Visa pour l'Image | PerpignanANNOUNCEMENT: Funding for photography and documentary film making projects
Reportage is shifting focus. It used to be that photojournalists got reasonably well paid for their work, at least paid something that enabled them to keep doing what they do. However most will now agree those days are gone. It is becoming increasingly difficult to make a living More…
Floating Villages of Tonle Sap
In Central Cambodia lies Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, Tonle Sap, home to vibrant communities living in floating villages and drawing that living from the lake’s waters. In self-contained villages where one can be born and die without touching dry land, these floating settlements support schools, More…
Uplanders Watery Struggle
In Cox’s Bazaar and its surrounding islands like Sonadia, Kutubdia and Maheshkhali, the fishing industry is a profitable business. More…
Nairobi Kids
When you meet Anne-Sophie Rettel on the street, you would expect her to be just a normal 23-year-old woman from Leipzig, Germany. She likes partying, she works as a travel agent, she’s single and she raises funds for an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. “All started back in 2009 when I went to Kenya More…
The Disowned and the Denied
For decades, the xenophobic, Burmese military junta has refused to recognize the Rohingya as a distinct Muslim ethnic minority living in western Burma. Internationally, their story is under reported. The Rohingya are probably the most voiceless and stateless refugee community in the world. More…
Húicéir na Gallimhe – The Galway Hooker
By 1970 only two remained, whereas eye witnesses report that they have seen 20 boats in the harbour of Inis Mór, the biggest of the three Árainn Islands and 35 boats sailing out of Conamara. More…
Tribal Music in Tanzania
In November of 2010, my father and I travelled into the bush of Tanzania to live with three remote tribes: the Maasai, the Barbaig and the Iraq. This was a journey of not only self discovery, but one of education and learning, as we went to locate the roots of tribal music in ancient cultures. The aim was to travel to cultures largely untouched by western civilization and communicate with them primarily through song, not words. This has never been done before and hopefully will lead on to more of these studies in the future. More…
James Morgan – Makes the front page of the BBC web site today
Well worth listening to James Morgan (Reportage Featured: Eagle Hunters | Child Trafficking in Nepal) talk about the Coral Triangle project he has been working on for the last few months.
Photography by James Morgan
