What drew me to the scene was the ladders. Photograph: Giles Duley. It’s a very painful time, and the people that I like to represent are especially affected. Thomas is a British photographer who specializes in landscape and traveling genres and is rapidly earning his place at the top. His letters have taken on new meaning in the wake of the pandemic and the “stay at home” orders. I’m not feeling like that all the time, thank God, though I’ve had some pretty bleak moments late at night, thinking what else could go wrong with this whole situation. LO’K, Winner of the outstanding contribution to photography prize at the 2019 Sony world photography awards, Nadav Kander is an acclaimed landscape and portrait photographer. Martin Parr called Doyle’s 2014 book, i, “the best street photobook in a decade”. Award-winning documentary photographer James Nachtwey reflects on his experiences, noting, “In many ways a photographic image is the first thing that enters one’s mind when we think about a historical event that occurred since the invention of photography.” There was something about this trolley that drew me in, I’m not sure what: the particular light, the wall behind it, the direction of the wheels… There aren’t really any supermarkets nearby – the nearest Tesco is a couple of kilometres away – so somebody must have pushed it quite a bit. A Black Summer Childhood.The Summer of 2019-2020 was not a typical Aussie summer, with more than half of our Shoalhaven region burning for weeks on end. In a world plagued with political and religious conflict, environmental tragedies and grave socio-economic disparity, the genre of social documentary photography is more relevant than ever before. There’s a brutal ugliness about it, and a randomness, which is what’s so freaky about coronavirus – anybody could be struck down for any reason, almost. Stuck at home, you become more sensitive about details you might otherwise miss. I’m not vegan and neither is she but that is irrelevant, really – I just know it is something she would have loved to do. There is also this cascade of association of what it means when somebody covers their face, and I thought about The Beekeepers and the Birdnester, a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. I’ve been talking to Bella on Zoom and WhatsApp and because she is a child of the digital age she is very comfortable with that but I can’t go outside with her and pick dandelions so the act of doing that by myself felt like a lovely link with her. It was taken 17 days before the Japanese government announced a state of emergency [on 16 April]. “Whether enforced by nature – biologic or social, tangible or abstractions – we all confront the parameters of our cage eventually. I’m biking a lot – thank God it’s spring because Minnesota is the coldest part of the US and winters here are brutal. TL, Ghanaian-Russian photographer Liz Johnson Artur documents the lives of people from the African diaspora. KF, A documentary photographer focusing on the long-term impact of war, Giles Duley is a triple amputee after stepping on a landmine in Afghanistan. Drone Photographer 2020. In Brighton, I have a 35mm camera and black-and-white film. I was just in the mode of focusing on singular objects. When lockdown was announced all my projects and the work I had just absolutely evaporated. The American photographer Robert Adams did a series of nightscapes in the 1970s called Summer Nights, Walking. So I walk by this blue house and there’s four ladders – it’s slight ladder overkill. Winner. Prashant Godbole With a career spanning about 30 years, Prashant Godbole has worked with almost every top agency in India and has […] So I went to Brighton. Also, photographers are all going to be completely skint, so we won’t be able to afford to go away anyway! I don’t feel like I’m going through any heavy grieving or anything – the overriding emotion is one of absolute relief that my dad isn’t dying in hospital right now. Sophie GreenFrom the banger racing scene to Aladura Spiritualist African churches, Sophie captures the beautiful multitudes of Britain. It’s not like: “Oh, it’s a wonderful vacation!” I’m not sitting here writing King Lear. Repairs On The Giant Tortoise. I like everything being slower and having time to think and look. Often I’ll wake up feeling a bit flat and I look at the sea and find it is a bit flat and grey too. I started taking pictures inside the house and spent a lot of time looking out of various windows at the plain blue sky without any streaks. If there’s one thing, and one thing only, that productivity vortex Instagram is good for, it’s finding incredible imagery. KF, Teju Cole is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer and critic, whose genre-crossing book Blind Spot was shortlisted