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16 Organizations that Want to Fund Your Photography Project

You have a powerful idea for a photography project, but not all the funds you need to make it happen. Sound familiar?

The great news is there are many foundations, non-profits and private companies alike, who are willing to fund worthy photographers based on talent and project goals. Some offer grants for photojournalists who expose social injustices; others focus on editorial photographers who tell long-form stories.

We?ve rounded up 16 as a start to help you in your search. It?s?by no means an exhaustive list, so feel free to add others to the list via the comments section!

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Pictures that question the world

By?Pawel Kuczynski

ArtFido
Good set, except that Israel is curiously missing.

Pawel Kuczynski?is a Polish artist who specialises in images that make you think hard about the world we live in.

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Strolling with the zeitgeist

By Brian Dougherty: Frieze

MONOGRAPH

Six decades of avoiding being categorized

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Patrick Ireland,?Five Identities, 2002, photograph

After training as a doctor in Ireland, Brian O?Doherty was an art critic for The New York Times in the 1960s, produced and hosted two art series for television; edited Aspen 5+6 (1967) (which included Roland Barthes?s essay ?The Death of the Author? and Susan Sontag?s ?The Aesthetics of Silence?); and was editor of Art in America from 1971?74. Throughout, he continued to make work as an artist. O?Doherty also served for 19 years as director of the film, radio and television section of the National Endowment for the Arts, where he funded artists and exhibition spaces working with new media. His published works includeInside the White Cube: Ideologies of the Gallery Space?(1976) and the novel?The Deposition of Father McGreevy?(2000), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The first monograph on his work,?Brian O?Doherty/Patrick Ireland: Between Categories(Brenda Moore McCann; Lund Humphries/Ashgate), was published in 2009. O?Doherty continues to make art and write. His novel?The Cross-dresser?s Secret?will be published by Sternberg Press later this year; his solo show at Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, Germany, opens 3 July. The following essay is an edited version of the lecture he delivered at Frieze Talks in 2012. Continue reading “Strolling with the zeitgeist”

Um minuto de sil?ncio

Watch this short video till the end. It’s quite special.
Marina Abramovic and Ulay lived an intense love story for five years in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.
Um minuto de sil?ncio
“Nos anos 70, Marina Abramovic viveu uma intensa hist?ria de amor com Ulay. Durante 5 anos viveram num furg?o realizando todo tipo de performances. Quando sentiram que a rela??o j? n?o valia aos dois, decidiram percorrer a Grande Muralha da China; cada um come?ou a caminhar de um lado, para se encontrarem no meio, dar um ?ltimo grande abra?o um no outro, e nunca mais se ver.
23 anos depois, em 2010, quando Marina j? era uma artista consagrada, o MoMa de Nova Iorque dedicou uma retrospectiva a sua obra. Nessa retrospectiva, Marina compartilhava um minuto de sil?ncio com cada estranho que sentasse a sua frente. Ulay chegou sem que ela soubesse e… Foi assim.”

Disaster Photography: When is Documentary Exploitation?

BY Richard B. Woodward

Photographers who produce spectacular images of Detroit, Chernobyl, and other ravaged areas have sparked disagreements whether they are exploiting others? misfortune?or just covering the bad news


Mitch Epstein?s Biloxi, Mississippi 2005 vividly represents the inversion of normalcy that is Hurricane Katrina?s legacy.?BLACK RIVER PRODUCTIONS, LTD. AND MITCH EPSTEIN/COURTESY SIKKEMA JENKINS & CO., NEW YORK.
?RUIN PORN? is a phrase so immature and gawky it isn?t sure how seriously to take itself. Like its linguistic relatives ?animal porn,? ?shoe porn,? ?food porn,? ?real estate porn,? and ?fill-in-the-blank porn,? it?s a smirking neologism that may or may not aspire to be a social critique. Continue reading “Disaster Photography: When is Documentary Exploitation?”

Chobi Mela VII in Nafas Art Magazine

 

Chobi Mela VII in Nafas Art Magazine

 

Nafas Art Magazine Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations
A project of the?Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations?(ifa, Germany) in cooperation with?Universes in Universe
Chobi Mela VII Chobi Mela VII
International Festival of Photography, Bangladesh, 2013
January 2013. Since its inception in 2000, Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography has aimed at exploring the semiotics of present-day photographic practice in a broad international context, to bring about an understanding of the medium both within the industry and amongst the public at large.The theme for Chobi Mela VII this year is “Fragility”, and it will present the creative work of established as well as hitherto unknown photographers. The multi-faceted festival will be launched on 25 January 2013. The festival will bring together print and digital presentations that challenge the traditional perceptions of art reaching out to the public through gallery, open-air/unconventional locations and mobile touring exhibitions. Parallel to the exhibitions there will be workshops, discussions, seminars and lectures that will initiate debates and discussions on issues central to contemporary photographic practice.
In keeping with the ethos of Drik, Chobi Mela has always symbolised a struggle against hegemony and oppression. The past festivals, thematically addressed Differences, Exclusion, Resistance, Boundaries, Freedom and Dreams gave an opportunity to fine art photographers, conceptual artists and photo journalists, to explore social inequality, in its myriad forms.
The festival will feature:
33 Solo Print Exhibitions
Digital presentations
Workshops
Portfolio review
Discussions/Seminars/Lectures
Presentations by Picture Libraries/Agencies
Review of image-related publications/Book launches
Publication ceremony
Film screenings
Video conferences
Lifetime Achievement award
Exhibition Venues: Alliance Fran?aise de Dhaka, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bengal Gallery, Dhaka Art Center, Drik Gallery, Lichutola-Dhaka University.
More information:
http://www.chobimela.org
Communications: Chulie De Silva
Tel.: +880-2-8123412, 8112954
chulie@drik.net
Also in Nafas Facebook page

