Jodi Bieber
Jodi Bieber | |
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Born | 1966[1] Johannesburg, South Africa[1] |
Awards | 2010 World Press Photo of the Year[2] |
Website | www |
Jodi Bieber (born 1966)[1] is a South African photographer. Her photograph of Bibi Aisha, a woman from Afghanistan whose ears and nose were severed by her husband and brother-in-law, was selected as the World Press Photo of the Year in 2010.[2]
Early life and work
Bieber was born in 1966 in Johannesburg.[1] In the early 1990s she attended the Market Photo Workshop and covered the 1994 South African general election, South Africa's first democratic elections, for The Star.[3] She trained under Ken Oosterbroek in 1993 and worked in South Africa until 1996.[4] In 2000 she covered an ebola outbreak in Uganda for The New York Times Magazine.[5]
Approach to photography
Bieber has said that her work is not photojournalism: "I do not aspire to objectivity. I'm simply a photographer. I show what I see and what strikes me, always from my point of view."[3]
Bibi Aisha
Bibi Aisha, then 18, was disfigured after being convicted by the
Speaking about the photograph, Bieber said "I could have made a photograph with her looking or being portrayed more as the victim. And I thought 'no, this woman is beautiful.'"[7] In a 2014 essay Hilary Janks discussed Bieber's concern for Aisha's beauty and questioned whether "the mutilation [would] have been less reprehensible if Aisha had not been young and beautiful".[8]
Other work
Bieber's book Soweto depicting contemporary scenes from the township of Soweto in Johannesburg, was published in 2010.[9][10] Bieber described the book as an attempt to counter stereotypes about Soweto and to rectify the absence of representations of post-Apartheid Soweto.[9][10]
During the lockdown imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, Bieber published on Instagram a series of photographs of her husband Francois in various costumes.[11]
Publications
- Between Dogs and Wolves: Growing up with South Africa. Stockport: ISBN 978-1904587323.
- Soweto. Jacana, 2010.
- Real Beauty. 2014. Pagina, Goch/Germany, 2014. ISBN 978-3-944146-11-9.
References
- ^ a b c d Phillips, Sarah (20 November 2011). "Photographer Jodi Bieber's best shot". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
- ^ a b "2011 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year". World Press Photo of the Year. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ a b Ragusa, Stefania (29 December 2017). "The South Africa of Jodi Bieber. Between Darkness and Light". Doppiozero. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ Dunlap, David W. (11 February 2011). "Is This the Best News Picture in the World?". Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ Laurent, Olivier (29 July 2014). "Picturing Ebola: Photographers Chase an Invisible Killer". Time. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ "World Press Photo 2011 in Edinburgh – Jodi Bieber interview". The List. 8 July 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ "Photographing Aisha for the Cover of TIME". Time. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ Janks, Hilary (2014). "The Importance of Critical Literacy". In Pandya, Jessica Zacher; Ávila, JuliAnna (eds.). Moving Critical Literacies Forward: A New Look at Praxis Across Contexts. New York: Routledge. p. 36.
- ^ a b c Laurent, Olivier (30 May 2010). "Jodi Bieber's Soweto". British Journal of Photography. Archived from the original on 31 May 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ a b Johnson, Whitney (1 July 2010). "Postcard from Soweto: Jodi Bieber". The New Yorker. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ Bainbridge, Simon (16 April 2020). "Evidence of Work: Jodi Bieber's playful images of her husband in lockdown". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
External links
- Official website
- Baker, Aryn (9 August 2010). "Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban". Time – the cover story which Bieber's photograph of Aisha accompanied
- Nordland, Rod (4 August 2010). "Portrait of Pain Ignites Debate Over Afghan War". The New York Times – article concerning the international response to the Time cover