November Eleven

Demotix

2009-05-08T02:26:12Z

We’re very happy to announce our newest sponsor, Demotix.

Demotix is a street journalism website and newswire. It enables freelance photojournalists and amateurs to share their stories with a growing community, and license them to the mainstream media.

Demotix launched officially in January 2009, has 5,000 users from over 120 countries, and has already seen its images on the front cover of The Guardian and Spectrum; has licensed its content into the Telegraph, the BBC, the Guardian, the Times, the London Paper, and others all over the world, and has placed its ‘Widget’ (launched in March 09) into The Telegraph, Le Monde, Future News (Lebanon), and the Himalayan Times (Nepal).

The Huffington Post (with whom Demotix has partnered) says: Demotix “may change the way news is reported”, and Nick Kristof, in the New York Times, writes that Demotix “offers aspiring journalists a chance”. In March, Demotix won the Guardian Media Awards 09, the biggest industry prize in the UK.

Battlespace in Brooklyn

2008-10-27T02:17:26Z

You can check out Battlespace in person at Sideshow Gallery in Brooklyn, until November 16th.

http://www.battlespaceonline.org/invitations/200810/

This show includes additional photos by Zoriah, which are also viewable at Battlespace Online.

Battlespace welcomes Jared Moossey

2008-07-21T02:57:04Z

We’ve just added two photographs by photographer Jared Moossey:

http://www.battlespaceonline.org/jared-moossy/afghanistan-2008.shtml

Thanks to Jared Moossey for participating, and be sure to spread the word about this exhibition…

Welcome Newswear

2008-06-28T23:38:17Z

Special thanks to Newswear, who have begun supporting Lightstalkers and November Eleven. Their support means that we’ll be able to continue working on improvements to Lightstalkers, Battlespace Online, and November Eleven’s other charitable programs.

For more information about Newswear, please visit their site at http://www.newswear.com — there’s information there about their line of special tools for photojournalists.

If you’d like information about sponsorship in general, just email us at support@novembereleven.org; we’ll be happy to answer any questions or listen to your ideas.

Battlespace Podcast

2008-06-15T00:00:50Z

Daylight Magazine and November Eleven have reproduced Battlespace: Unrealities of War as a multimedia podcast, with added content and narration. Check it out here, and be sure to pass on this news.

http://daylightmagazine.org/podcast/june2008

As always, the Battlespace exhibition continues online at http://www.battlespaceonline.org.

Waypoint mapping and politics

2008-05-28T18:14:50Z

Hi, we got an interesting question via email today, and it warrants a public explanation here:

I just registered, but it seems that there is a problem with my location…
I try to put Bethlehem; Occupied Palestinian Territory.
it is written that it cannot coordinate!

Waypoint maps at Lightstalkers are built with Google Maps, which means we depend on Google to “know” where various place names are. Most of the time this works great; Google can figure out the coordinates for “Paris, France” no problem.

Unfortunately, Google doesn’t “recognize” Occupied Palestinian Territory as a mappable place, so Lightstalkers is going to say that it can’t find coordinates for this location.

We’re working on a fix, but in the meantime you can do one of two things:

1) You can leave it — you won’t have a marker on your map for this particular location, but that’s the only consequence.

2) You can switch to a Google-recognized place name. In this example, that would be “Israel”.

Again, we hope to have a workaround built-in soon. If we can answer any questions in the meantime just send email to support@novembereleven.org.

Joseph White has won the FPW s…

2008-05-21T13:37:51Z

Joseph White has won the FPW scholarship: http://tinyurl.com/66vddj

Battlespace Online

2008-05-25T06:11:58Z

“Battlespace,” an exhibition of photographs from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, launches today at http://www.battlespaceonline.org. The project was produced by November Eleven, an independent media organization, to mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq.

The exhibition—also on view at Gallery FCB and at the Aurora photo agency in New York City—features work by 20 photographers: Ghaith Abdul Ahad, Christoph Bangert, Guy Calaf, Andrew Cutraro, Balazs Gardi, Ashley Gilbertson, Eros Hoagland, Jason Howe, Yuri Kozyrev, Teru Kuwayama,Rita Leistner, Ben Lowy, Jehad Nga, Lucian Read, Moises Saman,Stephanie Sinclair, Peter van Agtmael, Luke Wolagiewicz, Alvaro Ybarra Zavala, and Stefan Zaklin

The photographs were made in Afghanistan and Iraq, but they depict neither country. They are glimpses of an alternate reality built upon them. They are fragments, captured from behind the walls of concrete superbases—or outside them, through nightvision goggles and ballistic eye shields.

The images collected here do not provide a comprehensive account of these wars, or an understanding of these nations or their peoples. They reflect the personal experiences of a group of photographers, presenting an unsanitized view of the theater of war.

Battlespace: The environment, factors, and conditions which must be understood to successfully apply combat power, protect the force, or complete the mission. This includes the air, land, sea, space, and the included enemy and friendly forces, facilities, weather, terrain, the electromagnetic spectrum, and information environment within the operational areas and areas of interest. —U.S. Department of Defense

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. —Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Our Newest Sponsor: Photoshelter

2008-05-25T06:30:35Z

We’re very happy to have Photoshelter on board as our latest corporate sponsor. Photoshelter provides an online digital workflow and archiving solution to photographers, and their services are a constant topic of conversation at Lightstalkers.

Photoshelter’s donation to Lightstalkers demonstrates a real interest in reaching out to the photo community, and it helps us in direct ways. Please help us acknowledge their gift, and if you run into these guys, tell them Lightstalkers sent you.

November Eleven uses donations from corporate sponsors to help pay for our bandwidth and server costs; a dynamic, resource-intensive site like Lightstalkers requires a lot of TLC to keep running, not to mention bandwidth and equipment rental.

Thanks again to Photoshelter, and you can see all our current sponsors here:

http://www.lightstalkers.org/sponsorship

Or you can click here to find out more about Photoshelter:http://photoshelter.com

If you have questions about sponsorship, you can email us directly at support@novembereleven.org.

Updating Old Images

2008-05-25T06:32:55Z

Today we’re performing an automatic upgrade for those of you who haven’t updated your galleries in several months. We’re going through and adding your old images to our latest database, and you don’t have to do anything on your end.

What’s new:
You now get 50 images, free of charge. (We continue to gradually increase your allotment, and plan to continue increasing this limit as our budget allows.)

You can now organize your images into multiple “galleries”—you can use this to sort them into various slideshows and stories. You can add an audio soundtrack to any gallery, in MP3 format, and even set custom timing on your images.

The Flash slideshow’s better than ever, with multiple gallery navigation and fullscreen mode built-in.
If you’ve been updating your Lightstalkers galleries lately, you’ve already got access to all of this—today’s update only affects those who haven’t already upgraded themselves.

All this is possible due to financial support from our members and our sponsors. We’re continuing to add features and storage capacity, and you can help by making a donation today.