Reading Time: 2 minutes Ladocsi is one of the shortlisted photographers for this year’s competition at Festival de Hyères
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Abril wins the prestigious prize for her long term project highlighting stigmatised issues The History of Misogyny
Reading Time: 5 minutes One winter night at a charity shop in Paris, a young Afghan refugee named Zaman…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama has won the 2019 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, which…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alys Tomlinson’s Ex-Voto book is the culmination of a five-year journey across Catholic pilgrimage sites…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Britain, for all its charms, can be dominated by grey skies and gloomy headlines. So…
Reading Time: 4 minutes 42 shortlisted photographers have been announced for The Gomma Photography Grant – a prize for emerging image-makers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Projects exploring mysterious religious rituals in Russia, Soviet health resorts in Poland, and Ukrainian school graduations all feature on the shortlist for this year’s New East Photo Prize. Including 16 photographers from Latvia, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Croatia, Slovakia and Azerbaijan, the shortlisted series will be exhibited as part of a group show this autumn.
“Each of the shortlisted photographers demonstrate a unique approach to the people, places and stories that shape the region,” says Ekow Eshun, creative director of Calvert. “The prize has proven itself once again to be an important space for emerging photographers to gain international recognition, and we look forward to working with each of them in the exhibition and beyond.”
Reading Time: 3 minutes “It was also about reshaping that American icon: everyone thinks of the cowboy as this white American hero who has come to slay Native Americans. Actually the word cowboy is a racist term. It comes from when slave masters called all their slaves ‘boys’ and so the cow boy was the boy who looked after the cows and the horse boy was the boy who looked after the horses.” Cian Oba-Smith journeys to Philadelphia at a politically charged time during the 2016 U.S. election to meet with an infamous group of horsemen dealing with this ingrained racism on a daily basis.
Reading Time: 7 minutes “The recipients of the 2017 Getty Images Editorial Photography Grants are working at the cutting edge of photojournalism, ensuring that often ignored global issues are brought to the forefront of public consciousness,” said Hugh Pinney, Vice President of News, Getty Images. This year’s winners see projects taking place in war torn Mosul, documenting the unrest in Venezuela and refugees seeking new homes in Europe.