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Carlo Ontal: Performing Rites

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CONGO: Eccentric, impromptu performances set in the warlord-controlled villages of the Democratic Republic of Congo that challenge the established conventions of humanitarian representation.

25 March 2023 Africa

Lebohang Kganye: In Search of Light

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SOUTH AFRICA: a remarkable synthesis of structure, texture, and authenticity exploring the triangular relationship between history, memory, and community storytelling.

28 January 2023 Africa

NEXT: Re-Imagining the Post-Pandemic World

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INTERNATIONAL: Eleven artists reflect on what they learned during the pandemic, picking just one thing they would reimagine for the better in the future.

17 December 2022 Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania

Wojciech Karliński: Odes to the Ordinary

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POLAND: Atmospheric images of a social, political, and economic landscape that has changed radically over the past sixty years.

10 December 2022 Europe

Mohammad Shahnewaz Khan: Of Hope and Humanity

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BANGLADESH: A humanitarian photographer who not only documents injustice and inequity in the world, but also explores his own imperfection with poignant honesty.

5 November 2022 Asia

Aneesa Dawoojee: Fighting Chance

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UNITED KINGDOM: an insider’s sensitive depiction of a group of south London fighters who find self-discipline, confidence, and connectedness through martial arts.

22 October 2022 Europe

Michelle Rogers Pritzl: Transcending the Twilight

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USA: One woman’s experience of the stifling control of a patriarchal religious fundamentalism and the processes of artmaking that helped her escape.

9 July 2022 Americas

André François: Cultivating Compassion

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BRAZIL: Turning a compassionate eye on rural and remote medicine to capture the kindness, dedication, and empathy of healthcare workers as they transcend the most challenging circumstances.

21 May 2022 Americas

Anthony Luvera: The Art of Assisted Self-Portraits

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UNITED KINGDOM: Going beyond the clichés and prejudices about homelessness by facilitating each participant to create their own self-portrait.

16 April 2022 Europe

Barbara Alper: Images of Moment

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USA: Past and present converse in an archive of American life shot from a refreshingly tangential perspective.

19 March 2022 Americas

Xiangjie Peng: Tributaries of the Mainstream

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CHINA: Documentary images highlighting communities that, while they may seem outside of the mainstream in China, are in fact simply some of its constituents.

5 February 2022 Asia

Roberto Tondopó: A Photographic Act of Atonement

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MEXICO: The fluidity of domestic intimacy explored through the lens of childhood imagination and transformational community ritual.

15 January 2022 Americas

Why: Reflections on Photography

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INTERNATIONAL: Nine photographic artists from across five continents reflect on what motivates them to create photographs.

18 December 2021 Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe

William Yang: Stories from the Margin

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AUSTRALIA: A contemporary story-teller who combines photography and words to synthesis rich and complex narratives of family, community and sexuality.

16 October 2021 Oceania

Massimo Branca: The Household Beneath the Street

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ROMANIA: a community of homeless people come together to find companionship, shelter and a degree of mutual sustainability in a network of tunnels under the city of Bucharest.

25 September 2021 Europe

Oleg Videnin: Photographs from My Heart

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RUSSIA: Gently observed portraits of the people of Bryansk that touch on the mystery of everyday life.

21 August 2021 Europe

Agnieszka Sosnowska: Veritable Myths

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ICELAND: Picturing the resilient lives and enduring landscapes of a small farming community in the East of Iceland caught between harsh reality and timeless myth.

3 July 2021 Europe

Maleonn: Theatre of the Mind

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CHINA: A fusion of theatre and photography that, with an eccentric magic, weaves together the light and dark of the human condition.

26 June 2021 Asia

Neo Ntsoma: Picturing People with Dignity

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SOUTH AFRICA: Capturing the spirit of a new creative generation, fighting for gender equality and exposing the continuing plight of the working poor.

5 June 2021 Africa

Hoda Afshar: Compassion and the ‘Other’

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IRAN / AUSTRALIA: Poetically perceptive imagery that engages the layers of displacement, difference and marginality that define what it means to be ‘other’.

15 May 2021 Asia, Oceania

Erika Diettes: A Poet of Grief and Humanity

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COLOMBIA: In addressing the trauma resulting from the ongoing multilateral armed conflict in her country, Erika Diettes focuses not on violence but on bearing witness to the grief of survivors.

24 April 2021 Americas

Judith Crispin: The Compassion of Country

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AUSTRALIA: a remarkable synthesis of timeless Aboriginal wisdom and radically innovative printmaking that creates pictures of intense poetic beauty.

27 February 2021 Oceania

Michelle Sank: Coming of Age

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UNITED KINGDOM: Portraits exploring the transition from child to adult as it is expressed through modes of dress, social behaviour and body image.

6 February 2021 Europe

Elena Givone: The Value of Practical Dreaming

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ITALY: Elena Givone uses photography and storytelling to help young refugees imagine a better future – images to inspire hope in the child and compassion in the viewer.

