Photography happens in Tunisia

When the media keeps on stealing...

2009-07-30T00:41:00.000-07:00

Here an other example of press use on a photo without the author's consent or even telling about credits, Alarab Online a major media core in the Arab world, has been using several photos from all over the web, I knew this photo for long and I was disgusted the way they use it with any professional procedure.

the photo belong to DECLAN MCCULLAGH as part of his Tunis street photography set.

we have seen a lot of this all around the Tunisian newspaper but i was never expecting to see the same stupid use in a so know worldwide paper.

Masterpiece of the day: the wool salesman

2009-07-18T07:00:00.000-07:00

By [Bassem Alazzawy]

Travel the world with the Nikon D90 Movie Mode

2009-07-18T06:34:00.000-07:00

Travel the world with the Nikon D90 Movie Mode from Aled Ordu on Vimeo.

Highlights of my December 2008 vacation. Shot with the D90 and the Nikon 50mm 1.4 as well as the Sigma 20mm 1.8.

Locations: London, U.K; Nottingham, U.K.; The Ruins at Dougga, Tunisia; Tunis, Tunisia; Carthage, Tunisia; The British Countryside.

By [Aled Ordu]

The UNDP–Olympus-AFP Foundation Photo Contest

2009-07-14T07:53:00.000-07:00

Picture This: Caring for the Earth | Picture This: Caring for the Earth is a photo contest seeking out positive images documenting ordinary people on the African continent and their work to mitigate or prevent the consequences of climate change and environmental degradation. While the poorest in developing countries are often the first to feel these effects, they are also the true experts and potentially the most powerful advocates for protecting their own environmental future.

Source [Picture This contest]

Such quality contests are worth spreading the work, I invite you all to give it a try.

7th edition of the Ghar El melh's Photography meeting

2009-07-06T02:43:00.000-07:00

Wednesday 1 July
Fort Lazaret
09h to 12h
Workshops for children
Guided tour of exhibition
Photomontage
Crafts
Ciné-club
with Héjar, Rania, Rabaa, Salma, Ons, and Marwen Hamideddine
Radiography with Amal

16h to 18h
Public animation
Pixelmania with Karim
Guided tour
Drafting of Capri
Radiography with Amal

20h to 22h
Welcome Dinner
Presentation of the photographers, the team and organizing committee

00h to 02h
After midnight
Plage Sidi Ali el Mekki
Informal meeting with photographers.

Thursday, July 2
Fort Lazaret
09h to 12h
Workshops for children
Guided tour of exhibition
Photomontage
Crafts
Ciné-club
with Héjar, Rania, Rabaa, Salma, Marwen Ons and Hamid
Radiography with Amal

09h à 12h et de 15h à 18h
Workshop "How and what to expose"

Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Ghar el Melh, held during the 7th edition of a workshop for photographers participating in this edition. It is often difficult to choose among those photographs which could constitute a coherent whole. It is not just a matter of common theme or a technique, but the search for harmony. The corpus consists of photographs represents the work done and likely to become an exhibition. Participants may come with a portfolio, in the form of photo prints for books, CDs, or display on laptop.
Direction: Natalia Jaskula (Commissioner of international expositions and photographer).
Coordination: Hamideddine Bouali (Critique photo, photography teacher).
Free registration Hamid call 99 950978 to book

16h to 18h
Adult Animation
Pixelmania with Karim
Drafting of Capri
Radiography with Amal

00h to 02h:
After midnight
Plage Sidi Ali el Mekki
informal meeting with the photographers.

Friday, July 3
Fort Lazaret
09h to 12h
Workshops for children
Guided tour of exhibition
Photomontage
Crafts
Ciné-club
with Héjar, Rania, Rabaa, Salma, Marwen Ons and Hamid
Radiography with Amal

16h to 18h
Public animation
Pixelmania with Karim
Drafting of Capri
Radiography with Amal

21h to midnight
The Nocturnes, slide projection
Before program works free
The lessons of photo with the participation
Yoan of CIMI, Lucie & Simon,
Romain Leblanc, Natalia Jaskula,
Hamideddine Bouali, Stella Bolonaki

00h to 02h
After midnight
Plage Sidi Ali el Mekki
informal meeting with the photographers.

