Swaziland, a kingdom with a population a little over a million and surrounded almost entirely by South Africa, is largely ignored by the media. It has drawn the attention of a few international organization due to the ravages of AIDS. The phenomenon illustrates the complexity of a country whose paradoxes Krisanne Johnson has captured for the past six years, without cliché or overdone pathos
In October 2011, Bangkok based Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj travelled with Alertnet – the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s humanitarian news service – and Medecins Sans Frontieres on a government requested and tightly controlled trip to North Korea
These images are part of a project I started called ‘fair, love and war’. It focuses on the young people of my generation living in the suburbs, who use rap music as a status symbol and a way to let off steam but also to find a position in this society.
We offered the Women’s Initiative Grant in 2012 and 2014. The Alexia Foundation is no longer offering the Women’s Initiative Grant. The Alexia Foundation is proud to announce that Tim Matsui is the recipient of the first Women’s Initiative grant … Continu
Once Magazine, which launched a year ago at Visa pour l’Image, promised to offer a new revenue stream for photographers by publishing their work on the iPad. Last month, however, Once closed its doors. The magazine’s editor, John Knight, tells BJP what went wrong
Susan Carr, an architectural photographer and leader of photo education programs for the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), died yesterday in Chicago. She was 49. The cause of death was cancer. ASMP announced the news on its Strictly Business
Seeking God, spreading hatred and racism, and destroying the American landscape. These American States, as they are sometimes called, are individual and, at times, as violently divided as the people who live in them. Whose America is it? Jim Lo Scalzo looks at his home country from an outsider’s perspective, traveling the United States to document the extremes of American culture and the poisoning of natural beauty and of American towns and citizens.
Ethiopian faith radiates from two cities: Jerusalem and Lalibela, in Ethiopia’s highlands. ‘Jerusalem of Africa’ is one of the names given to Lalibela, also known as ‘Black Jerusalem’. It is famous for its 12th century monolithic churches carved out of the ‘living rock’, and is one of the world’s great wonders. These exceptional shrines are said to have been built during the 25-year reign of King Lalibela – with, as legend has it, more than a little help from the angels.
Members of Noor, the photo collective that will observe its fifth anniversary at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, discuss their approach and practice.
Alejandro Olivares Living Periferia ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT How many times can a person face death in their lives? Sense it. Feel it. Smell it. Maybe once? Twice? Four times? The people cap…
In this edition of “Behind the Lens”, Alex Federowicz interviews editorial and commercial photographer Michael Rubenstein, who’s back to work after a recent motorcycle accident.
Acclaimed as one of America’s finest photographers, Arthur Meyerson is a native of Texas who has traveled the world creating award-winning advertising, corporate and editorial photographs as well as an impressive body of personal fine art street images
Instagram, the brainchild of software engineers Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger, was launched in October 2010 to almost little notice. At the time, the iPhone app was competing against Hipstamatic, which enjoyed particular popularity even in the photojou
Some stories, like relationships, last longer than others. Twenty-seven years ago I began a story that I worked on for fifteen years and then put away, thinking it was over. Now I’m thrilled to find my project about Steve Jobs and the digital revolution being featured at Visa Pour L’Image and taking on a new life.
Every day northern Nigeria descends into ever greater chaos and civil war, despite the state of emergency. Since 2009, Boko Haram, a Salafist sect, has been carrying out a series of murderous attacks targeting security services, police and armed forces
Tristan Spinski has been covering the Republican National Convention for his newly formed GRAIN collective along with co-founders Lexey Swall and Greg Kahn. This is his report of what it’s like to cover a huge national event with fierce competition from o