For seven years, photographer Alice Martins has documented the Syrian conflict. She recounts her last days in Syria, as Turkey’s military operations altered the country’s fate
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Janne Korkko The Song of the Riverside [ EPF 2019 FINALIST ] We need to understand where we are and how we got here. Once we are clear on these issues we can move forward…. (Thomas Berry) Rivers ha…
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We need to understand where we are and how we got here. Once we are clear on these issues we can move forward…. (Thomas Berry) Rivers have river rights as well as humans have human rights. People, communities, environments, and nature have deep interrelated connection. A connection that is more complex than an ownership of land, a fishing permit, a cottage on the riverside, or a beautiful sundown on the opposite shore of the river. The name of the river in these photos is Iijoki. The name comes from an ancient word of Sami (’iddja’, ’ijje’), which means ’night’. So, the name of this river is Night. Night- River flows through Yli-Ii, the riverside village, which belongs now to bigger city of Oulu. It means that there are no public services any more. The village is disappearing. Night-River is full of songs of memories, and its riverbanks are full of people with these memories. Some of them are sacred, silenced, or even untold. Usually it seems that nobody wants to remember the song of the unforgotten village – and the blocked river. But some of the songs are still alive, or they are waking up through the people, who are starting to re-member the song of the wild, free-flowing river.
Robin Friend Bastard Countryside [ EPF 2019 FINALIST ] “At the bottom of the hill where we used to live, a creek had been realigned to prevent it from flooding. Huge concrete banks on either …
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“At the bottom of the hill where we used to live, a creek had been realigned to prevent it from flooding. Huge concrete banks on either side created a narrow canal that stretched as far as could see. With the creek on our right and the city behind us, we set off on our bikes – until eventually the sewers, motorways, backyards and industrial sites gave way to the flora and fauna of the Victorian bush.” (Me, aged 9). To this day, I’m still drawn to places where the natural and human worlds clash, interact and splat into each other. However, the innocent excitement I once felt for these sites has given way to unease. Made all over the UK, these pictures possess a magical sadness and inhabit what Victor Hugo described as “that kind of bastard countryside, somewhat ugly but bizarre, made up of two different natures…the end of the beaten track, the beginning of the passions, the end of the murmur of things divine, the beginning of the noise of humankind”. Hugo also described how observing a city’s edge “is to observe an amphibian”; thinking of the Paris periphery as a living, breathing creature pushing out and changing everything in its wake, blurring the city/countryside divide. Fast forward two hundred years and Hugo’s amphibian has grown tentacles on steroids and is not just devouring everything in its path, but shitting and puking incessantly as well.
This work is from an eight year project documenting US Highway 61 from the mid seventies to the early eighties (1976-84). The road runs from New Orleans to Thunder Bay, Ontario, first along the Mississippi River up to St. Paul, then northeast to Duluth and up the shore of Lake Superior to Thunder Bay. Not a scientific survey but rather a sort of personal documentary. Mid-America. What I saw…
Women have been the subject of artwork since its first recorded existence. From the “Venus of Willendorf”, dating back to 24,000 BC, to Boticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” and Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles D’Avignon”, the female form has been an inspiration to
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Dana Kyndrová’s portraits chronicle the highs and lows of life in former Czechoslovakia, from Communist rule to the Velvet revolution.
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I don’t know why, but certain things seem more absurd in The West. Perhaps it’s because the Route 66 aesthetic was one with a sense of whimsy and humor–colossal cowboy boots and tee pee hotel rooms. Photographer Sandy Carson, a transplant from Scotland, has spent over a decade-long road trip chronicling his fascination “with everyday occurrences in the social landscape and explores the spaces between clarity and imperfection, composing a personal slice of America” in his new book, I’ve Always Been a Cowboy in my Heart, published by Yoffy Press. The book includes an essay by Dr. Katherine Parhar.
Robin Wright on Hashem Shakeri’s photographs of Iran’s housing crisis.
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Hashem Shakeri first glimpsed some of these ghostly concrete towers on a weekend drive in 2007. He was baffled by the idea that Iranians would be expected to live in the austere structures. “They were like a remote island,” he told me. “When I thought about the people who were supposed to come and live there, I couldn’t even breathe.” In 2016, he began to photograph the satellite towns and their residents. He started in Pardis; the name is Persian for “paradise.”
Jansen van Staden Microlight [ EPF 2019 FINALIST ] After the death of my father in 2011, I discovered a letter, written to his psychotherapist, about his time in the Border War. He dedicated his li…
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On the 29th of September 2011, my Father passed away in a microlight (small aircraft) accident. A few years later, my Brother and I took an opportunity to visit the crash site in Kenya. After which, I requested my Father’s hard-drive from my Uncle. It contained all the photographs he had ever taken, and also, a letter, which was intended for his psychotherapist. It was the first time he had opened up about his time in the Border War. Reading the gruesome details of the letter, sparked an intense emotional response within me. I started to trace the debris, and put the pieces together so that I can begin to understand the extent of his experience, the effects it had on his life, and how it ultimately changed the course of my entire family.
