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Léonie Hampton featured in May Firecracker

Léonie Hampton featured in May Firecracker

Firecracker’s featured photographer for May is Léonie Hampton, who was 2008 finalist for the IM Award for her project “In the Shadow of Things.” Firecracker is an online platform dedicated to supporting European women photographers. Léonie Hampton is a British photographer who after graduating in Art History, continued her studies in Photojournalism at the London College of Communications. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Paul Huf Award 2009 and the ‘F’ Award for concerned photography 2008. Her work is part of the permanent collection of

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Maison Européenne de la Photographie, France and Foam Museum, Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited internationally including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Palazzo Delle Esposizione in Rome and Foam Museum Amsterdam. In May 2011 Contrasto published her first book: In the Shadow of Things.

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Inge Morath featured in Foam 26: Happy Issue

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In Happy, we explore happiness and its relationship with photography; photos that make us smile, the memories they evoke, the humour that makes us laugh.

Happy as a state of mind immediately draws us back to our childhood, when this innocent straight forward feeling is more common without being consciously aware of it. As we grow older and our self-consciousness takes over, happiness seems much more difficult and complex to achieve…

IM Mag 2010/2011, IM Magazine

Bieke Depoorter: Oe Menia & I am About to Call it a Day

Bieke Depoorter (Belgium): Oe Menia & I am About to Call it a Day (in progress)

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In Bieke Depoorter’s previous travels and projects, short and intense encounters have been important elements. Her images lead us to the different people she has met along way, into whose personal stories she has been absorbed during a single night. This series is a composition of pictures from two different projects. The first part (slides 1-20), oe media, was photographed in Russia, during 2008 and ’09. A book documenting this project will be released in August 2011. The second part of the series (slides 21-40) was created in America, during 2010 and ’11; this work is still progress. In April 2011 I will spend a fourth month in the United States to continue my work there.

In oe menia, for three periods of one month, I have let the Trans-Siberian train guide me alongside forgotten villages, from living room to living room. Some Russian words, scribbled on a little piece of paper, allowed me to be welcomed and absorbed in the warm chaos of a family. Accidental encounters led me to the places where I could sleep. The living room, the epicenter of their lives, establishes an intimate contact between the Russian inhabitants. For a brief moment, I was part of this. Their couch became my bed for one night. This way, I experienced transient, but very powerful, shared moments.

Parallel with this idea, I have traveled for three months to the United States. Also here, I enter the life of families I’ve met on the street. This series focuses more on the personal space of the people I meet, literally and figuratively. However, the social contact I have with these people (and the mutual trust for them to take me into their most intimate privacy) stays an important element in my work.

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Call for Proposals: Moving Walls 19

Call for Proposals: Moving Walls 19 Documentary Photography Exhibition

The Open Society Foundations invite photographers to submit a body of work for consideration in the Moving Walls 19 group exhibition. The deadline for applications is Friday, April 1, 2011, 5pm EST. Moving Walls is an exhibition series that features in-depth and nuanced explorations of human rights and social issues. Thematically linked to the Open Society Foundations mission, Moving Walls is exhibited at Open Society offices in New York and Washington, D.C., and includes seven discrete bodies of work. See Moving Walls 18 slideshow. For information about the application process, please view the Moving Walls guidelines.

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Emily Schiffer Receives Emergency Fund Support

Emily Schiffer receives Emergency Fund Support

Inge Morath Award recipient Emily Schiffer (2009) is one of ten photographers selected by the Magnum Foundation to receive project support from the Emergency Fund during 2011. The Foundation has committed $100,000 to support experienced independent photographers working to document critical issues that have been overlooked or underrepresented by mainstream media.

According to the Foundation’s press release, “A group of 10 photography professionals nominated 100 photographers to submit proposals. The recipients were selected—based on the strength of their work and the importance of the issues they proposed to address—by an independent Editorial Board comprised of: Bob Dannin, former editorial director of Magnum Photos and professor of history at Suffolk University, renowned author Philip Gourevitch and Marc Kusnetz, former senior producer for NBC News and consultant for Human Rights First.”

The other nine recipients are: Balazs Gardi, Ian Teh, Jonas Bendiksen, Julius Mwelu, Justin Jin, Stephen Ferry, Teun Voeten, Yuri Kozyrev and Zalmai.

