Tag: Robin Hammond

  • Robin Hammond on the insider and outsider – Inside Imaging

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    Robin Hammond on the insider and outsider – Inside Imaging Australian journalist, Alison Stieven-Taylor, publisher of popular blog Photojournalism Now, has launched a new monthly video series in which she interviews leading documentary photographers. The… via Inside Imaging: https://www.insideimaging.com.au/2020/robin-hammond-on-the-insider-and-outsider/ The series, Photojournalism Now: In Conversation, kicks off with a 22-minute discussion with Robin Hammond, an…

  • Condemned – Robin Hammond

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    Link: “We are working in the most dangerous place in the world, Mogadishu!” shouts Dr Habeb who runs the only mental health clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia

  • Life in Lagos: The Deafening Roar of Big Religion | PROOF

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    Link: Robin Hammond photographed life in Lagos for the story “Africa’s First City,” which appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a series of five posts on Proof, he chronicles this city of contrasts that is fast becoming Africa’s hub of creativity, fashion, and business.

  • Photographing Lagos, ‘As Much an Experience as a Place’ – The New York Times

    Photographing Lagos, ‘As Much an Experience as a Place’ – The New York Times

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    Photographing Lagos, ‘As Much an Experience as a Place’ Robin Hammond set out to document Lagos, a teeming metropolis where “intimacy and exclusion, love and hate, laughter and insult regularly rub shoulders” on its streets. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/photographing-lagos-as-much-an-experience-as-a-place/ Robin Hammond: I have been an outsider most of my life. As an immigrant or photographer…

  • Looking at New Generations of African Photographers – The New York Times

    Looking at New Generations of African Photographers – The New York Times

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    Looking at New Generations of African Photographers A new generation of African artists, inspired by their predecessors and helped by technology, has been redefining how Africans look at themselves. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/looking-at-new-generations-of-african-photographers/ While powerful work on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in Africa has been done by documentary photographers like Robin Hammond of…

  • 6 Photojournalists on Conflict, Loss, and Redemption – Feature Shoot

    6 Photojournalists on Conflict, Loss, and Redemption – Feature Shoot

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    6 Photojournalists on Conflict, Loss, and Redemption – Feature Shoot 22-year-old Basemae Maombi, whose eyes were cut out after she recognized one of them men raping her and called out his name in an attempt to make him stop. ©… via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2016/08/6-photojournalists-conflict-loss-redemption/ Conflict, available now on Netflix, comprises six episodes. Photographers Pete Muller,…

  • Noor Photo Agency Adds Two Photographers | TIME

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    Noor Photo Agency Adds Two Photographers Tanya Habjouqa and Robin Hammond have joined the Amsterdam-based photo agency via Time: http://time.com/4358564/noor-photo-agency-adds-two-photographers/ Tanya Habjouqa and Robin Hammond have joined the Amsterdam-based photo agency

  • Robin Hammond Wins 2014 POYi Community Awareness Award

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    Robin Hammond Wins 2014 POYi World Understanding Award | PDNPulse Photographer Robin Hammond has won the 2014 World Understanding Award at the Pictures of the Year International (POYi) competition for “Condemned,” his widely acclaimed project about the neglect and mistreatment of the mentally ill in African countries ra via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/02/robin-hammond-wins-2014-poyi-community-awareness-award.html The World Understanding Award…

  • Harrowing Photos of the Mentally Ill in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Harrowing Photos of the Mentally Ill in Sub-Saharan Africa

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/10/16/chained-and-condemned-harrowing-photos-of-the-mentally-ill-in-sub-saharan-africa/#1 “Where there is war, famine, displacement, it is always the most vulnerable who suffer the greatest” says Robin Hammond. The mentally ill, he notes, are a “voiceless minority condemned to lives of quiet misery.”

  • Robin Hammond Wins $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant

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    Robin Hammond Wins $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant | PDNPulse Photographer Robin Hammond has been awarded the 2013 W. Eugene Smith Grant, a $30,000 prize, to help complete his ongoing project called “Condemned–Mental Health in African Countries in Crisis.” Hammond has spent two years working on the project, which do via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/10/robin-hammond-wins-30000-w-eugene-smith-fund-grant.html Photographer…

  • Photography in Service to Humanity

    Photography in Service to Humanity

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    Photography in Service to Humanity The photographer Robin Hammond’s long-term work documenting mental illness in several African countries has earned him the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/photography-in-service-to-humanity/ Robin Hammond: “I never wanted to photograph death but the real world violence and blood filled the streets,” he said. “The social…

  • Arles 2013: Robin Hammond

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    Link: Arles 2013: Robin Hammond | Le Journal de la Photographie Winner of the third Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award in 2011, Robin Hammond has now chosen to illustrate the humanitarian crisis touching Zimbabwe

  • Panos photographer Robin Hammond wins 2013 FotoEvidence Book Award

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    Link: Panos photographer Robin Hammond wins 2013 FotoEvidence Book Award – British Journal of Photography New Zealand-born photographer Robin Hammond won this year’s FotoEvidence Book Award for his work Condemned, which documents the bleak conditions faced by mentally ill people in African nations

  • Under Mugabe: Robin Hammond Records the Suffering of Zimbabwe

    Under Mugabe: Robin Hammond Records the Suffering of Zimbabwe

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/11/08/under-mugabe-robin-hammond-records-the-suffering-of-zimbabwe/#1 “But you get into some of these places and they’re vertical city slums: no power, no water, no jobs. And the atmosphere. I’ve been to Congo and Somalia and all those kinds of places but I don’t think I’ve seen people…

  • Visa pour l’image 2012: Robin Hammond

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    Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: Robin Hammond | Le Journal de la Photographie “We are working in the most dangerous place in the world, Mogadishu!” shouts Dr Habeb who runs the only mental health clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia

  • Photos of Mental Illness in Africa by Robin Hammond

    Photos of Mental Illness in Africa by Robin Hammond

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    A Sense of Urgency in Africa Robin Hammond hopes to hit people hard with his photographs of the mentally ill in Africa, “Condemned.” via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/a-sense-of-urgency-in-africa/ Robin Hammond’s study of the mentally ill in Africa, “Condemned,” started with a chance encounter.