Depth of Field: Staying on point in rural China – Witness
A round-up of China’s best photojournalism
SAR Zone – Witness
On July 25th, we awoke to rough seas in the central Mediterranean, some 15 miles north of the Libyan city of Sabratha, in international waters. The Spanish rescue ship Open Arms, belonging to the NGO of the same name, pitched and rolled on the open water, making us believe that that day there would be no rescues to be made — it seemed impossible that a single dinghy could have launched from the Libyan coast in those winds.
Verifying conflict: Anastasia Taylor-Lind and the eyeWitness to Atrocity app
In an age where the image is increasingly under question, how can you verify that a photograph has not been tampered with? Examples like that of the cloned Iranian missiles in 2008 can have serious political repercussions. Other examples such as the 2018 British Wildlife Photographer of the Year (showing an anteater moving towards a termite mound) demonstrate the problem of misrepresentation. The picture was disqualified when it turned out the anteater was a taxidermy specimen.
What is the state of photojournalism in China? – Witness
Reviewing the brief history of photojournalism in China and the challenges facing photographers there today
What’s the story? Visual narrative made simple – Witness
Over the past 18 months I have continued to teach visual narrative to young photographers and completed writing a book in which I once again address the issue of visual narrative and the development of a personal visual language. I have also made a feature-length documentary film that relies on the successful representation of a man’s life as its central narrative. I therefore think that I may have something to add to my initial thoughts.