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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

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

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

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

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

Luis González Palma: The Art of Sadness

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GUATEMALA: Luis González Palma’s grew up during thirty years of civil war, but while his images evoke sadness, they neither sentimentalise nor do they counsel despair. Rather they affirm the transcendent nature of the human spirit.

6 June 2020 Americas

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.

23 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

Colin Gray: Restaging the Parents

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UNITED KINGDOM: Whimsical, poignant, fantastical, dark… these family photos restage the complex nature of parenting and the domestic dynamic, from ageing and the shift in mutual dependence, to ultimate departure.

18 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

Tatjana Plitt: The Beautiful Mundane

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AUSTRALIA: An unconventional approach to portraiture that subverts clichés and stereotypes to emphasise the value of real human relationships over fantasy or caricature.

28 March 2020 Oceania

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

Calum Colvin: Picturing Scottish Identity

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UNITED KINGDOM: An exploration of Scotland’s cultural and historical figures through an innovative hybrid of photography, painting, sculpture and installation.

29 February 2020 Europe

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.

22 February 2020 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.

15 February 2020 Africa

Viktoria Sorochinski: The Mystery of Human Connection

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UKRAINE: Psychological dramas that play out the emotional interior of their protagonists: the aching desire to connect that can never be fully realised.

28 January 2020 Europe

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.

16 January 2020 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.

10 January 2020 Europe
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