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Maika Elan: A Gentle Curiosity

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VIETNAM: Focusing on people at the margins of society, these relaxed domestic moments explore, without sensationalism, the intimate companionship that is a foundation of our shared human experience.

25 February 2023 Asia

Stephen Dupont: Don’t Look Away

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AUSTRALIA: Images of conflict that avoid the explosive spectacle of war, to explore the lives of individuals caught up in events beyond their control.

18 February 2023 Oceania

Lin Zhipeng / No.223: Open Intimacy

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CHINA: Youthful Asian women and men engage in the conscious but unselfconscious presentation of self within a milieu of open intimacy.

21 January 2023 Asia

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

Park Jongwoo: Zones of Denial

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KOREA: Park Jongwoo – the first person to photograph the interior of the so-called ‘Demilitarised Zone’ that divides Korea – speaks about what he found in this, the world’s most contested strip of land.

28 October 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

Evelyn Merino-Reyna: Elevating Awareness

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PERU: A bird’s-eye view of Lima’s Pacific coast and inland desert revealing the delicately balanced, intimately entangled ecology below.

8 October 2022 Americas

Robin Schwartz: The Communion of Animals

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USA: Spanning two decades, a mother and daughter explore the deep connection between people and their animal companions.

10 September 2022 Americas

Renée C Byer: Catalyst for Change

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USA: Pulitzer-prize-winner Renée C Byer reveals how photography and journalism used together can catalyse action in the face of escalating inequality at home and abroad.

27 August 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

Luminous-Lint: A Dynamic Genealogy of the Photograph

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CANADA: With well over 100,000 images and millions of possible interconnections, Luminous-Lint offers a near-infinite range of ways to pursue the study of photographic history.

30 April 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

Michal Chelbin: Navigating the Oddly Ordinary

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ISRAEL: An exploration of the equivocal transition from child to adult in portraits of adolescents in Ukraine, Russia and Spain.

2 April 2022 Asia

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

Claudia Fährenkemper: Fathoming Dimension

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GERMANY: The uncanny and the documentary synergise as temporal and dimensional shifts reveal a prescient vision in the context of current events.

19 February 2022 Europe

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

Murray Fredericks: The Space Between Somewhere and Nowhere

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AUSTRALIA: From the arid heat of central Australia to the windswept ice sheet of Greenland, powerful and austere images that push the very notion of landscape to its extreme.

8 January 2022 Oceania

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

Dona Schwartz: On the Nest

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USA / CANADA: A visual ethnographer, Dona Schwartz photographs expectant parents and empty-nesters marking those moments when each couple stands outside the gates of family life.

9 October 2021 Americas

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

Deborah Luster: Evidence of Life

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USA: Timeless portraits made in collaboration with the inmates of three penitentiaries in the northeast of Louisiana, the US state with the largest per capita prison population.

4 September 2021 Americas

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

Han Sungpil: Travels in Hyperreality

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Exploring the liminal space at the threshold of realty and simulation, original and replica, fact and fake.

7 August 2021 Asia

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

Tim Hetherington: Of War and Compassion

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UNITED KINGDOM: Four friends of the late Tim Hetherington discuss the work of this compassionate war photographer who sought to depict Big History through the lens of small history.

19 June 2021 Europe

Edgar Alvarez: Imaginary Worlds and Sad Realities

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COLOMBIA: An artist using clay figures to tell the stories of real people – stories of homelessness and social invisibility.

12 June 2021 Americas

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

Maureen Bisilliat: Poet of Fragile Realities

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BRAZIL: Evocative images of the rural and indigenous peoples of this vast country, captured by one of its most distinguished visual poets.

28 May 2021 Americas

Daniel W. Coburn: The Enigma of Family Connection

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USA: Emerging from person crisis, these images unfold a domestic conversation around the paradox of family ties and the quest for redemption.

8 May 2021 Americas

Margaret Mitchell: Of Love & Imperfection

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UNITED KINGDOM: Environmental portraiture exploring family ties across three generations in an area of high socio-economic deprivation.

3 April 2021 Europe

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

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

Nippon América: Taeko Nomiya, Marcio Takeda, and Luis Okamoto

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LATIN AMERICA: Three Latino artists of Japanese heritage spend a month photographing in the Land of the Rising Sun. What will their images tell us about their identity?

28 November 2020 Americas, Asia

Nippon America (español): Taeko Nomiya, Marcio Takeda and Luis Okamoto

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LATINOAMÉRICA: Tres artistas latinoamericanos de origen japonés pasan un mes fotografiando la Tierra del Sol Naciente. ¿Qué nos dirán sus imágenes acerca de su identidad?

28 November 2020 Americas, Asia

Sam Harris: Postcards from Home

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AUSTRALIA: A successful celebrity photographer discovers real inspiration nearer to home when he emigrates from London to make a new life in rural Western Australia.

21 November 2020 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

Alejandro Chaskielberg: A Radiant Darkness

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ARGENTINA: A nocturnal explorer who seeks to communicate the richness of everyday lives and the profound histories of ordinary people.

24 October 2020 Americas

Trent Parke: Dream / Life

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AUSTRALIA: The only Australian in the celebrated Magnum collective, Trent Parke’s work is acclaimed around the world for its innovation and originality.

12 September 2020 Oceania

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

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

Daniel Schumann: At Home with Love and Loss

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GERMANY: Images that speak with quiet compassion of the impermanence that marks us out as human, and the dignity to be afforded to all, regardless of situation, apparent difference, or stage of life.

18 July 2020 Europe

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

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

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

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

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

Kaunas Photo: At the European Crossroads

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LITHUANIA: Set in the historical centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life, KAUNAS PHOTO is a festival that sits at the intersection of tradition and innovation, all laced with a dash of humour.

1 April 2020 Europe

Simon Harsent: Portrait of an Iceberg

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AUSTRALIA: the stark reality of global warming given particular poignancy by an artist who identifies with the melting icebergs.

14 March 2020 Oceania

Paula Luttringer: A Keeper of Memories

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ARGENTINA: Memories of the Dirty War starkly visualised by one of the survivors of the regime’s Clandestine Centres of Detention and Torture.

7 March 2020 Americas

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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