“Providence” A roadtrip across America by Mustafah Abdulaziz and Justin Maxon. Produced by Peter Earl McCollough
Tag: Mustafah Abdulaziz
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Water – Mustafah Abdulaziz’s Fifteen Year Long Look at the World’s Finest Resource | Fotografia Magazine
IN THIS INTERVIEW > 30 year-old American photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz discusses Water, a stunning, long-term documentary project with a global scope about how we use water, and the threats posed by its scarcity. Mustafah started working on this project in 2011, and intends to continue at least until 2026.
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Leica Camera announces 2019 Oskar Barnack Award winners – Leica Rumors
Leica Camera announces 2019 Oskar Barnack Award winners – Leica Rumors
Leica Camera announced today American photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz as the winner for the 2019 Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) for his series, ‘Water’ (see pictures above). German photographer Nanna Heitmann was also announced as the winner of the Newcomer Award for her portfolio, ‘Hiding from Baba Yaga,’ which is awarded to up-and-coming photographers under the […]
via Leica Rumors: https://leicarumors.com/2019/09/03/leica-camera-announces-2019-oskar-barnack-award-winners.aspx/
Leica Camera announced today American photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz as the winner for the 2019 Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA) for his series, ‘Water’ (see pictures above).
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Water – The Leica camera Blog
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Nancy Andrews, Mustafah Abdulaziz Win Alicia Patterson Foundation Grants | PDNPulse
Nancy Andrews, Mustafah Abdulaziz Win Alicia Patterson Foundation Grants | PDNPulse
The Alicia Patterson Foundation has named its 2018 fellowships to support in-depth reporting on long-term projects. Two of the eight winners are photographers: Mustafah Abdulaziz of New York City and Nancy Andrews of Pittsburgh. All the fellows are awarde
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/01/nancy-andrews-mustafah-abdulaziz-win-alicia-patterson-foundation-grants.html
The Alicia Patterson fellowships were founded in 1965 in memory of an editor and publisher of Newsday. Among the photographers who have previously won fellowships are Andrea Bruce (2011), Alessandra Sanguinetti (2010), Tomas van Houtryve (2008) and April Saul (2014).
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It’s Nice That | Mustafah Abdulaziz’s 15-year photography project depicts the global water crisis
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Photoville: Mustafah Abdulaziz, Water Stories – The Eye of Photography
Photoville: Mustafah Abdulaziz, Water Stories
By spotlighting the ways in which we behave towards our resources, the project sets the stage for viewers to see themselves in a greater global dialogue. This is the future of the work: unifying water as both a physical resource and a conceptual idea.
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Photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz Traveled the World Looking for Water | VICE | United States
Photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz Traveled the World Looking for Water
To mark the UN’s World Water Day I caught up with the photographer to talk about how different cultures perceive water, its exploitation, and the challenges to preserve our planet’s most vital resource.
via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/mustafah-abdulaziz-world-water-day-876
In 2011, American photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz got to researching how different cultures perceive water, the exploitation this leads to, and the challenges we face to preserve our planet’s most vital resource. A year later, he started traveling around the world to shoot relevant stories. Today, his body of work covers eight countries on four continents, and is supported by Water Aid, Earth Watch, WWF, and the UN.
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The Many Lives Along the Yangtze River – The New Yorker
The Many Lives Along the Yangtze River
There are four hundred and fifty million people living in the watershed of the Yangtze, and nearly as many ways to interface with the river.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-many-lives-along-the-yangtze-river
In 2012, Mustafah Abdulaziz, a twenty-six-year-old originally from Bedford-Stuyvesant, who was largely self-educated in photography, and who carried a medium-format Japanese film camera called the Mamiya 7, set out to take pictures of water. He figured that this would take at least a decade
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Winners of Syngenta Photo Award 2015 Announced | American Photo
Winners of Syngenta Photo Award 2015 Announced
The environmental photo award Syngenta just announced the winners of their second photo competition titled “Scarcity-Waste.” Mustafah Abdulaziz won first place in the Professional Competition for his ongoing “Water” series that tracks water issues around the globe. Abdulaziz will take home $15,000 USD plus a $25,000 USD commission for the winning work. Benedikt Partenheimer was named the first place winner of the Open Competition for an image made in Shanghai, China, documenting particle pollution. Partenheimer will take home a $5,000 USD prize.
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Water, Pestilence, Power: Q&A with Mustafah Abdulaziz
Water, Pestilence, Power: Q&A with Mustafah Abdulaziz
An American photographer travels the world to document the myriad relationships between humans and water.
via Roads & Kingdoms: http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/water-pestilence-power-qa-with-mustafah-abdulaziz/
The overcrowded slums of Freetown, the capital, became a breeding ground for the outbreak, where having safe water made the difference between life and death. It was there that American photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz took the shots that would plunge him into an intensive exploration of water and its perils
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Memory Loss by Mustafah Abdulaziz is forgetting where we are when we are right there
Memory Loss by Mustafah Abdulaziz is forgetting where we are when we are right there
Mustafah Abdulaziz is surrounded by the same landscape, lit by the same saturating afternoon light as the rest of us, but sees things differently, capturing “the scene that strives to appear one way but looks to me another.”
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On the Road, Embracing the Distance
On the Road, Embracing the Distance
When Mustafah Abdulaziz drove across America to ask himself questions, he didn’t find the answers. Here is what he did find.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/on-the-road-embracing-the-distance/
While his essay, “Memory Loss,” is set to the tune of an American road trip, for him, it is much more than that. The photos explore distance and disconnect. They are both experimental and experiential. “It’s like I had to go on a road trip,” Mr. Abdulaziz said. “I had to go where nothing belonged to me.”
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Passport Radio (Index)
“I present these photographs as part of an index of a greater idea, of something I find myself drawn towards not as a photographer but as a person. They are a marker, an index for photographs yet to be realized. In this I find excitement. The threads are here but where do they lead? They are an introduction of sorts and a departure.” Photographs by Mustafah Abdulaziz
Link: MJR
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The Inauguration of Barack Obama by Mustafah Abdulaziz
The Inauguration of Barack Obama photographed by Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street Journal on 01/20/09
