The London Street Photography Festival is dead. Long lives the London Festival of Photography. Launched as a strict street photography festival in 2011, it has now widened its remit to encompass a broader range of photography from conceptual to documentary. “The London Street Photo...

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Human Rights Watch’s role is to defend and protect human rights around the world, giving a voice to the oppressed while holding oppressors accountable for their crimes. When Libya fell, last year, Peter Bouckaert, the organisation’s emergencies director, was on the ground w...

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Lives of Others is Firecracker's first physical exhibition, coming on the heels of 18 months of online showcases. The brainchild of Fiona Rogers, Firecracker is an avenue to present the work of European women photographers at a time when, says Rogers, who also acts...

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Beneath The Surface is Steve Bloom’s first exhibition of photographs he took in the mid-1970s in South Africa, during apartheid. “This body of work is a reflection of South Africa at the point where unstoppable dissent was just beginning, and it culminated in South Africa’s first ev...

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It’s only fitting that the London Festival of Photography would commemorate the great British public at a time when the entire planet will turn their attention on London as the Queen is celebrating 60 years on the thrones and the world’s biggest sport games come to the Great Bri...

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Frederick Wilfred died in 2010, but for 60 years of his life, he took a camera with him wherever he went. In the 1950s, he worked as a chief photographer for Hawker Siddely Aviation, before opening his own camera shop, and later a commercial and portrait studio.

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Kurt Tong was born in Hong Kong in 1977, but quickly moved to England. “I got sent here for school,” he says, “and I married and started a family here.” Growing up, he lived between three different cultures – that of Hong Kong, but also the Chinese and English cultures – bringing questions to ...

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Simon Roberts is best known for his monographs Motherland and We English, both published by Chris Boot. But, over the past 18 months, the photographer has been looking at modes of representing the physical, political and social effects of economic change in Great Britain.

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Wasma Mansour was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, but is now based in London, where she has been completing a research project at the London College of Communication. Her work explores “the construction and reflection of the multiple identities of single Saudi women through the medi...

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Life is always a hard balance. Wether we convert to banality or we run towards the untravelled paths, we always try to find the right equilibrium, the one that set us in motion. More than often, we seek objects to help find this precarity that we so love to discover. Photography certa...

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At the beginning of the week, I was determined to battle with the prevailing disorder, the daily nonsense, the dashed hopes... but then Syria, Quebec and “luckily” a hideous massacre in Houla forced our newspapers, hunched over their calculators tapping out their profits, to ...

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Domestic Tourism II is the second phase of a project about tourism, consumption and popular culture in Cairo. The first chapter features pictures inspired by stereotypical postcard images. The second is a film made of clips from Egyptian cinema featuring images and sound bytes about...

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