Q Sakamaki photographed throughout China’s Northeast which was once called Manchuria. The region was a crossroads, transformed by history through migration, resource exploitation, occupation and war. And now the area is facing new upheaval due to globalization and China’s rapid economic growth, creating a gap between the rich and poor, as well as contributing to a rise in unemployment.
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The Carmignac Gestion Foundation is calling for entries for its annual Photojournalism Award, which comes with a €50,000 grant for the production of a photography project
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Live Webinar with National Geographic: Electrifying Photography From Around the World – PhotoShelter Blog
What Photo Buyers Want: National Geographic’s Senior Photo Editor, Elizabeth Krist Tuesday June 5th, 2012 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT Simply put, National Geographic has the kind of photography that makes your jaw drop. This award-winning magazine is revered for its striking images from all corners of the world, and for that reason photographers dream…
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2012/05/live-webinar-with-national-geographic-electrifying-photography-from-around-the-world/
In this live webinar with National Geographic, Senior Photo Editor Elizabeth Krist will share why she considers photographers to be “gods”, what kind of photography grabs her attention, and a behind-the-scenes look at how she and her colleagues closely work with photographers to take the issue’s photos from inception to completion.
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With so many venues and platforms displaying new photography every day, how do clients choose where to look at new work? We asked several editors, art buyers and judges of the PDN Photo Annual to name some of their favorite places to find new photo projects and discover new talent
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‘Since 2007 I have visited six countries (The UK, India, Haiti, Pakistan, Australia and Thailand) that have been devastated by massive flooding. I have done this as an attempt to visually address the issue of climate change.
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The organisers of the Tbilisi Photo Festival are delighted to welcome as great a photographer as Stanley Greene
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The financial loss for Jean-François Leroy is 11 500 €. This drop by drop of bad news clouds seriously the future of Visa
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In one of the most iconic battlefield images ever captured on film, two wounded Operation Desert Storm soldiers in an evacuation helicopter have just learned who’s in the bloody body bag at their feet. It’s their friend and Catherine’s high school sweetheart, Andy Alaniz.
The photo eventually helped Catherine learn the truth about how her husband died and that the government had lied to her about it.
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Argentine photographer Horacio Coppola, of the 20th century Bauhaus movement, died Monday in his home town of Buenos Aires. He was 105.
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LightBox | Time
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/
Last week, seven Palestinian men sat for Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli photographer Oded Balilty in a home in the West Bank village of Bilin. Against a black backdrop, one man posed with a taut slingshot, two small pebbles resting in the sling. Another stared defiantly through a gas mask. A third carried a tire.
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“Black’s campaign went, er, ballistic, yelling at Post managing editor Michelle Willard for 20 minutes on Monday,” Steve Cavendish writes in Nashville Scene. Willard told Cavendish the paper wouldn’t do the cover again if it had the chance.
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Bringing Photographs of War to the Brooklyn Waterfront
The New York Times spotlights a decade of war photojournalism at Photoville, an immersive photo exhibition opening today in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/exhibiting-a-decade-of-war/
Photographers for The New York Times have covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning and continue to do so, long after most news organizations have withdrawn. They have brought the crux of the wars to the doorsteps of the American public — often at great personal risk.
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The exhibition is on urban gangs and criminals in Port Moresby capital of Papua New Guinea. It looks inside the world of cults and kustom and tribal culture
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