Video

Oliver Morris
A poem in images

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The American photographer and journalist Oliver Morris sent us this video that he made from his images. He accompanied it with these words: “For two wonderful gentlemen, Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington, who loved and lived in New York”.

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

In memoriam

The death of
Tim Hetherington

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The news fell at the end of the afternoon. Tim Hetherington was just killed in a mortar attack in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros, in critical condition, but alive. Then just a few hours later, Chris died. Tim Hetherington, born in Liverpool, was 41 years old. He had...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

In memoriam

The death of
Chris Hondros

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Following injury to his head, Chris Hondros died a few hours after Tim. Wednesday, a photo that he had shot made the front page of the Washington Post. A man portrayed digging out a tomb in a cemetary in Misrata. Chris was 41 years old, member of Getty agency ...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

In the Shadow of Things
Leonie Hampton

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Forma Foundation for Photography in Milan presents an exhibition by award-winning photographer Léonie Hampton (formally Léonie Purchas) about her mother’s Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Alixandra Fazzina
Escape from Somalia

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There are few places in the world more difficult and dangerous for journalists to work than in lawless Somalia. Similarly, living in the country which has been embattled by civil war since 1991 involves unrelenting poverty, unrestrained violence and little hope for sudden ch...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

From La Courneuve to Chicago

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The Mona Bismark Foundation is hosting the photo exhibition An Eye for an Eye, photographs by teenagers from La Courneuve and from Altgeld Gardens, a neighborhood in southern Chicago where Barack Obama began as a social worker.

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Neu-Ulm
The Walther collection

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This past summer a new complex of buildings in Neu-Ulm (Germany) opened to the public. It is owned by The Walter Family Foundation and the stated purpose is to show photography. In addition to exhibitions the beautifully conceived spaces will be used for curatoria...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Jo Ratcliffe
Chelsea, New York

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The Walther Collection now has a second space in New York City, in Chelsea. Appropriately called the Walther Collection Project Space it opened April 14, 2011 with an exhibition of the work of South African photographer Jo Ractliffe. It is an exhibit that explores...

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