- Tuesday, February 25, 2014 2:48 PM
'Crying Meri: Documenting Extreme Gender Violence in Papua New Guinea' launches Kickstarter campaign
When FotoEvidence first exhibited photographer Vlad Sokhin's 'Crying Meri’, they had no idea how fast and deep would be its impact. Within months, the work was picked up by gender activists working for the United Nations, Amnesty Australia Pacific, and Child Fund Australia for campaigns to expose the extraordinary violence against women in Papua New Guinea (PNG). International attention and a public outcry by concerned activists brought a response by the government, which passed the nation’s first law prohibiting domestic violence late last year. This is a first step in a long process of change that needs to happen in PNG to protect women from violence. FotoEvidence and Vlad Sokhin have launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a publish ‘Crying Meri’ and create a documentary record of gender violence in PNG.
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- Friday, February 14, 2014 9:24 AM
World Press Photo Contest winners unveiled: American, John Stanmeyer takes top prize
The international jury of the 57th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected an image by American photographer John Stanmeyer of the VII Photo Agency as the World Press Photo of the Year 2013. The picture shows African migrants on the shore of Djibouti city at night, raising their phones in an attempt to capture an inexpensive signal from neighboring Somalia—a tenuous link to relatives abroad. Djibouti is a common stop-off point for migrants in transit from such countries as Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, seeking a better life in Europe and the Middle East. The picture also won 1st Prize in the Contemporary Issues category, and was shot for National Geographic.
(Photograph by John Stanmeyer /VII for National Geographic)
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- Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:47 PM
Robin Hammond's 'Condemned: Mental Health in African Countries in Crisis'
Condemned: Mental Health in African Countries in Crisis by Robin Hammond presents a
profound body of work produced over seven years in nine African countries.
“Condemned” was selected for the 2013 FotoEvidence Book Award by a prestigious jury
that included: Olivier Laurent, editor of the British Journal of Photography; Jean-Francois
Leroy, founder and director Visa Pour L’image; Maggie Steber, photographer; and Patrick
Witty, international picture editor at Time.
Svetlana Bachevanova, publisher of FotoEvidence, announced the release of
“Condemned” saying, “In the third year of the FotoEvidence Book Award,
FotoEvidence is extremely proud to again be publishing a powerful and important work that gives voice and draws attention to the plight of some of the most vulnerable people in the world. ‘Condemned’, shot over seven years in nine countries in Africa, embodies Hammond’s profound commitment to expose the mental health consequences of conflict and his deep compassion for those left permanently scarred and without the care needed to heal.”
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- Wednesday, February 5, 2014 1:26 PM
Photographer returns home to focus on 'heartbeat' of troubled Detroit: People
Photographer Dave Jordano was born and raised in Detroit and spent the earliest days of his career documenting the city’s astounding architecture and its thriving population during the early 1970s.
Nearly 40 years later, decades after he had moved away, Jordano became fascinated with the images that were emerging from his hometown. Photographers were descending on the city in droves to document the burned out homes, empty streets and abandoned factories that had seemed to have overtaken Detroit.
In 2010, Jordano decided to return to Detroit to see for himself what had happened to the city. He was stunned by what he found. …
(Photograph by Dave Jordano)
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- Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:14 PM
'Moving Walls' calls attention to the importance of documentary photography
When photographer Shannon Jensen traveled to South Sudan during the summer of 2012 to document the country’s ongoing refugee crisis, she struggled with how to visualize the plight of the tens of thousands of people who had been displaced.
After all, it was not exactly a new phenomenon in a country that had been torn apart by civil strife for decades. But it was a new experience for the Sudanese refugees who were driven out of the country’s Blue Nile region that summer, and Jensen longed for a way to tell their story.
That’s when she noticed “the shoes.”
(Photographs by Shannon Jenson/Reportage by Getty Images)
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- Monday, January 20, 2014 8:30 AM
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Dream’ after 50 years - On The Weekly Flickr!
Throughout the years, Dr. King has become an icon of promise, justice and hope for millions — especially to those within the poorest and most segregated communities. Camilo Jose Vergara, known on Flickr as Camilo Time tracker, has been photographing urban America for more than four decades and can attest to Dr. King’s everlasting influence.
“I have seen many images on the walls of urban America,” Camilo tells The Weekly Flickr. “But the one that stands out still after all these years, are the images of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Camilo has been referred to as an “archivist of decline” because of his interest in the American inner city.
“I was interested in the culture of the place and what the community values,” Camilo explains. “I found it in murals that were placed in alleys. Wall art reflects the community — what they’re thinking, feeling and even idolizing. It’s interesting.” (READ MORE)
(Photograph by Camilo Jose Vergara via Flickr)
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- Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:34 AM
Inside the Gitmo Media Tour
Last week, Yahoo News reporter Liz Goodwin spent four days on the Guantanamo Bay naval base, touring the prison and interviewing members of the military who run it.
(Photograph by Liz Goodwin/Yahoo News)
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- Thursday, January 9, 2014 2:22 PM
Exhibition a tribute to first gallery that focused solely on photography
It’s hard to imagine in the age of Flickr and Instagram that it was once hard to find and view original photography. But even 50 years ago, it was rare for museums and galleries to dedicate much wall space to a medium that, back then, primarily flourished on the pages of news magazines.
