Burma. October 2007.

Through his photo essay “Burma. October 2007.”, Frederic Sautereau provides a current perspective on the September 2007 protests in Burma. His photographs shed light on the oppression of the Burmese people, who have suffered severe punishment as a result of their protests against the sharp increase in the prices of fuel and public transportation.

The majority of Sautereau’s work surrounds the “dual notions of border and divide”, and he has done extensive photographic work depicting divided cities such as Belfast, Nicosia, Mostar, Jerusalem and Mitrovica. Between 2000 and 2003, Sautereau focused primarily on his project, “The Edges of Europe” for which he received the support from Label Paris Europe, the National Centre for the Plastic Arts, and the Hachette Foundation. In 2003 he received the Fuji Prize for a project on the wall separating Israel and the West Bank. Frederic Sautereau is also the director of Oeil Public Agency, a photo agency dedicated to promoting socially conscious photography through its collective of nine photographers.

For more information on Frederic Sautereau, Oeil Photo Agency, or to view “Burma. October 2007.”, visit http://www.oeilpublic.com/.

Pieter Hugo Lecture

The Photo Alliance Lecture series will bring South African photographer Pieter Hugo to San Francisco on November 2nd. Hugo has received international attention in the past few years by being named the Standard Bank Young Artist for 2007, and he is the recipient of the first prize award in the Portraits section of the 2006 World Press Photo competition. Hugo's work has been included in the traveling exhibition ReGeneration: Fifty Photographers of Tomorrow, as well as in Colors and Aperture magazines. He will give a lecture with photographer Leon Borensztein on November 2nd, 2007 at the San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall, located at 800 Chestnut St. (at Jones) in San Francisco at 7:30 pm. For more information, you can visit www.pieterhugo.com, or you can visit www.photoalliance.org.

FiftyCrows on Popphoto.com

This week FiftyCrows is featured in an article about National Geographic's All Roads Photography program on Popphoto.com, American Photo Magazine's website. To read the article, you can visit:

http://www.popphoto.com/photographynewswire/4689/developing-native-eyes.html

Documentary Photography in the Digital Age

Stanford University will host the symposium, “Documentary Photography in the Digital Age” on October 20th from 10:30 am to 5:30 pm in Annenberg Auditorium. The symposium will explore the impact that digital technology has had on documentary photography and photojournalism and will feature guest speakers Fred Ritchin from New York University, Anne Wilkes Tucker from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Danny Lyon, Chris Killip of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University and Stephen Perloff. The event is organized by the Stanford University Department of Art and Art History and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The symposium is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. For more information you can visit http://art.stanford.edu/.

Connecting Worlds

First Exposures, a mentoring and photographic education program for youth in San Francisco is hosting a special benefit, Connecting Worlds, on Saturday, October 6th from 4-7 pm at El Rio, located at 3158 Mission St. in San Francisco. All proceeds from the benefit will go to First Exposures and Afghans4Tomorrow, a non-profit organization dedicated to the rebuilding of Afghanistan. For more information, you can visit http://www.sfcamerawork.org/events.html.