FIRST WEBB WORKSHOP IN POLAND

©Alex Webb from “The Suffering of Light,” Aperture and Thames and Hudson

“We do not really know what draws a human being out into the world. Is it curiosity? A hunger for experience? An addiction to wonderment? The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow, possessed of an extinguished heart. If he believes that everything has already happened, that he has seen it all, then something most precious has died within him—the delight in life.” ― the Polish writer Ryszard Kapuściński, one of Alex’s favorite writers

FIRST WEBB WORKSHOP IN POLAND JUST ANNOUNCED.  This four-day MAGNUM PHOTOS WORKSHOP will coincide with the FOTOFESTIWAL LODZ in early June.  Space is limited, and this workshop is expected to sell out rather quickly:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAXO31_3&VBID=2K1HZOQ8V31HKN&IID=2K1HRG5YYKK6&PN=31

©Rebecca Norris Webb from “Memory City” (with Alex Webb), Radius Books, US, Thames and Hudson, Europe, June 2014

 

“Rochester, in upstate New York, has been the home of Kodak since the company’s start in 1888. When it declared bankruptcy in 2012, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb decided to use film made by the company to shoot the city. For the project, Webb used his last rolls of Kodachrome, the famous but now-discontinued film, developing it as hazy black and white since its special color process is no longer available. The results look like any struggling but hopeful city, quiet but proud.”—Rebecca Robertson, ART News

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ALEX AND REBECCA’S UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

—NEW WORKSHOP ADDED: FINDING YOUR VISION: SAN FRANCISCO, SAT. AUG. 23 THRU WED. AUG. 27, 2014, Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission Street, San Francisco: For more information, please contact Alex and Rebecca:

webbnorriswebb@gmail.com

——Saturday May 3 thru Friday May 10, FINDING YOUR VISION, NEW YORK.

——DUE TO A CANCELLATION, THERE’S NOW ONE SPOT left in this annual May workshop. To apply, please contact Alex and Rebecca directly at this email:

webbnorriswebb@gmail.com

——Finding Your Vision @ FOTOFESTIWAL LODZ, POLAND, a four-day MAGNUM PHOTOS WORKSHOP, Sunday June 1-Wed. June 4th: http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAXO31_3&VBID=2K1HZOQ8V31HKN&IID=2K1HRG5YYKK6&PN=31

LINKS, REVIEWS, ARTICLES, AND MORE:

——Link to NEW YORK TIMES LENS blog Q&A with Jim Estrin & Alex and Mound Bayou slide show:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/alex-webb-looks-back-in-black-and-white/?smid=tw-share

——ALEX’S PHOTOGRAPHS FROM INDIA’S KUMBH MELA IN FEBRUARY 2014 ISSUE:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/kumbh-mela/spinney-text

 

VIOLET ISLE: New Book in London

 

©Rebecca Norris Webb photograph of pigeon from Havana, originally from the Radius Book, “Violet Isle” (with Alex Webb). This spread is in the new book, “Hungry Still”

“There are two kinds of people in the world — mango people and papaya people,” my sister-in-law, the noted ornithological illustrator Sophie Webb, once told us with a smile.

Each morning in Havana, Alex and I would share breakfast. When it was in season, fresh papaya was Alex’s choice, fresh mango mine. After the meal, we’d go our separate ways — he to photograph the streets of Havana, I to visit yet another Cuban menagerie, which, in Havana was usually a collection of birds, from rooftop pigeon coops to fighting roosters, from commonly caged birds, such as lovebirds and parakeets, to a wilder variety, such as hawks or woodpeckers.

Both of us never ceased to be surprised by the generosity of the Cubans we met. No matter how poor they were, many invited us into their homes to offer us a cup of that rich dark café cubano sweetened by local azúcar.”—Rebecca Norris Webb, from “Hungry Still,” SLIDELUCK POTSHOW London’s new book.

So nice to see “Violet Isle” is in such good company in “Hungry Still,” a book celebrating SLIDELUCK POTSHOW London 5th anniversary with photos and recipes by photographers Cristina de Middel, Sebastian Liste, Phil Toledano, Bryan Schutmaat, among others.

