Inspiring the Producers and Custodians of African Media Collections
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2011
I was in Maputo, Mozambique last week together with DJ Clark, Graeme Cookson, Peter Krogh, Dominique Le Roux and my wife Rosanne Larsen. Together we were working on putting together a free online resource to enable photographers from Africa and other parts of the Majority World to understand photography markets, place themselves correctly in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2011
After a successful year in 2010 the National Geographic All Roads Photography is gearing up again to support the underrepresented minority-culture photographers who are telling their cultural perspective of their communities in Documentary photography. They will be supported by cash grants, inkind sponsorship of photographic gear, and National Geographic will build a complete website for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2011
Cape Town-based photographer, Eric Miller, has successfully raised funding through the micro fundraising site, Kickstarter.com to continue a project focusing on a group of inspirational grandmothers in the Cape Town township of Khayelitsha. Eric writes about his project: At a time of their life when they had hoped to slow down and be taken care [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2011
Nominations for World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass 2011 are due in this coming Monday on February 14. The Joop Swart Masterclass is run annually by World Press Photo for exceptional emerging photographers. The 17th Joop Swart Masterclass was held last November and South African photographer, former participant of Joop Swart Masterclass and multiple World [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 9th, 2011
Andrew Esiebo does a significant amount of work as a stills photographer for Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry. Last month he and other photographers and film makers, including Pieter Hugo had work about Nollywood shown in the Location One gallery in New York’s Soho district. The show was curated by Zina Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian-British film [...]