“The haenyeo of South Korea may be the last modern heroines whose story must be told,” says Alain Schroeder, whose winning Portrait of Humanity 2020 series documents Jeju Island’s ageing free-divers
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Snezhana von Buedingen’s winning Portrait of Humanity 2020 weaves a delicate tale of the transition from adolescence to adulthood
“As African creatives, we now have the tools to tell our own story, and do it in our own way.” After being shortlisted for Portrait of Humanity 2020, the Sierra Leonean artist unpacks her work on resilience and community in West Africa
Three bodies of work and 30 single images have won the third edition of British Journal of Photography’s biggest award — as Portrait of Humanity 2021 opens for entries
Last year, BBC One broadcast Earth from Space. Across four episodes, cameras in space told…
Melissa Spitz photographs her mother’s struggles with mental illness In 2017, Melissa Spitz was named…
25 November 2019
We may have only just finished welcoming entries to Portrait of Humanity, but we are…
Can photography change the world? It seems like a lot to ask, especially in our…
Portrait of Humanity provides photographers with the chance to share portraits of everyday life around…
When filmmaker Lee Shulman bought a box of vintage slides from Ebay, he was hoping…