35 Magnum Photographers Give Their Advice to Aspiring Photographers.
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Photographer Jooney Woodward has won this year’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, worth £12,000, for her portrait of a 13-year-old girl with a guinea pig
The winning image was taken in the guinea pig judging area at the Royal Welsh Show, says winner Jooney Woodward. “I found her image immediately striking with her long, red hair and white stewarding coat. She is holding her own guinea pig called Gentleman Jack, named after the Jack Daniel’s whisky box in which he was given to her. Using natural light from a skylight above, I took just three frames and this image was the first.” Woodward used a Mamiya RZ medium format camera to shoot her winning image.
Woodward, who studied graphic design at the Camberwell College of Arts, received a £12,000 cash prize last night, as the National Portrait Gallery unveiled its 2011 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait exhibition.
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Author: Olivier Laurent from The BJP.
Facundo Arrizabalaga has won the single image category of the British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Award with this image, which shows protesters standing by a vandalised bus stop during a student demonstration against university tuition fees in central London, 24 November 2010. Lines of police were holding back thousands of protesters in Britain’s capital city, in a wave of protests against higher tuition fees and university budget cuts. Image © EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga.
Arrizabalaga is a freelance press photographer, who regularly works with the European PressPhoto Agency and the Independent on Sunday. Originally from Argentina, he is now based in London and his images have also been published by The Guardian, The Times, BBC, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, The New York Times, The Observer, Time Magazine, The Financial Times, Photoshot and many more. He said he couldn’t believe he had won – but added that the image was his favourite shot of 2010. “I am really happy because, above all, it is a press photo that has been chosen,” he said.
“I was working for the European PressPhoto Agency on that day,” he added. “The students were kettled by the police at Whitehall after a long day. Some protestors started to light a fire by a bus shelter near Downing Street and it was getting dark, a few of my colleagues were working around it. I decided to go to the other side and spotted the guy with the Arsenal [football] scarf and everything going on around him. I know I had something and moved in straight away.”
Click on the link to view full size image and article http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2114384/facundo-arrizabalaga-wins-ipa-single-image-prize
Article taken from the BJP.
For the past two years, Spanish photographer Fernando Moleres has been helping juvenile detainees in some of the most violent prisons of Sierra Leone. He speaks to BJP about the authorities’ inactions and how he’s trying to make a difference.
To view the rest of the article plus a video piece click on the link - http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/q-and-a/2106122/visa-pour-limage-fernando-moleres-struggle-help-juvenile-prisoners-sierra-leone
Author: Olivier Laurent from the BJP.
Click on the link to view the project http://www.humanendeavour.co.uk/#/degeneration/4554842805
Human Endeavour is a photographic collective originally conceived in late 2007 by Murray Ballard, Simon Carruthers, Richard Chivers and Alex Currie. The aim of Human Endeavour was to bring together like-minded photographers with a view to curating and enabling the set up and exhibition of new works around a central theme. The objective was to exhibit photographic work that was themed in conjunction with ideas of human activity and intervention that resonate with important topical issues of the day, affecting the wider society as a whole.
For the purposes of the first show, as part of the Brighton Photo Fringe in 2008, the four participants attempted to convey ideas of human intervention and activity, which included the societal impacts of re-cycling, geological and human intervention through quarrying, thoughts of death and immortality observed through cryogenics and the impacts of globalisation and homogenisation, as reflected in one of the worlds biggest ports and beyond. To do this a successful application was made to the Arts Council of England, with the full backing of the Brighton Photo Fringe. The show ran for six weeks for the duration of the Photo Fringe and Brighton Photo Biennial. As well as achieving all the criteria set out by the Arts Council, the show was a huge public and critical success, with upwards of 1000 visitors, and many online and printed reviews in a variety of publications such as Source and Foto8 magazines.
