Inspiring the Producers and Custodians of African Media Collections
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2012
Matt Raven and his team put on an impressive show at the Photo & Film Expo in Joburg in October. The show has grown consistently over the past few years and it has certainly become a worthwhile event to be at. I was doing some research on top end medium format gear and got to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2012
I was in London at the end of June last year – actually on a sabbatical after 11 years of running Africa Media Online! I got to look after our children as Rosanne went off to CEPIC congress in Istanbul. The three children and I had a ball visiting all those lovely museums and parks. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 5th, 2011
Andrew Esiebo sent me this the other day. For those of you who will be in Berlin anytime soon it will be a worthwhile exhibition.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 5th, 2011
Eric Miller has just completed his project documenting the lives of grandmothers in Cape Town’s townships who have had to bear the burden of caring for family in the wake of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Details are below. If you are in Cape Town later this month, a visit to the District Six Museum will be [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2011
The Edward Ruiz Mentorship is a mentorship programme, which has been established to help launch the career of a promising photographer. The mentorship awards the recipient with the financial and infrastructural support needed to develop a substantial body of photographic work over the course of a year. On adequate completion of the mentorship, the body [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 14th, 2011
I thought this may be a valuable fellowship to apply for if you are interested in environmental reporting: The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) is proud to announce the launch of a Fellowship program that will send journalists to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban (COP17) in late 2011. The Fellowships are open [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2011
IOL has reported tragic news that Anton Hammerl was killed by pro-Gadaffi forces. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Anton’s wife Penny Sukhraj and their children and wider family. IOL reported that Hammerl was shot on April 5 and the family were misled by pro-Gadaffi forces. Thank you to all those who signed the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9th, 2011
We have noticed media outlets and the picture industry have begun to pick up on South African photographer Anton Hammerl missing in Libya since we started blogging and Jodi Bieber spoke about it in her acceptance speech at the World Press Photo Awards. We will post the links here as we come across them: Newscom [...]
Posted in May 2011, Uncategorized on May 7th, 2011
Jodi Bieber was the last to present her work last night before we all went off for the official launch of the 2011 World Press Photo exhibition at Die Oude Kerk. She presented her work on Challenging Stereotypes and on Soweto. She also discussed her award winning picture of Bibi Aisha a young woman from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 12th, 2011
South African Photographer, Jodi Bieber has won the grand prize in the 2011 World Press Photo Awards, the World Press Photo of the year. Jodi’s winning picture was from a series of images on the plight of women of Afghanistan and shows Bibi Aisha, an 18-year-old woman from Oruzgan province in Afghanistan, who fled back to [...]