphere. (The poster was created by designers pia jane bijkerk and erin loechner with fonts designed by yvette van boven.) It's great to have something definitive in one handy rectangle of space to refer to. When I started this blog, inspired as I was by this new wave of image-heavy blogs, I just tried to follow suit when … Read More

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I just found this now, but these are photos from the Spring Fair we had in my school last year, taken by me, obviously. [They never told me they published them… photos number 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 are mine]

http://www.santasabina.ie/santasabina/main/SpringFair3.htm

Tim Hetherington, tireless raconteur of conflicts across two continents, died today, a victim of a Libyan mortar shell. Many will remember Tim Hetherington as a great photographer, but to call him such would be to pigeonhole his contributions. He himself acknowledged the changing topography of media: “If you are interested in mass communication, then you have to stop thinking of yourself as a photographer. We live in a post-photographic world. If … Read More

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/aisling-keavey-photography/

That’s my new Flickr page, I’ll try get it up to speed with what I had on my DeviantArt page ASAP. I used to have an account but I got bored and discovered DA so I deleted it but it’s been resurrected :D

Edit: there’s a link to it in the sidebar.

Also, I really don’t like being told I left DA because I thought it was “beneath” me because “one moderator posted one article” (this was the same person who didn’t understand why I watermarked my photographs), it’s not “beneath” me, I didn’t leave becuase of ONE article by ONE person. I left becuase I don’t like my rights being infringed: “There is something that I personally find VERY unethical going on here…and by that I mean extremely. Sadly many on deviantART are not even aware it is happening, I would say 99.5% percent aren’t from my experiences. I am not quite sure what gives deviantART the right to think that they can make money off my images and use them as a lead in for a reseller program to amazon.com but that is exactly what they are doing with each and every single photograph that is put up on deviantART that contains EXIF info. This is downright sleazy. Shouldn’t *I* as an artist say how my images are being used within a commercial environment? You had better believe it. It is, after all, MY intellectual property.” – http://jdebordphoto.blogspot.com/2011/04/deviantart-vs-redbubble-vs-flickr.html I also don’t like being bombarded with pornographic images if I don’t have the under 18 filter on, I did have it on, but moderation on that site NEEDS to change.