I have been hearing rumblings that there will no FUNPA this year! As co-founder and Professor Emeritus of FUNPA I demand there to be one! Miss you monkeys.
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Author Archives: Ramin Rahimian
36 Hours in Salt Lake City! Big time!
Way to go Salt Lake City – do I get a cut of the tourism money!? DJ Tidy, Tyler Kunz, deejays at the gay night club Club Jam in Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, April 23, 2010.
Here is the article and a slideshow of more of images.
A Remarkable Gift multimedia project by Beth Schlanker
My lady friend recently finished this multimedia story on a man named Maurice Simpson. Simpson has a genetic disorder called neurofibromatosis that causes nerve tissue to grow tumors on his face. Here is the article where you can also view the video (there is a full screen option).
I’m posting it because, let’s be honest, we all know she is not very good with the Internets…
NYT Lens explores the issue of photographers in Haiti
I thought this was an interesting read. Curious what Utah photographers who were there think about the piece and what they saw in terms of photojournalism.
Utah Photojournalism Trophies at the 2nd Annual FUNPA
Ramin Rahimian | Photographer
Happy Holidays from Beth and Ramin!
Fiftieth.
Rebecca Giles sits with her one-year-old nephew, Marquis, outside her family trailer on a cornfield in the small Mississippi Delta town of Midnight. Rebecca shares the small trailer in Midnight with four other adults and six children in her family. The family used to live on a farmhouse in the same location, but in the fall of 2007, it burned down. The owner of the land gave the Marquis’ father the trailer so he could continue plowing the fields for him.
This a photo from an essay I did in March of 2008 in Mississippi. The whole thing was kind of a disappointment for me: I quit half way through the trip. I regret it, but I did learn a lot from the trip and my failure. A short essay is here