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Photo: Good Friday, North Inner City, Dublin 1984 (cropped. full image below) Four decades of work by the Irish photographer whose dignified images, according to his former editor Colm Tóibín, offer ‘a hesitant window into the soul’ Look of the Irish: the communities captured by Tony O’Shea – in pictures All images by Tony O’Shea…
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Read about Sumy Sadurni, the ‘deeply emotional and committed’ photojournalist and her passion for the people and stories of Africa Photo: Sumaya Sadurni: ‘A strong journalist, always humorous, never fearing the powerful’ © Chris Dennis Rosenberg (cropped) 22 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Sumy Sadurni, Photojournalist Whose Focus Was East Africa,…
Larry Herman was a photographer who aligned himself with his subjects – mainly poor and working communities Photo: © Larry Herman, Clydeside 1974-76, Estate of Larry Herman Photos: National Galleries Scotland © Estate of Larry Herman 02 March 2022 | Tim Gopsill | The Guardian Larry Herman, who has died aged 79, was a news…
For four decades, photojournalist Tom Stoddart covered Lebanon, apartheid’s end, the Berlin Wall, Sarajevo, Gulf Wars… He worked in B&W throughout his career. Photo: The first section of the Berlin Wall is pushed down by crowds, November 1989. Photograph: Tom Stoddart/Getty Images 06 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Berlin Wall to…
Susan Meiselas has spent over five fearless decades at the frontline of history, photographing revolutionaries, teenagers and risque carnival dancers. Photo: Six weeks at the frontline … a detail from Molotov Man, Estelí, Nicaragua, which appears in Mediations a the Jeu de Paume. Susan Meiselas/© Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photosas/© Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos 05 March 2022 |…
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Lange’s work documenting the economic downturn was just one chapter in her prolific, four-decade career. Photo: The Road West, New Mexico, 1938 The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor 11 August 2020 | Nora McGreevy | Smithsonian Magazine In 1936, photographer Dorothea Lange made headlines with her stunning…
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With her images of models on the streets of Paris and refugees fleeing the Algerian war of independence, the 96-year-old blazed a trail for female photographers Photo: Indira Gandhi boarding a plane, New Delhi, 1972. Photograph: Marilyn Stafford (cropped. see original below) 02 November 2021 | Marilyn Stafford | The Guardian Indira Gandhi speaking at…
He said he had to see a throat specialist then added: “Do you want to come along?” Later, we drove to a party with me sitting on his lap in a limo’ First we take our nebuliser … Leonard Cohen in Clinic. Photograph: Ian Cook 29 September 2021 | Ian Cook | My Best Shot: The Guardian…
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Stormtroopers, ghostly figures and runaway hens … a new book of photos by Edward Thompson examines the peculiarities of Kent and beyond Photo: Miss Faversham. Margate, Kent. (2018) (cropped. full image below) 22 September 2021 | The Guardian All photographs: Edward Thompson For 20 years I’ve worked as a documentary photographer. I’ve photographed everyday life…
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The race in Ingall, northern Niger, is a highlight of a three-day nomad festival that attracts far-flung herders. Photo: Camel race finalists wait to be awarded during the Cure Salee, the annual festival for nomadic people, in Ingall, northern Niger. [Michele Cattani/AFP] 21 September 2021 | Al Jazeera Ten-year-old Moussa will bask in the glory…
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Photo: Bela Yawanawá, from the village of Mutum, with a headdress and painted face. Rio Gregório indigenous territory, Acre, Brazil, 2016. Photograph: © Sebastiao Salgado/nbpictures.com 14 September 2021 | The Guardian All images © Sebastião Salgado/nbpictures.com The Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has been named as one of four winners of a £400,000 award given by…
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It has been reported that when the US troops ‘abandoned’ the massive Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan in early July, left behind about 3.5 million items Photos: Kanika Gupta / TRTWorld 19 July 2021 | KANIKA GUPTA | TRT World It has been reported that when the US troops ‘abandoned’ the massive Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan…
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