Tag: Fazal Sheikh

  • 12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot

    12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot

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    12 Photographers Turn Their Lens on Israel in ‘This Place’ – Feature Shoot For a land so deeply entrenched with history and conflict, Israel is not an easy subject to approach in a photography project, especially from a single standpoint. Born out of an idea by Frédéric Brenner, a French photographer who has long explored…

  • Fazal Sheikh: fear, vulnerability and openness – PhotoPhilanthropy

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    Fazal Sheikh is an artist and activist based in Zurich, Switzerland. His work has been widely exhibited, in institutions ranging from the Tate Modern to the Princeton University Art Museum to small huts in rural India. He has collaborated with numerous foundations and non-governmental-organizations, and he has won, among many other awards, a MacArthur Prize.…

  • Heroes of Photography

    Heroes of Photography

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    (Thanks to A Photo A Day for pointing this out to me.) From American Photo, “a tribute to ten photographers who inspire us”: Not one of the photographers featured on the following pages wanted to be called a hero. We sympathize: The word is immodest and certainly overused these days. Nonetheless, we can’t help but…