Festival
Nordic Light 2012
Contact Press Images
Iraqi casualty, from the final stages of Operation Desert Storm, First Gulf War. Nasiriyah, Iraq, March 1991, 2006 © Kenneth Jarecke
Cremation of Union Carbide distaster’s victims. Bhopal, India, December 4, 1984, 2006 © Dilip Mehta
Fall of the Berlin Wall. West Berlin, Germany, November, 1989 © Alexandra Avakian
Celebration of the new millenium, at midnight, in Times Square. Times Square, New York City, NY, USA, December 31, 1999, 2006 © Frank Fournier
Firemen raising an American flag, in the wreckage of the World Trade Center, after the terrorist attack of September 11. New York City, NY, USA, September 11, 2001, 2006 © Lori Grinker
Eleven: Witnessing the World Trade Center 1974-2001, Attack on the World Trade Center, view from Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, September 11, 2001 © Sean Hemmerle
Pingyao 2007 Exhibition, Mass rally in support of the fight against the “enemies of the people” Acheng, Acheng county, Heilongjiang province, 21 May 1965, 2007 © Li Zhensheng
Body of anti-Apartheid leader Steven Biko in a makeshift morgue before his burial. Biko died September 12th from beatings after his arrest by South African police. Pretoria, South Africa, September, 1977, 2006 © Matt Franjola
Nelson Mandela presidential campaign rally at Mmbabatho Stadium. Mmbabatho Stadium, Bophuthatswana, South Africa, March 1994, 2006 © Alon Reininger
Spectators gather along the beach across from the Kennedy Space Center to watch the launch of Apollo 11, the first manned rocket to land on the Moon. Titusville, Florida, USA, July 16, 1969, 2010 © David Burnett
Five days after his return from exile in France, Ayatollah Khomeini is served tea by Sadegh Khalkhali — later known as “the hanging judge,” at the Refah School, his provisional headquarters in Tehran. Iran, February 5, 1979, 2009 © David Burnett
Departure of President Nixon from the White House after his resignation, Washington DC, USA, August 9, 1974, 1990 © Annie Leibovitz
Traces of a massacre of Tutsi schoolchildren and villagers in left on a bathroom wall of the Shagi Mission school, in the southwestern part of the country, after the Rwanda genocide. Rwanda, August 1994, 2006 © Annie Leibovitz
Children playing near a portion of the Berlin Wall at the time of it's construction, Friedrichstrasse near Checkpoint Charlie, West Berlin, Germany, August 1961, 2011 © Don McCullin
West Berliner looking over a portion of the Berlin Wall at the time of it's construction. East German soldier looks back, West Berlin, Germany, August 1961, 2011 © Don McCullin
Iraqi casualty, from the final stages of Operation Desert Storm, First Gulf War. Nasiriyah, Iraq, March 1991, 2006 © Kenneth Jarecke
Robert Pledge (1942, England)
Robert Pledge is one of the truly great communicators within photography and possesses an enormous knowledge of photographic art and history. He is considered as a leading light and pioneer of photo journalism,
He was born in 1942 in London, UK and moved to Paris, France at the age of ten. A student of West African languages and anthropology, he found his way into journalism as a specialist in African affairs. In 1970 he became an editor at the French visual arts magazine Zoom, le magazine de l’image, and in 1973 the director of the New York office of the picture agency Gamma. In 1976 he and David Burnett founded Contact Press Images in New York, which has become a highly regarded independent photographic agency very much in the spirit of the early Magnum. For over three decades Contact Press Images has promoted and distributed the work of some of the finest award-winning photojournalists and documentarians in the world. Today, with offices in New York and Paris, it represents a select group of talented men and women from more than a dozen nations.
Pledge has curated major exhibitions worldwide and served on prestigious international juries including that of the World Press Photo Foundation, three times. A visiting professor at several Chinese universities, he is also a member and former president of the Board of Trustees of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund in the USA. In 2004 and 2010 he received the Overseas Press Club of America's "Olivier Rebbot Award” for Best Reporting in Books, respectively for Red-Color News Soldier, A Chinese Photographer’s Odyssey Through The Cultural Revolution (Phaidon) co-authored with Li Zhensheng, and 44 Days—Iran and the Remaking of the World (Focal Point), co-authored with Burnett and writer Jacques Menasche.
At the Nordic Light festival in Kristiansund he will exhibit photographs from Contact Press Images, a collection of work from different regions of the world and covering a variety of issues.
Be sure not to miss his presentation “1961-2001: From the Berlin Wall to the Twin Towers - History and Photojournalism — parallel developments”.
”Robert can give lectures for days on end without repeating himself – and I personally would not miss a single one of them.” (Morten Krogvold, Artistic Director, Nordic Light)
Links
http://www.contactpressimages.com/
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