In the only US presentation of the international touring exhibition, Africa State of Mind at the Museum of the African Diaspora explores the work of a…
In the only US presentation of the international touring exhibition, Africa State of Mind at the Museum of the African Diaspora explores the work of an emergent generation of photographers from across the African continent. 15 artists from 11 different countries interrogate ideas of ‘Africanness’ through highly subjective renderings of life and identity, collectively revealing Africa as a psychological space or a ‘state of mind’, as much as a physical territory.
Eleana Niki Konstantellos André The Art of Memory [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2019 FINALIST ] Memory is the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. Dementia is a set of sympt…
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Memory is the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. Dementia is a set of symptoms that may include memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or language. Experience changes in their mood or behavior. Dementia can be caused by Alzheimer’s disease or a series of strokes. This project started in 2015 when my grandfather, Alfonso, passed away. He and my grandmother, Esther, had shared their life together. I started photographing her to understand her grief. It would be extremely difficult for her to overcome this event as she was suffering from an important memory and eyesight loss. It was my way to accompany her and get to know her better. I found that in 1998 she had an important pool accident which led her to a severe memory loss. The family archive endowed me lots of photos, poems, diaries, and letters. I discovered her love, her dreams, and, her fears. The mechanisms of the memory and the materials I had found became detonators in a creative process: the reconstruction of my roots and my grandmother’s history.
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University recently awarded its twenty-seventh Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to Japanese American artist and documentarian Chinen Aimi. Her winning proposal, Finding Ryukyu, combines text and drawings with 35m
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The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University recently awarded its twenty-seventh Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to Japanese American artist and documentarian Chinen Aimi. Her winning proposal, Finding Ryukyu, combines text and drawings with 35mm black-and-white photographs to investigate her various histories as a child born on the island of Okinawa, Japan (part of the island chain that was the Ryukyu Kingdom), to “an indigenous Ryukyu (琉球) mother and a U.S. Marine father,” as she writes, “the colonized and the colonizer.”
“I feel the serenity in the chaos is what makes India so amazing–the smells, the noise, the heat, the people, the animals,” the Bangalore-based photographer Vivek Prabhakar tells us. “I…
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“I feel the serenity in the chaos is what makes India so amazing–the smells, the noise, the heat, the people, the animals,” the Bangalore-based photographer Vivek Prabhakar tells us. “I love going out when the streets are busy. There are so many moments unfolding.”
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We are in Ukraine, in Donbass, and here the war has raged for five years now, killing more than 10,000 people. Before the conflict, Ira and her family lived in Donetsk today, a self-proclaimed popular republic and a zone in the hands of pro-Russian separatists. For this Ukrainian family, it was inconceivable to stay in this territory: “I am Ukrainian, I want to live in Ukraine”.
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“The US border begins in southern Mexico.” This is how Central American migrants talk of their journey to reach the American dream. Everything begins at the border of Mexico and Guatemala on makeshift rafts launched on the Suchiate River. They must then walk for days before venturing on “La Bestia” (The Beast), the famous freight train that crosses the country. Alone or in a caravan, despite the length of the journey and the many dangers, thousands of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala take this route every day to escape the gangs and violence that are afflicting their respective countries. They lose their money, their dignity and sometimes even life.
These photographs were made on long walks through the streets of the African cities of Johannesburg, Durban, Maputo, Beira, Harare, Nairobi, Kampala, Addis Ababa, Luanda, Libreville, Accra, Abidjan, Dakar and Dar Es Salaam between 2014 and 2018.
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This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – a review of Kevin Bubriski’s new book Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War. Plus don’t forget the Contemporary Centre for Photogra…
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This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – a review of Kevin Bubriski‘s new book Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War. Plus don’t forget the Contemporary Centre for Photography‘s inaugural Photo Fair is on this weekend in Melbourne.
Bob Adelman (1930–2016), People Wall, World’s Fair, New York, 1965, gelatin silver print. The Morgan Library & Museum, Purchased as the gift of Nancy and Burton Staniar, 2015.131. © Bob…
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In Amonth Others: Photography and the Group, now on view at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York through August 18, 2019, Joel Smith, the Morgan’s Richard L. Menschel Curator brings together more than 60 works from the 1860s through the present that explore that which we have long taken for granted as a photographic archetype.
Caleb Stein’s humanistic pictures celebrate summer, the community and a place that had captured his heart.
Captured in 2012, the scene shows two young men laughing together, strolling down a hill with cameras swinging from their shoulders. It is a photograph from Sebastian Meyer’s book Under Every Yard of Sky of him and his friend Kamaran, who tragically disap
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Photojournalist Sebastian Meyer weaves his documentary photography of a conflicted region with his own heartbreaking journey of friendship and loss.