Friday Round Up

This week on Friday Round Up, three very different photography books – John Ogden’s Saltwater People of the Fatal Shore, Irina Popova’s Native Soil and Michael Wolf’s Tokyo Compression Three plus Angkor Photo Festival opens and the China India: Imaginings and Transformations exhibition is on show in Sydney. Please click on the Friday Round Up tab for full details.



(C) Irina Popova - Native Soil



(C) Michael Wolf - Tokyo Compression Three



(C) Pablo Bartholomew



(C) Bill Morris from Saltwater People of the Fatal Shore

Friday Round Up

(C) Tim Page - Vietnam War Protests US


(C) David Dare Parker - Romania

This week’s Friday Round Up is focused on two exhibitions PEACE - a new exhibition from the Australian photography collective, Degree South, and Magdalena Sole's exhibition in New York, Mississippi Delta. It seems appropriate at the end of a week where we've seen such madness in the Middle East that PEACE opens - spread the word. Please click on the tab Friday Round Up for the stories and more photos. Enjoy the weekend wherever you are.


(C) Jack Picone - PEACE



(C) Magdalena Sole - Mississippi Delta

Friday Round Up

This week’s Friday Round Up looks at the work of three photographers – Australian Ed Giles who is currently based in the Middle East, Svetlana Bachevanova in New York and Zhang Kechun, China. Plus the International Photography Festival in Lodz is calling for entries and the Harold Feinstein retrospective is now on in Boston. And with Paris Photo in full swing, check out Le Journal de la Photographie for all the news. Please click on the Friday Round Up tab for all the details.

(C) Svetlana Bachevanova

(C) Svetlana Bachevanova

(C) Ed Giles

(C) Harold Feinstein

(C) Zhang Kechun

Friday Round Up

On this week's Friday Round Up Syria in focus - extraordinary and disturbing photographs from Syria's bloody civil war, Jake Price's Fukushima Kickstarter project cpm-703, a month of photography is in full swing in Paris, Gregory Crewdson's exhibition Melbourne, Bruce Gilden's New York workshop and Magnum Foundation's Human Rights Fellowship Grants. Please click on the Friday Round Up tab at the top of my blog to read these stories in full. 

(C) Zac Baille AFP/Getty Images

Syria in ruins - Reuters

(C) Bruce Gilden Magnum Photos

(C) Jake Price Fukushima cpm-703

Friday Round Up

On this week's Friday Round Up there's a whole host of information including two new exhibitions  - "Your Wounds will be named Silence" by Robin Hammond and WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, a panel discussion on free and independent photojournalism in society, photo essays by Robert Herman and  Shiho Fukada and more. Please click on the Friday Round Up tab at the top of the blog. Enjoy the weekend!

(C) Shiho Fukada

(C) Robert Herman

(C) Robin Hammond

Alex Masi Bhopal Second Disaster FotoEvidence Book Award 2012

My article on Bhopal Second Disaster by Alex Masi, the 2012 FotoEvidence Book Award winner is on Le Journal de la Photographie today - please click here to read the article

(C) Alex Masi

(C) Alex Masi

Cover: Bhopal Second Disaster Alex Masi

Friday Round Up - 26 October 2012

On this week's Friday Round Up two new exhibitions for Melbourne, the inaugural Photoreporter Festival (France) and The Aftermath Project Grant - to read these stories in full please click on the tab "Friday Round Up"

(C) Davide Monteleone

(C) Maggie Diaz

(C) Ray Cook

Alexia Sinclair Cover Story Pro Photo

My feature article on the hugely talented and very lovely Alexia Sinclair is the cover story for Pro Photo October/November 2012 - out now!

Alexia is a fine art photographer and digital artist and her Regal Twelve and Royal Dozen series of highly complex images depict some of the most ruthless and fascinating royals and aristocrats dating back two millennia, in rich, sumptuous and fantastical style....

Lewis Morley In Interview

"Lewis Morley - The Reluctant Photographer"

An interview

Alison Stieven-Taylor (C) 2012

On a sun-drenched Sunday morning in Sydney in May this year I had the opportunity to sit down with photographer Lewis Morley in his home to talk about his latest book, I to Eye... please click on the Feature Articles tab above to read my interview with the very lovely Lewis.

Lewis and I at his home in Sydney, May 2012

Friday Round Up

On this week's Friday Round Up the winners of the W. Eugene Smith 2012 Grants and the FotoEvidence 2012 Book Award, VII Photos Incarceration Project, a spotlight on Aleppo, Syria, and more...

Please click on the tab above "Friday Round Up" for all the details.

Bhopal Second Disaster Alex Masi

Tomorrow's Lovers Christian Blanchard

Winner W Eugene Smith Grant 2012 Peter van Agtmael

Interview with Viviane Dalles - Terra Nullius

My interview with French Photographer Viviane Dalles is now posted on the Feature Articles page on this blog. 

Earlier this year I spoke at length with Viviane about her new body of work, Terra Nullius, the title of her latest book and exhibition about the Australian outback. Please click on the "Feature Articles" tab above to read the story.

(C) Viviane Dalles - Terra Nullius