Paul Hansen’s photograph that recently won the World Press Photo award as the picture of the year was apparently modified to increase its drama, a technique to make colors more vivid and saturated that seems to be becoming more widespread in photojournalistic circles. As such, it remains…
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2012 Magnum Foundation Photogaphy & Human Rights Fellow, Poulomi Basu’s work on rural women in India’s armed conflict awarded 2nd place in Foto visura grant.
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A Final Embrace: The Most Haunting Photograph from Bangladesh
Powerful work by Taslima Akhter 2010 HR Fellow, features on Time Magazine Photo. Read the backstory on LightBox today
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Sim Chi Yin, 2010 HR Fellow, was featured in The New York Times Opinion section for her piece, “In China, a Vast Chasm Between the Rich and the Rest.”
Read full article here.
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Liu Jie, 2012 Human Rights Fellow, was featured in TIME Lightbox on February 5, 2013. Jie visited more than 20 Chinese villages to document the separation of rural families due to the country’s rapid urbanization.
Pete Pin, 2012 Emergency Fund Fellow, penned the piece for LightBox. To read entire post please visit here.
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Taslima Akhter
Fighting Hopelessness Amid Ashes, The New York Times Lens blog
Taslima Akhter, 2011 Human Rights Fellow, arrived at the Tazreen Fashions garment factory fire four hours after the fire tore through the building. Her story was featured on Lens blog on November 29.
“It’s not an easy experience for me,” she said. “But I took photos because they work dawn to dusk for very little money and their lives are considered to be so cheap, worth nothing.”
View full story here: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/29/fighting-hopelessness-amid-ashes/?partner=rss&emc=rss
#Taslima Akhter #Lens Blog #New York Times #MF Human Rights Program
Boniface Mwangi, 2011 Human Rights Fellow, was featured on Al Jazeera’s Activist’s page.
Mwangi founded Picha Mtaani, a youth-led peace initiative that creates space for young people to come together and heal the nation.
To view Mwangi’s projects in Kenya, please view his page here.
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Manca Juvan, 2011 HR Fellow, was featured in Fotoreportaza for her story Maternity in Slovenia. The project was one of five selected for the new initiative What Works by Magnum Foundation, which will be launching this fall/winter. Stay tuned!
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Manca Juvan, 2011 HR Fellow, exhibited work from Unordinary Lives in Gallery DC, New York. Unordinary Lives, Juvan’s longterm project, investigate the consequences and the lives affected by the Afghanistan War.
More information and images at Unordinary Lives.
#Manca Juvan #MF Human Rights Program #Gallery DC #Afghanistan
Poulomi Basu
The New York Times Lens Blog
Poulomi Basu, 2012 HR Fellow, was featured in the Lens blog, “On India’s Border, a Changing of Guards.”
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