Jurors selected the winning image among tens of thousands of photos submitted by photographers from 156 countries. Winning photographers were announced on October 23rd.
'What is becoming clear to the generation now approaching maturity is that our society has no solutions for their problems, can give no direction to their lives.'
In this guide about documentary photography, I have proposed to describe as clearly as possible what it is, how to do it, and how to approach the subjects and situations in real life. Documentary p…
Photographer Bruce Davidson has been witness to some of the most profound cultural and social movements of the mid 20th century.
In a special preview of a new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, we take a look at some of the incredible war photography soon to be on display.
A few months ago, I read there was an exhibition of photos by McCullin at Tate Britain. I thought “That one can wait, it’s going to for ages and everybody knows the work of the award-wi…
Paris Photo 2014 runs from 13-16 November under the glass roof of the Grand Palais
Documentary photography, street photography and photojournalism are closely related disciplines that share at least a few theoretical, practical and aesthetic ideologies, but what sets photojournalism apart is pretty simple — newsworthiness. Newsworthiness, in turn, embodies these three main elements: timeliness, objectivity, and narrative. The goal of photojournalistic work is to capture an event as it unfolds at any given moment. While photojournalism does present certain genre-specific constraints and everyone has their own way of presenting the world to viewers, there are a few general basic ideas that anyone interested in getting started with photojournalism will find beneficial. Conduct Some Research
Newcastle's little-known, but hugely valuable, photography collective is making a bid for broader recognition
Neville has travelled from Scotland to Pittsburgh, Helmand and beyond, documenting humanity with a clarity of purpose defined by social responsibility
Multiple jigsaws, almost completed, are laid out in the living room. On the sideboard, porcelain creatures jostle for space with family photos – a marriage scene, a smiling elderly couple, kids in the park. Dolls are piled high on a chair in the corner, arranged in a chaotic arc. White masks, like those from the Venice Carnival, are positioned across one wall. The wallpaper is a scene from a seaside town – spinning Ferris wheels, winding rollercoasters, fairground murals – yet the paper itself is pockmarked with holes and stains. Richard Billingham, who grew up in this environment, describes the room as “carnivalesque”. When he lived here, in Cradley Heath in the West Midlands, he did so with his mother Liz and, after she moved out, his father Ray. This jam of decorative stuff was all Liz. She had winding, flowering roots and flowers tattooed across her arms. She wore floral dresses and she smoked until the ashtrays overflowed. When Billingham was 10 years old, Ray was laid off from a job as a machinist. The family sold their home for two grand – a cash-in- hand job to a local conman – and moved here, to what was quaintly referred to as public housing. Ray, who until this point only drank in the pub, began his life as a committed alcoholic and a full-time hermit.
Article and video about the work of Photographer Martin Parr www.icantpaint.com/wesleydanes/2010/08/martin-parr/#1
The power of the journalistic photograph, and truth it holds, is undiminished.
From handmaids to yellow vests, from war to joyful progress, these are the most significant news photographs of the year.
From climate change protests to democratic uprisings against biased and violent authorities, it is clear that 2019 has been a pivotal year for citizens all over the world. It's in this context that free-to-use mobile app Agora launched its first #Photojournalism photo contest to give photographers a way to shed light on specific social issues. The competition gathered more than 12,321 submissions from amateur and professional photographers all over the world.
A new book celebrates the late Observer photographer’s powerful reportage work
When you're stuck at home and nothing much is going on, getting photos can be tricky... that's where documentary photography comes in.
The Observer’s chief photographer from 1960-66, has died aged 92. Here we look back at his outstanding photography that captured some of the key moments of 20th century history
An exhibition marks the first UK survey of one of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century.
Documentary family photography is when a photographer applies a photojournalistic approach in photographing a family. The photographer does not intervene with the scenes in front of her camera at all.
Les Douches la Galerie présente deux maîtres de la photographie documentaire rarement montrés à Paris Photo, Sabine Weiss et Ernst Haas. Elle expose des tirages exceptionnels, des vintages, jusque-là jalousement conservés dans l'atelier des deux artistes. Les Douches la Galerie is proud to present two masters of documentary photography who rarely made it into Paris Photo: Sabine Weiss and Ernst Haas. On display are one-off, vintage prints that have thus far been closely guarded in the two artists' studios.
Is it a way to store the happiest moments of your life in order to have the possibility to come back and recollect them at any moment?
Franqui, better known as @monaris_, searches the city to capture what she calls “reflection stories,” leaving viewers to use their imagination.
I get a lot of different reactions when I tell people that births are one of my very favorite things to photograph. Maybe some puzzled questions, polite nodding, even horrified expressions—they really run the gamut. And I love seeing it every single time.
Find inspiration from the various photography styles and techniques we showcase in our collections, and take your photography to the next level.
"Tish believed that photography was an important form of visual communication that could stimulate discussions about real life situations and captured accurate records of the world we live in. She was trying to force people to look at the truth and learn from it,” explains Ella Murtha, the daughter of the documentary photographer. In honour of her mother's memory, Ella has put together a new photobook, Youth Unemployment, which gathers Tish Murtha's work photographing poverty-ridden communities in Newcastle in the 70s and 80s. Raw, powerful and emotional, Murtha has captured youngsters trying to survive turbulent economic times, when they had limited prospects - something which has recently come full circle as a new generation has had to deal with the global financial crisis.
Between 1968 and 1972, Nick Hedges captured a series of images showing the grim reality of life on the breadline in Britain's cities - and the families in the photos will be revisited in a documentary tonight.