IM Mag 2010/2011, IM Magazine

Liz Hingley: Under Gods. Stories from the Soho Road

Liz Hingley (UK): Under Gods. Stories from the Soho Road.

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I grew up as the daughter of two Anglican priests in Birmingham, one of the UK’s most culturally diverse cities where over 90 different nationalities now live. I was the only white child in my nursery class. I ate Indian treats at friends’ birthday parties and attended Sikh festivals in the local park. After travelling abroad and living in various other cities I became aware of the particularity of my upbringing. I developed an interest in the growth of multi-faith communities in European inner city contexts, and the attendant issues of immigration, secularism and religious revival.

Between 2007-2009, I explored the two-mile stretch of Soho Road in Birmingham, to document and celebrate the rich diversity of religions that co-exist there, and the reality and intensity of their different lifestyles. I lived with and visited the different religious communities, including Thai, Sri Lankan and Vietnamese Buddhists, Rastafarians, the Jesus Army evangelical Christians, Sikhs, Catholic nuns and Hare Krishnas. The lively bus journeys along Soho Road on a Sunday were always insightful. They took Christian individuals to church congregations meeting in a tent in the local park or a school gym hall. Continue reading Liz Hingley: Under Gods. Stories from the Soho Road →

IM Mag 2010/2011, IM Magazine

Lijie Zhang: Forgotten Victims of SARS Sequelae

Lijie Zhang (China): The Forgotten Victims of SARS Sequelae

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In 2003, an unknown virus, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), spread rapidly in the mainland of China. The high mortality and high infection rates of SARS brought tremendous panic, and many people died in the disaster.

Due to lack of experience, glucocorticoids was used extensively for emergency treatment of SARS patients, especially in Beijing, where SARS was widespread. Excessive use of hormones is widely considered the main cause of one of Sequela of SARS: Osteonecrosis of the femoral head. Many Osteonecrosis sufferers lost the ability to work; they cannot stand to walk due to the severity of its symptoms. It is difficult for them to take care of themselves in daily life, and some are forced to replace their natural joints of the femoral head with artificial ones. Continue reading Lijie Zhang: Forgotten Victims of SARS Sequelae →

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Inge Morath Award, 2011 Guidelines

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The Inge Morath Award, 2011

Magnum Foundation LogoThe Magnum Foundation and the Inge Morath Foundation announce the tenth annual Inge Morath Award. The annual prize of $5,000 is awarded by the Magnum Foundation to a female documentary photographer under the age of 30, to support the completion of a long-term documentary project. One award winner and up to two finalists are selected by a jury composed of Magnum photographers.

Inge Morath was an Austrian-born photographer who was associated with Magnum Photos for nearly fifty years. After her death in 2002, the Inge Morath Foundation was established to manage Morath’s estate and facilitate the study and appreciation of her contribution to photography. Because Morath devoted much of her enthusiasm to encouraging women photographers, her colleagues at Magnum Photos established the Inge Morath Award in her honor. The Award is now given by the Magnum Foundation as part of its mission of supporting new generations of socially-conscious documentary photographers, and is administered by the Magnum Foundation in collaboration with the Inge Morath Foundation.

Past winners of the Inge Morath Award include: Lurdes R. Basolí (Spain, ’10) for Caracas, The City of Lost Bullets and Claire Martin (Australia, ’10) for Selections from The Downtown East Side and Slab City; Emily Schiffer (US, ’09) for Cheyenne River; Kathryn Cook (US, ’08) for Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide; Olivia Arthur (UK, ’07) for The Middle Distance; Jessica Dimmock (US, ’06) for The Ninth Floor; Mimi Chakarova (US, ’06) for Sex Trafficking in Eastern Europe; Claudia Guadarrama (MX, ’05) for Before the Limit; and Ami Vitale (US, ’02), for Kashmir.

Deadline:

All submissions must be postmarked or delivered by April 30th, 2011.

Form of Submission:

– Images should be sent as a PDF document ONLY (no Quicktime, Powerpoint, or HTML files will be accepted).
– Please do NOT format your document as a slideshow; we’ll do that for you. Also, please do not password-protect your file.
– A subfolder with the individual image files must accompany the PDF file.
– All submissions must consist of work done solely by the submitting photographer.

