Sunday Photography
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a website that never ceases to amaze me. TED is an invitation-only event where the world’s leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration.
In this video, Taryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography — to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise.
She shares two projects: one documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret from the public, the other involves haunting portraits of men convicted for crimes they did not commit.
Time: Simon insists she should not be mistaken for a photojournalist, and her old-style technique indeed argues that she is not. She works with a large-format camera and will wait all day for the perfect shot rather than shoot multiple rolls and edit her film later. The process earns her trust and access. “I can’t be sneaky,” she says. The result of that openness is frank pictures, straightforwardly taken–and as a consequence, startlingly revealing.
http://www.ted.com/talks/taryn_simon_photographs_secret_sites.html