for the 2017 Aperture/Paris photobook award. In normal times we see each other quite a lot but because we’re trying to obey the lockdown rules I haven’t seen her for many weeks. The British documentary photographer Chris Killip has died aged 74. Cécile Smetana BaudierThe French-Danish photographer won acclaim for her work documenting the complicated tensions that arise for Mexico’s Afro-Mexican community. You’ve got to capture that before you lose your appetite. See more ideas about photography, documentary photography, photo. I realised quite quickly that this was an internal pressure I was putting on myself, it wasn’t organic or authentic. This picture felt like a way to give these “exotic beauties” my own kind of interpretation. American photographer Nicky Quamina-Woo has been announced as the winner of the Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award 2020, thanks to her inspiring documentary photography work. Sign up for i-D's regular newsletter updates. Docu Magazine publishes high quality long-term documentary photography projects. It would be nice to have company but I guess photographers are loners by nature. Wed 14 Oct 2020 03.19 EDT. It’s the first time I’ve lived out here since the late 80s, and I’ve been taking a lot of photographs around the house where I grew up, which is up the road in Killiney. Location: UK. The image is by a photographer called Peter Basch, a German émigré who lived in New York. I needed more time to process what I was feeling. The work that I do as an artist and as a photographer has a lot to do with black and brown representation. Brunel Johnson North-west Londoner Brunel captures simple, heartwarming moments wherever he travels. Nanna HeitmannGerman-Russian Nanna has won numerous prestigious awards over the past five years for her multidimensional portraits of rural communities in Russia. This picture is part of that. It was a coincidence that the cloth on our kitchen table the day I gathered the dandelions happened to have a pattern on it that looks like a beehive. During the 2020 Covid pandemic, photojournalists and documentary photographers were classed as key workers in the UK, feeding images of our empty high streets andfull hospitals to the nation, providing a valuable service for news agencies and online sources. So I decided to go for some night wanders. And I was wearing a mask. See more ideas about Documentary wedding photography, Documentary photographers, Documentary photography. Sometimes it misses you entirely, and it does strange things to your face. They’re not just pure emotion, they’re constructed. April was a very beautiful month in terms of the weather and this picture was taken in my garden there. Emotionally, this is a particularly difficult time to do work. Juan Brenner Juan is a photographer and art director based in Guatemala City. Aug 27, 2020 - Documentary photography. Anya Broido The lurid, neon-inflected portraits Anya takes on the streets of London and New York have a timeless quality. Madoka Ikegami / Documentary Photographers. It’s a distressing time, but really my life is not so very different at all. So I left the roll of film on my windowsill, and he popped around to collect it and brought back this print a few hours later. He had been suffering from lung cancer. Olivia ArthurMagnum photographer Olivia's series In Private/Mumbai captured tiny, beautiful moments of solitude amid the maelstrom of Mumbai. But by far the most meaningful thing that’s happened to me is this letter exchange. I like the way the blind drawn between inside and outside asks questions rather than answers them. I’m based in London, but I live in Brighton with my family, and a couple of days before lockdown, I decided that probably London wasn’t the place to be. Annie Leibovitz 1993 Documentary. She balances both digital and film photography, which isn’t always an easy… Open Call for Documentary Photography Projects. Big plans at the moment are hard to accomplish, so I like the idea of small steps and small gestures. KF, Born in Shiga prefecture, Rinko Kawauchi is renowned for her intimate, dream-like images of family life and religious activity in Japan. Born and based in Minneapolis, he has published more than 25 books and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2013, Last year, I began a correspondence with a man who has been in prison since 2003. Oct 6, 2020 - Explore Artimage's board "Documentary Photography", followed by 1040 people on Pinterest. MurthyNAYAK Foundation & SACAC. Emma Picq is a photographer based in Paris. I still shoot on film, and by chance one of the world’s best darkroom printers, Robin Bell, lives around the corner from me. People's Choice Award. Bella is six. Dandelions started to appear opposite my house and along the