Saturday 4 July
Fort Lazaret
09h to 12h
Workshops for children
Guided tour of exhibition
Photomontage
Crafts
Ciné-club
with Héjar, Rania, Rabaa, Salma, Marwen Ons and Hamid
Radiography with Amal

16h to 18h
Public animation
Pixelmania with Karim
Drafting of Capri
Radiography with Amal

19.30
Ceremony

21:00
Live from Fort Lazaret a special photo on Channel 21

00h to 02h
After midnight
Plage Sidi Ali el Mekki
informal meeting with the photographers.

Sunday 5 July
Fort Lazaret
09h to 12h
Workshops for children
Guided tour of exhibition
Photomontage
Crafts
Ciné-club
with Héjar, Rania, Rabaa, Salma, Marwen Ons, Hamid
Radiography with Amal

16h to 18h
Public animation
Pixelmania with Karim
Drafting of Capri
Radiography with Amal

20h to midnight
Dinner and Farewell.

For more information contact Hamid 99 590578

Labels: 7th Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Ghar El Melh, Photography

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Monday 22 June 2009
Poster of the 7th edition

7th Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Ghar el Melh
from 1 to 5 July 2009

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Samir Malkhlouf visual, design Hamideddine Bouali

Labels: 6th Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Ghar El Melh, 7th Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Ghar El Melh, Poster, Hamideddine Bouali, Samir Makhlouf

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Sunday 21 June 2009
List of photographers

7th International Meeting
Photograph of the Ghar El Melh
1st - 5 July 2009
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List of photographers

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Carte Blanche collectors

Van Raepenbusch Gilbert (France / Tunisia)

Beit el Bennani Fund

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Wassim Abdellatif (Tunisia)

Ons Abid (Tunisia)

Mohamed Akram Belaid (Tunisia)

Benzid Lilia (Tunisia)

Bolonaki Stella (Greece)

Tatiana Margaux Bonhomme (France)

Bouali Hamideddine (Tunisia)

Cappe Cynhia (France)

Catzaras Marianne (Greece / Tunisia)

Heithem Chebbi Mohamed (Tunisia)

Crest Yoann (France / Tunisia)

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Collective Exhibition

Workshop without Title (Tunisia)

Promotion AAC 2009 (Tunisia)

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Gaël Coto (France)

From Mauvinière Sylvia (Belgium)

Dhahak Chahine (Tunisia)

Ghimagi Ons (Tunisia)

Mohamed Harbi Slim (Tunisia)

Jabeur Salah (Tunisia)

Natalia Jaskula (France / Poland)

Jerbi Wejdene (Tunisia)

Siala Jmal Mouna (Tunisia)

Khéchine Abderrazak (Tunisia)

Romain Leblanc (France)

Lucie and Simon (France)

M'Rad Karim (Tunisia)

Douraid Souissi (Tunisia)

Marwan Trabelsi (Tunisia)

Wacowski Piotr (Poland)

Labels: 7th Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Ghar El Melh

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7th Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Ghar el Melh

