Tag: Alejandro Cegarra

  • Alejandro Cegarra 2014 emerging talent • Stories and Trends | Getty Images

    Alejandro Cegarra 2014 emerging talent • Stories and Trends | Getty Images

    Creative Insights Creative Insights is an authentic, thought-provoking experience in imagery that sparks the imagination and inspires great ideas. via Creative Insights: https://creativeinsights.gettyimages.com After working for a year at an advertising agency, he quit to pursue photography as a fulltime profession. He has worked for Venezuela’s largest newspaper, Ultimas Noticias, as well as freelanced in…

  • The Best Latin American Photography – NYTimes.com

    The Best Latin American Photography – NYTimes.com

    The Best Latin American Photography Mauricio Lima took top honors in Pictures of the Year Latin America, which highlights work done around the world by photographers from Latin America. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/the-best-latin-american-photography/ Mauricio Lima of Brazil has been named Photographer of the Year in the third Pictures of the Year Latin America contest. Daniele…

  • Fear and Loathing in Venezuela – The New York Times

    Fear and Loathing in Venezuela – The New York Times

    Fear and Loathing in Venezuela A photographer looks at those caught in the middle on the crime-ridden streets of Caracas, where the psychic landscape is emotionally draining. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/fear-and-loathing-in-venezuela/ Given Venezuela’s economic straits, long lines for food and the desire of many to live somewhere free of political strife, you’d think hitting the…

  • The Story Behind a Photo Project: ‘State of Decay’ by Alejandro Cegarra

    The Story Behind a Photo Project: ‘State of Decay’ by Alejandro Cegarra

    The Story Behind a Photo Project: ‘State of Decay’ by Alejandro Cegarra It’s Martin Kaninsky from the All About Street Photography YouTube channel, and today I would like to talk about a series of photographs that placed 3rd via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/12/17/the-story-behind-a-photo-project-state-of-decay-by-alejandro-cegarra/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 It’s Martin Kaninsky from the All About Street Photography YouTube channel, and today I…

  • An Unflinching View of Venezuela in Crisis | The New Yorker

    An Unflinching View of Venezuela in Crisis | The New Yorker

    An Unflinching View of Venezuela in Crisis Alejandro Cegarra’s photo series “State of Decay” tracks Venezuela’s collapse from one of the world’s richest societies to one of its poorest. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-unflinching-view-of-venezuela-in-crisis Alejandro Cegarra’s photo series “State of Decay” is an unflinching portrait of Venezuela’s collapse. How this country went from being one…

  • Getty Announces 2017 Editorial Grant Winners | PDNPulse

    Getty Announces 2017 Editorial Grant Winners | PDNPulse Getty Images has awarded grants of $10,000 each to Alejandro Cegarra, Barbara Peacock, Paula Bronstein, Alessandro Penso and Antonio Faccilongo. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/09/getty-announces-2017-editorial-grant-winners.html Getty Images has awarded grants of $10,000 each to five photographers to support personal documentary projects of “universal importance,” the photo agency announced on…

  • Harrowing scenes of Venezuela on the brink of collapse – The Washington Post

    Harrowing scenes of Venezuela on the brink of collapse – The Washington Post

    Harrowing scenes of Venezuela on the brink of collapse The weariness looks like exhaustion in these images from Venezuelan photographer Alejandro Cegarra. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/05/25/venezuela-is-running-on-empty/ The weariness looks like exhaustion in these images from Venezuelan photographer Alejandro Cegarra. His pictures show the Caracas park where he played as a kid, now in ruins, and…

  • Getty Images at Visa pour l’Image 2015 – The Eye of Photography

    Getty Images at Visa pour l’Image 2015 Five international photographers from Getty Images are currently exhibited in part of Festival Visa pour l’image until to September 13th 2015 : Lynsey Addario (Syrian Refugees in the Middle East), Daniel Berehulak (The Ebola Epidemic for The New York Times), Alejandro Cegarra (Living with the Legacy of Hugo…

  • Inside the Tower of David, the World’s Tallest Squat – LightBox

    Inside the Tower of David, the World’s Tallest Squat – LightBox

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/08/12/venezuela-alejandro-cegarra-inside-the-tower-of-david-the-worlds-tallest-squat/#1 In The Other Side of the Tower, which has won this year’s Ian Parry Scholarship, 24-year-old Venezuelan photographer Alejandro Cegarra documents the tower’s occupants and the lives they were able to build in the decrepit high-rise.

  • Alejandro Cegarra Wins 2014 Ian Parry Scholarship

    Alejandro Cegarra Wins 2014 Ian Parry Scholarship | PDNPulse Photographer Alejandro Cegarra, 24, has been awarded the 2014 Ian Parry Scholarship for “The Other Side of the Tower,” his project on people living illegally in the Tower of David, an unfinished skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela.  Cegarra will receive 3,50 via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/08/alejandro-cegarra-wins-2014-ian-parry-scholarship.html This year’s “highly…

  • alejandro cegarra – the other side of the tower of david | burn magazine

    alejandro cegarra – the other side of the tower of david | burn magazine

    Alejandro Cegarra – The Other Side of The Tower of David Alejandro Cegarra The Other Side of The Tower of David ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT   The tower of David is a skyscraper located in downtown Caracas, Venezuela. The structure is 195 meters … via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/08/alejandro-cegarra-the-other-side-of-the-tower-of-david/ The tower of David is a skyscraper…

  • Alejandro Cegarra: Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2014 « The Leica Camera

    Alejandro Cegarra: Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2014 This year’s Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award was Alejandro Cegarra for his portfolio “The Other Side of the Tower of David,” which is dedicated to the squatters in an abandoned tower block in Caracas. In this video, Alejandro describes how he uses black-and-white photography to show the…

  • Leica Oskar Barnack Award

    Leica Oskar Barnack Award / internationaler Foto-Wettbewerb Der Leica Oskar Barnack Award ist ein internationaler Foto-Wettbewerb für Fotografen. Ausgezeichnet wird zeitgenössische, herausragende Reportage-Fotografie. via Leica Oskar Barnack Award / internationaler Foto-Wettbewerb: http://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/#/en/winner/winner-newcomer-2014 The Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2014 goes to Alejandro Cegarra from Venezuela. His portfolio The Other Side of the Tower of David…