Tag: Marcus Bleasdale
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Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020 – Photojournalism Now
Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 7 February, 2020 This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – the 10th annual Women’s show at Magnet Galleries, Melbourne, plus a review of Dr. Lauren Walsh’s exceptional book, Conversation… via Photojournalism Now: https://photojournalismnow43738385.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/photojournalism-now-friday-round-up-7-february-2020/ For those of us who work in journalism the myth of the cavalier photojournalist…
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Photo Essay: Lord's Resistance Army, DR Congo by Marcus Bleasdale
VII Photo – VII Foundation VII VII is synonymous with courageous and impactful journalism. In 2001, the dawn of the digital era enabled the creation of VII Photo Agency. It drove VII to prominence during the aftermath of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq, and the c via VII Foundation: http://www.viiphoto.com/showstory.php?nID=1192 The…
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Marcus Bleasdale’s Zero Hour: From photography to the world of video games
Link: Marcus Bleasdale is always thinking about new ways to highlight the grim living conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and our own complicity in its people’s troubles. In 2009, he co-produced a comic book based on his images, and now he’s working with a team of games developers to create an immersive…
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Photography as Advocacy: Origins of a Journey
Link: Sometimes you can pinpoint the exact moment when you decide to change the rest of your life. For photographer Marcus Bleasdale, it happened one London morning in 1998 when he walked into the office where he was working as an investment banker. “Even at that point, I had long known I wouldn’t stay in…
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The 76th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards – The Eye of Photography
Link: The 22 award-winning entries for the annual Overseas Press Club Awards depict a world in which entire nations and millions of people have been torn apart by newly intensified forces of nationalism, extremism, disease and environmental degradation. Al Jazeera America, Los Angeles Times and The New York Times won multiple awards. The Robert Capa…
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The 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant Recipients Matt Black, Marcus Bleasdale, Mary F. Calvert – The Eye of Photography
The 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant Recipients Matt Black, Marcus Bleasdale, Mary F. Calvert
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Marcus Bleasdale: When Photography Campaigns for Change – NYTimes.com
Marcus Bleasdale: When Photography Campaigns for Change Marcus Bleasdale, winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club, has worked with nongovernmental organizations that have used his images to get the attention of policy-makers and power brokers. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/marcus-bleasdale-when-photography-campaigns-for-change/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog I think we have to be targeted. Sometimes the most effective…
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Marcus Bleasdale – Rape of a Nation | LensCulture
Rape of a Nation – Photographs and text by Marcus Bleasdale | LensCulture An unflinching, outraged report about the ongoing human tragedy occurring in the Congo—along with a video interview with the photographer behind these powerful images via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/marcus-bleasdale-rape-of-a-nation The continuing human tragedy of Congo is not a statistic. It is a continuing human…
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Marcus Bleasdale Wins FotoEvidence Book Award for Central African Republic Coverage | American Photo
Marcus Bleasdale Wins FotoEvidence Book Award for Central African Republic Coverage The fifth annual contest highlights the photographer’s 18-month commitment to a horrific story forgotten by most media
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Photogs Marcus Bleasdale, Steve Ringman Win Environmental Journalism Awards
Photogs Marcus Bleasdale, Steve Ringman Win Environmental Journalism Awards | PDNPulse The Society of Environmental Journalists announced their 2014 awards for reporting on the environment yesterday. Seattle Times staffer Steve Ringman and VII’s Marcus Bleasdale were among the honorees. Ringman was recognized for his work with writer Craig via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/08/photogs-marcus-bleasdale-steve-ringman-win-environmental-journalism-awards.html The gist of the…
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A Philosophical Painter | PDN Photo of the Day
A Philosophical Painter Photographer Morten Frool attended a multimedia/photography workshop with National Geographic photographer Marcus Bleasdale in Oslo, Norway, in December 2013. For his workshop project, he chose to work with a philosophical, anarchist painter named Art Ranger.
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Marcus Bleasdale on Shock and Change
Marcus Bleasdale on Shock and Change “It’s not the individual photograph, it’s what you do with it, and who you engage with it, that makes it powerful.”—Marcus Bleasdale Marcus Bleasdale has been a witness to war, a witness to heartbreak, and a herald for change. For more than ten years, he via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/25/marcus-bleasdale-on-shock-and-change/ “It’s not…
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My best shot: Marcus Bleasdale | guardian.co.uk
My best shot: Marcus Bleasdale The documentary photographer talks about capturing child soldiers and conflict zones – and explains why the reason he takes pictures is because he gets angry via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/video/2010/sep/08/my-best-shot-marcus-bleasdale The documentary photographer talks about capturing child soldiers and conflict zones – and explains why the reason he takes pictures is…
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Unsung Allies Battle Starvation in Africa – Lens
Unsung Allies Battle Starvation in Africa Marcus Bleasdale found a caring cohort around malnourished children in Djibouti. Karly Domb Sadof explains why he was there. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/showcase-184/ Marcus Bleasdale’s latest work, “Frustration,” is an intimate look at efforts by family members and medical professionals to cope with childhood starvation in Djibouti, at the…
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Bluefin Tuna – VII Photo Agency
VII Agency VII is a collective of 28 visual storytellers dedicated reporting on issues around the world. via VII Agency: http://www.viiphoto.com/ Stephen Crowley has spent most of his career masquerading as a newspaper photographer while producing idiosyncratic projects that push the boundaries of photojournalism and reveal unvarnished truths behind his most frequent subject: Washington politics.…
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Van Houtryve Wins POYi's Freelance Photographer of the Year Award
Photographer Tomas van Houtryve has won POYi’s Photographer of the Year award in the freelance/agency category. His portfolio included several critical essays about the social and political effects of entrenched communist regimes in Moldova, Cuba and China. The second place award went to Getty staff photographer Paula Bronstein, while Marcus Bleasdale, a member of VII,…
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marcus bleasdale – the rape of a nation | burn magazine
marcus bleasdale – the rape of a nation [slidepress gallery=’marcusbleasdale_therapeofanation’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Marcus Bleasdale The Rape of a Nation play this essay The Dem… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/02/marcus-bleasdale-the-rape-of-a-nation/ After successive waves of fighting and ten years of war, there are no hospitals, few roads and limited…
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Career change: Banker-turned-photojournalist – Telegraph
Marcus Bleasdale swapped derivatives for a camera to document the horrors of war Check it out here. Once again, via APAD.
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Photo Essay: Kenya, By Marcus Bleasdale
By Marcus Bleasdale: The post election violence in Kenya has killed nearly 1,000 and displaced 270,000. It is the most devastating violence to hit Kenya since its independence. Whilst politicians try to find solutions in Nairobi, the ethnic tensions in the Rift Valley reach new highs. Ethnic cleansing has led to killings and houses being…