BagNews Salon Archive for “Assignment Egypt”

I’m a lit­tle late post­ing this over here, but the archive for the most recent Bag­News Salon “Assign­ment Egypt,” which I pro­duced, is up. Pho­tog­ra­phers and visual aca­d­e­mic dis­cussed news pho­tos of Egypt’s 18-day revolution. Check it out over at Bag­News.

As always with the Salons, when you get a group of visu­ally adept peo­ple dis­cussing a small selec­tion of charged pho­tos, amaz­ing insights result. Below are a few of my favorite quotes from the salon. Read more quotes in the archive post.

“This image shows us the level of com­mit­ment. Every­one here is will­ing to be vul­ner­a­ble and con­front the real­ity of the pow­ers that are beyond them entirely.”

- Michelle Wood­ward, Photo Edi­tor for Mid­dle East Report

Laura El-Tantawy / Burn Mag­a­zine – Egypt­ian anti-government pro­test­ers sleep on the tires of a mil­i­tary tank sta­tioned on Tahrir (Lib­er­a­tion) Square.

“This is a corol­lary to the tanks in the square. It’s like they are say­ing, ‘You’re got your tanks, we’ve got Face­book.’ they even made it out of rocks, the same rocks that a cou­ple days later or a cou­ple days before became projectiles.”

–Michael Shaw, Edi­tor at BagNews

Tara Todras-Whitehill / Asso­ci­ated Press – Anti-government pro­test­ers take pic­tures of protest art in Tahrir Square, the cen­ter of anti-government demon­stra­tions, in Cairo, Egypt, Sun­day, Feb. 6, 2011.