By the silent line | Pierre Folk. Moonlit African migrants image wins World Press Photo. A moonlit image of migrants trying to get mobile phone signals on a Djibouti beach on Friday won the World Press Photo of the Year award for US photographer John Stanmeyer. A 19-member jury awarded the prestigious prize for the haunting photograph of African migrants holding phones up to the sky to capture a signal so they can call home, as they make their way to a hoped-for better life in Europe. The awards, including two top prizes for AFP, were announced at a press conference in Amsterdam, where World Press Photo is based.
"It's a photo that is connected to so many other stories -- it opens up discussions about technology, globalisation, migration, poverty, desperation, alienation, humanity," said jury member Jillian Edelstein. Read more... Fellow jury member Susan Linfield said: "So many pictures of migrants show them as bedraggled and pathetic... but this photo is not so much romantic, as dignified. " Stanmeyer told AFP that he felt "honoured" by the prize. Philippe Lopez, AFP. Db46151fd2ff2e728249b54befe7e861ee82901a.jpg (JPEG Image, 768 × 512 pixels) A Protest of Historical Proportions: 15 Photos From Kiev. Julia's Photo Blog: Living Root Bridges in India. This Girl Sneaked Into This Russian Military Rocket Factory. Tahrir clashes - #OccupyCabinet : un album.
The Hajj and Eid al-Adha. ASX | AMERICAN SUBURB X | Photography & Culture. 11 Touching Street Photographs of Hands. Roger Boon. People taking naps with stuff (big photo gallery) A worker takes a nap surrounded by ducklings at a duck farm on the outskirts of Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China. What could be more satisfying than a nap? A nice nap taken while surrounded by piles of stuff. More photos of people taking naps while surrounded by stuff, below. (PHOTOS: REUTERS) A rebel fighter in Libya sleeps next to a box of ammunition at a position in the outskirts of Zlitan, near Misrata. A worker sleeps on a pile of cement in front of closed shops in Lahore, Pakistan. North Korean workers nap on piles of fertilizer shipped from China on the banks of Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju.
A boy, with his face covered with an empty onion sack to protect him from flies, takes a nap in an open air vegetable market in New Delhi. A worker sleeps on tangerines in a market in Siliguri, India. A vendor naps beside packages of cabbages at a food market in Suining, China. A vendor selling Chinese watermelons takes a nap at a wholesale market in Huaibei, China. SCAFFOLDAGE. Architecture of Density - MICHAEL WOLF PHOTOGRAPHY. All images copyright michael wolf. Life in Cities - MICHAEL WOLF PHOTOGRAPHY.
Anas Bukhash Photography. Urban Decay Photography | Scoop.it - Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Terrifying Beauty of Urban Decay. Beauty can be found absolutely anywhere, and photographers have a talent for finding it in even the most unlikely places. You can discover this for yourself in the following photo collection showing how even urban decay has its artistic side.
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Whatever country we live in, we’re probably all familiar with the well-known photography magazines available in our newsagents and bookstores. The UK has Practical Photography, France has Photo, the Italians have Zoom and the Americans have American Photo. What you may not know is that there are many more photography magazines that are only available online. And some of them are good, very good. [Content Care Nov/22/2016] That’s the great thing about online publishing.
It’s cheap, it’s easy, and just about anyone with a PC and an internet connection can take part. The difficulty lies in putting together a quality publication, something that rivals the best commercial magazines for content and quality (we hope you think that Smashing Magazine just does that!) Further Reading on SmashingMag: Link As an introduction to the wonderful world of online photography magazines, we put together a list of the biggest and best that we could find.
Amazing Online Photography Magazines Link Resources Link. The Zeugma: Critical Reviews: Sebastião Salgado. The photographs of Sebastião Salgado arouse strong passions. Whenever his work comes under discussion in the bars and clubs where photojournalists are prone to meet, opinions fall either of two ways with no gradations between: outright adulation or downright suspicion about his methods and motivations. Ultimately, one's own assessment can only be made after seeing both the book and the exhibition, both titled Workers: An Archaeology Of The Industrial Age, rather than the carefully chosen selections published in many popular magazines as a foretaste of the larger project now on show. The issues underlying the problem with Salgado's work go way beyond just this one project by this one photographer; they are the worm in the heart of photojournalism as it is practised today, and it's the vicissitudes of history that hatched the egg of that worm.
Until its ship began to founder on the reef of hard times, photojournalism had shown a laudable ability to constantly evolve. The critic A.D.