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Reportage - Photography Online
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Funding for photography and documentary film making projects
Posted in Articles Reportage is shifting focus. It used to be that photojournalists got reasonably well paid for their work, at least paid something that enabled them to keep doing what they do. However most will now agree those days are gone. It is becoming increasingly difficult to make a living as a traditional photojournalist, someone who spends [...]
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Floating Villages of Tonle Sap
Posted in Images  In Central Cambodia lies Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, Tonle Sap, home to vibrant communities living in floating villages and drawing that living from the lake’s waters. In self-contained villages where one can be born and die without touching dry land, these floating settlements support schools, clinics, markets, animal husbandry, and gas stations. While in [...]
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Uplanders Watery Struggle
Posted in Images  In Cox’s Bazaar and its surrounding islands like Sonadia, Kutubdia and Maheshkhali, the fishing industry is a profitable business. For many local islanders, it is their main profession. Others are equally attracted to this trade, leading to a steady trickle of migrant workers from adjoining areas. Just before dawn, the sun is yet to peep. [...]
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Nairobi Kids
Posted in Images  When you meet Anne-Sophie Rettel on the street, you would expect her to be just a normal 23-year-old woman from Leipzig, Germany. She likes partying, she works as a travel agent, she’s single and she raises funds for an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. “All started back in 2009 when I went to Kenya with a [...]
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The Disowned and the Denied
Posted in Images  For decades, the xenophobic, Burmese military junta has refused to recognize the Rohingya as a distinct Muslim ethnic minority living in western Burma. Internationally, their story is under reported. The Rohingya are probably the most voiceless and stateless refugee community in the world. Since early 2009, I have been photographing exiled Rohingya in Bangladesh, inside [...]
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Húicéir na Gallimhe – The Galway Hooker
Posted in Images  By 1970 only two remained, whereas eye witnesses report that they have seen 20 boats in the harbour of Inis Mór, the biggest of the three Árainn Islands and 35 boats sailing out of Conamara. Conamara is a coastal region in the north west of Galway bay which is situated on the West Coast of [...]
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Tribal Music in Tanzania
Posted in Images  In November of 2010, my father and I travelled into the bush of Tanzania to live with three remote tribes: the Maasai, the Barbaig and the Iraq. This was a journey of not only self discovery, but one of education and learning, as we went to locate the roots of tribal music in ancient cultures. [...]
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James Morgan – Makes the front page of the BBC web site today
Posted in Links http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12354346 Well worth listening to James Morgan (Reportage Featured: Eagle Hunters | Child Trafficking in Nepal) talk about the Coral Triangle project he has been working on for the last few months. Photography by James Morgan
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Format International Photography Festival
Posted in Links http://www.formatfestival.com/ ‘Right Here, Right Now’ | Exposures from the public realm 4th March – 3rd April 2011 | Derby, UK
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John Amedick and his M9
Posted in Links http://blog.leica-camera.com/guest-blog-post/john-amedick-bids-photokina-farewell-to-rescue-trapped-miners-in-chile/ John Amedick explains how his M9 became part of his engineering toolbox during the Chilean miner rescue efforts.
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