7th International Meeting
Photograph of the Ghar El Melh
1st - 5 July 2009

PROGRAM
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Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Ghar El Melh no longer an event, they entered the habits of Tunisians, as the Festival of Carthage, or Kélibia Mahres. The most notable being the name of the shortcut, if you go to Tabarka is to listen to jazz, El Jem to enjoy Symphonies at Ghar el Melh is obviously photography that s question. Ghar el Melh, a majestic fort, a peaceful village, a beautiful beach ... the guide would be incomplete without Encounters returning for the seventh consecutive year, beating the record for longevity in an international event, held in Tunisia, reserved exclusively to photography .
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Exhibitions
We always think to question the very idea of state. It must be said that since the beginning of the twentieth century this has always made the same way. Exposure is simply framed photographs distributed by a certain logic in a well lit room. Attempts have not failed to revisit this tradition, but it all boils down to this procedure because the secular important to look at a photograph takes precisely this confrontation between the viewer and the photographer, the latter through his work.
This year too we will witness a variety of looks, enhancing the imagination and a clear desire to imagine a different world. The photographic opportunities this year are even richer, the systematic practice of staging, or put into life, to the world as it stands, the public will be invited to be among these possibilities. This year Fetart, Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Photography, based in Paris, offers exhibitions of great class for our greatest pleasure.
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Carte blanche to collectors
After photographs of Mustapha Bouchoucha Victor Sebag, Soler and some anonymous we continue this year the discovery of photographers who have completed the photo album of Tunisia. This year Beit el Bennani us to be cognizant of the expertise of a professional photographer. Photography by Gilbert Van Raepenbush, sober, not without artifice, but with much rigor in the composition and framing, is a lesson in photographic technique.
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Round tables and discussion: "Controversies still ..."
(Hamideddine Bouali, critic and historian of photography)
The exhibition was great stir in Lausanne in 2008, it was talked about in the catalog of meetings last year. Scheduled again this year in Paris, she was more appreciated and organizers added a subtitle: "Stories in Pictures", played on the polysemy of the term history. A visual reminder of these photographs in the history of photography but have also been subject to criticism, often virulent, the audience will discuss issues that photography has always been. The question is whether this is an integral part of this medium off-standard or of a social debate that a day will definitely exceeded?
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The Nocturnes
Photography lessons will be an opportunity to see and hear how the photographers talk about their colleagues. Photographers invited or selected to present this seventh edition, with photographs, works of their colleagues they like, which influence or which are similar. Opportunity to attend conferences novel, where the photographs will be better appreciated as used in conjunction with the inclinations of the author.
Other photographers submit their work to criticism and debate in the presence of connoisseurs. Appointment to be unique in today's landscape photography. The Nocturnes, a portfolio light not to be missed.
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Workshop for children and adults
In photography children Ghar el Melh are spoiled anywhere else they may consider an exhibition gallery as a playground like this that is happening in their village. So we decided to familiarize themselves with other activities that serve to further refine their tastes and preferences. They will design, sculpture, reuse of household waste and to comment on the film they just watched. Five days of multidisciplinary activities after the end of the school year, children not deserve all, a table of honor for their creativity?
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Le Corsaire: Meetings of the newspaper and Radiography
Le Corsaire, the newspaper of the Meetings will accompany this edition by a radio, which will not pirate. The silence of the fort will be pushed by the waves of the station, which will issue its programs for the benefit of visitors. Le Corsaire Graphie and Radio will be there to give news, conduct interviews, make the weather so that we will add the photographs and his writing ...
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Pixelmania
Karim is unbeatable on digital, the ownership, maintenance of cameras, file transfer and improvement on the graphics ... It always has a trick to avoid the return of your materials to after-sales service, the best way to make you more efficient with a premium, and word games and a smile staggering. Enjoy it's free.

Workshop "How and what to expose? "
Led by Natalia Jaskula and coordinated by Hamideddine Bouali, this workshop is for photographers participating in this edition. It is often difficult to choose among those photographs which could constitute a coherent whole. It is not just a matter of common theme or a technique, but the search for harmony. The corpus consists of photographs represents the work done and likely to become an exhibition. It would be desirable that participants be accompanied by a portfolio, in the form of photo prints for books, CDs, or display on laptop.
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After midnight
On one edition to another, only the moments, impressions jealously guarded, memories and the catalog. If the catalog is the support of each issue, listing the photographers and animations organized, only references to the unique atmosphere of Ghar el Melh will know what this event actually is. After midnight is one of the appointments that are most unlikely. No program, no invitation, no time only certainty: The beach of Sidi Ali el Mekki ... This is all alone and it is magical. In recent years this component of the program wonder where people are meeting, we reserve the surprises that a director can not predict ... In fact after midnight is the magic of Ghar el Melh gift.

Source [Du photographie- Hamideddine Bouali]

James Nachtwey fights XDR-TB

2009-07-06T02:38:00.000-07:00

Source [TED]

Photobloggers Meetup

2009-04-15T07:20:00.000-07:00

Guys! Tomorrow Thursday, April 16th 18:30 pm in Cafe Jamaica - El Hana 10th Floor. special guest : Skydancer.

Masteroiece of the Day: kairauan streets by night

2009-04-10T06:34:00.000-07:00

By [Wilmar Photography]

Daddech Photo exhibit

2009-04-10T06:18:00.000-07:00

"Daddech" is photography exhibit essay based on Bir lahja's members work, will take place in Bir Lahjar Club (The medina) Saturday April 18th at 16 pm.

