Photographer Mika Ranta, I recommend using the Full Screen mode (lower right arrow symbols), check out the grin on the young boys face in picture #6, wow.
Helsingin Sanomat: Kenen Maa
torstai 25. helmikuuta 2010
keskiviikko 24. helmikuuta 2010
Reportage presentation
My reportage idea will be presented in Seinäjoki today at the meeting of working aged demented patients. I was in contact with the curator of the group and she thought it was better if she presented the idea for them. So I made a PDF for her to print out, explaining my project, my own past with this disease and what I want to do. She also said that she has other working age groups here in Pohjanmaa and that she will present my idea there also.
So onward it goes.
maanantai 22. helmikuuta 2010
Alzheimers disease photo essays
The New Face Of Alzheimer's
"Alzheimer's has devastating effects on midlife patients. As better diagnostic tests lead to earlier detection, researchers are recognizing that dementia is an equal-opportunity destroyer.
After being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease in his early 50s, Charley Schneider had to retire from his job as a firefighter and moved from his house to a small apartment in O'Fallon, Mo."
Alzheimers Disease Photo Essay video
"Little did I know, how impacting the experience would be. I had never seen so many people in one place, that couldn't function on an everyday level. I sadly watched one woman, trying to remember how to tie her shoes - it took her over 5 minutes to complete this simple task"
"Alzheimer's has devastating effects on midlife patients. As better diagnostic tests lead to earlier detection, researchers are recognizing that dementia is an equal-opportunity destroyer.
After being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease in his early 50s, Charley Schneider had to retire from his job as a firefighter and moved from his house to a small apartment in O'Fallon, Mo."
Alzheimers Disease Photo Essay video
"Little did I know, how impacting the experience would be. I had never seen so many people in one place, that couldn't function on an everyday level. I sadly watched one woman, trying to remember how to tie her shoes - it took her over 5 minutes to complete this simple task"
sunnuntai 21. helmikuuta 2010
Contacted again by Muistiliitto
My planned reportage seems to spike up attention by local Muistiliitto secretaries. I was contacted today from Rauma, regarding the local working-age demented people groups there. They have a meeting on Monday and the spokesperson said that she will introduce my project to the groups and families.
Rauma is ofcourse far off course from where I have a possibility to stay, but, if I could find a family I could stay with for, say, a week. I could do this, as I have a teaching job that lasts a week in Turku this autum. So I might have a 2-week span in that region of Finland.
Rauma is ofcourse far off course from where I have a possibility to stay, but, if I could find a family I could stay with for, say, a week. I could do this, as I have a teaching job that lasts a week in Turku this autum. So I might have a 2-week span in that region of Finland.
keskiviikko 17. helmikuuta 2010
Progress
Suprisingly enough, I was contacted by Etelä-Pohjanmaan Muistiyhdistys RY. this afternoon. They had different suggestions about coming in contact with possible candidates to follow up for my reportage.
There is a meeting held every Wednesday in Seinäjoki for working aged people who have a memory loss condition. Now, Im trying to direct my focus on a family with a early onset Alzheimer patient, I hope there will be somebody available - for my sake, not for theirs, it's a terrible disease.
Im really glad that my progress has been this good and positive thus far, I hope it continues.
There is a meeting held every Wednesday in Seinäjoki for working aged people who have a memory loss condition. Now, Im trying to direct my focus on a family with a early onset Alzheimer patient, I hope there will be somebody available - for my sake, not for theirs, it's a terrible disease.
Im really glad that my progress has been this good and positive thus far, I hope it continues.
Muistiliitto contacted
I took the first steps forward in my reportage and contacted Muistiliitto, the finnish central Alzheimer unit regarding a family to document. Im aware of the fact that it might be hard to find a family with a diagnosed case of early onset Alzheimer, because of the rareness of the disease.
But to succeed one must try.
tiistai 16. helmikuuta 2010
Thoughts on Pawel Flato
It was a good text and interwiev with a lot of interesting views. I am personally also concerned about the relation that text vs. pictures have in newspapers. Unfortunately the picture is losing the battle. In the web-paper I worked for last summer, Uusi Suomi, the usage of license free photos from Flickr and other copyright free material was huge. It's amazing actually how you can run a web-magazine by simply publicing stuff that other magazines have already put out and fishing free images from the web, images that act only as a simple visualization, usually not even of the same event or place the news is concerning.
His thoughts on pictures from war and suffering were also an interesting read. He felt that too estetik or art-like pictures don't fit in reportages or news images from these crisis areas. But Im not that sure, does the picture have less impact or information just because it's nice to look at?
Reportage idea presented to Jenni Gästgivare
Our first guest lecturer for the course was Jenni Gästgivare today, she had a brief stay and we had individual talk-through for a short time. I presented my press portfolio and my earlier reportages of Waldos People (a short one) and Töölö emergency care.
Ofcourse I also presented my idea for our reportage course. And she was pleased to hear it, and the backrground to it. She thought I had good plans for going along and making contacts for the project. She agreed that the best way would be to go through Muistiliitto, the Alzheimer-förbund, maybe through e-mail so they could read my thoughts and personal history with the disease, rather than by phone.
I also presented my documentary-art project Nuoruuteni vanhuus to her, because it's tightly linked to this idea. She thought it's good to continue to work with a subject that is so closely personal.
Ofcourse I also presented my idea for our reportage course. And she was pleased to hear it, and the backrground to it. She thought I had good plans for going along and making contacts for the project. She agreed that the best way would be to go through Muistiliitto, the Alzheimer-förbund, maybe through e-mail so they could read my thoughts and personal history with the disease, rather than by phone.
I also presented my documentary-art project Nuoruuteni vanhuus to her, because it's tightly linked to this idea. She thought it's good to continue to work with a subject that is so closely personal.
maanantai 15. helmikuuta 2010
Reportage topic
Im thinking about doing the reportage on early on-set Alzheimer. The idea came to me during class today. It is a personal subject beacuse my father, and his brother, both suffered from this disease.
My next task would be to find a suitable candidate to follow, somebody who has been diagnosed with this disease, still maybe living at home, being taken care of by the family.
My next task would be to find a suitable candidate to follow, somebody who has been diagnosed with this disease, still maybe living at home, being taken care of by the family.
Roadkill photography
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This blog was started in order to spread knowledge on a up-and-coming reportage I am about to do.
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