TIME Mag Photo Essay
TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year is Vladimir Putin. (With an amazing portrait by Platon) I have a photo essay online and in the magazine on Russia’s New Aristocrats. Check out the weblink below:
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/personoftheyear/0,30706,1694373,00.html
Newsweek YIP
A selection of photos from my “Zek: In the Prison of the East” story is featured in this week’s issue of Newsweek’s Year in Pictures. Also featured is work from Paolo Pellegrin, Christoper Anderson and my personal favourite, a great little story from Cedric Gerbehaye.
Newsweek Middle Class
Also this week is a story in Newsweek about the booming global economy. A nice double page spread from the assignment in Kiev.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/78113
Walrus Issue
The latest Walrus Magazine is on newsstands now featuring their Cities Issue, featuring photographs from Steve Simon, Lorne Bridgman, Christopher Anderson, amongst others. I photographed Calgary. An online gallery can be found here:
http://walrusmagazine.com/articles/2008.02-online-canada-photos-cities/1/1
TIME Pics of the Week
A photo from a opposition rally in Moscow is featured in TIME Magazine’s Pictures of the Week:
http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1689090_1494872,00.html
Saatchi Gallery
I now have work posted on the Saatchi Online Gallery, found here: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/photographers/ The site receives over 40,000,000 hits a day and has a detailed Dealer, Gallery and Artist Index.
For my personal page: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/photographers/?inc=details&id=76100
Newsweek Online
The latest issue of Newsweek International is now on newstands featuring a cover and photo essay about how Russians are enjoying rising incomes and a higher standard of living under Putin, but Moscow remains a center of murkiness and political intrigue.
(My first magazine cover, by the way).
http://www.newsweek.com/id/73233
Time Assignment
On assignment in Moscow for TIME Magazine November 29 – December 2, 2007.
Assignment
In Moscow on assignment for Newsweek, November 25 – 28, 2007.
Website Update
I have updated the website a bit. Added the work-in-progress “Zek: In the Prison of the East”, and new tearsheets.
Portfolio Issue
The latest issue of Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine is on newsstands now featuring my photographs about the booming gas business on Sakhalin Island in Russia.
View slideshow here:
http://www.portfolio.com/slideshows/2007/11/Sakhalin-Oil
Hello!
Latest issue of Hello! Magazine on newstands now, featuring a photo essay from Ethiopia with singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk.
Sierra Leone
On assignment for the NGO War Child in Sierra Leone and Ghana November 8 – 18th, 2007.
American Photo
American Photo Magazine has named me, along with fourteen others, in their Emerging Talents issue as one of “A New Generation of Photo Pioneers”. Be sure to grab a copy, there is some fantastic work featured in there. (I am particularly moved by Jehad Nga’s work).
Here’s a link: http://www.popphoto.com/americanphotofeatures/4736/emerging-artists-2007-donald-weber.html
Also, Atlas Press, my photo agency, is featured as an important agency to watch.
Canada
Will be in Canada October 19 – November 4. On assignment for The Walrus Magazine in Calgary, Alberta October 21 – 24.
Sakhalin
On assignment for Portfolio Magazine on Sakhalin Island, Russia October 11 – 15, 2007.
PhotoShelter
I now have a PhotoShelter account. Will be uploading my archive over the next few weeks. All stories and assignments will be available for searching, and downloading of high res files on a fee-based structure. If you’re interested in something I may have shot, please check here.
Also, I will be uploading periodically some work-in-progress.
http://www.photoshelter.com/user/donaldweber.com
Ethiopia
On assignment for the NGO War Child in Ethiopia October 3 – 10, 2007.
UA Elections
On Assignment covering the Ukrainian Elections September 21 – 30. Will be in Donetsk, Dneprodzerzhinsk, Lviv and Kiev.
Heading East
Featured on the blog “Heading East”, well worth the time to read (not about me, the site).
http://www.mexicanpictures.com/headingeast/
NYT Magazine
Almost in Beijing for the New York Times Magazine. But I couldn’t get a visa in time.
Biz Week
On assignment in Saint Petersburg, Russia; June 23, 24
Applied Arts
Winner in the Applied Arts Magazine Annual Photography Competition in the Photojournalism category for the story “Bastard Eden: Chernobyl at Twenty”.
NPAC
Winner of two News Photographers Association of Canada Awards, and two Honorable Mentions, including Canadian Photojournalist of the Year.
1st Place, Portrait
2nd Place, Picture Story
HM, Picture Story
HM, Canadian Photojournalist of the Year
http://npac.ca/
PDN
Winner of two PDN Photo Annual Awards in the Photojournalism Category. One for Bastard Eden: Chernobyl at Twenty, shot for Newsweek Magazine, and The Underclass and Its Bosses: Crime and Punishment in Ukraine, an ongoing personal project.
http://gallery.pdnevents.com/annual2007/
Critical Mass
PhotoLucida has awarded me one of two book prizes from the Critical Mass Competition. The book will be a softbound monograph of 64 pages, full colour. It was awarded after a juried competition from over 150 finalists, for a photographer without a previously published monograph.
So, be on the lookout at your favourite bookstores and online retailers in a years time for “Bastard Eden: Chernobyl at Twenty”
http://www.photolucida.org/
Px3
Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3) announces winners of the 2007 competition.
Donald Weber of Canada was Awarded: Third Prize in category PHOTOJOURNALISM for the entry titled, ” The Underclass and Its Bosses .” The jury selected 2007’s winners from thousands of photography entries from over 85 countries.
Visit http://px3.fr
Ball-Saal
An online exhibition of the story ‘The Underclass and Its Bosses” is being displayed by the Ball-Saal Gallery. Please go to the following link:
http://www.ball-saal.com/MainPage/Gallery.php?type=Exhi&ID=36&page=1
In Ukraine
Will be in Russia and Ukraine starting April 25, 2007, beginning work on my Guggenheim project. Will also be available for assignment through my agency, Atlas Press.
PHODAR Biennial '07
I have been selected as the Grand Prize Winner for this year’s PHODAR Biennial ’07, a photography festival in Bulgaria. This year’s theme is ‘Identity.’
If you find yourself in Pleven, Bulgaria, May 11, 2007, please come by the opening festivities!
Guggenheim
Today I learned I am one of the recipients of a Guggenheim Fellowship. I am very humbled, as those who precede me are many. The Guggenheim’s purpose is to give fellows “blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible”, but they should also be “substantially free of their regular duties.”
Robert Frank created his “Americans” as a Guggenheim Fellow. Other photographers include Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Gary Winogrand and William Eggleston. Very very very big shoes indeed.
http://www.gf.org/newfellow-fields.html#US
MSF Photos
Images now online from assignment for Medecins sans Frontieres can be found at:
If you go to www.msf.org and click on the World TB day feature, you’ll see
the article and the slideshow of pictures.
The American site at http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Also on the german site, http://www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de
Working in Ukraine
Currently on extended stay in Ukraine and surrounding CIS countries. I can be reached by Canadian cel or my Ukraine cel: +38 093 147 1765
MSF
On assignment for Medecins Sans Frontieres in Uzbekistan; March 12 – 20.
New website
This is version two of my website, courtesy of Marty Spellerberg.