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The Irish Travelers

Rebecca Moseman
The Irish Travelers who were once referred to as “tinkers” or “gypsies” are an insular ethnic group that has lived on the fringes of mainstream Irish ...

Afghan Women Demand to be Heard

Kiana Hayeri

Afro Fashion Week in Milan, Italy

Valeria Ferraro
The fourth edition of the Afro Fashion Week organized by Michelle Francine Ngonmo (president, originally from Cameroon), and Ruth Akutu Maccarthy (vice-president, originally ...

Return:The Landscape of Memory

Sylvia de Swaan
“Return/The Landscape of Memory” is about travel, individual and collective memory and identity; return to my roots, transience and loss, metaphor and flashbacks. ...
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New England Aquarium Partners With Scout To Host The Opening Day of 2020 Film Festival

Scout Film Festival
Scout is delighted to announce that the opening day of Scout Film Festival 2020 , Thursday, April 16, will be hosted by Global leader in marine conservation the New England ...

Into the Streets exhibition heading to Opava, CZ, adding non-UK protests for the first time

David Sladek
David Sladek's exhibition Into the Streets (Pictures from the Depth of London's Protests) will open in Opava, CZ on 12th March 2020. Over 40 images spanning 3 years of ...

Open Call for Emerging Filmmakers Grant

Scout Film Festival
Scout Film Festival is accepting submissions for the 2020 Emerging Filmmakers Grant . For the second year, this grant is sponsored by American director and screenwriter ...

Design/Illustration Open Call

Scout Film Festival
Scout Film Festival is launching a ONE WEEK open call to designers/illustrators worldwide aged 24 and under. This is an opportunity for your artwork to be featured on ...
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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, ...

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. ...

on The Daring: Visura Founder Adriana Teresa Letorney - Parts of a Whole

Interview by Ioana Friedman for The Daring
“From a tech perspective, we always have a choice. Do we want to foster respect, integrity, kindness, and unity, even when we differ? And there might be emotions. ...

SPOTLIGHT: Antonio Pulgarin & The Sun that Frightens the Cold

Interview by Clary Estes for The Visura Media Blog
Antonio Pulgarin is a Colombian-American lens-based artist who uses photography, photographic collage and mixed media. Recently, Pulgarin announced his first solo ...
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East Harlem Book Review via Photograph

powerHouse Books
Jan/Feb 2020: Photo Books You won’t find Leo Goldstein in any of the dictionaries, encyclopedias, or guides to photographic history. Although one of his ...

Rare photos of Richard Avedon, from the lens of his longtime assistant

powerHouse Books
Rare photos of Richard Avedon, from the lens of his longtime assistant  Gideon Lewin, who worked with famed photographer Richard Avedon for 16 years, recounts his ...

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 ...

Drive-ins (2004)

Joan Liftin
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Feature in The New York Times for the opening of the Group Show at Gracie Mansion: “Catalyst: Art and Social Justice.”

Martine Fougeron
Glad to be featured in The New York Times with four of my photographs from my "South Bronx Trades" project in the group exhibition "Catalyst: Art and Social ...

75th Anniversary Allied Bombing of Dresden, Germany

craig stennett
Here is the image used (kindly sent over to me by Matt Fearn-Picture Editor of The Daily Telegraph (UK) of the 75th commemoration of the Allied bombing of Dresden, Germany. ...

On The Daring: Architect Jake Thiel on Sustainability

The Daring with music by Ben Tyree
"Architecture's a very poetic craft. There are many beautiful things in nature. Beautiful mountains, rock formations, natural bridges, and arches. And if we could ...

Financial Times Portrait

Andre Malerba
A recent portrait of Hannah Ryder for the Financial Times. She and her family are staying in a friend’s apartment temporarily after leaving Beijing, China, due to the ...
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The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: Our Story

Pulitzer Center
Our name signals "journalism" to most of the world, and yet people don't always fully grasp how our model works. Are we an aggregator? Are we agents for ...

‘I Wonder As I Wander’, a Film by Emeka Okereke

Emeka Okereke
I have just wrapped up a new short film on the great Berlin-based Nigerian photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi whose career spans over 4 decades. Some more info on the film below: ...

On The Daring: Photographer Luciano Fileti on Becoming Present

The Daring with music by Ben Tyree
In this week’s episode, we discuss openness with Luciano Fileti. Luciano is a commercial photographer in the fashion and still life space in New York, and he’s ...

Storyteller Summit Day 1: National Geographic

Gulshan Khan
Honored to have presented at this year's National Geographic Summit.