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KIKI Ballroom Portraits

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For decades, ballroom culture has been celebrated across the media, from Madonna’s Vogue to the more recent television show Pose. In the scene, members band together in houses, which act as chosen families, and participate in balls, where they present their handmade, avant-garde fashion and participate in dynamic performances. In the Kiki..

FROM EARTH'S PORE.(Story of the Abateezi)

TERA PETER

Documentary Food Photography Photojournalism Spotlight Travel

This is a story of the Salt Farmers and Extractors of Lake Katwe, this's a crater lake formed in a blast volcano. The rock salt locally known as Mahonde top layer Mahonde are called Bududa. The finer crystal salt that is ready for consumption has been extracted rudimentarily for centuries save for the time the defunct Katwe Salt Plant..

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José A. Alvarado Jr.

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A New York native, José A. Alvarado Jr. (b. 1989) is a Puerto Rican documentary photographer, currently based in New York City. His personal work consists of documenting sub-cultures, politics, and the relationship between Puerto Rico and the US. He speaks both English and Spanish. His work has been published by: The New York Times LENS,..

Copan during quarantine

Joao Pina

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The Copan building the largest residential building in Brazil, with 1160 apartments and over 5000 residents living in downtown São Paulo is a small city. Designed by the famous architect Oscar Niemeyer in the 1950's, it was meant so people from all economical spectrums could live in center of South America's most populated city...

Education through WhatsApp

David Diaz // Fluxus Foto

Children Documentary Education Pandemics Photography Photojournalism School/College Spotlight

Education through WhatsApp is a photography project developed by Fluxus Foto with support of National Geographic Society. That aims to make visible the increasing social inequalities regarding access to education in elementary school in Ecuador, its consequences and responses during the COVID 19 emergency. Ecuador the government..

Half Way to the Rail-Station in the Hot Summer Weather

Stacy Morrison

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This series is an elegy to the lives and deaths of my great-aunts who perished in the Holocaust. The title is drawn from an essay by Virginia Woolf describing her own great-aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron in a 1926 publication of her photographs.

Vestiges

Felix Marquez

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It is a catalog of objects recovered by the families of the reporters murdered during the last decade in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The series explores the identity and life of the murdered reporters and photojournalists, recording from the intimacy of their garments to their work tools, as a tangible way to know who they are. The details and..

home is in my imagination

Katrin Streicher

Community Documentary Horna Stubna Memory Migration Minority Photography Portraiture Slovakia Spotlight

In my photographs I focus on the village Horná Štubňa (German: Oberstuben) in Slovakia where my grandfather lived until he was 17 years old. Before WWII the village belonged to a German language island. The German population was expelled in 1945. Members of the community today have blended into Slovakian society; yet being..

Winner EAW National Geographic Award

Sanne Derks

News Spotlight

I am thrilled to announce that I have won the EAW National Geographic Award during the Eddie Adams Workshop 2020. The award is given to one of the hundred selected participants of the workshop to recognize their commitment to both the values of the Eddie Adam's legacy and their passion for their projects. Being selected for the Eddie Adams..

Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant Recipient

joana toro

News Spotlight

Honored to be part of the 3 grantees of Eyewitness Photojournalism grant by Pulitzer center and Diversify Photo. Pulitzer Center and Diversify Photo Announce Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant Recipients The three recipients of the inaugural Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant will document underreported issues across the United States.

In The Ring

Silvia Ros

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In the Ring: The Art of Boxing 2003-2008 It is not superficial thing, a fad or moment of a generation. It is as deep as our consciousness and is woven into the fibers of our being. This is the ape and the tiger in us, granted, but it is in us, isn’t it? Jack London on boxing, Dallas Times Herald, July 17, 1910 When boxers..

The Waiting

Sayan Hazra

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Another Family

Shin Woong-jae

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On November 23, 2018, in the international hall of the Korea Press Center, Kim Ki-nam, then president (and now vice chairman) of Samsung Electronics, read from a prepared statement of apology. He directed his comments to those who’d fallen ill or died from their work in the company’s semiconductor and LCD plants, and the..

Homecoming

Muhammad Abdulaziz

Fine Art Spotlight

'Perhaps I was looking for something that refuses to be photographed. I was only chasing shadows, perhaps.' 'I embrace the apocalypse.I can easily blame my mother and father for my obsession with meaning and purpose.' Santu Mofokeng 1956 – 2020. Homecoming is a safe space where I am still exploring ‘home’ as a..

The Children of the Sea

Brigitte Grignet

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IBIS was created in 1906 by King Albert in Ostend (Belgium) to offer a home and a maritime school to orphan boys whose father had perished at sea. Traditionally the children would be taken in by other fishermen families. But it was a heavy charge and the boys would often end up working in the fields. IBIS offered them a home and a professional..

holy cow

Carolina Arantes

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Having been – for more then a thousand year a sacred animal in Hinduism, the Zebu has it’s own cult in a lively capitalist occidental country, being admired, respected and studied on as one of the most significant commodities of the Brazilian international commerce. Brought to Brazil in lately 19th century, it has adapted to the..