D4mations.com

Entering New Worlds Through Photography



We visited photographer Christopher Anderson to talk about his work and his life-changing experience aboard a Haitian refugee boat that sank in the Caribbean. We then followed him as he hit the streets to photograph New York City.

Check out more episodes of Picture Perfect: http://vice.com/picture-perfect

Watch the best documentaries online here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Documentaries

Originally aired in 2012 on http://VICE.com

Photos courtesy of Christopher Anderson / Magnum Photos.

Subscribe for videos that are actually good: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE
Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/vice/videos
Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com
Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice
Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice
Read our tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com

Original source

d4mations

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

48 responses to “Entering New Worlds Through Photography”

  4. So inspired! Everyone when they go into street/editorial photography, they focus too much on composition rather than just getting the shot. Chris Anderson has shown that perhaps what makes a photograph is just being a part of the moment, and simply focussing on capturing it and all the emotions that come along with it.

  15. I really enjoyed this piece. I live in NY and work all around the NY metro area. I love photography but unfortunately that's not the line of work I'm in. I'm in lots of different areas for work that I might see something that I would love to photograph but worried people will find it intrusive. Hard to explain in a YouTube comment. How do you get that "in". Do you tell people you work for a magazine or do you just strike up conversations? Thanks.

  16. Very interesting documentary. This is exactly what I want to do with my photography. Freeze that moment in a frame, take in all the surrounding feelings which will be then kept in that picture forever.

  25. well spoken dude but like someone below commented, "he's just proving that he was there" … like there's no sense of danger or 1st person perspective angle of emotion in his war or public housing pictures. I mean, compare it to street photographers who did the same thing. Boogie for instance shot bk bloods with the guns pointed at him. crack heads in the den, etc… When you look at his pictures, you can feel the adrenaline and know he just didn't go there for a day ~ This guy's photos just don't show any struggle or hunger. Kind of just looks like pictures from tourist who was on vacation at the wrong time. Hence there's no dynamic angle in a dangerous setting…. just a picture taken of a dangerous setting from a safe enough distance. However, his photos of his son are great. I really liked those.

  33. He's a good photographer, no doubt. But he lives a life of comfort, not struggle. He mistakenly thinks he gives the world something by shooting a war, in fact, he shows us that he was there. Life is not about him, nor his photography. He is a nice guy, but too in love with himself. Magnum doesn't mean you are the pope

  46. "The difference is that now I work from my home, where I would formerly find myself working in strange places around the world". If N.Y.C. isn't a "strange place", I don't know what is!  Damn. I have been taking photographs since I was a child, when I was given my first "Kodak" "Instamatic" camera, as a birthday present, my uncle Richard Santuci was a semi- famous N.Y.C. photographer, who shared a studio with Ralph S. Hattersley. (Ralph- Santuci Studios), in Hell's Kitchen, in the '60's, and early '70's, Richard's son, Christopher, (my cousin) is now gaining fame as a D.P., making Indie films, and commercials, I was accepted at the Roy H. Park School at Ithaca College, for Film and Graphics, then had my application revoked, (Possibly, I have made several attempts to be reconsidered)  I envy all working photographers. I would like to do what Anderson has been doing, get myself attached to a publication, or production company, and travel around taking photographs, or making videos. I just eat up documentaries like this one. Great.

Leave a Reply