path where I take my daily walk, so even though I knew I wasn’t going to be making the honey with her, I picked them and I’m planning to follow the recipe. TL, Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins published The Teds, his seminal book on teddy boys, in 1979. Ian WeldonIan Weldon is not a wedding photographer. Winner. It’s like a scary film we are living. I took this self-portrait using the panoramic setting on my iPhone. After the lockdown is over, I’ll probably look more towards stories around me. Be Water - Hong Kong's protestors. The coronavirus crisis has reminded me of the Fukushima nuclear disaster nine years ago. That’s all I need. In the meantime, I’ve been wandering around the area, within two or three roads of the house, just photographing odd things – lampposts, markings on the ground, some surreal hedges – for a short-form publication. But once he turned around something had changed, because he was wearing a mask. I was meant to be going over there too, but we left it a bit late. Barracks of Belgrade, a refugee man tries to keep warm. I’ve always really admired that work so I thought I’d explore the area around where I live, in Holloway, north London. Most of my recent work has been shot in black-and-white, although this was digital, because I normally use an old-fashioned 5x4 plate camera. I’ve been craving to go back into that house for decades and I’d love to photograph it. He couldn’t identify me. This series (out of more than 150 photos, I got six that I’m happy with) seems like a valid record of this time and how I’m feeling. As a photographer I’m really struggling to respond to the pandemic, because I’m not a crisis-response type photographer. We provide a platform to celebrate the very best modern documentary family photography from around the world, while also nurturing and supporting its growth through open online educational events. I feel like I’m rattling my cage at the moment, but it’s so not a cage. I also like the idea that after dandelions are dandelions they become clocks that we blow as a game, counting down the days to the end of our confinement. We’re going to auction a print of this photograph to raise more money. There are six of us at home – I have four children aged from 24 to 20 – and I feel very privileged to spend this time with them. He did a series of photographs of women in the 1960s, which he called “exotic beauties”. There were people lurking in the shadows and it felt odd to be in a neighbourhood I’m so familiar with yet not feel comfortable. I really do find it interesting to reflect on the constraints of prison, which are a million times worse than what I’m going through, and all the psychological weight of incarceration that you can’t even imagine. I was shocked by how quiet it was – we were completely on our own. Her work is powerful, emotional and at times uncomfortable to look at. I’m actually in my element. That would have been so much worse. Stacy KranitzStacy’s feed offers fascinating vignettes of American life. They are full of metaphorical intensity: a ladder can take you up, but it can also bring you down. Deadline: May 1, 2020. Produced by Olympic Games Knowledge Management, the documentary titled “One Shot: Photographing the Olympic Games” is narrated by Olympic Champion Jonathan Edwards and … When I want to visit my mother, who lives close by, I put on my face mask without thinking. I’m at home in south London, but my wife, who is Japanese, is in Japan. The Fund for Global Human Rights is proud to announce Face to Face: a new exhibition of social documentary and portrait photography curated by Ekow Eshun, located at King's Cross Tunnel in London. The day had been warm, but the evening was chilly and there was a strong breeze. See more ideas about documentary photography, photography, documentaries. All you need is fresh dandelion flowers, sugar, a lemon and water. Lucia BuricelliOriginally from Venice but based in New York, Lucia’s graphic depictions of the street are wonderful and eccentric. I might have been arrested if I’d got that out. I knew it was around solitude and touch but I wanted just to spend some weeks digesting it and then see how it comes out in my work rather than pushing. When the pandemic started, I didn’t really want to go out, because I’m at risk myself, in principle, and there was nothing I really wanted to document as a documentary photographer. I’ve done little photographic experiments, and they’ve been OK. Every day since lockdown began I’ve been walking across the road in front of my house and sitting on the bench on the other side to do this kind of meditation for 20 minutes, get my fresh air for the day and take a photograph of the sea. Runner Up. Joshua OsborneWorking across fashion and portraiture, photographer