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Shortlist announced for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards
Laia Abril, Nina Berman, Sohrab Hura, and Carmen Winant are all in the running for the prestigious Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation Photobook of the Year Award, which will be announced on 09 November at Paris Photo.
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Q&A: George Selley’s A Study of Assassination
Taking its title from a 1950s CIA manual on killing, the young LCC MA graduate's project reveals the surreal clash of leaked CIA documents, government propaganda, and bananas
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Rebecca Fertinel wins the Unseen Dummy Award
Classic documentary shots of the Congo are given a new twist with clever editing and an innovative book design in the winning project Ubuntu, say the judges
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Intimacy and art embrace in Barbican’s Modern Couples
An expansive exhibition at the Barbican interrogates the power of romantic relationships to propel artistic output, including work by creatives such as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso, and the PaJaMa menage a trois
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Female MPs by female photographers – the 209 Women project
"There is no one way to be a woman artist, to be a woman politician, to be a woman," says Alison McGovern - MP for Wirral South and one of those involved in an all-female portrait takeover of Parliament
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My home is my castle – earthquake damage in Juchitán, Oaxaca
Colombian photographer Andres Millan shot a community whose homes were destroyed by the 2017 earthquake in Mexico, using otherworldly lighting inspired by police lights
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Q&A: Climate change in Iran by fast-emerging photographer Hashem Shakeri
Once famed for its agriculture, Sistan has suffered from drought, famine, and depopulation for years; BJP catches up with young Iranian photographer Hashem Shakeri on his images of the crisis, and on the Iranian photography scene
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Shahidul Alam denied bail in Bangladesh
The well-respected photographer, gallery director, and educator has been held in jail since 05 August, after sharing videos on social media and giving an interview with Al-Jazeera critical of the Bangladeshi government's crackdown on protests
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Arles is urged to include more work by women
Rencontres d'Arles says it's "working on it" as an eminent group of photography specialists publish an open letter in Libération urging the festival director to include more women in the official programme. Plus War Primer 2 - an outstanding book for this year or 2011?
