Last week, a group of Croatia’s leading cultural pioneers welcomed the 10th jubilee edition of…
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Carte Blanche is a photographic programme, aimed at discovering talented emerging photographers and artists. For…
EyeEm is currently the world’s largest photography competition, and this year it welcomed a record…
The World Photography Organisation has announced the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2018,…
Ronaldo Schemidt has won the World Press Photo of the Year award for an arresting…
Lucus Joyce’s weekly People’s Choice winning portrait is a haunting image of his friend Ashley, who lives with pernicious anemia. Inspired by the thousand yard stare, a term often used to describe the blank, unfocused gaze of soldiers who have become emotionally detached from the horrors around them, Joyce sought to use the portrait to depict the many aspects of Ashley’s life and identity.
For three days this week, from 22 to 24 September, the Dutch capital will host…
“I could picture myself as this little girl. The photograph has a reminder of the escape into a childish world, full of power and imagination and carelessness. You would not lie down next to the buffet during the party as an adult unless you are not sober.” Natalia Poniatowska’s entry to the BJP Breakthrough Awards 2017 is an outtake from a wedding renewal ceremony, which was taken quite by accident whilst the photographer was looking at lighting in the room. The image shows loneliness but also the power of children’s imagination.
The Forest Finns, an officially recognised minority culture in Norway, arrived in the Finnskogen area in the early 17th century, bringing their traditions to the remote forests.Terje Abusdal’s series, Slash and Burn, which has now been named the winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2017, reveals their customs and questions identity and migration in the region.
One of the first things Thomas Friedrich Schaefer remembers is hiding behind a sofa in…