Chobi Mela VIIInternational Festival of Photography
Bangladesh
25 January – 7 February 2013
Theme: Fragility
23 participating countries
Chobi Mela
Drik Picture Library Ltd.
House 58, Road 15A (New)
Dhanmondi Residential Area
Dhaka 1209
Bangladesh
Website?/?Email
Founder and Director:
Shahidul Alam

 

Bangladesh: Country archive Bangladesh: Articles
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See also:
Shahidul AlamShahidul Alam
The man who has transformed the face of photography in Bangladesh. About his series Migrant Soul. By Fariha Karim, April 2009
Chobi Mela IVChobi Mela IV
International Festival of Photography, Bangladesh 2006, organized by Drik and partners. By Fariha Karim, November 2006
Chobi Mela IIIChobi Mela III
International photofestival in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Organized by Drik Picture Library Ltd. and partners. By Haupt & Binder, December 2004
DrikDrik
Socially committed organization: Photo agency, gallery, festivals, publications, educational work, etc. By Haupt & Binder, October 2003

EXPERIENCE, EXPLORE, ENGAGE YOURSELF IN AUDIO-VISUAL POETRY

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 
diwans.org is a participatory web project proposing an intercultural dialogue through artistic responses.

People around the world are invited to produce audio-visual creations inspired by the Diwan poetry of Persian poet Hafez and German writer Goethe and send their own creative interpretations. 
diwans.org is an artwork authored by everyone. Continue reading “EXPERIENCE, EXPLORE, ENGAGE YOURSELF IN AUDIO-VISUAL POETRY”

GOETHE-INSTITUT FELLOWSHIP AT HAUS DER KUNST

The program will award each fellowship for one year.

Haus der Kunst is a non-collecting public museum and a key global center for contemporary art located in Munich, Germany. It is dedicated to the exploration of the diverse histories of contemporary art based on a foundation of focused exhibitions, research, and education. The museum’s aim is to establish research as an integral cornerstone of its vision, and to develop a context for scholarship that allows for the interplay of art, culture, politics, and society in the way modern and contemporary art are understood on a global level. The “Goethe-Institut Fellowship” is an important building block towards this aim. Supported by the Goethe-Institut, the “Goethe-Institut Fellowship at Haus der Kunst” is designed for international emerging scholars whose research focuses on global perspectives on modern and contemporary art in the second half of the 20th century and 21st century.
The inaugural fellowship shall concentrate on the research for a comprehensive exhibition project on the global art historical developments of the Post-war era. It will be the first of a trilogy whose second and third chapters will be devoted to the periods of Post-colonialism and Post-communism. One of the main tasks is the research and organization of a series of seminars, colloquia, an international symposium in preparation for the project.
Please find further information like Qualifications and Requirements or Conditions over here: http://www.hausderkunst.de/index.php?id=899&L=1.
Christina B?ns
Program Office
Goethe-Institut Bangladesh
House 10, Road 9 (new)
Dhanmondi
Dhaka 1205
Tel.: +880-2-9126525, -9126526
Fax: +880-2-8110712
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Site Imaginaries

Kochi Muziris Biennale Symposium
Date: December 15th – 16th
Venue: Outset Carnoustie Pavilion ? Aspinwall
Co-organised by: Marieke Van Hal (Biennial Foundation)
Symposium advisors: Gayatri Sinha (Critical Collective), Paul Domela (Liverpool Biennial)

The location of India?s first biennale in Kochi marks a seismic in the way art will be seen in the subcontinent. In replacing the model of a state supported metropolitan exposition ? that continued from the late 1960s to the early 2000s ? the Kochi Muziris Biennale celebrates the political and cultural aggrandisement of the region. In terms of curatorial initiative it also claims another level for the artist in the domain of entrepreneurial activism.

Erase by Srinivasa Prasad. Photo Shahidul Alam/Drik/Majority World

The challenge for the new biennale in South Asia is not to reflect global parameters; rather it is to create sense of an aesthetic moment as it unfolds before us. At the same time shifts in location and structure imply a shift in politics in India as much as in art. Continue reading “Site Imaginaries”

Press statement: BGMEA is responsible for the deaths of Tazreen's workers

BGMEA is a giant propaganda machinery which protects killers

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Organised by Rokeya Bahini

11:00 am, Wednesday, December 12, 2012

In front of BGMEA Bhaban, Panthopoth Link Road, Karwan Bazar

Dear journalist brothers and sisters,
Many garment workers died on the evening of November 24th when fire broke out in Tazreen Fashions in Ashulia’s Nischintapur. The exact death toll is still unknown. According to the government, 112 workers had died but many family members were unable to identify their beloved ones as the flesh had burnt away leaving behind only charred bones and skeletons. Fifty three unidentified bodies have been buried in Jurain graveyard. But several investigative reports have concluded that the death toll is higher. Some of us have conducted preliminary research in Nischintapur’s Buripara at our own initiative, and, we too, have been forced to reach the same conclusion. The government and the BGMEA should immediately have launched a serious drive to ascertain the exact number of those who have died, but instead they displayed a callous indifference which amounts to nothing short of criminal negligence. Continue reading “Press statement: BGMEA is responsible for the deaths of Tazreen's workers”