Best of 2008 in photographs | National Geographic
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Photojournalism & Story Telling
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Fight!
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Photojournalism & Story Telling
A bit later than this time last year, I set off for Thailand -spending time with some friends for the first few weeks then setting off on my own.
My friends and I spent time in the wilderness, driving from the south to the north and spending the majority of our time photographing in the regions abundant National Parks. You can get a bit of insight into this part of my trip here, here and here.
I parted ways with my friends in Bangkok, setting off on the overnight train to Chiang Mai – Thailand’s second largest city and the hub of the northern region. It was here I would spend time on a personal project which I found fascinating – documenting the art of Thai Boxing.
Located in Thailand’s north, relatively close to Burma (Myanmar) and Laos, Chiang Mai is a a cosmopolitan city, rich in culture and a hub of the Thai Boxing scene in Northern Thailand.
The National sport of Thailand, Thai Boxing (Muay Thai) permeates Thai culture in a similar way that Australian Rules Football does here in Australia. Young boxers live and breath Muay Thai, training 6 hours each day, 6 days a week – the kind of athletic discipline which must only be shared by the very best athletes in the western world.
I put together a short slideshow of muay thai photos here which I will update as I process more photos from the journey (remember to switch on the audio track).
Enjoy
Photographer or Thug?
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Photojournalism & Story Telling
We live in a strange time in terms of street photography. On the one hand, we have the most incredible tools available to us in terms of equipment, allowing us to shoot under all sorts of conditions with never-before-seen image quality. On the other, those people wielding such equipment in the public domain are often seen as unscrupulous voyeurs, skulking the streets trying to photograph unsuspecting ‘victims’ rather than those who have the important task of documenting our time (though admittedly, at least one photographer does just that). It is rather strange, as the world is occupied by an unprecedented number of cameras and the image of a person holding their mobile phone up to take a photo is not an unusual one.
As a result photographers – especially budding amateurs who just picked up a brand new digital SLR – are regularly bullied and intimidated by figures of authority, being advised (wrongly I might add) that what they are doing is illegal.
Give this comprehensive article a read – it gives you some basic guidelines on the law regarding street photography in NSW (and by extension, Australia) so that next time a security guard or policeman has an issue with you taking photos – you know where you stand.
Tags: law, street photography
ANABAT – Searching for bats
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Photojournalism & Story Telling
Morgan sets up the ANABAT, an ingenious little device which translates and records the usually inaudible high frequency echolocating calls of bats to an audible signal – so that we can then have the bat species present in an area (in this case the Pilbara region of WA) identified based on their unique call signatures.
See more of an explanation behind the process after the jump…
Tags: biology, creative lighting, photojournalism
Yanchep Adventures: Slideshow
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Multimedia, Photojournalism & Story Telling
I’ve been playing with media presentations lately. Here’s a little slideshow I concocted showing our adventures at Yanchep. What I love about doing this is that when you deal with your images in this fashion, you find storylines in your work where you thought there were none.
If you think your connection can handle it, try the “full screen” option for the best experience!
Enjoy!
Tags: Multimedia, photojournalism, slideshow, surfing
Khao Sok National Park – Thailand
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under On Assignment, People Photography, Photojournalism & Story Telling, Travel Photography
One of the major features we wanted to explore in Thailand were the abundance of national parks spread across the country. Thailand is well known for its well equipped national parks, many of them complete with luxury bungalows and modern conveniences.
Khao Sok National Park is enormous. The whole park covers 645 sq km – the heart of a complex of five contiguous conservation sites that comprise the largest protected forest on the Thai-Malaysian peninsula, covering over 4,000 sq km.
A one hour long boat ride from the National park headquarters is one of the most amazing experiences i had in Thailand. We were lucky enough to experience it just before sunset, as the spectacular limestone outcrops which protude from the lake’s surface (some as tall as 960m!) were set against a dramatic cloudscape.
We spent the night in a series of floating bunglaows, far, far away from the hum of the city.
An experience not to be missed!
Tags: Khao Sok, southeast asia, story, thailand, travel
Muay Thai Photos
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under On Assignment, People Photography, Photojournalism & Story Telling, Travel Photography
Recently i spent about 6 weeks in Thailand, of which about 2 weeks were spent documenting the Thai Boxing scene in Thailand’s second largest city, Chiang Mai. Located in Thailand’s north, relatively close to Burma (Myanmar) and Laos, Chiang Mai is a a cosmopolitan city, rich in culture and a hub of the Thai Boxing scene in Northern Thailand.
The National sport of Thailand, Thai Boxing (Muay Thai) permeates Thai culture in a similar way that Australian Rules Football does here in Australia. There is one major difference however, and that is that like Western boxing, Thai boxing is viewed as a ‘poor man’s sport’, whereby the Thai bourgeois shuns the seemingly violent and archaic brutality of the sport.
Young boxers live and breath Muay Thai, training 6 hours each day, 6 days a week and after seeing the way these guys work, how they push their bodies to the limit, the tuly must be some of the most athletic people on the planet!
Tags: assignment, boxing, muay thai, photojournalism, thailand, travel
