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photography
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Water Life
Read more: Water Life“Most people can’t imagine a futurist Africa,” says Ethiopian photographer Aïda Muluneh. She challenges this in her project, Water Life, exploring real-world issues with an otherworldly twist. Muluneh went to Dallol, Afar, Ethiopia, an extreme landscape where it is dry…
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Activism Within All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Read more: Activism Within All the Beauty and the BloodshedThe new Oscar-nominated documentary, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, focuses on world-famous photographer Nan Goldin, her life, her work, and the protests she led at museums that accepted funding from the Sackler family. Their company, Purdue Pharma, manufactured and…
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Nan Goldin’s “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” Showcases the Artist’s Defiant Activism
Read more: Nan Goldin’s “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” Showcases the Artist’s Defiant ActivismLaura Poitras’s Academy Award–nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) about photographer Nan Goldin is a powerful and thoughtfully constructed film. Focusing on Goldin’s work with the activist group Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (PAIN), it allows viewers to…
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Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) – ONGOING working organization
Read more: Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) – ONGOING working organizationThe Haitian Creole word “konbit” denotes the idea of similar talents joining together to work towards a common goal. The founders — a group of photographers, educators, and artists — came up with the idea for Fotokonbit a few years…
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Zanele Muholi: ‘I’m a visual activist’
Read more: Zanele Muholi: ‘I’m a visual activist’I am a visual activist. Most of what I have done over the years focuses on black LGBTQIA+ and gender-non-conforming individuals from South Africa and other neighbouring countries. It’s about making sure we exist in the visual archive. I call…
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Photographing Every Disappearing Manhattan Bodega
Read more: Photographing Every Disappearing Manhattan Bodega“is a conceptual documentary project in which I photographed every Mom and Pop-style cornershop on the island of Manhattan as quickly as possible, as I walked each block in the city ( CLICK FOR A MAP of my route). I…
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Chinese Air Quality Images Exhibition: The Breath of China
Read more: Chinese Air Quality Images Exhibition: The Breath of ChinaThe Breath of China is a thematic photo exhibition of thousands of air-quality images taken by 44 photographers in 34 Chinese capital cities. The exhibition was displayed on the 14th Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIPF) in Shanxi Province, from September…
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Faces of the Movement
Read more: Faces of the MovementFaces of the Movement is a daily-release photo project that highlights the stories of everyday people who have joined together to fight for justice against police brutality in the United States. In news photos, they either have their faces covered…
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Ausencias
Read more: Ausencias“On 17 December 1976, 18-year-old Eduardo Raúl Germano was abducted in Rosario, Argentina. Following the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the 1976 coup d’état, Gustavo Germano, Eduardo’s brother, began working on the photography exhibition “Ausencias” (Absences). Born in 1964…
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Real Pictures
Read more: Real PicturesText taken from website: Alfredo Jaar seizes the challenge of making art out of information most people would rather avoid: the plight of refugees, genocide, ethnic and political violence. Rather than offering information in an expected or familiar form, Jaar…