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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

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

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

Manit Sriwanichpoom: The Colours of Dissent

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THAILAND: Scathing satirical tableaux critiquing the country’s turbulent socio-political scene, created by one of Southeast Asia’s leading artists.

23 July 2022 Asia

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

Belinda Mason: Humanity in Difference

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AUSTRALIA: Challenging misconceptions around disability and making evident the violent abuse that can sometimes be its cause.

5 March 2022 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

Wilfred Lim: Happy on the Outside

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MALAYSIA / SINGAPORE: Apparently whimsical images that critique community erasure in Malaysia and the re-wilding of a hyperreal city-state in lockdown.

24 July 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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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