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New festival to offer grants to photographers

A new photography festival is offering up to €150,000 to photographers and photojournalists to finance new projects

Festivals 14 Nov 2011

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Jeremy Deller on Poking About in Bradford's photographic history

Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller has created an intriguing look at Bradford's population over the last 150 years using archival images and the photographs from a local newspaper.

Festivals 26 Oct 2011

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The Optimists - A look back at this year's Visa Pour l'Image festival

Gone were the doom-and-gloom conversations at this year’s 
Visa pour l’Image, the world’s largest photojournalism festival, finds Olivier Laurent. Instead photographers are looking to the future...

Festivals 19 Oct 2011

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Ways of Looking in Bradford

Bradford's inaugural Ways of Looking photography festival is small but well designed, and it's open until 30 October.

Festivals 14 Oct 2011

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Ways of Looking Bradford photography festival

Bradford's brand new photography festival opens on 30 September, with exhibitions by Daniel Meadows, Donovan Wylie, Douglas Gordon and Jeremy Deller.

Festivals 23 Sep 2011

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Barbara Davidson: From the Pulitzer to Perpignan

Barbara Davidson won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography this year for her exploration of gun violence in Los Angeles. She tells BJP how she was able to convince her editors to let her work on a...

Photojournalism 05 Sep 2011

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Five photojournalists share $100,000 in Getty Images grants

Photojournalists Stanley Greene, Walter Astrada, Liz Hingley, Joan Bardeletti and Alvaro Ybarra Zavala have each won $20,000 as part of the annual Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography

Grants 01 Sep 2011

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Visa Pour l'Image: Fernando Moleres' struggle to help juvenile prisoners in Sierra Leone

For the past two years, Spanish photographer Fernando Moleres has been helping juvenile detainees in some of the most violent prisons of Sierra Leone. He speaks to BJP about the authorities' inactions...

Photojournalism 01 Sep 2011

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Visa Pour l'Image: Narco Culture in Mexico

It's started as an assignment, but, four years later, Shaul Schwarz, a Reportage by Getty Images photographer, has produced a large body of work on the Narco culture in Mexico - and he's also working on...

Photojournalism 31 Aug 2011

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Visa Pour l'Image: First Square Kilometer of Freedom

Catalina Martin-Chico won this year's International Committee of the Red Cross Visa d'Or Humanitarian Award, the first prize of its kind to be given in Perpignan. She tells BJP about her work in Yemen,...

Festivals 30 Aug 2011

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Visa Pour l'Image: Peter Dench's England

British photographer Peter Dench is on show at this year's Visa Pour l'Image photojournalism festival. He speaks with BJP about his 10 years documenting the English people

Festivals 29 Aug 2011

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Photojournalism community gets ready for 23rd Visa Pour l'Image

Visa Pour l'Image is back for its 23rd year with more than 20 exhibitions taking over the city of Perpignan. BJP will attending the festival, filing exclusive interviews and reports from Monday

Festivals 26 Aug 2011

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Going down to Margate

MargatePhotoFest is back for the second year on 13 and 14 August, featuring work by some of the hottest new fashion and art photographers

Photography 29 Jul 2011

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Ed Ou wins Young Reporter Award [update]

Ed Ou, a Reportage by Getty Images photographer, has received this year's City of Perpignan Young Reporter Award. He wins an exhibition at Visa Pour l'Image and a €8000 cash prize

Festivals 14 Jul 2011

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What's Next in Arles

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam has been looking at the future of photography. This week, it's bringing the debate to the Rencontres d'Arles festival

Festivals 05 Jul 2011

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Street Photography Festival kicks off in London

Shoreditch nightlife is on show thanks to Dougie Wallace, as well as work from Poland, France and images from the past in a festival of the streets being held in London.

Festivals 30 Jun 2011

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