and director Joshua Osborne explores themes like modern masculinity in his documentary work. TL, The Iranian Magnum photojournalist is renowned for her coverage of conflict and social issues across the Middle East. I took this image in Cambridge, Massachusetts, within walking distance of my house. Through the charity I run, Legacy of War Foundation, I’ve set up a group called Hastings Supports the NHS and we’ve been providing free transport for NHS staff, buying PPE and hand sanitisers for them. Before lockdown a friend sent me a link to a recipe for making vegan honey. I’m a photographer and I’m a writer, and I keep trying to bring those two things together. And, of course, in many religious positions, ladders suggest heaven. While the lockdown was going on, I decided to move to his house in Sandycove, south Dublin, to be near my little nephew, who lives next door. ZEKE Award winners presented on 40-banner at Photoville, Brooklyn Bridge Park, September-November 2020. In the online world, what happened 2 weeks ago is now ancient history. He also offers a look into Britain's other absurd traditions and events. These genre boundaries continue to develop and shift within the contemporary media landscape, and this course will equip you to explore and work within this area in a self-defined, flexible and creative way. The Arab Fund for Art and Culture (AFAC) and the Prince Claus Fund, in partnership with Magnum Foundation, are accepting proposals for the seventh cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Programme (ADPP).. Cyprien Clément-DelmasA film director and photographer, Cyprien’s recent work looks at a disadvantaged white Afrikaner community in South Africa. Zula graduated from LCC's MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course in 2019, and in October 2020, was announced as the inaugural Emerging Talent Gold Award-winner in recognition of her recent work, which threads together analogue portraits through stop-motion to explore themes of migration and belonging. There’s a lot of poetry in real life: sometimes it’s there simply by picking something up and combining it with something else that you wouldn’t usually combine it with. But in many ways this period has been amazing, not frustrating. At the beginning of lockdown, my kneejerk reaction was to come to my studio, set things up and immediately start working. I wanted to smoke, so I flicked on my lighter and noticed how the flame lined up nicely with the light from the bulb. Her winning project is entitled 'As The Water Comes' and explores how coastal erosion and rising sea levels has destroyed the homes of hundreds of families in northern Senegal. By Louise Carey 17 April 2020. This is a photograph of my daughter and my friend’s son. The lockdown has been fine for me. Netflix kickstarted its 2020 documentary slate with one of the first hits of the year. The children are a metaphor of our future and I hope that future will be surrounded by brightness and light. On one side, I was aesthetically attracted by Basch’s photographs, but at the same time, I was also irritated by the whole “exotic beauties” setup of the book. Hastings, Wednesday 29 April 2020. The exhibition will take place from October 7th to November 1st, 2020. Until the mid-twentieth century, documentary photography was a vital way of bearing witness to world events: from shoot-from-the-hip photographs of the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa to the considered portraits of poor farmers by Dorothea Lange.. social documentary photography. Yagazie EmeziNigerian photographer Yagazie began shooting the fashion scene in Lagos in 2015 and got into photojournalism a year later. Since the lockdown, I haven’t felt really that inspired to take pictures. It was the last day of having time together with my friends before lockdown. So I was looking at this book and it was badly bound and very windy in the garden, and suddenly all the pages flew off. Documentary and Photojournalism Photography Workshops 2019/2020. I’ve lived in London for more than 20 years and never really felt unsafe, but I didn’t really enjoy it, and that probably sums up how I was feeling at that particular moment. I haven’t been taking many photographs during the lockdown, apart from at home and at my neighbour’s house. One of my ambitions in my photography is to make pictures that look like they were taken by a writer, but in a good way. It’s been great because the whole community has got involved. LO’K, A record label owner and DJ, Eamonn Doyle returned to photography in 2008, focusing on working-class life on Dublin’s north side. I find it quite a gentle, poignant image. Although it is a 2015 title, it is still current and worth seeing. 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