In 1959, a young street photographer named Larry Siegel decided to work on changing the perception that photography wasn’t art. He converted a small storefront on East 10th Street in New York City into a gallery dedicated exclusively to showing photograph.
The Image Gallery soon became a meeting place and exhibition space for photographers who went on to be considered legends in their field, including Saul Leiter, Garry Winogrand and Robert Frank.
Early patrons, who had not been used to seeing photography prints on display, didn’t quite know what to think.
“In those days, photographic prints were not well known,” Siegel recalls. “People would walk in, point to the wall, and ask, ‘What’s that?’ They thought I had cut the images out of a magazine.”
But the gallery closed just three years later, when Siegel couldn’t afford to keep it running, and largely vanished from memory.
But a new exhibition aims to renew the memory of Siegel’s gallery. “Image Gallery Redux: 1959-1962” opens Thursday at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York and features work from Siegel and 21 of the 75 photographers who showed work there.
The exhibit includes early works of Winogrand, Leiter and other photographers who showed at the Image Gallery just as their careers were getting started.
The exhibit is on display until Feb. 15.
(Photograph by John Cohen)
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- Friday, January 3, 2014 3:55 PM
Snow covered Central Park - Yahoo Exclusive!
After a fierce winter storm brought dangerously glacial temperatures to the New York City area overnight and into Friday morning, the cleanup of Manhattan’s streets was under way by dawn.
One of the most beautiful and peaceful places in the Big Apple is Central Park. In the early morning hours, visitors were rewarded with the calm and beauty of fresh snow covering many of the famous attractions in America’s first and foremost major urban public space.
Yahoo News photographer Gordon Donovan braved the freezing temperatures and snow to capture the beauty of Central Park while city that never sleeps, slept in late. (Yahoo News)(Photographs by Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News)
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- Monday, December 30, 2013 8:05 AM
#1 of 13 Most Popular Galleries of 2013: Massive tornado in Oklahoma
A massive tornado ripped through the Oklahoma City area on May 21, 2013 leaving behind a horrific path of destruction.
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South Africa's final farewell to Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was buried Sunday in the African ground he loved after a funeral ceremony that included a 21-gun salute and fly-overs by military aircraft as well as a eulogy by a traditional leader wearing an animal skin.
Mandela’s casket was lowered into the earth after military pallbearers carried it to the family gravesite in the rolling hills of Qunu, the rural village in eastern South Africa which was the childhood home of the anti-apartheid leader who became the country’s first democratically-elected president.
Banyanda Nyengule, head of the Nelson Mandela Museum in Mthatha and Qunu, was one of the eyewitnesses to the private burial and said it hit him hard. (AP)
Photographs by Charlie Shoemaker/Gettty Images for Yahoo News
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- Tuesday, December 10, 2013 2:29 PM
Nelson Mandela Memorial: Exclusively for Yahoo
Joyous, singing South Africans gathered in the rain Tuesday to honor Nelson Mandela at a massive memorial service that drew some 100 heads of state and other luminaries, united in tribute to a global symbol of reconciliation. Crowds converged on FNB Stadium in Soweto, the Johannesburg township that was a stronghold of support for the anti-apartheid struggle that Mandela embodied as a prisoner of white rule for 27 years and then during a peril-fraught transition to the all-race elections that made him president. (AP)
Photographs by Charlie Shoemaker/Getty Images for Yahoo News
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Photos of the year - 2013
Conflict, politics, jubilation, disaster and a look at the brave and the bold are among our selection of the best photos of the year 2013 from Associated Press, Reuters News Agency and Getty Images.
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Vivian Maier self-portraits exhibit comes to NYC
Vivian Maier self-portraits exhibit comes to NYCnews.yahoo.com
"Piecing together Vivian Maier’s life can easily evoke Churchill’s famous quote about the vast land of Tsars and commissars that lay to the east. A person who fit the stereotypical European sensibilities of an independent liberated woman, accent and all, yet born in New York City. Someone who was intensely guarded and private, Vivian could be counted on to feistily preach her own very liberal worldview to anyone who cared to listen, or didn’t. Decidedly unmaterialistic, Vivian would come to amass a group of storage lockers stuffed to the brim with found items, art books, newspaper clippings, home films, as well as political tchotchkes and knick-knacks. The story of this nanny who has now wowed the world with her photography, and who incidentally recorded some of the most interesting marvels and peculiarities of Urban America in the second half of the twentieth century is seemingly beyond belief." (vivianmaier.com)
Vivian Maier’s self-portraits sill be on display at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in NYC from November 7 - December 14.
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- Monday, December 2, 2013 11:43 AM
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
The big balloons soared along with the crowd’s spirits Thursday as the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade made its way through the streets of New York City.
There’d been some concerns about whether the wind could keep 16 giant balloons grounded, but the cherished tradition prevailed.
Balloon handlers were keeping a tight grip on their inflated characters and held them fairly close to the ground in tree-lined areas. The wind was around 26 mph. (AP)
(Photography by Gordon Donovan)