The Fulani people are at the heart of the tensions that threaten the balance of a swath of the African continent. Winner of the 2020 Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière Photography Award, photojournalist Pascal Maitre, a specialist in Africa, paints a portrait of a now-endangered ancestral way of life.
The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography was awarded to Maxim Dondyuk for his project Ukraine 2014/22, which looks at the country’s battle for independence. Mary F. Calvert received the Smith Fellowship, with special awards going to Shirley Abrahamm and Amit Madeshiya, along with Ta Mwe.
A visual story by photographer Sasha Maslov / Institute.
Yelena Yemchuk spent five years photographing Odessa and its inhabitants. And then came the Russian invasion.
Yelena Yemchuk’s latest book is a journey in three chapters, starting from the end.
The Ukrainians who have come to Banská Štiavnica have found help in those who call the town home. Their journeys to Slovakia have not been easy, and the effects of the war have left sometimes invisible marks on those who have arrived. But with the help of the townspeople, they are working to settle down and create new, safe lives for themselves and their families.
In Italy, Cortona on the Move festival this year focuses on the photographer’s legitimacy and authorship, and on the different applications of photography outside of the fine-art and documentary fields.
For four years photographer Camilla de Maffei explored the sparsely populated region of the Danube delta, a labyrinth of water and marshes overlooking the Black Sea.
As the War in Ukraine continues, refugees continue to flee from the conflict into neighboring countries. In Slovakia, the Ukrainians who have come to the country work to integrate their lives with those of their new neighbors.
Autocracy is on the rise. An obvious statement maybe, but one rooted more and more firmly in the present albeit with a shaky-hand salute to
A member of the VU’ Agency since 2021, Guillaume Herbaut has been observing history and current events with a keen eye for over thirty years.
As the war continues in Ukraine and many Russians try to leave their own country, we look back at photographer Bela Doka’s series on the motivations of the Russian youth that historically supported the president.
In War (2014-2022) published by 89 books, photographer Oleksandr Glyadyelov covers eight years of war in Ukraine.
A charity sale at the Ki Smith Gallery, in partnership with the MUUS Collection, is raising money for The Kyiv Independent through the photojournalist’s work.
The third edition of the “Le champ des impossibles” festival includes the works of 32 artists about trees, mixing paintings, sculpture and photography. It is an event with a rural atmosphere to raise awareness among its public, the locals and its guests about modern visual languages.
Eight months after the previous iteration, which was postponed till the fall due to the pandemic, the art fair Photo London returns to Somerset House
The Musée de l’Armée in Paris offers a first glimpse into its photographic archives in an exhibition that traces the representation of war and the evolution of images of combat from 1849 to the present. This essential event shares some important lessons.
Photojournalists Carol Guzy and Farzana Wahidy were also recognized as honorees. In its 8th year, the award is given to women photojournalists who exhibit extraordinary courage and humanity in reporting from areas of instability, oppression, and conflict.
Photographer Ismail Ferdous has documented the daily life of the Ukrainian soldiers stationed in the west.
In the Zakarpattia Oblast region of Ukraine, to the far west of the country, lies the city of Chop. This railroad hub is an easy access to the borders with Hungary and Slovakia as those displaced by the war in the East flee to safety in Ukraine’s West and the NATO countries beyond the borders.
Trains in Ukraine are an indispensable means of transport for millions of refugees. The photographer Rafael Yaghobzadeh has documented the railway network in Ukraine during wartime — at night, when there are fewer wandering souls.
The street artist made the work for the cover of Time magazine.
At 72, Patrick Chauvel covers the war in Ukraine for Paris-Match. A few hours before his departure, he welcomed Blind at his home to look back on his 50 years of war photography. Half a century of history told in an album published for the 30th anniversary of Reporters Without Borders, entitled 100 photos for freedom of the press.
Photographer Mark Neville’s anti-war book on Ukraine turns documentary work into activism
Photographer Ismail Ferdous, special correspondent for Blind, spent a week documenting the daily life of Ukrainian refugees outside the borders of their country. His images reveal deep humanity.
Ukraininan photographer Lisa Bukreyeva keeps a war diary during the first days of Russia’s invasion in her country.
As the war in Ukraine continues to spread fear throughout the world, Blind collected testimonies and images from Ukrainian photographers on the ground. They tell their personal story.
It’s been said that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric” insomuch as that even poetry — the first art — requires us to attempt
Sergey Bubka is the most famous Ukrainian champion in history. In this period of support to his country, Jean-Denis Walter, former editor-in-chief of French sports newspaper L’Equipe Magazine tells the story this picture, made by the photographer Gérard Rancinan.
Since 2014 Rafael Yaghozbadeh kept following the conflict in Ukraine, beyond the front line.
The ImageSingulières center of photography in Sète (France) presents the work of two photographers with an ecological message. “Bastard CountrySide” by Robin Friend and “Oil and Moss” by Igor Tereshkov are on view until March 6, 2022.
Nadine Ijewere, the first black woman to shoot for the cover of Vogue in 2018, has published her first monograph with Prestel Editions.
Today’s Russia is known mostly for its politics, the splendor of Saint Petersburg, and Moscow’s monuments. To get into the heart of the largest nation on the planet, Blind hits the road with four young photographers who explore their country’s territory and memory.
The ongoing series “My Own Wings” by photographers Carla Moral and Katia Repina showcases the stories of people harmed by the narrow confines of binary gender essentialism.
Corentin Fohlen has worked as a photojournalist since 2005. Afghanistan, Ukraine, Sudan: he has crisscrossed the world documenting conflict and poverty. To take a break from reporting, he often does celebrity portraits in France: political figures, filmmakers, actors, and singers; every time the subject must be “managed,” as he puts it, to create original, surprising images.
In September 2018, photographer Yegan Mazandarani traveled to the secessionist, self-proclaimed, unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic on the Russian-Ukrainian border to photograph its inhabitants. His images, taken with empathy, are now brought together in a book.
Jonk travels around the world in search of derelict sites he likes to photograph. He has just published a book, Goodbye Lenin, featuring places in the former Soviet Union and its satellite countries. He offers us advice and shares some thoughts on the art of photographing decay.
For a third consecutive year, FOAM (or Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam) showcases emerging talents at the Red Hook Labs Gallery in Brooklyn.
The Portrait(s) Vichy Photography Festival is launching its 7th edition this summer: a panoply of faces captured by a bevy of artists. We bring you a sneak preview of their work.
Every summer, La Gacilly Photo Festival takes over a small Breton town. For its 16th edition, the festival focuses on Eastern European and Russian photography. Here we provide a sneak peek at some of the works featured among the 26 exhibitions.
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