Louisa Gouliamaki, Angelos Tzortzinis and Aris Messinis, Greek photographers in the Athens bureau, worked in relay, providing daily coverage of politics and social unrest in the country
Massoud, a thirty year-old Afghan photographer, has been reporting on war and developments in his country since 2007. He regularly goes on assignment with foreign troops (American, French and others), and travels to remote villages to show what the war on terror looks like in rural areas of Afghanistan
For the past two years, Bharat Choudhary has documented the impact of religious prejudice and stereotyping on young Muslims in America and England. Now, after winning one of Getty Images’ Grants for Editorial Photography, worth $20,000, Choudhary plans on expanding his project to document how social, political and economic factors are fueling the alienation of Muslim youth in France
Sebastian Liste was unknown in June 2010, days before he won the Ian Parry Scholarship for a gritty, yet traditional black-and-white reportage. Two years on, he has won numerous awards, is on show at Visa pour l’Image, has joined the Reportage by Getty Images agency, and has received a $20,000 grant. Olivier Laurent speaks with him and Aidan Sullivan
The NPPF-NPPA Career Expansion Scholarships have been established for those who have previously worked as a professional still photographer for at least three years, and who have returned to school to expand their skills in order to change their career path.
Photographers are increasingly turning to multimedia to tell their stories, yet, the skills required can be intimidating, especially when producing non-linear bodies of work. Bjarke Myrthu is hoping to streamline the process with Storyplanet
Owners of Marilyn Monroe photographs have won a decisive legal victory in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, which has affirmed that Marilyn Monroe heirs have inherited no rights of publicity to the actress’s likeness. The dec
Livestream and automated copyright blocking algorithms don’t play very well together; and from the looks of things, the problem is only going to get worse.
“Vern was one of a kind,” said Bill Schanen III, publisher of Ozaukee Press. “I can’t imagine that anyone could match his combination of technical skill, work ethic and artistic sensitivity. His genius was to use those qualities to record events in the lives of generations of Ozaukee County residents and turn them into compelling images on the pages of Ozaukee Press.”
Adrian Fussell, a New York City-based photojournalist, 23, has won the Ian Parry Scholarship for 2012 for his project “My Name is Victory.” The series follows members of the Patriot Guards, from Francis Lewis High School in Queens, NY, a community of immi
The Magnum Foundation has distributed more than $375,000 over the past three years to help photographers produce new projects, stepping in where traditional media organisations once operated. Olivier Laurent speaks with the Foundation’s president, Susan Meiselas
I’m of the philosophy that you don’t pick your projects, they pick you. If you’re concerned enough about something it will ultimately surface and you will have to act upon it.
In just eight months, 34 journalists have been killed around the globe, 16 of them just in Syria. As the death toll mounts, representatives of the photojournalism community gathered at Visa pour l’Image to discuss the cost of covering conflict. Olivier Laurent reports from the event
Joseph Michael Lopez’s New York street photography shows the city as a beast of chaos that New Yorkers attempt to contain, or at least live with, on a daily basis.