Masteroiece of the Day: kairauan ladies going to pray

2009-04-07T08:37:00.000-07:00

By [Nick Clarke]

New Photography exhibit : Walk

2009-04-07T08:33:00.000-07:00

The opening of the2nd photo exhibit og the F10 group will take place next Tuesday April 14th at 18h30 featuring Naoufel ABBES, Hamdi AYADI, Yasser BEN HAJ BRAHIM, Mehdi BEN JEMAA, Khaled BEN MANSOUR, Adel BEN YACOUB, Nidhal CHAIBI, Sahar DKHIL, Hatem FILALI,
Romdhane GUEDDICHE et Adel NAILI and as guests: Taeib BEN AMEUR, Mounir MABKHOUT, Safouène JALLOUL.

More info in the [FB page]

Masterpiece of the day: Tunisian flags flying over Place de la Kasbah

2009-04-03T07:16:00.001-07:00

By [Brian McMorrow]

Arabian Eye smells everthing but Arabic

2009-04-03T05:52:00.000-07:00

Arabain Eye is an UAE leader stock photography site with hundreds of photos and productions all over the arabic world, the quality of the webiste and the photos are amazing... but the some 90 photographers in the site are al over even americain, french or hindu.

I don't mind ot have such photographers but the site should somewhow involves some arabic photographers, as far as I know we have excellent photographers all around needles with golden lenses waiting to be called for business.

Masterpiece of the day: The square for the Mausoleum in Monastir

2009-04-02T03:21:00.001-07:00

By [Bob-Photos]

Tunis Afrique Presse Agency awarded best photography prize

2009-04-02T02:54:00.000-07:00

TUNIS, April 1, 2009 (TAP) - Tunis Afrique Press (TAP) news agency was awarded the first prize of the Photography Competition held by the United Nations Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) and the Center for Arab Women Training and Research (CAWTAR).

The competition is part of the initiative taken by both institutions on "Reinforcement of female leadership and the participation of women in political life and decision-making in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia."

Via [TAP]

The photo theme and aulity is far beyond awfyl, but as I see they didn't have much choice to give an award in aso narrow field. This bring the Tunisiain photojournalism gain down to the sewer, but who cares?

Google satellite photos to be taken in a Week

2009-03-25T05:17:00.000-07:00

In one week, on Wednesday next at exactly 10h 42 'GMT, (attention Tunisia do more time in line with Europe, so it is 42 hours Tunisian 09h), the satellite "WorldView-1 will be over in Tunis for a photograph that serve ten days later to occupy the old Google Earth has become obsolete. I found five years ago on the internet the timetable of shots of the satellite and thought me a photo because I took that position at the precise moment when the satellite was pointing his lens towards me. The resolution used at the time too low did not allow precise identification and was reduced to a tiny point. A pixel corresponded to 1.8 meter and I was not big enough to be included!

Via [Du photographique (Frnech)]

I'm excited but can't do much :)

Masterpiece of the day: A passing by olf lady

2009-03-25T05:19:00.000-07:00

By [Hammedine Bouali]

Masterpiece of the day: The old lady

2009-02-19T05:01:00.001-08:00

Take by [Luciano Giombini] Nars 1975

http://www.in-public.com/news/2009/2/scot_yard

2009-02-19T04:53:00.000-08:00

The photographers rights event at Scotland Yard was well attended and reported, it was good to see Press Photographers, Photojournalists, Street Photographers and Amateurs turning out to make their voices heard.

Photographers Rights UK from Nick Turpin on Vimeo.

Via [In Public]

It's incredible the pian that street photos are getting in Tunisia, getting most of the time harslled as spies behind a fear and minuderstoid of the camera hold by a non-tourist hands.

A Tribute to Palestinian Photographers

2009-01-08T00:56:00.000-08:00

We all see the wanton carnage and loss of innocent civilians in Gaza on our television screens, in newspapers and on the web. We also learn that the Israeli government has denied access to Gaza for the world’s media despite its country's Supreme Court ruling otherwise.

A great article by the [travel photographer Tewfik El Sawy].

Featured Photograher : KAMEL AGREBI

2008-02-15T04:15:00.000-08:00

Kamel Agrebi is a Tunisian photographer,working in advertising since 1986 I'm living Tunis, he was graduated from political science college in Grenoble(France). he got several exhibitions all around Tunisia and an amazing online portfolio.

I spend a while getting chunks of informations in many galleries and portfolios sites to get more him, I even tried to contact, but he was not listed in the yellow pages.

