photoethnography

yeah, she definitely engages with her subjects in a lot of them, an enviable skill. my favorite ones are the ones which show the ~joy & happiness~ of the people - like this one

http://www.fergana.info/000/2009/umida/21.jpg

which reminds me of

http://dialoginternational.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/boys.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8507519.stm

found guilty, but pardoned!

in a similar vein (also cribbed from TOP):

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-Russian-in-the-early-1900s/

Those old Russian photos are indeed great. There's a website here that has some additional photos and occasionally seems to have done a better job of stitching together the different exposures, although they aren't quite as sharp.

Just saw this. Lovely pictures - but ffs 'slandering the nation'. Prosecuting people who get up to harmless, fun & cool stuff is just the thing to make the place look great, is that the idea? The bbc could grow a set of balls too - the issue isn't really 'Negative images of Uzbekistan?', more 'Is this demented or what?'

really don't know where to put this, but:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/crisis_in_kyrgyzstan.html

obv journalism and not ethnography, but still. pretty amazing pics, imo

daaaamn are they using grenades

seems like boston.com is becoming the de facto photojournalism site on the web

Extraordinary pictures. I hope those guys are using very long lenses because I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that stuff.

I think this is my, er, "favourite".

Actually, some of them are clearly close and wide.