Friday Round Up - 8 March 2013

Photojournalism Now Farewells Foto Freo

This week's Friday Round Up is dedicated to Foto Freo, Australia's biennial photography festival that was earlier this week "discontinued". Please read the exclusive article written by Alison Stieven-Taylor which can be found at the top of this blog under Feature Articles, or by clicking here. This indeed marks a sad day for photography in Australia.


(C) Antoine D'Agata Foto Freo 2006


(C) Edward Burtynsky Foto Freo 2008


(C) Claire Martin Foto Freo 2010


(C) Raghu Rai Foto Freo 2012

Death of a Festival

Foto Freo "discontinued"
Alison Stieven-Taylor 8 March 2013

Rumors have been circulating that Australia’s long-standing biennial photography festival, Foto Freo, was on shaky ground. This week the worst was confirmed when the Festival board announced that Foto Freo was being “discontinued”, as if it were a supermarket line that was no longer popular as opposed to an important, and respected photographic event on the international calendar... to read this article in full please click on the link above, Feature Articles, or here.

Philip Blenkinsop at the first Foto Freo 2002

Magnum's Antoine D'Agata holds floor talks in 2006

Friday Round Up - 1 March

This week Friday Round Up features a host of workshops by leading photojournalists held around the world in exotic places, plus two photo essays with environmental themes that show the beauty of nature and the devastation that “progress” is reaping. Also if you haven’t done so already, and you are interested, please support the campaign, A Day Without News? and all those journalists and photojournalists who risk their lives to bring us the news. Wherever you are in the world have a wonderful weekend.

(C) Peter Turnley - Cuba

(C) Alessandro Grassani - Bangladesh

(C) Marco Pighin - Lake Baikal, Russia

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