World Press Photo invites photojournalists from Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia to apply to participate in the first of three Reporting Change workshops. The first workshop will focus on the development of the participant’s technical, journalistic and visual...

09.10.2012[ read full story ]

fotoprize, a new prize created by fotofever, accompanies a young photographer taking his or her first steps into the art market. fotofever is offering Anna Orlowska, winner of the first fotoprize, a solo exhibition during its art fair in Brussels, from October 4 – 7, 2012. So...

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The thirty books shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards were officially announced at the New York Art Book Fair, where Aperture presented the third issue of The PhotoBook Review. The shortlist was selected by Julien Frydman, Chris Boot, Phillip Blo...

03.10.2012[ read full story ]

Parallel to the documentary film 'I am Gay and Muslim', I made a photo series of the men who are part of the film or contributed to it. This photo document gave them an opportunity to show themselves, facing the many dilemmas young, gay Muslims are struggling with in their quest ...

01.10.2012[ read full story ]

In Loser 2011 I embody the champions of the post-soviet era in this country – Martin has three children with different women and he believes in marriage, Veiko works in Finland and hates immigrants, and Lauri is a closeted homophobe. 

The expected values of Estonian citizens are nat...

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Being "positive" twenty years ago was certain to result in death. 
The gay community had to learn how to deal with it and, although so many people died, nobody knows yet why a few didn't. Rejected by society because of their double condition (homosexual and hiv +) and even by the ga...

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In Singapore, public parks serve as a recreational space day and night. However, some leisure activities such as cruising fall outside of the parks prescribed usage. Public stigma against such alternative nocturnal activities dictates a need for secrecy, but privacy in a public s...

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Bananas are bananas because people say they are. Gender is constructed the same way. One is a woman because people say one is. One is a man because people say so. Therefore, gender is no more than a performative act, a field of expression, interpretation and manipulation.

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While living in Vancouver I resided in the demonized area known as the Downtown Eastside (DTES). I worked part-time in some of the residential housing programs and produced this series as an independent photographer. I met some of these drug-addicted subjects through work, met others i...

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