 

©Alex Webb, Dancehall, Lake Ontario, Rochester, NY, from “Memory City” (with Alex Webb), Radius Books, June 2014

“Rochester, in upstate New York, has been the home of Kodak since the company’s start in 1888. When it declared bankruptcy in 2012, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb decided to use film made by the company to shoot the city. For the project, Webb used his last rolls of Kodachrome, the famous but now-discontinued film, developing it as hazy black and white since its special color process is no longer available. The results look like any struggling but hopeful city, quiet but proud.”—Rebecca Robertson, ART News

http://www.artnews.com/2014/02/13/11-edgy-art-books-document-the-bizarre-bygone-and-adorable/

ALEX AND REBECCA’S UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

—NEW WORKSHOP ADDED: FINDING YOUR VISION: SAN FRANCISCO, SAT. AUG. 23 THRU WED. AUG. 27, 2014, Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission Street, San Francisco: For more information, please contact Alex and Rebecca: webbnorriswebb@gmail.com

——Saturday May 3 thru Friday May 10, FINDING YOUR VISION, NEW YORK.

——DUE TO A CANCELLATION, THERE’S NOW ONE SPOT left in this annual workshop. For more information including how to enroll, please visit: 

https://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAXO31_3&VBID=2K1HZOQ8HF290Z&IID=2K1HRG8E8ABS&PN=3

——Finding Your Vision @ Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm, Saturday, June 7th-Wed. June 11, 2014:

http://fotografiska.eu/kurser/kurs/alex-webb-and-rebecca-norris-webb/  THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL; WAIT LIST ONLY

LINKS, REVIEWS, ARTICLES, AND MORE:

——Link to NEW YORK TIMES LENS blog Q&A with Jim Estrin & Alex and Mound Bayou slide show:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/alex-webb-looks-back-in-black-and-white/?smid=tw-share

——ALEX’S PHOTOGRAPHS FROM INDIA’S KUMBH MELA IN FEBRUARY 2014 ISSUE:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/kumbh-mela/spinney-text

 

MEMORY CITY: On Press

©Alex Webb, “Memory City” (with Rebecca Norris Webb), first cover printed on press in Hong Kong, March 2014

We’d like to thank RADIUS BOOKS creative director David Chickey for his help on press in Hong Kong for the printing of our upcoming “Memory City” book.  Always a delight to hold that first unbound copy in one’s hands…We hope in the next few weeks to have photos of the first bound copy.—Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb

“Rochester, in upstate New York, has been the home of Kodak since the company’s start in 1888. When it declared bankruptcy in 2012, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb decided to use film made by the company to shoot the city. For the project, Webb used his last rolls of Kodachrome, the famous but now-discontinued film, developing it as hazy black and white since its special color process is no longer available. The results look like any struggling but hopeful city, quiet but proud.”—Rebecca Robertson, ART News

http://www.artnews.com/2014/02/13/11-edgy-art-books-document-the-bizarre-bygone-and-adorable/

©Alex Webb, Rebecca on press in Hong Kong, March 2014

ALEX AND REBECCA’S UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

NEW WORKSHOP JUST ADDED: Finding Your Vision @ Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm, Saturday, June 7th-Wed. June 11, 2014:  http://fotografiska.eu/kurser/kurs/alex-webb-and-rebecca-norris-webb/

——Saturday May 3 thru Friday May 10, FINDING YOUR VISION, NEW YORK.  

DUE TO A CANCELLATION, THERE’S NOW ONE SPOT left in this annual workshop. For more information including how to enroll, please visit: https://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAXO31_3&VBID=2K1HZOQ8HF290Z&IID=2K1HRG8E8ABS&PN=3

LINKS, REVIEWS, ARTICLES, AND MORE:

——Link to NEW YORK TIMES LENS blog Q&A with Jim Estrin & Alex and Mound Bayou slide show:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/alex-webb-looks-back-in-black-and-white/?smid=tw-share

——ALEX’S PHOTOGRAPHS FROM INDIA’S KUMBH MELA IN FEBRUARY 2014 ISSUE:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/kumbh-mela/spinney-text