[Leica] Peter Turnley

[s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)]

I agree with you there. I keep hearing noises about more art/conceptual
photography being wanted by editors. Hope the trend continues.
S. Dimitrov

> From: "Robert Palmieri" <rpalmier@depaul.edu>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 03:47:39 -0500
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Peter Turnley
> 
> The following post appeared here yesterday:
> 
> 
> 
>> Dear friends-
> 
>> I would like to share with you some very exciting  news. I've been
> offered a 
>> one
>> year, renewable agreement with Harpers  Magazine, to create 4 major 8
> page
>> photo-essays for the magazine during the  next year. I will be listed
> on the
>> masthead as a contributing editor and most  importantly the philosophy
> behind
>> this new agreement is that I will author my  own visual stories that
> will be
>> given very prominent display quarterly in a  magazine with a long and
> rich
>> tradition of publishing excellent writing and  journalism. I think this
> marks
>> not only a very exciting opportunity for me,  but also a wonderful
>> development for photojournalism and for the use of  visual storytelling
> in
>> magazine journalism. Please read more about this news  in an article
> that has
> j>ust been published today on the NPPA.org  site:
> 
> http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2004/07/turnley_photo_essays_in_har
> pers.html
> 
>> I  look forward to your seeing the first photo-essay that will appear
> in  the
>> August issue of Harpers Magazine which will speak visually to a  very
>> important theme in world affairs today, in a way that I think has not
> been
>> seen or treated prominently before.
> 
>> My best. Peter  Turnley
> 
>> peterturnley.com
> 
> 
> 
> Damn good to hear about this, I say...
> 
> Bob Palmieri
> 
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