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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,…
An evening of stargazing has left a Morpeth family with a photo which is simply out of this world. Photo: Copyright Wil Cheung 16 March 2022 | Jessica Stewart | My Modern Met A lucky family got the portrait of a lifetime when a shooting star appeared just as photographer Wil Cheung was snapping their photo. The…
Over-sized owls, dinosaurs, coffee-pots, and even a Mexican giant standing on a roof serving nachos and beer – California Crazy! Photo: © Jim Heimann Collection/Courtesy TASCHEN 30 MAY 2018 HAWKINS BAY James Porteous 29 May 2018 | Marigold Warner | British Journal of Photograpy | Photos: Jim Heimann Photo Essay: When Architecture Went California Crazy…
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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…
In the first 10 days of the Russian war, troops have shelled civilians in residential areas, burned houses, schools, and kindergartens all over Ukraine. Photo: A man rides a bicycle in front of residential buildings in Chernihiv, a regional capital in northern Ukraine, damaged by Russian fire, on March 3, 2022. Fourty-seven people died when…
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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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Robert Frank was a the fiercely independent photographer and filmmaker whose bleak yet poetic book “The Americans” jolted the nation’s self-image and sparked a photographic revolution 28 February 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Orignally published: 11 SEPTEMBER 2019 HAWKINS BAY James Portoeus 10 September 2019 | Karen Wada | Los Angeles Times…
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…
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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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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