16 January 2021 Europe

Alasdair Foster: Question the Image

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AUSTRALIA: Alasdair Foster, a curator, researcher, and writer who draws on an array of experiences from around the world, offers his perspective on photography – and where it’s going next. Interview by Alexander Strecker.

9 January 2021 Oceania

The 12 Days of…: Revisiting the Festive Season

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INTERNATIONAL: Impressions of Christmas and the New Year through the kaleidoscopic lens of artists from Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania.

19 December 2020 Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania

Ilan Wittenberg: Real Men

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NEW ZEALAND: Ilan Wittenberg’s extensive catalogue of Auckland men captures the uniqueness and imperfection that lays bare the inhumanity of commercially idealised masculinity.

7 November 2020 Oceania

The Mirror of Three Kingdoms: Shanxi Family Portraits

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CHINA: Reflections on the meanings and value of family photo archives in traditional homes in Shanxi Province.

10 October 2020 Asia

Ciro Battiloro: An Unexpected Beauty

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ITALY: Spending extended periods with poor and itinerant families, Ciro Battiloro discovers, beneath the domestic discomfort and social neglect, a tenacious humanity and a love that turns “despair into delicate sweetness”.

29 August 2020 Europe

Dulce Pinzón: Practical Magic

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MEXICO: Dulce Pinzón creates latter-day visual fables that address real social issues: racial prejudice, low-paid workers, environmental damage.

22 August 2020 Americas

Kirk Crippens: The Grit in the Oyster

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USA: Kirk Crippens explores the tension between the American Dream of home and increasing precarity – gentrification, downsizing and foreclosure – but also the haven of the unorthodox.

15 August 2020 Americas

Antonio Briceño: The Marvel of Boundless Diversity

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VENEZUELA: Images evoking the powerful mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the southern Americas that emphasise the interdependence of humankind and Nature.

1 August 2020 Americas

FotoFest: A Meeting of Minds

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USA: Few recent cultural initiatives have had more impact in the world of photography than Houston FotoFest, with its multi-layered approach to the medium as a means to an end and not just an end in itself.

17 June 2020 Americas

Peter Solness: The Worlds of a Light Painter

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AUSTRALIA: An artist painting with light to create richly coloured and emotionally intensified images of the natural and human worlds.

13 June 2020 Oceania

Chobi Mela: Curating Social Justice

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BANGLADESH: Asia’s longest-running photo festival, founded on a powerful vision of social justice and driven by a tenacious dynamism, it forms one arm of a tripartite structure including a news picture agency and a media school.

3 June 2020 Asia

PhotoVisa: Sharing the Language of Photography

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RUSSIA: A festival that engages the viewer in a rich visual dialogue made vibrant by its openhearted warmth, aesthetic vigour, and intelligent enthusiasm for the medium.

27 May 2020 Europe

FestFoto: Celebrating the Brazilian Soul

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BRAZIL: a festival pioneering the use of screen-based technologies to reach out from the metropolitan art institutions to connect with communities in the poorest districts of the urban margins: to engage, to educate and to empower.

20 May 2020 Americas

Angkor Photography Festival: Small is Beautiful

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CAMBODIA: With a focus on discovery, education and sharing, this festival and workshop program provides a generous and egalitarian environment in which to learn new skills, exchange ideas and establish new friendships.

13 May 2020 Asia

Auckland Festival of Photography: Perspectives from the Edge of the World

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NEW ZEALAND: Located on the rim of the Pacific, this is a festival of and by the people: stimulating creativity, encouraging participation, and celebrating the many and diverse expressions of human imagination.

6 May 2020 Oceania

Head On: Facing Up to Controversy

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AUSTRALIA: In a world that all too often seeks to segregate professionals from amateurs, celebrities from ordinary people, Head On provides an alternative based on mutual respect and a passion for photographic creativity.

29 April 2020 Oceania

Chiang Mai: The Art of the Documentary

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THAILAND: With a focus on Asian documentary practice, this festival maintained its independence by building not only the event but also a new photography centre through the work and solidarity of photographers themselves.

22 April 2020 Asia

Festival de la Luz: Passion and Opportunity

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ARGENTINA: One of the world’s longest running photographic festivals, Festival de la Luz it is both a celebration of photography as a means of enlightenment and an egalitarian meeting of diverse people and cultures.

15 April 2020 Americas

FORMAT: Photography in an Age of Change

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UNITED KINGDOM: A festival that celebrates its sense of place and community while engaging the leading edge of technological possibility and international innovation.

8 April 2020 Europe

Jannatul Mawa: Images of Conscience

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BANGLADESH: A photographer with a strong social conscience and a deep concern for the welfare of the marginalised members of her society.

4 April 2020 Asia

Glenn Sloggett: Damaged Goods

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AUSTRALIA: Documenting the dysfunctional, the dispossessed, and the dogged hope that lingers amid the ashes of failure.

1 February 2020 Oceania
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