His works goes from the studio photography(His main style) to the portrait and open places shots showing a set of what he was concerned about, the photos even dedicated for a business purposes shows a revelation art touch, I did really like the portrait he was making and the smiling faces. I bet that you have encountered somewhere in the way back home or reading a newspaper or a magazine without identifying the artist behind the camera thus take a look at his portfolio to get really amazed.

[Kamel Agrebi Website]
[Kamel Agrebi portfolio at Photo.net]

Masterpiece of the Day: Avenue Habib Bourguiba 1885

2008-02-15T05:06:00.001-08:00

Avenue de la Marine, future avenue Jules Ferry then avenue Habib Bourguiba and now Avenue 7 Nocembre, shot in 1885 by the French Bertrand Bouret.

ATB challenge

2008-02-15T05:44:00.000-08:00

In Tunis, there few events involving photography beside a couple of small festivals, ATB challenge is one of the major and most buzzed events ever without being that great thing about arts, the challenge is about three disciplines: Art (Photography, Cinema, painting), Technology and Business. The photography is the major part of the whole competition involving less than one hundred amateur willing to get one the prizes: 1st prize 7000 TND (About 5000USD), 1000 TND for the second one and finally 500 TND for the last challenger.

This the jury is always a gathering of business man ans celebrities unable to differ photography from art, I have been in the first edition which spots "The national treasures" my main work was a set of photos of Sidi Ali Azzouz(Zaghouan) a splendid and Arabic post-Andalusian style and I was beaten by a guy shooting his hand as "The hand that build Tunisia" and a girl taking El Jem coliseum arches with her mobile phone as a matter of fun.

The event is -unfortunately- not promoting fun as a propaganda like what the bank is smart and it supports arts and young people. Anyway, I keep the faith and stand to see what's going to be about this edition titled: Mediterranean sea : unionism and diversity.

Featured Photograher : Adel Bouallagui

2008-02-18T04:33:00.000-08:00

Adel Bouallagui was born and raised in Tunisia, he started his career as a journalist reporter for local and foreign newspapers then he joined the Tunisian TV where he participated in the production of three-hour talk show. He earned a master's degree in Media & Arts specializing in Digital Photography and Video Production.

His interest in digital photography was fostered by his digital photography workshops in Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York. from this point on, Adel has taken photographs all over the state of New York. Adel 's strong media and mass communications theories understanding and capabilities have allowed him to get into the middle of the crowd and capture various photographs in different themes. Adel has a tendency towards working on themed photographs over the past two years Adel has been working on photographs concerning Multiculturalism, Globalization, global communications, and Body language.

Adel has a tendency towards using digital imaging to capture and doccument various Folkloric & Cultural Heritage, he also likes working on themed photographs.
Over the past Adel has been working on topics such as: Multiculturalism, Globalization, Global communications, and Body language.

Unfortunately, he doesn't have a dedicated site and his works are thrown all over the Internet.

[Adel Bouallagui Gallery]

GoGozo adventure photo tours

2008-02-21T05:36:00.000-08:00

GoGozo and its trip leaders put a distinct emphasis on fun, adventure and awareness building. With such exciting activities as riding camels in Tunisia, visiting the Star Wars filming site, or the nightly Balzan street festivals, there is much to experience.

Photographic instruction, including darkroom developing and computer manipulation, is an ongoing backdrop to our adventures. Students are encouraged to carry their cameras at all times and to experiment with new cameras including rudimentary pinholes, and single-use cameras.

Although Tunisians are claimed to be the experts of the Tourism business baking up their strategy through the sunny beaches, the sandy Sahara and a lot of fun, nobody made a statement how funny should be the education thus thus company offers a excellent trip all over Sicily, Malta and Tunisia and do you know why? because this line of marvelous country hold the best and essentials of the Mediterranean beauty, all you can is to take your camera off your bag and start to shoot.

Unfortunately this service seems to be open to European rather than locals, and the point is why we don't invest a little in such great new business idea, in one part you can get everybody practice photography in the right ways, and in an other hand you can go anywhere including the less concerned area such as mountainous or less know or less visited historic monuments as photography can be operated any where there is a piece of beauty.

IMHO such places as Zaghouan would benefit from such business, the government have tried several years to pump the Tourism somehow there in vain, too far from the beaches and the hotels with couple of major historic monuments, but they never thought about innovation, many tourist nowadays practice photography not just to stamp their last summer travel as much as photography itself.

[Gogozo Website]