This photo made by Italian free-lance photographer Fabio Bucciarelli, on duty for AFP in Syria, was awarded in 2013 the Robert CAPA Gold Medal, the 2nd Prize of World Press Photo Spot News Stories, and 2nd place of the Picture Of The Year International (POYi) – News Picture Story. The international news agency AFP produces up to 3000 new images per day in politics, conflicts, sport, fashion etc. Every year AFP photographers are awarded prizes …

r oil wrestling in Edirne. Anders Petersen shot minority groups, and Reza photographed an Ashura ceremony in İstanbul. Anthony Suau focused on the concepts of wealth and prosperity, as Gaël Turine looked at the TV industry by examining the series “Valley of the Wolves.” Vanessa Winship presented portraits of children who attended the Turkish Olympiads from all over the world, while Ami Vitale portrayed the other side of Kapadokya (Cappadocia). Th…

A Bosniak soldier cries after arriving to his home village, 3 years early he had hid in the forest and watched his family and the rest of the village executed by Bosnian Serb forces. @1995 Emmanuel Ortiz “Broken Lights” is a journey through the wars that broke the republics, broke the communities and broke the people of the former Yugoslavia. Emmanuel Ortiz starts in Croatia visiting the frontlines in eastern Slavonija and the besieg…

A cross-lighting ceremony that took place near Tupelo, Mississippi, in late March following a Ku Klux Klan rally in Memphis, Tennessee, that was organized to protest the renaming of three parks in the city built in honor of the Confederacy. It is a “cross lighting,” not “cross burning,” because these Klansmen “do not burn, but light the cross to signify that Christ is the light of the world.” Photo by Robert King. In late March editor-in-chief o…

1. Prize Portraits – Christian Charisius: “Shadow Play: Former Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt (SPD) takes part in a ceremony in Hamburg for renaming Botanischer Garten to Loki-Schmidt-Garden.”  © obs/dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH Great pleasure, vast sorrow, excitement, and thoughfulness. „dpa Pictures of the Year 2012“ call special moments of an many-faceted year to mind. 18 very special pictures of their photographers Deutsc…

CYPRUS, Nicosia : People queue up outside a Laiki bank branch in the Cypriot capital, Nicosia, on March 28, 2013, as they wait for the bank to open after an unprecedented 12-day lockdown. Queues of dozens of people formed before the doors swung open at 12:00pm (1000 GMT) for the first time since March 16, and there were tensions as a few branches opened late, with customers banging on the doors In March 2013, Cyprus, the small island country in …

Rob Hornstra started their 5year project on Sochi (Russia). The small city at the Black Sea is the location for the Winter Olympics early  in 2014. The duo wants to document the change the city is going through throughout the preparations for the big event. There are many reasons why the world is so fascinated by Russia: the vastness, the spirit, politics, richness and poverty at such expanse, the variety of ressources, the diversity and monotony…

© Jewgeni Chaldej 2nd May 1945, Reichstag Berlin. Image with retouched clock and added smoke clouds. On 2nd May 1945 around 7 am Jewgeny Chaldej climbed on the roof of the Reichstag with a Leica and took a photo which would become THE image of the victory over the Nazis. When the war began, everbody talked about the Reichstag. It was at the early morning of 2nd May 1945. I entered the Reichtag building. Terrible noise was all around. A young sol…

Turkey was not a country I knew well, but it was always one that managed to awaken my curiosity. I came to Turkey a few years ago for some projects with Magnum Photos, but this time around, it was different. Many of the things I saw in Istanbul raised my curiosity immediately. I was incredibly excited, perhaps because it was a new city for me. One does not necessarily always find such excitement where one lives. For example, when I am sitting in…

Title: Aleksander Zelekson, Nizhny Novgorod, RUSSIA, 2007  © Rob Hornstra / courtesy Flatland Gallery NL | Paris Under Vladimir Putin’s rule, Russia has reclaimed its position among the superpowers of the world in the past eight years, the economic recession and the tumultuous nineties seemingly all but forgotten. Thanks to the country’s huge abundance of raw materials such oil and natural gas, the Russian economy is flourishing as never before…

apher, step between them to enter the sea of chanting. I was secretly thankful for this. I spent a lot of time on the edges, watching the game from the distant upper corners of the stadium where there was always a seat or two free; or in the press area, where I could climb the barrier between fans and the playing field to observe the crowd from the outside. I spent my last day of shooting in the amateur fields on the edges of the Bosphorus. It fe…

© Christopher Morris / VII The image was shot back stage at Dior, for Paris  L’ Officiel during the 2013 Haute Couture shows in Paris.  The model is Marta Dyks/NEXT “Fashion for me is about beauty and fantasy, all the complete opposites of my career, which dealt with the ugliness of war and the blind nationalism of politics. Falling into the fashion world by chance, when an editor, from the Italian Fashion magazine AMICA, discovered …

Berlinstagram is the private iPhone project by Michael Schulz. With over 2000 iPhone pictures of Berlin over the last 2 years and about 90.000 followers, Berlinstagram is a shooting star in the iPhone Foto Community weltweit and a declaration of love to the city of Berlin. A small selection of 20 images will be exhibited at The Browse Gallery June 13th to July 13th 2013, together with 1 image of each of the 40 selected series of the Mobile Photo…

For ten years Pedro Rosa Mendes (writer) and Wolf Böwig (photographer) traveled the region to document the West African wars. Their work has been recognized and published in newspapers and publications around the world. Under the label “The Charles Taylor Wars”, an international lineup of illustrators and artists now create a crossover version of the reports, merging illustration, photography and written word. With this media conversion the proj…

© Kai Löffelbein In Hong Kong, one of the world’s wealthiest metropolises, there are around 130,000 people living in cages. While ever more luxury shops open just a few streets away, many inhabitants can no longer afford the increasing rents. To avoid living on the streets, they move into wire cages, apartments subdivided into tiny cubicles or coffin-sized rooms – their entire world reduced to a few square metres, a life shared with strangers. A…

Architecture Eye On Detail The project ‚architecture – eye on detail‘ is a photo series that explores the details of architecture and urban spaces. Contrary to classic architecture photography which uses the distance shot to document buildungs here the details and in-betweens open up the viewer‘s perspective.  mThe choice of motives aswell as a language of forms and lights make distinct pictures and at the same time references to building styles…

A woman takes a photograph of an Irish Republican Army (IRA) member operating a ̵6;checkpoint’ on the Lecky Road in the Bogside area of Derry. Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry. © Eamonn Melaugh The images which brought Derry to international attention in the late 1960s continue to define how this city is viewed today. The Picturing Derry project will, for the first time, bring the collected photographic iconography of the Troubles in Derry t…

My first time in a coal mine was 350 meters down, below Zonguldak, Turkey. For the photography I was intended to do, I wasn’t  allowed to use flash or anything that might cause a spark.  When I arrived,  I learned that a miner had just been killed after a gallery ceiling collapsed. With some trepidation, and 75 men,  I clambered into the steel, archaic elevator to go down. Moving was difficult, dressed in mining clothes sizes too big,  the tradi…

© Kai Wiedenhöfer As we know today, the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall and the end of the Eastern bloc was anything but the end of the Wall as a symptom of enmity cast in concrete. To the contrary: old walls remained, new “protection walls” were build. Since 2006, photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer has photographed eight of these border- and separation walls for his project “WALL ON WALL”. A series of panorama pictur…