Required Support Material:

– Printed project description.
– Printed Curriculum Vitae (maximum three pages) including name, email address, telephone number, and mailing address.
– Photocopy or scan of ID clearly showing date of birth. Applicants must still be under the age of 30 before April 30th, 2011.
– Photographers represented by Magnum Photos and their immediate relatives are not eligible.

Image File Specifications:

– 40 – 60 images (1200 pixels on the longest side @ 150 DPI saved as a Jpeg compression at 8 minimum).
In the subfolder containing individual images, please use numbered filenames indicating the image sequence, with the number coming first in the file name and then last name; for example: 01_Smith, 02_Smith, 03_Smith etc. (use only two digit numbers; 01, 02, 03, etc.). The first page of your document should show your name and the title of your project, if any.

– Please label your CD with your name and contact information before sending it, and please test the CD to ensure that both it and your slideshow are functional.

Mail or Digital Submission:

Submissions may be sent on CD by mail to the address below.

Alternately, if you wish to submit your files digitally, using a service such as Yousendit, please direct your submission to [email protected]. It is highly recommended that anyone using a digital delivery service contact the Inge Morath Foundation to directly confirm that your submission has been received. (Please do NOT contact Magnum.)

Return of Submissions:

Submissions that are not accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope will not be returned. Applicants waive any claims for loss of or damage to their submissions.

Announcement of Winner:

July 2011 on the web sites of the Magnum Foundation and the Inge Morath Foundation.

Fine Print:

Applicants grant the Magnum Foundation a license to reproduce, display and distribute their submissions solely in connection with the administration and judging of the Inge Morath Award, including on the Magnum Foundation website and the Inge Morath Foundation website.

Winners of the Inge Morath Award agree that any future publication, exhibition or display of the funded project shall credit the Inge Morath Award and the Magnum Foundation.

Upon completion of the funded project, a final (digital) copy must be provided to the Magnum Foundation. The Foundation, in furtherance of its charitable purposes, may, in the future, (1) display the project on its website and make it available for display on the website of the Inge Morath Foundation; and (2) publicly display the project (or excepts from it) in connection with exhibitions or promotional materials related to the Inge Morath Award. The Foundation will credit the artist as the author and copyright holder of her photographs.

Winners may be required to provide additional identifying information prior to receiving payment.

Send Submissions To:

Inge Morath Award
c/o The Magnum Foundation
151 West 25th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10001 USA

For Further Information:

IM Foundation Contact Info

IM Mag 2010/2011, IM Magazine

Boryana Katsarova: Lonely Bulgaria

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Boryana Katsarova (Bulgaria): Lonely Bulgaria

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Lonely Bulgaria is the first part of the long-term documentary photography project “Balkan Peninsula.” It is about Bulgaria, a small Balkan country which is also my native land.

This project is inspired by the sadness of – and my unwillingness to accept – the heavy social reality in my country. It is my personal fight against the poverty, the loneliness, and the depopulation of Bulgaria. Mainly, it is a project about the social situation in the urban areas in the country. It is a project about the people.

Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the end of Communist rule, 10 November, 1989. Founded in 681, Bulgaria is one of the oldest states in Europe. The country became a Member State of the European Union on 1 January, 2007. Continue reading Boryana Katsarova: Lonely Bulgaria →

IM Mag 2010/2011, IM Magazine

Poulomi Basu: To Conquer Her Land

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Poulomi Basu (India/UK): To Conquer Her Land

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The border areas between India and Pakistan are like their own world. Since partition in 1947, the border has seen war, smuggling (people, arms, drugs), firing, jingoistic parades, killing, suicide bombing, fireworks, lonely tears and moments of glory.

On September 2009, India’s first ever batch of women soldiers were deployed at the country’s first line of defence, at the India-Pakistan border in Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir.

After months of doing research and gaining access I started my project in June 2009 with these women. I spent time with some of these young women at their boot camp, homes and eventually at the zero line exploring and documenting their transformation from a woman to a soldier. Somewhere during my journey I began to comprehend the acute realities of this job. They may be soldiers now, the protectors of the land, but the harshness of the desolate border and this way of life takes its toll. Stationed on a critical border, they patrol the barren lands and try to come to terms with their new responsibilities. Continue reading Poulomi Basu: To Conquer Her Land →