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Quarantine Diary

Acacia Johnson
This is an ongoing collection of images from an undetermined period of self-isolation near Gothenburg, Sweden, during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Making photographs is a way ...

The Empty Quarter -

Sokari Ekine
The Mississippi River  in the Time of Covid19 New Orleans is one of the major epicenters of Covid19 in the USA with the second highest death rate per capita.   New ...

Citizenship Amendment Act and Registration - A Burning issue in India

Ranita Roy
India is now going through a burning issue of CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) and NRC (National Register of Citizens).  Nationwide protests against CAA and NRC confront ...

Bugs Unlocked

Emma Uwakwe
We are the Insects Unlocked project at the University of Texas at Austin. Based in the UT insect collection at Brackenridge Field Laboratory, part of the Department of ...
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Diversify Photo COVID019 Relief Print Sale

Chona Kasinger
The Diversify Photo COVID-19 Relief Print Sale launched yesterday! All photographs sold will support photographers of color financially impacted by COVID-19. Prints are $65 ...

2020 PHOTOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FELLOWS

Noelle Flores Thread
Magnum Foundation was founded in the midst of a shifting media landscape to support and empower independent visual storytellers operating in a new paradigm, and we have ...

A sad day for Samba

Marcio Pimenta
A sad day for samba. One of the icons of samba in Brazil, the singer and composer from Bahia Riachão died on Monday (30), at 98 years of age. In 2016, during a trip to ...

LIFEBOAT

Anne Ackermann
Please check out LIFEBOAT. LIFEBOAT connects photographers with those who want to support their work. Nearly 100 leading photographers from around the world are offering ...
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Reframe | Stephen Mayes & The State of Photojournalism, Part I

Written by Clary Estes for The Visura Media Blog
Editor's note: The Reframe Column is a series of essays and interviews aimed at examining new media and visual storytelling. For this three-part interview series, Clary ...

Notes from my personal journal to my son Gabriel on my journey as a once aspiring visual storyteller who became an entrepreneur to empower visual storytellers worldwide

Adriana Teresa Letorney
When I left my family and hometown of Puerto Rico at the young age of 23 to New York to pursue my dream of becoming a professional visual storyteller after graduating from the ...

Video: Johanna Alarcón on the power of Photography

Directed by Adriana Teresa Letorney for Visura
Visura founder Adriana Teresa Letorney interviews Ecuadorian photojournalist Johanna Alarcón  (Johis) for this new series highlighting Visura members. ...

In conversation with Jin Ding at IWMF about The Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award

The Visura Media Blog
The International Women Media Foundation (IWMF)— www.iwmf.org —  is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization   that offers safety training, reporting trips, ...
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la Puente

Charlotte Schmitz
2016-2018 Between 2016 and 2018, I photographed in La Puente, the biggest brothel in southern Ecuador, where more than 150 women work. The photos were created in ...

Matt Kapp: A Century Downtown: A Visual History of Lower Manhattan

powerHouse Books
Matt Kapp: A Century Downtown: A Visual History of Lower Manhattan Sometimes the research for one project inspires new ideas of disseminating the same information on ...

A Bird’s Eye View of Children’s Diets Around the Globe

powerHouse Books
A Bird’s Eye View of Children’s Diets Around the Globe - Feature Shoot It’s been said, “You are what you eat” though few may remember ...

"the year of beauty and darkness"

Dale Rio
In addition to my photography, I also do a fair share of writing, and I'm pleased to announce that I just printed my first 'zine!   The first few years when I was ...
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The Dagestanese Tightropewalkers in Internazionale Kids

Jérémie Jung
Through 8 pages a portfolio of the story about the Dagestanese tightropewalkers (Russia) is published in the 2020 April issue of the Italian magazine Internazionale Kids. ...

Calm Before The Storm: Rural Hospitals Brace For The Coronavirus Surge

Clary Estes
This is Part 1 of a 4 part series on rural hospital preparedness. Calm Before The Storm: Rural Hospitals Brace For The Coronavirus Surge Rural hospitals and healthcare ...

Is it worth it to buy styled shoot tickets?

Megan Breukelman
Is it Worth it to Buy Styled Shoot Tickets? - Megan Breukelman - Blog When it comes to styled shoots, there’s a lot to understand. Styled shoots can be great for ...

States Are Being Forced Into Bidding Wars To Get Medical Equipment To Combat Coronavirus

Clary Estes
"As the bidding wars between states drive the prices of medical equipment ever upward, it is hard to not see the entire situation as a form of federal and private ...
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A Life With Gorillas

Bram Janssen

Lovers stay at Home - Coronavirus Intimately

Kamila Stepien
All we had left A freshly formed and still fragile couple arrives in France,When Emmanuel Macron announced the containment by  the ...

Once the Ground Thaws

Keith Rutowski
Once The Ground Thaws Role : Co-Writer & Co-Director Category/Year : Fiction, 2017 Synopsis : Several months after her mother's death, a young woman returns ...

In Her Own Hands

Keith Rutowski
In Her Own Hands Role : Co-Cinematographer & Co-Editor Category/Year : Nonfiction, 2015 Synopsis : Sarah Fick has forged a life off-grid that reflects her ...