“A Middle Eastern woman has to break countless barriers to become an artist.” Maryam Firuzi You first studied cinema, what brought you to photography? Becoming a photographer was the last thing on my mind. Though I had to develop and expose photos for my student projects, my main practice at the university was writing and […]
On 25 September, at the Austrian Cultural Forum Rome, a photo exhibition opened of the Alfred Fried Photography Award. 40 award-winning and shortlisted photographic works that grapple with the question “What does peace look like?” – and attempt to answer it – were presented along the fence and inside of the Cultural Forum until 18 […]
La Micro-folie presents a selection of works by five photographers who are finalists in the 2017, 2018 and 2019 IWPA competitions who have worked around the Arab world and Iran: Marcela Barrios-Hernandez, Loulou D’Aki, Maryam Firuzi, Sidney Léa Le Bour and Farah Salem. Read more …
IWPA would like to thank all the photographers who have submitted their photos for the IWPA Award 2019 and is very pleased to announce the Laureate & Finalists 2019: THE 11 PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE: Laureate : Wan Chee Chan Finalists : Felicia Simion – Laura Pannack – Liliana Velázquez – Masha Ahrabi Fard – Maria Contreras […]
The 20th century was commemorated by the stereotype that photography is a man’s world, and until very recently it was real. For instance, even in 2015, the World Press Photo and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published a study, The State of News Photography, in which they found out that professional news photography […]
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