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.”
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Article taken from the BJP.
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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.
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Author: Olivier Laurent from the BJP.
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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.
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James Mollison`s sensational body of work entitled ‘Where Children Sleep’. a beautiful and sometimes stark look at the bedrooms of children across the globe.
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Mollison’s new book, “Where Children Sleep,” had its origins in a project undertaken for a children’s charity several years ago. As he considered how to represent needy children around the world, he wanted to avoid the common devices: pleading eyes, toothless smiles. When he visualized his own childhood, he realized that his bedroom said a lot about what sort of life he led. So he set out to find others.
His subjects came from Boy Scout troops and sumo wrestling clubs. They were introduced through friends of friends. Mr. Mollison posed his young subjects — more than 200 of them — in front of blank white backgrounds for their portraits, leaving their bedrooms to do the talking. More than 50 pairings are in the book, which has a glow-in-the-dark cover (a nod to the glow-in-the-dark stars on so many childhood ceilings).
As much as the project is about the quirkiness of childhood, it is, more strikingly, a commentary on class and on poverty. But the diversity also provides a sense of togetherness.
Everybody sleeps. And eventually, everybody grows up.
Text by KERRI MACDONALD from lens.blogs.nytimes.com.
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“For the first time ever,” five photographers have been shortlisted for the £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.
The photographers are Jasper Clarke, David Knight, Dona Schwartz, Jooney Woodward and Jill Wooster. In a statement, Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery, says: “Five great portraits emerged from closely argued discussion amongst the judges, and from another outstanding international submission for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.” The First Prize winner, which will be announced in November, will receive £12,000. The Second Prize comes with £2500 cash reward, while the Third Prize, Fourth Prize, and Fifth Prize winners receive £1500, £1000 and £500 respectively.
The five shortlisted portrait, which were selected from among more than 6000 entries from 2506 photographers, will go on show at the National Portrait Gallery from 10 November until 12 February 2012. The exhibition will also include a selection of 60 other portraits. For the third year running, one photographer from the exhibition will receive an Elle Magazine commission to shoot a feature story.
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