Friday Round Up 22 February

On this week’s Friday Round Up the campaign A Day Without News? launches, VII Photos’ Our World at War, photo essays by Michael Biach and GMB Akash and a beautiful, tranquil landscape exhibition by Soumitra Datta. Many of this week’s images are a sobering reminder of the daily struggle for survival and the hardships faced by peoples of all races. These images are further evidence of the importance of the role of photography in bringing stories to our attention that might otherwise not be told, and of the dedication of the photojournalists who are committed to giving a voice to those who are silent. Please click on the Friday Round Up tab at the top of the blog for all the news.

(C) Soumitra Datta

(C) Michael Biach

(C) Franco Pagetti

(C) Ron Haviv

Friday Round Up 15 February

This week on Friday Round Up Robin Hammond wins 2013 FotoEvidence Book Award, Matilde Gattoni’s photo essay The Swallows of Syria, PEACE opens in Melbourne and Portraits from Jaffa by Bar Am-David. And a reminder to check out the feature interview with Beirut-based photojournalist Natalie Naccache (please click on the Feature Articles link at the top of the blog). Enjoy the weekend wherever you are.

(C) Robin Hammond

(C) Natalie Naccache


(C) Bar Am-David


(C) Matilde Gattoni

Friday Round Up - 8 February 2013

This week on Friday Round Up - Is China Destroying Tibet?, Climate Fury, The Big Picture, Don McCullin, World Press Photo, feature interview with Natalie Naccache and more. Enjoy the weekend wherever you are.

(C) Brett Martin

(C) Natalie Naccache - No Madam

Getty Images

(C) Alexander Joe

Natalie Naccache in interview - feature article

Natalie Naccache in Interview from Beirut
with Alison Stieven-Taylor

Born to Lebanese parents, photojournalist Natalie Naccache grew up in London and after studying fine art and then photography, she relocated to Beirut where she is now based. I spoke to her in January via Skype about three of her photo essays that caught my eye – No Madam, Glamorous Lebanese Weddings and Kteer Jeune (Very Young) – powerful essays that could be the work of a much more experienced photojournalist. Talented, insightful and intelligent, Natalie is firmly on my list of photographers to watch in coming years. (Please click on the Feature Articles link at the top of the blog to read the full interview).

Glamorous Lebanese Weddings

Kteer Jeune (Very Young)

No Madam

All images (C) Natalie Naccache

Friday Round Up 1st February

This week on Friday Round Up PEACE comes to Melbourne, Pablo Bartholomew at Chobimela, Dhaka, and photo essays from veteran photojournalist Tim Page and Cairo-based Virginie Nguyen. Please click on the Friday Round Up tab at the top of the blog. Wherever you are enjoy the weekend.

(C) Virginie Nguyen

(C) Tim Page

(C) Pablo Bartholomew

(C) David Dare Parker

Friday Round Up 25 January

This week on Friday Round Up Head On Festival Sydney calls for entries, a new show for Queensland Centre of Photography, Irina Popova's photo essay Moscow as a Trap, and more. Please click on the Friday Round Up tab at the top of the blog. Enjoy the weekend wherever you are.

(C) GMB Akash

(C) Louise Whelan

(C) Irina Popova

(C) Abdul Karim Hekmat

Friday Round Up 18 January

Continuing my mini retrospective, this week’s Friday Round Up revisits the exhibition WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath, Magdalena Solé’s Mississippi Delta exhibibition and Michael Wolf’s book, Tokyo Compression. Plus there’s a short story on David Alan Harvey’s (Rio) ‘based on a true story’ book and a new post on 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art now on in Brisbane, Australia. Please click on the Friday Round Up tab for all the stories and photographs.

Enjoy the weekend wherever you are.

(C) An-My Lê 

(C) David Alan Harvey

(C) Michael Wolf

Friday Round Up is back for 2013

Friday Round Up is back in 2013! This week begins with a mini retrospective - Visa pour l'Image - my interview with Jean-François Leroy, FotoEvidence 2012 Book Award Winner review, photo essays by Simon Gallagher, Karen Robinson and Shiho Fukada and an in-depth interview with Maggie Diaz.

(C) Shiho Fukada

(C) Karen Robinson

(C) Sean Gallagher

(C) Maggie Diaz

Friday Round Up - Final for 2012

This is the last Friday Round Up for 2012. This week on Friday Round Up my interview with Valeriy Klamm coordinator of the Russian photo blog Birthmark on the Map; Photographer Rob Hornstra and writer Arnold van Bruggen explore Abkhazia on the Black Sea, a country struggling to define its future; and Stefano De Luigi's Photo-Berlin workshop in March.

(C) Sam Harris from Birthmark on the Map

C) Valeriy Klamm from Birthmark on the Map

C) Valeriy Klamm from Birthmark on the Map


(C) Rob Hornstra


C) Stefano De Luigi

Friday Round Up

This week on Friday Round Up my interview with Canadian photographer, Edward Burtynsky; Raghu Rai opens new photography school and Cédric Gerbehaye's workshop in Paris. Please click on the Friday Round Up tab for full details and to view more photographs.

(C) Edward Burtynsky

(C) Edward Burtynsky

(C) Cédric Gerbehaye

Raghu Rai by Rohit Gautam

Max Pam in Interview - Le Journal de la Photographie

My interview with photographer Max Pam is on today's Le Journal de la Photographie.

"As a young boy Max Pam dreamed of traveling to exotic places. At school he’d open the atlas, pick a destination, and let his imagination take him wandering through Thailand, Tibet, or China, countries that were ostensibly light years from the narrow-minded cultural confines of his 1950’s upbringing in Australia.

When Pam was in his late teens he turned his dreams into reality. He traveled the hippie trail to Katmandu and hitchhiked from London to India, a seemingly impossible feat, but Pam managed to do it and live to tell the tale. And along the way he amassed an extraordinary collection of photographs, journals and memories.

In his award-winning book Atlas Monographs Pam shares his journeys through Zanzibar, China, South India, Yemen, Madagascar, Karakoram and the South China Sea. The weighty tome features photographs from his nascent years in the early..." Please click here to read the full article. All images (C) Max Pam.